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QUALCOMM’S MIRASOL TECHNOLOGY

Saturday, February 20, 2010

The Qualcomm Mirasol is a display screen much like a e-ink display screen. Qualcomm Mirasol Team said it is ready to begin selling screen. Qualcomm said they wont be manufacturing E-Readers themselves, but are working to supply OEM partners who want an alternative to e-ink and LCD technologies. Mirasol’s technolgy, with its lower power, high [...]

E-BOOK PRICES GOING UP

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

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Seems now the big publishers are getting into the race. Racing to slap bigger prices on their e-books. Whoa…… Macmillan Publisher, CEO John Sargent didn’t even wait for the cleaning crew to come in to start cleaning up after the big event in San Francisco last week. Within a day, The New York Publisher started setting [...]

ACER ON LINE TO GO UP AGAINST E-READER MARKET AND IPAD

Sunday, January 31, 2010

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Acer owns Gateway and eMachines, and worldwide, it’s the number two supplier of PCs, behind Hewlett Packard and ahead of Dell. Acer Inc, is planning on entering the electronic-book reader market later this year, as well as a version of Google’s Chrome operating system on a netbook in 2010. President of the IT Products division of [...]

IPAD MAY HURT KINDLE SALES BUT NOT ANDROID

Saturday, January 30, 2010

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The iPad which functions like an iPhone without the phone may hurt the Kindle and Nook E-Readers. But, the expected Android Tablet, “The Sholes” doesn’t seem to be shaking in its boots. The Android is expected to be able to multi-task which the iPad does not. Android is working on releasing a tablet, or netbook [...]

CONCEPTS FROM MEDIA CONSULTANT

Friday, January 22, 2010

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Mitchell Madison’s Group partner, Arnon Mishkin, consultant for media companies helping to improve the legacy of businesses and also making the Internet profitable, had some interesting comments to make regarding the iSlate. “Most content creators (who once thought they were kings) are clearly looking forward to the launch of Apple’s iSlate, supposedly next week. Indeed, there [...]

WITH ISLATE THREAT ON THE HORIZON KINDLE DROPPING PRICES

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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Announcement from Amazon about giving a 70 percent cut in retail prices to publishers who will utilize Kindle. Good deal for publishers, plus no cost for delivery. Good deal for consumers also, as long as the publisher passes some of the savings along. Leads us to believe that Kindle is feeling the pressure of the iSlate [...]

iSLATE ON AMAZONS HORIZON

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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Amazon may feel their Kindle’s heating up if rumors are true about Apple releasing the much hyped iSlate. While the Kindle is probably the best eReader out there currently, it has been described as being a bit primitive. The speculation is that the Apple iSlate could be targeting the Kindle market. With the past success Apple has used in [...]