News tagged with reading devices
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
Dec 09, 2009 |
2.2 / 5 (20) |
4
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
Mar 29, 2010 |
3.1 / 5 (8) |
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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
Mar 19, 2009 |
3.7 / 5 (6) |
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
Jun 24, 2010 |
4.3 / 5 (4) |
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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
Jan 07, 2010 |
3.3 / 5 (4) |
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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
May 04, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
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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
Nov 24, 2010 |
5 / 5 (2) |
1
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
Dec 01, 2010 |
2.3 / 5 (4) |
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RFIDs transmit through metal
(PhysOrg.com) -- Metal efficiently blocks radiation, such as that emitted by RFID chips - small data storage units that are integrated in various objects and transmit their information to a reading device. ...
Feb 02, 2009 |
4 / 5 (2) |
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
Oct 20, 2011 |
5 / 5 (1) |
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