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Amazon expected to lift wraps on large-screen Kindle
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May 04, 2009 |
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Amazon.com is widely expected to lift the wraps on a new large-screen Kindle device this week, which could be the first in a line of electronic reading devices geared toward newspapers and textbooks.
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The visual editor: IBM Makes It Easier To Browse Web Sites On Mobile Devices (w/ Video)
Oct 26, 2009 |
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IBM researchers have created technology, initially developed for visually-impaired users, that makes it simpler for Webmasters to make their Web sites more readable on the small screens of mobile devices, ...
Good vibrations: Devices aid the deaf by translating sound waves to vibrations
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone.
Hearst looks to digital readers of the future
Dec 05, 2009 |
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With an eye on the readers of the future, US publisher Hearst Corp. announced plans Friday to launch a digital newsstand, advertising service and electronic reader for newspapers and magazines.
New Barnes & Noble multi-format e-books dog Amazon
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Barnes & Noble Inc. on Monday stepped up its fight in the small but highly competitive market for electronic books with the launch of a new e-bookstore offering titles to be read on a variety of devices.
Phones, PCs put e-book within reach of Kindle-less
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A few weeks ago, Pasquale Castaldo was waiting at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport for a delayed flight, when a man sitting across from him pulled out an Amazon Kindle book-reading device.
Review: Barnes & Noble reader is dual-screen mess
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Dec 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The e-book reading device is the gadget gift of the season. Both Sony and Barnes & Noble have sold out of their new models, and new buyers will have to wait until January for delivery. So why are ...
RFIDs transmit through metal
Feb 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Metal efficiently blocks radiation, such as that emitted by RFID chips - small data storage units that are integrated in various objects and transmit their information to a reading device. ...
Sony plans a Kindle rival with wireless downloads
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Aug 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sony plans to offer an e-book reader with the ability to wirelessly download books. That adopts a key feature of the Kindle from Amazon.com and enhances the competition in a small but fast-growing ...
Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles
Sep 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of the George Orwell novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" were deleted from their electronic reading devices in July.
New e-book reader to use AT&T network
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Jul 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Following in the footsteps of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, another e-book reader is set to get a wireless connection from a cellular carrier, letting it access books anywhere there's a signal.
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