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iPhone Beating E-Readers at Their Own Game?

With the iPhone still the hottest smartphone, there's much speculation about how its future will pan out. For some the money's on gaming, but new research from Flurry is surprisingly different: eBook apps are overtaking games in the ...READ»

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Spring's Dual-Screen, Color, Web-Browsing E-Reader Poses a Serious Threat to the Kindle

Gizmodo's leak of Barnes and Noble's twin-screen e-reader with a color display was a pleasant surprise last week, but not for Spring Design. The company just revealed its own e-reader, obviously in response--and it's very ...READ»

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Barnes & Noble's E-Reader Leaks, Surprises, Changes the Game

The Barnes and Noble e-reader that we got excited about last week with color e-ink rumors. Guess what: There's no color e-ink! It's got something almost better, though. Two of the, in fact...READ»

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iRiver "Story" E-Reader Has Looks to Kill the Kindle

For a while, rumors suggested that iRiver would enter the e-reader battle, and now an image and specs have surfaced for its Story device that looks like iRiver's not just joining the battle--it's leaping in to the fray, guns blazing. ...READ»

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Amazon's Kindle Gets Tempting $60 Price Cut

Amazon's Kindle 2 just got a pleasant $60 price cut, so it's now just $299. Admittedly that's still expensive, but it'll likely boost sales of the e-reader a little in the flat economy. There's a little more to it than that, ...READ»

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Watch This High-Res OLED Screen Flex, Think of the Bendy Gadgets to Follow

It's thin, it's bendy, and it can display high-res video... this new prototype OLED screen is totally a taste of the future. You know, the flexible digital magazine and roll-up computer screen future that magazines like Popular ...READ»

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E-Ink's Sale Clears Path for Color Kindle in 2010

The sale of E-Ink, the company that makes the display for the Kindle, will fast-track the development of color e-readers. Here's why.READ»

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Bokeen's Cybook Opus E-Reader Beats Kindle to a Pocket-Friendly Size

E-reader manufacturer Bookeen recently revealed details on its newest hand-held device. Unlike Amazon, which recently super-sized the Kindle 2 into the larger DX, Bokeen's innovation goes in the other direction: the Cybook Opus ...READ»

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Step Aside E-Ink: The Electrofluidic Future of E-Paper Is Here

The term "electrofluidic" conjures up worrisome visions of a mix of electricity and water, but it's actually the rather nifty technology being demonstrated by start-up Gamma Dynamics as the future of electronic paper. It's ...READ»

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Samsung's $300 Papyrus Confirms E-Books as the Next Lifestyle Gadget

When Samsung joins the e-book fray, where Amazon, Sony and Fujtisu are already playing, it confirms one thing: the e-reader is becoming the next "must-have" lifestyle gadget. The Papyrus, a touchscreen e-reader that ...READ»

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Fujitsu's FLEPia Color E-Book Now Official, Slow and Expensive

The Fujitsu color e-reader looked promising when it underwent trials in a Japanese cafe earlier this year. And now Fujitsu's officially pulled the veil off of the device, announcing its specs and making it available for sale in ...READ»

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What Does Amazon's iPhone Kindle App Mean For The Kindle?

Well that was sooner than expected: The new Kindle 2 is just out of its box for a week and Amazon's gone and released a "Kindle" e-book reader app for the iPhone. Does this mean Amazon's fallen out of love with its wacky ...READ»

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Use The Environment To Blind Your Adversary – The Amazon Kindle Has A Competitive Advantage

This week the new Amazon Kindle (Amazon’s digital book reader) has dominated tech device media coverage. While I am eager to get my hands on one after Amazon sold out of the first version during the holidays, what intrigues me ...READ»

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Amazon Kindle 3 Rumors Surface: Bigger, Better (Of Course)

The ink has barely dried on the new production Amazon Kindle 2 e-readers and now there's a hot rumor surfacing about the Kindle 3. Among the speculation is one interesting suggestion: The Kindle version 3 may actually arrive on the ...READ»

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Kindle 2 Won't Change Your Life, but the Next One Will [review]

Amazon's [AMZN] new Kindle 2, shipping this week, shames the original Kindle with a host of improvements: better enclosure, faster page-turns, a better Web experience and seven times the memory. But the Kindle 2 is put to shame by ...READ»

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Flexible Touchscreen E-paper Signals the Rise of Touchscreens Everywhere

We've sung the praises of flexible screen technology here a few times--it'll be a key part of the next revolution in gadget technology. And now another piece of the puzzle has fallen into place, as the ASU Flexible Display Center ...READ»

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Forget Kindle 2: Fujitsu's E-Reader Screen is Bigger, and It's in Color

In all the fuss about the new Amazon Kindle 2 yesterday, it was easy to forget that the "upgraded" device still has a relatively small paperback-sized screen and can only cope with greyscale imagery. And that's where Fujitsu's new ...READ»

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Are Google Books a Threat to the Kindle?

Google's Book Search has been a controversial background project for most of its four-year life, but its most recent move may see the scheme brought right into the limelight: Google Book Search is now available on the iPhone and ...READ»

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Amazon's Kindle 2 E-Reader to Debut on February 9

Update: The rumor that Amazon's successor to the Kindle e-reader is arriving on February 9th has been confirmed. In October, BoyGeniusReport.com nabbed the first images of the new device, and now BGR is running with the suggestion ...READ»

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Tech Watch: E-Ink, Sonos, and Linux on Lenovo: Multimedia Life Gets Lighter

Listening to music gets easier just by using your iPhone or iPod Touch to remote control the Sonos multi-room music system, which controls all of the music around your house. And, electronic paper gets closer to real broadsheet displays. READ»

The Real Cost of E-Ink

An article in the New York Times earlier this week described an effort by the legendary print magazine Esquire to make “a nod to the digital age” by using something called E Ink on its cover. That’s pretty much what it sounds ...READ»

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