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- Kindle books come to the PC -- a Nook counterpunch
- Platform expansion is the logical counter to new competition at the device level. Amazon, facing the introduction of BN.com's Nook and other e-readers this week, has announced it will support reading of Kindle books on Windows 7, Vista and XP Service Pack 2 PCs in November. The...
- Tags: PC, Amazon.com Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., Platform Expansion, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Gallery: Kindle comes to the PC
- In a surprise announcement at the public launch of Windows 7, Amazon is working on a Kindle reader application that will work on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 machines. by Andy Smith
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Amazon, Kindle, Microsoft, Andy Smith
- Image galleries 2009-10-22
- Amazon to release Kindle reader for Windows PCs in November
- Microsoft managed to keep a couple of news nuggets under wraps until the actual launch of the product on October 22. The most interesting to me was that Amazon is working on a Kindle reader application that will work on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 machines. by Mary Jo...
- Tags: PC, Amazon.com Inc., Windows PC, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Amazon introduces Kindle for Windows 7, Vista, XP PCs
- Amazon announced on Thursday its "Kindle for PC," a free application that lets users read e-books and use the Kindle store on their PCs. by Andrew Nusca
- Tags: PC, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, E-books, Hardware, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- 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
- Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'
- Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'"As Authorized""[i]... or as authorized by Amazon ...[/i]" seems to leave a pretty big hole in the TOS.RE: Kindle lawsuit not so 'ridiculous'since 1984 book is available thousands of places, the law suit has little merit in terms of damages regardless of how much the download...
- Tags: Tos, lawsuit not-so, Amazon.com Inc., not-so
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- The history and future of Chrome OS
- The history and future of Chrome OSGoogle - MicrosoftMicrosoft MS like all monopolies has grown fat and sloppy - just look at Vista. What a piece of crap that was and is and MS made millions off this nightmare. They more than control all desk top software, they...
- Tags: Operating systems, INTERNET, Network Boot, Chrome, Chrome OS, operating system
- Discussion threads 2009-07-11
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .
- Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...
- Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-20
- Global piracy on the rise
- Global piracy on the riseWhat's a loss?Does the loss include dropping your prices to be more inline with the economy of the country you're selling in? Did the drop in piracy coincide with a drop in prices or an increase in enforcement? Or both? Is the BSA...
- Tags: software key, piracy, software
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- How about textbooks by Google?
- If you read my post on the new Kindle DX yesterday, you know that I'm generally irritated with the entire idea of the Kindle at this point. I'd take fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow's, request for Amazon to "bring down its wall" a step further and suggest that the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Textbook, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Channel Management, Security, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- 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
- Amazon Kindle 2 Launch (Amazon Kindle 2 Up Close and Personal)
- Amazon Kindle 2 Launch (Amazon Kindle 2 Up Close and Personal)Kindle2 - handy!...that guy in photos 11 and 12 has on some really nice nail polish in pics 13 and 14. Oh, wait, that wouldn't be another person holding the Kindle2 in the close-ups, would it?RE: Amazon Kindle 2 Launch...
- Tags: E-books, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle 2, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle 2 Up Close and Personal, Amazon Kindle 2 Launch
- Discussion threads 2009-02-10
- Why Amazon Needs Kindle 2.0
- Why Amazon Needs Kindle 2.0Make it sexy, and lower the priceMake the body with rounded contours, and make "skins" that you can put on your Kindle: a pink one for the ladies, a Harry Potter design for the kids, a metallic one for the techno oriented... Make sets of "University"...
- Tags: E-books, Marketing research, Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-12-02
- eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?
- Over the past couple weeks, I've been conducting polls about ebooks as I think about doing some publishing. The overwhelming response to the polls has been that there is not a sufficiently broad selection of books available in e-formats, regardless of what format, whether for Amazon's Kindle, the Sony Reader...
- Tags: E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Will it be a Kindle Christmas?
- Will it be a Kindle Christmas?Oh pleaseThe answer to this is very simple.Not a lot. Otherwise they would be shouting numbers from the rooftops.Critical thinking. All it takes is a little practice.RE: Will it be a Kindle Christmas?I talked to Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, exclusively about the Kindle on...
- Tags: E-books, Kindle Christmas
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Review: HTC Advantage X7510 with 16GB flash drive, haptics keyboard and Windows Mobile 6.1
- The most powerful Windows Mobile device I ever evaluated was the HTC Advantage X7501 that was released back in August of 2007 and I wrote quite an extensive review that was my most viewed blog post of 2007. The successor to the Advantage X7501, the X7510, was announced at Mobile...
- Tags: Application, High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Mobile, Battery, USB Flash Drive, Content, HTC Advantage, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance
- Leading up to the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...
- Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- MWC08: Hands-on with the Readius eInk mobile device
- I spent most of the last two days in meetings and finally had a chance to randomly stroll the show floor. While I have a couple of targets in mind to visit, like the Modu device and S60 touch UI, I also was keeping my eye out for other cool...
- Tags: Device, Mobile, Mobile Device, Readius eInk, Readius, Corporate Communications, RSS, Podcasts, E-books, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- What's on tap for Ed Tech in 2008?
- It's that time of year again when all of us bloggers start prognosticating about the coming year. That being said, I think there are a few really significant trends that emerged in 2007 that will really take off in 2008. Read the list below and then tell me...
- Tags: Desktop, Thin Client, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Computing, Linux, UNIX, Thin Clients, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
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