Barnes & Noble CEO confessed that the near field communications (NFC) radio will start making an appearance on the company’s future Nook tablet and e-readers, but did not give a definitive timeline on when that would happen. News of the NFC on the Nook follows the company’s announcement earlier this week that Microsoft had made [...]
Digitimes is reporting that Amazon has ordered color e-ink panels from E Ink Holdings. The 6-inch color e-ink panels could potentially make it into the next generation Kindle Touch e-readers, which would be the first e-ink readers from Amazon to feature a color display. Though Amazon has the Kindle Fire tablet, based on Google’s Android [...]
Barnes & Noble has shipped 1 million Nook Tablets so far. That’s a pretty impressive number, but that doesn’t mean that customers bought 1 million of them, but rather that Barnes & Noble received them from supplier Inventec, the same OEM that made the now defunct HP TouchPad. Unfortunately, that’s often the way these kinds [...]
If you want to get the best Black Friday Deals, and still have a fun time shopping on November 25th, 2011, you need to be prepared. I’ve been shopping Black Friday for over a decade, and writing about how to get the best Black Friday deals for years. This year, I decided to let you [...]
Those of you who planned on getting your brand new Kindle Touch on November 21st are in for a bit of a surprise today as Amazon has just announced that it will be shipping orders out a week earlier than expected. November 15th will be the day that the Kindle Touch will go on sale [...]
One wonders if Amazon hadn’t dubbed the Kindle Fire a tablet if Barnes & Noble would have called the device the unveiled today the Nook Color 2. After all, it’s represents a mostly internal update on the hardware side with software updates that are also coming to last year’s Nook Color. Don’t get me wrong, [...]
Depending on what rumors or what blog posts you read, we know a little more about Amazon’s coming Tablet. MG Siegler’s post on TechCrunch has some credibility because he’s apparently handled a prototype. But then, on the cautious side, we all know how prototypes (even the unofficially officially leaked ones) can give us a misleading [...]
TechCrunch’s MG Seigler is reporting that a 7 inch Amazon Tablet is very real and is reporting on a version that he’s touched and toyed around with. It will be called the Amazon Kindle. According to his report the device looks a lot like RIMs Playbook. It is backlight and doesn’t use eInk on its [...]
Today Barnes & Noble will begin rolling out a firmware update to the Nook Color. Version 1.3 includes some performance enhancement, better Wi-Fi connectivity, and an option for parents to disable the browser before handing it to their kids. The update also gives Nook Color owners access to special edition enhanced Nook Magazines that aren’t [...]
The Nook Color is a nice eReader, especially for enjoying periodicals in full color, and now with an update, the iPad Nook app provides readers with the same rich full-color periodical experience. This is a leg up for Barnes & Noble, because the Kindle device and the Kindle app can’t display periodicals in full color. [...]
Tablets like the iPad aren’t replacing laptops on the whole, but the new couch companion devices are taking over many of the activities we used to do on dedicated devices. Are you converging like the survey respondents? Millenialmedia reports that the tablet is now the go to device for several computer activities, but that’s not [...]
With the tablet market (or, as some would call it, the iPad market) getting most of the attention, it’s easy to forget about the eReader wars. The Kindle is still the most famous, but Barnes & Noble’s recent reboot of the Nook (along with the tablet hybrid Nook Color) has been turning a lot of heads as [...]
Barnes and Noble is going to be offering a new Nook with a touch screen to compete with the Amazon Kindle and the new touch-enabled Kobo eReader. The new Simple Touch Reader from Barnes and Noble will retail for $139 and boasts 2 months of battery life and a touch-enabled black-and-white E-Ink screen that is readable outdoors and [...]
There’s been chatter that Barnes & Noble is getting ready to introduce a second-generation e-ink-based Nook electronic reader to replace the original Nook. The new e-ink reader would be released help Barnes & Noble better compete against Amazon’s Kindle 3, which offers a newer, better electronic ink display that’s even easier on the eyes with [...]
Best Buy has done a great job capturing the consumer mindshare, and wallet-share, over the past few years, but Staples is about to dive in full force in an attempt to become the go to retail location for tablets. As this week’s ad for Staples suggests, you can go into a local Staples location and [...]
If you love your mother and she loves technology, or gadgets like eReaders, then you owe it to your mom to check out the Mother’s Day 2011 Tech Gift Guide over at Notebooks.com where you can find a collection of the hottest gifts ranging from $3.99 up to $829. These gifts have passed our mother [...]
