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Listen, its already clear that HP doesn’t have the desire to keep WebOS, the mobile/tablet operating system they bought from Palm for over one billion dollars. At that time, purchasing the operating system made sense if HP wanted to enter the mobile arena, but the rise of Android, success of iOS and upcoming Microsoft Windows, [...]
That’s what the tech blogosphere expects to happen, including Mashable and Techcrunch, on Wednesday at an Amazon press conference. The maker of the world’s most popular e-book reader is rumored to be announcing a color, touch-screen tablet device called the “Kindle Fire,” according to the blog TechCrunch, which claims to have seen the gadget and [...]
Today, according to CNN, was the worst day for stocks since 2008, especially the Dow which dropped a whopping 512 points so far today (4.3% daily drop and 1.67% for the year). Nasdaq dropped 136 points (5.08% daily drop and 3.64% for the year) while the S&P floundered 61 points so far (4.78% daily drop [...]
Coming Sunday, July 17, the iriver Story HD e-reader will be available for sale in Target stores nationwide and on Target.com. The iriver Story HD is the first e-reader integrated with the open Google eBooks platform, through which you can buy and read Google eBooks over Wi-Fi. The iriver Story HD, which retails for $139.99 [...]
A couple years ago, I received a new Kindle for Christmas and hated it. It was (and still is) supported by a lagging interface that makes me want to rip out the little hair I have left. Sure, the Kindle has come a long way since then, but I’ve got more so many devices in [...]
Amazon began selling hardcover and paperback books in July 1995. Twelve years later in November 2007, Amazon introduced the revolutionary Kindle and began selling Kindle books. By July 2010, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and six months later, Kindle books overtook paperback books to become the most popular format on Amazon.com. Today, [...]
Amazon.com is now selling more Kindle books than paperback books. Since the beginning of the year, for every 100 paperback books Amazon has sold, the Company has sold 115 Kindle books. Additionally, during this same time period the Company has sold three times as many Kindle books as hardcover books. This is across Amazon.com’s entire [...]
