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Amazon planning first real-world shop: report

Online retail titan Amazon will open its first real-world shop in just a few months, according to a blog devoted to news about electronic readers such as the popular Kindle.

Technology / Business

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks (Update)

Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.

Technology / Business

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Technology, costs, lack of appeal slow e-textbook adoption

Textbooks are often a luxury for college senior Vatell Martin. The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups and professors' lectures. "It's not that I didn't want to buy," ...

Technology / Other

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Small businesses see mobile payments as chance to lower costs

Urban Bean manager Liz Abene started hunting for a new way to process card payments after the coffee shop's transaction fees skyrocketed. It was costing $60 a month, she said, just to have the credit card equipment on the ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Amazon selling over one million Kindles a week

Amazon said Thursday that it is selling more than one million Kindles a week and the new Kindle Fire tablet computer is its top-selling item.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Steve Jobs biography Amazon's top seller for 2011

A biography of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was Amazon's best-selling book this year despite hitting store shelves and electronic readers only in late October, Amazon said Monday.

Technology / Business

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tablets, e-readers closing book on ink-and-paper era

Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to eventually close the book on the ink-and-paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Adobe confirms zero-day danger in Reader and Acrobat

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adobe on Tuesday issued a critical security advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat. A vulnerability was detected and confirmed in Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and ...

Technology / Software

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Review: Gift guide to e-readers, tablets, $99-$500

Flat, hard packages will be welcome this year. Tablet computers are extremely popular, and electronic reading devices such as the Kindle have matured and come down in price.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Amazon opens Spanish, Italian Kindle stores

Amazon began offering digital books in Spanish and Italian for the Kindle on Thursday and selling Spanish- and Italian-language versions of the electronic book reader.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Qualcomm challenges LCDs through new e-reader

A new electronic display is poised to challenge power-hungry LCDs after U.S. mobile chip maker Qualcomm Inc. teamed up with a South Korean bookseller to introduce a new e-reader.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Dyslexic adults have more trouble if background noise levels are high

Dyslexia affects up to 17.5% of the population, but its cause remains somewhat unknown. A report published in the Nov. 23 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE supports the hypothesis that the symptoms of dyslexia, includ ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Amazon may be planning smartphone: Citi analysts

Amazon, which began shipping a tablet computer this week, may be eyeing the smartphone market.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Review: Kindle Fire sacrifices to get under $200

The Kindle was always an odd product name. Amazon used a verb to name a thing, raising the question: Kindle what? Now we have the answer: Kindle Fire.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Consumer's guide to downloadable gifts

Remember when gifts were objects, purchased or crafted and wrapped with a bow, then presented with a flourish?

Technology / Other

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0