The Amazon Kindle 2 will feature an “innovative Web browser” if a new ad by Kindle making Amazon shell-company Lab 126 is to be believed. But will a touchscreen Amazon Kindle 2 with perked up web browsing be enough to fight the iPad or should Amazon angle for partnerships with devices like the Dell Mini 5?
Kobo Books, the open ebook store that’s gunning for iBooks on the Apple iPad and the Amazon Kindle, launched earlier this week. Now Michael Serbinis, Kobo’s CEO, has made his predictions for the future of ebooks in 2010 – time for a “super” Amazon Kindle, Google’s ebook store and a Google tablet to go with it?
Kobo Books has launched an open UK ebook store store that will put pressure on Apple iBooks and the Amazon Kindle. Read on for news of the new source of books made from bits…
Apple’s iBooks plans have previously been lauded by the publishing industry for allowing them to control the pricing. But it seems Apple is angling for the ability to sell the most popular books at a discount. Is that good new for folk lusting after an Apple iPad?
The British Library’s rare collection of 19th century fiction will be winging its way to ebook readers like the Amazon Kindle this spring. The library has worked with Microsoft to make 65,000 19th century titles available for free.
Amazon’s Kindle could soon be getting a touchscreen to combat the thread from the Apple iPad. Amazon’s just snaffled up a small multitouch touchscreen maker with an interesting method of making colour screens that would be pretty much perfect for the Kindle.
So many iPhone rivals took their lead from Apple’s utilitarian design that the original now looks almost uninspired
It can snaffle up sharper shots when there isn’t much available light around
Chaos Rings, a new original iPhone RPG with stunning 3D graphics, has just been announced by the team behind the Final Fantasy games, Square Enix. We’ve got the first trailer of the game right here, so read on to see it in action!
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