More Americans read e-books in the last year, with 23% of those ages 16 and over going digital, compared to 16% in the previous survey for the Pew Internet & American Life Project, which released its latest results on e-book readership ...
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Computerworld-The Kindle Fire has been snuffed out--in a good way. Amazon said Thursday that the$199 Kindle Fire tablet sold out after less than a full year on the market. Amazon claims that since its launch,the Kindle captured 22%of ...
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Amazon.com launched a free online tool that will help schools and businesses centrally control and distribute content on Kindle devices to their students and staff, it said Wednesday. The new service, called Whispercast for Kindle, can ...
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Apple and four other e-book publishers have settled an antitrust battle with the European Union. After a year of investigations into allegations of cartel price-fixing, the European Commission has decided to accept commitments to alter ...
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Reports of the drastic decline of e-readers amidst an explosion in multi-use tablets re-ignited a passionate debate in technology: Is a single-purpose device better and worth the cost, compared to a multi-function device? "I love my ...
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IBM is set to provide free programmes, training courses and resources for IT professionals and educators in a bid to narrow the skills gap. With the mission of preparing students for real-world business challenges, IBM will be offering ...
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Kindle-exclusive books have been purchased, downloaded or borrowed more than 100 million times, Amazon announced Tuesday. The number of exclusive titles in the Kindle library has grown to 180,000 from 130,000 in April, Amazon said. The ...
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A judge has approved an e-book price-fixing settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and three book publishers. Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in an order dated Wednesday, ...
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Consumers worldwide are projected to spend some spend $2.1 trillion in 2012 on digital information and entertainment products, such as mobile phones, computing equipment, digital media and services, according to Gartner. The Gartner ...
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Amazon unveiled new e-readers and tablets on Thursday -- the biggest surprise to analysts was a $499 Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE tablet. mazon's new Kindle Fire HD tablet with 4G LTE wireless and 32GB of storage will sell for $499. ...
Amazon said sales of its Kindle e-books have overtaken those of printed books in 2012. Unaudited figures released by the company show that since the start of the year, for every 100 printed books sold on its site, customers downloaded 114 ...
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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have finalized the creation of a joint venture that will deliver e-reading applications, and the new company will be called Nook Media LLC, the book seller said on Thursday. Previously called NewCo, the joint ...
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Samsung shared more details about its next-generation Exynos 5 Dual dual-core mobile processor, saying it will be twice as fast as comparable Exynos chips used in the company's smartphones and tablets. The chip will also consume 30% less ...
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Apple and four major e-book publishers have offered retailers such as Amazon.com the option to set their own prices for e-books for the next two years in a bid to end an antitrust investigation in the European Union. The European ...
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Denver, CO - OrderStorm announces the addition of two file management features to its popular WordPress shopping cart plugin - digital downloads and digital file uploads. The digital downloads feature can be used alone or in conjunction ...
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