News tagged with reading device

Amazon expected to lift wraps on large-screen Kindle

Amazon.com is widely expected to lift the wraps on a new large-screen Kindle device this week, which could be the first in a line of electronic reading devices geared toward newspapers and textbooks.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Is a tablet the best choice?

TABLETS VS. LAPTOPS: So your laptop is getting old: Should you buy a new one or change horses and try out one of these tablet computers?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 5

Review: Paper wins over e-books for travel guides

(AP) -- It sounded like a better, lighter way to pack for a trip to Germany: a Kindle with a Lonely Planet travel guide in lieu of an 844-page brick of a book.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

IPad could be Kindle's first big threat in e-books

(AP) -- Amazon.com, which has dominated the young but fast-growing electronic book market for the past few years with the Kindle, could get its biggest threat Saturday, when Apple releases its iPad multimedia ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 7

Samsung unveils e-reader, partnering with Google

South Korean electronics giant Samsung jumped into the increasingly crowded electronic book reader market Wednesday, unveiling its first devices and a partnership with Google Books.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Review: Barnes & Noble reader is dual-screen mess

(AP) -- The e-book reading device is the gadget gift of the season. Both Sony and Barnes & Noble have sold out of their new models, and new buyers will have to wait until January for delivery. So why are ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (20) | comments 4

Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google

(AP) -- Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.'s electronic book-reading device, the companies were set to announce Thursday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Different reading devices, different modes of reading?

A book or a screen – which of these two offers more reading comfort? There are no disadvantages to reading from electronic reading devices compared with reading printed texts. This is one of the results of the world's ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists design system using RFID devices to guide blind visitors inside unfamiliar buildings

An electronic system developed by Aura Ganz, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, allows visually impaired people to safely navigate unfamiliar buildings using a three-ounce ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Amazon opens Kindle book store to other merchants

(AP) -- Amazon.com is giving other merchants a chance to sell selections from its electronic book store and earn a commission.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For child readers, 'once more with feeling'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rupal Patel, an associate professor of speech-language pathology and audiology at Northeastern, is developing innovative reading software that helps youngsters learn to read aloud with more ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Amazon widens private labels with electronics gear

(AP) -- Consumers visit Amazon.com for deals on products from companies ranging from Apple Inc. to Zenith Electronics Corp. Now, the online retailer wants shoppers to check out stuff that carries Amazon's own brand name, ...

Technology / Business

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Phones, PCs put e-book within reach of Kindle-less

(AP) -- A few weeks ago, Pasquale Castaldo was waiting at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport for a delayed flight, when a man sitting across from him pulled out an Amazon Kindle book-reading device.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Amazon's larger Kindle for textbooks, periodicals

(AP) -- Amazon.com Inc. will release a larger - and more expensive - version of its Kindle electronic reading device that is geared toward periodicals and textbooks.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Amazon.com buys Stanza e-book app maker Lexcycle

(AP) -- Kindle e-book retailer Amazon.com Inc. has purchased Lexcycle, a year-old company that makes the iPhone e-book application Stanza, in a move that ratchets up Amazon's presence in the electronic book market.

Technology / Business

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0