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TechHive: Reality Check: How E-Readers Can Fight to Stay Alive
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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble take on Amazon’s Kindle with $300m deal
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Microsoft is investing $300m (£185m) in Barnes & Noble’s digital and university book business, giving the book shop chain’s e-reader Nook more firepower to fight competition from Amazon’s Kindle.
Microsoft and Barnes & Noble Create E-Book Partnership
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Coming up first: A Metro-style Nook e-reader app for Windows 8 that will be available to U.S. and international users.
Amazon Kindles ‘go unused’ after Christmas
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Amazon’s Kindle e-reader was among the most popular gifts at Christmas, but many have gone unused, a survey has found.
Barnes & Noble Nook Now Free — Sort Of
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Subscribe to the service, get the e-Reader essentially free; is this deal alluring enough to snag anyone? Please?
Solar-powered Kindle cover dropping at CES
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With the first solar-powered Kindle cover debuting at CES this week, the “e” in e-reader could also stand for “eco-friendly.”
The SolarKindle cover allows you to read all the Al Gore and Bill McKibben titles you can download in the greenest manner imaginable–no trees ground into pulp for the pages, no coal burned in power plants to charge up your Kindle’s battery. In fact, the solar cover comes with a guarantee of three months of unplugged Kindle use under “normal sunlight environment”–I’m guessing that environment doesn’t include Seattle in winter.
Read More...InnoTab Learning Tablet : Baby iPad?
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As all parents know, since the day they’re born, our offspring want to play with our electronics.
Little ones are so clever, they often can’t be fooled with a “toy” phone, or plastic tablet.
Vtech recommends their new InnoTablet, a colorful version of Mommy’s iPad, for ages 4-9. I suggest age one, before they make a grab for our technology.
Read More...PlayBook, TouchPad steal share from Android tablets
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Android’s recent success in the tablet market seems to have hit a minor roadblock, as increased competition from RIM’s PlayBook and now HP’s fire-saled TouchPad chip away at its slice of the pie. Apple seems unaffected for the time being, with its market share increasing quarter-to-quarter.
Apple took a 68.3 percent share in the second quarter, up about 3 percent from the previous period, according to research firm IDC. Android tablet share on the other hand dropped significantly, falling to 26.8 percent from 34 percent in the first quarter.
Read More...ABBYY FineReader now supports popular e-reader formats
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Moscow-based optical character recognition specialist ABBYY has released a major new update of its renowned OCR application. ABBYY FineReader 11 Professional Edition, which allows users to convert images or scanned documents into editable text, boasts improved processing speeds of up to 45 per cent thanks to a new black and white processing mode.
Version 11 also adds an ebook creation tool and direct support for OpenOffice Writer, plus incorporates a tool to improve the bulk processing of documents while promising to improve the accuracy when scanning and formatting complex documents.
Read More...Trash that rooted Nook Color, Lenovo A1 is cheapest brand name Android tablet
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Barnes and Noble’s Android-powered e-reader, Nook Color, gained considerable popularity in the Android community for being a relatively cheap device ($249) that could be rooted to become a full-fledged Android tablet that runs surprisingly well, considering the device’s somewhat limited 800MHz processor.
But today, Lenovo just completely smashed the Nook Color by revealing to the media at IFA Berlin the price for its baseline model IdeaPad A1 Android tablet will be just $199.
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