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Amazon's 3G Kindle Leaps China's Great Wall of Censorship

Chinese users of Amazon's Kindle get an odd bonus along with being able to read "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" on an e-ink screen--they can use the device's Whispernet 3G powers to leap over the Great Wall of censorship.READ»

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Sony's 3G-Capable E-Reader Goes Head-to-Head With Kindle

Sony's just pulled the wrappers off its latest electronic book, the Reader Daily Edition. Unlike its earlier siblings, the DE comes with 3G-technology, so it'll pick books up over the air. It's designed, frankly to nip the Kindle in ...READ»

Head in the Clouds

What does Amazon nuking Kindle copies of 1984 tell us about cloud computing? Unfortunately, quite a bit.READ»