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- B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary
- In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...
- Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Barnes and Noble e-book reader 'Nook' to be unveiled today
- What is the difference between this and the Que?RE: Barnes and Noble e-book reader 'Nook' to be unveiled todayWell, the Kindle is still pretty pricy for me. I was in Toys R Us the other day and they had a Sony e-reader (1st time I've ever ACTUALLY seen one....
- Tags: E-books, Kindle DX, e-book, Nook, Barnes & Noble Inc., e-book Reader, Kindle2, pricing strategy
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Cut. Scan. Read.
- Google books has nothing on me: for months now I've been cutting the pages out of old books, scanning them into PDFs, storing them on a hard drive and recycling the paper. OCR makes the text searchable and selectable. Most important: I'll never schlep them up...
- Tags: Adobe PDF, Minute, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- Google begins its rumble with Amazon
- Google begins its rumble with AmazonLet 'em duke it out foreverFormat wars delay acceptance, so as a diehard hardcover aficionado, I'll be cheering all the way.So early adopters get punished again, as it should be.I've been saying from the start that we don't need no stinking hardware to read...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-06-02
- Amazon plans big screen Kindle: Textbook margins are the real aim not saving newspapers
- Amazon plans big screen Kindle: Textbook margins are the real aim not saving newspapersPlus, how would this work for...I recall in grad school often having several text books open at once on my desk as I wrote my thesis, worked on projects, and studied. How would you keep multiple things...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Amazon.com Inc., big screen, Textbook margin, textbook
- Discussion threads 2009-05-04
- Kindle Economics 2: Why Amazon should not be Apple, and Jeff Bezos is not Steve Jobs
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos presents the Kindle 2 to a packed auditorium. What sort of product rollout does this remind you of? So the Kindle 2 has now made its debut, with everything you'd expect of a gee-whiz product launch -- a packed auditorium filled with media types, a...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, 3G, Wireless LANs, Sales Strategy, Storage, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Top-selling fiction books in 2008
- Rank Title Author Format Publisher Publication Date 1 The Shack William P. Young Trade Paperback Hachette Book Group 7/1/2008 2 The Appeal John Grisham Hardcover Random House 1/1/2008 3 The Host Stephenie Meyer Hardcover Hachette Book Group 5/1/2008 4 The Friday NightKnitting...
- Tags: Hardcover, NB
- Blog posts 2008-12-25
- Kindle Economics
- A few weeks ago I evaluated Amazon's Kindle. While I really liked the device, the big problem I had with it was that at its current price of $359.00 it was too expensive at this point for mass consumer adoption. I also had a number of...
- Tags: Cost, Semester, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Microsoft Excel, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- America loses its moral technologist: Michael Crichton
- America loses its moral technologist: Michael CrichtonThank YouSeven years ago I was applying to colleges. A common essay prompt was "Write about a particular work of literature or author who has had an influence on your life and describe that influence."I wrote about Michael Crichton. I argued many...
- Tags: Michael Crichton
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- And the calculator saga continues
- I spent the afternoon at a local orchard with my wife and my youngest son. The other kids were buried in homework and/or video games, but it's apple season here in New England, so off the three of us went on a beautiful fall day. The orchard was...
- Tags: Ice Cream, Games, Taxes, Corporate Communications, Free Trade, Construction, Personal Technology, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- Nyko Charge Base 360
- Nyko recently released a dual controller charging solution for the PlayStation 3, the Charge Base 2. But unlike the internal and nonremoveable batteries of the PS3's DualShock 3 and Sixaxis controllers, Xbox 360 pads have detachable batteries. So the company's design for a similar 360 product required it to rethink...
- Tags: Engineering, Game players, Nyko Charge Base 360, battery, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Xbox 360
- Product reviews 2008-06-18
- Kata DR-467 Digital Rucksack
- Lately, I've been obsessed with camera backpacks. It's not easy to find one that does everything I need, since I use backpacks to haul all different size SLRs, from the smallest entry-level, to the largest, integrated-vertical-grip pro bodies. Kata's DR-467 Digital Rucksack proved to be a very versatile bag and...
- Tags: Memory, Notebooks, Kata DR-467 Digital Rucksack, compartment, memory card
- Product reviews 2008-03-12
- Asus' 8.9" Eee draws crowds at CeBIT
- Asus' 8.9" Eee draws crowds at CeBITYou can't buy anything this size or close for double the priceYou can't buy anything this size or close for double the price. If you want a small portable device, this is the best you can do under $400 or even $800. ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Notebooks, ASUS
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- Stop the Kindle hype!
- Stop the Kindle hype!Scared much?!?I know you "Cupertino Crack" addicts sometimes have trouble separating reality from the RDF, but seriously, this post smacks of defend the queen!Anyone would think that Amazon had just declared war on Apple!Chill out David, your "cult" of products will not be affected by anything that...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital music, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- What would my ideal education ultraportable look like?
- What would my ideal education ultraportable look like?my specsMine would be very similar to an Eee PC but with a touchscreen and solid state storage. With the ability to run apps locally and remotely. And yes the magic price would be $200 :)www.aikotech.com/thinserver.htmYour specs would be perfect for your classroomWhereas...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, ideal education, laptop computer, keyboard, education, Webcam
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- POLL: What's your gut reaction to Amazon Kindle?
- POLL: What's your gut reaction to Amazon Kindle?Hype springs eternalThe handful of major publishers have found, repeatedly, that they can't sell hardcover books for much more than the list price of a mass-marketed CD, and that the volumes at that price are pretty slim (although the margins are good.)Likewise, paperbacks...
- Tags: PDAs, E-books, Handhelds, e-book, PDA, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- IMHO: Amazon Kindle drum roll another example of digerati clustercluck
- IMHO: Amazon Kindle drum roll another example of digerati clustercluckLet's seeAt $7.99 for a paperback [1], the amortization for a $399 reader would be $399/($7.99-$9.99) -- wait a minute!Oh, wait -- I forgot the monthly service charges.For this I get what? "Books" that are unreadable after the two or...
- Tags: Digital music, over-the-air service, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Amazon's Kindle: Can it make its technology invisible?
- Amazon's Kindle: Can it make its technology invisible?Do they not get it, NO ONE wants an e-book?What is it that keeps prompting these folks to continue to try to sell e-books? I know of absolutely no one that likes and uses them, in fact I know of no one...
- Tags: E-books, Notebooks, e-book, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, laptop computer, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- Skooba Satchel 2.0 Luxe
- When it comes to laptop bags, some people want something a little conservative, while others want something fun. The $110 Skooba Satchel 2.0 Luxe will appeal to the latter. Looking more like a weekend bag than a laptop carrier, the Skooba Satchel marries a casual exterior with high-end hardware and...
- Tags: Notebooks, Skooba Satchel 2.0 Luxe, laptop computer, zipper
- Product reviews 2007-11-01
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