As we posted earlier there has been an issue with the Barnes and Noble Nook Color. A firmware update was pushed out over Wi-Fi to many but not all of the devices. I was one who experienced this issue along with many others despite already manually updating the device. We are guessing that it was a [...]
OtterBox has added a few eReader cases to its Commuter Series of rugged cases. The Amazon Kindle 3, Kindle DX, B&N Nook and Sony Reader Touch Edition can now all get the three-layers of protection treatment. The first layer of protection is an adhesive screen protector, the second layer is soft silicone and the third [...]
CES is over and the nominations for Freescale’s top 20 Smart Mobile Device Pundits of 2011 are in. Holding up the bottom of the list once again (because it’s in alphabetic order by first name) is our resident curmudgeon sage Warner Crocker.
This morning, Warner wrote that the Google eBooks digital bookstore is now open for business, but that the iOS app isn’t yet available. It looks like Android and iOS platforms now have native apps to access and synchronize with Google’s eBooks store, which will require a Google or Gmail account. Now, books purchased are stored [...]
BAM! Books-A-Million dropped a bombshell on the eReader world this weekend by offering the NOOKcolor for pre-sale through their online store with the rest of the NOOK line to follow online and in stores November 19. Interesting move considering that Android tablet eReader is from their biggest competitor Barnes and Noble.
The year was 2010. The eReader wars had heated up to boiling. e-ink devices were deployed by numerous factions, big and small. Everyone expected Amazon to be the one to up the ante, but they weren’t. Barnes & Noble launched first. The war changed that day – everything changed – that day when they went [...]
Kobo’s eReader is being updated to include WiFi. This will allow customers to get wireless delivery of their favorite newspapers and magazines. According to the press release, the Kobo store has over 2.2 million books which includes new releases, best sellers, classics, and even free books. The Kobo eReader supports open standards like EPUB and [...]
According to a report out of Digitimes, E Ink Holdings, maker of e-ink displays, will increase production of their FFS (fringe filed switching) LCD panels. In addition, capacitive touch and electromagnetic (active) panels for their e-ink displays are in the works, and a partner will be showing off their color e-ink display later this year.
After a brief period of denial, Plastic Logic has confirmed their QUE ProReader is being skipped in favor of a next-generation version of the product.
Customers wanting to order an Amazon Kindle are finding out that it is temporarily sold out. Is that production or demand problem or does it hint at something new coming in the Kindle line? No one really knows and of course Amazon isn’t saying much other than that it will notify customers when Kindles are [...]
Word from Wired’s Gadget Lab is that the QUE ProReader from Plastic Logic, the ultra-premium eReader with an ultra-premium price tag, has been delayed for an undetermined period of time. They’re calling it vaporware. I’m calling it the iPad’s first confirmed kill.
Borders is now taking pre-orders for the $119 “Libre” eBook Reader Pro and talking about its eBook strategy. The book retailer is planning to selling up to 10 devices, including the Libre, at its brick and mortar stores by the end of the year. A special section of each store dubbed “Area-e” will showcase the [...]
Environmentally-aware blog GreenerComputing has reported on a couple of companies saving trees and money by using iPads for printed material instead of paper. While the environmental savings can be debated, the monetary savings appear substantial. Sounds good, but I also see the iPad is stealing yet another device’s thunder.
Pandigital, a primarily a maker of photo and image viewers, has expanded into the eReader market with the Pandigital Novel, an Android-based eReader with 7″ LCD 800 x 600 touchscreen, Wi-Fi, multimedia, and eBook purchasing via Barnes & Noble.
Stealth start-up Kakai has changed their name to Kno (like “know” as in understanding and learning and stuff, get it?), and according to Kara Swisher at All Things Digital, they’ll be showing off their secret project, possibly a tablet, at the D: All Things Digital conference.
Good news, bad news bubbling up over a new feature in the Kindle 2.5 software. Good news is your Kindle backs up your notes and highlights to Amazon’s servers. Bad news is Amazon analyzes that data – your data – to suggest passages to others.
Good news if you’ve got a Barnes & Noble nook: a new firmware update is finally unlocking that “Read in Store” feature, allowing you to read eBooks in the B&N like you do with the paper books. Also, web browsing and Sudoku!
Word out of AllThingsD is that a stealth startup (man, those things are common nowadays) called Kakai is working on a new tablet device that’s described as “a Kindle for Students and Much More” allowing for gesture control and a variety of note-taking abilities.
Akihabara News has posted several photos of a Fujitsu eReader prototype featuring a color e-ink screen.
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