Category Archives: Palm

Overview of the smartphone market – will Android succeed?

Over at ZDNet Jason Hiner has one of the best articles I’ve read about the state of the smartphone market, and the prospects for its various players.
This is an important topic for e-books because smartphones, from everything I read, are the fastest growing segment of the phone market today. Each and every [...] Continue reading

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Jennifer Chappell on 3 e-reading devices

A former associate of mine from PalmAddict has been writing for Treo Central. Jennifer has just written an excellent article on her reading experiences with a Centro, iPhone and Kindle 2. The article is well worth reading as she has always had a good “touch” about gadget writing.
From her article: When I [...] Continue reading

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Palm’s webOS Represents Major Shift for Syncing and Data

In an article covering the Palm Pre mobile device, Ars Technica makes a very important point about how devices utilize network connectivity, and what the assumptions are underlying their… Continue reading

Posted in Android, DRM, Devices, Iphone, Palm, Publishing News, Read20, Uncategorized, cloudcomputing, digitalcontent, lockin, mobile, mobilecontent, proprietary, sync, webos | Leave a comment

Looking back at one year of Fictionwise + eReader

Happy Birthday, eFictionReaderWise!
Just over one year ago, on January 9th, 2008, Fictionwise bought its oldest, largest surviving competitor, eReader, marking the end of the company’s long journey through a series of four previous owners.
E-book Hot Potato
eReader began life as Peanut Press, one of the first e-book vendors for the Palm Pilot platform. They had the [...] Continue reading

Posted in Acquisition, Chris Meadows, EPub, Fictionwise, Inc., Linux, Mac OS X, NetLibrary, Netlibrary Inc, Palm, Partnership, Peanut Press, Steve Pendergrast, Uncategorized, dedicated e-book devices, e-book, e-books, e-reader, ereader, generic e-book reading software | Leave a comment

PDA, c’est fini

Non, ce n’est pas de Patrick Poivre d’Arvor que je parle, mais de ces assistants personnels (Personal Digital Assistant) qui ont connus un grand succès il y a quelques années. Le plus emblématique d’entre eux, le Palm Tx, véritable objet… Continue reading

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Palm shows off new “Palm Pre” in keynote

Palm is giving a keynote about its new device and operating system at CES today. Gizmodo’s live coverage has plenty of photos and descriptions of the “Palm Pre.” Here’s the new device in a nutshell:
Palm Pre "will help you live your life more effectively." The design looks like an oblong rounded rectangle.
It has EVDO [...] Continue reading

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Palm’s Third Act

2009 marks another year when Macworld and CES are scheduled for the same week. It’ll be a great week for product announcements, but it’ll also be a week of information overload. RSS feeds will overflow with gadget coverage. For those of us covering technology, it presents some logistical challenges, too. Which conference to attend? I’ll be at Macworld again this… Continue reading

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Charlie Stross on Sony Reader, death of the PDA

Charlie Stross has posted a couple of entries of interest to TeleReaders in his journal this month.
On December 8th, he talked about the launch of the Sony PRS-505 in the United Kingdom, and how it seems to be finding a niche with editors.
Anyway, manuscript format gets you about 300 words to the page, so [...] Continue reading

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The smartphone see-saw: iPhone up, Treo down

Every so often when browsing Techmeme, I will come across a pair of stories that, though they may not be next to each other on the page, are nonetheless made to be juxtaposed with each other.
That was the case for this pair of stories. On the one hand, “iPhone soars to 16.6% of smartphone [...] Continue reading

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iSilo también en iPhone

El lector de documentos para agendas y móviles también disponible en iPhone; Bookshelf se actualiza.

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