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Confirmed: Amazon Bought Liquavista - Color Kindle to Follow?
— For the past four months I have been saying that Amazon was in the market to buy Samsung's screen tech company Liquavista, and today I do believe the rumors have come true. — New filings from the Netherlands Chamber …
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Apple to Launch iBookstore in Japan in January 2013
— The Nikkei reported today that Apple will be expanding their ebookstore soon. Some time in the near future, possibly as early as next month, Apple will start selling ebooks in Japan. They have reportedly already signed a number …
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Sony Reader for iOS Now Available in iTunes
— Remember in late 2010 when Sony had plans to release Android and iOS apps for their ebookstore? Whele the Android app was actually released in 2010, the iOS app just hit iTunes - nearly 2 years late. — Hey, look! A Dancing Bear!
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Amazon's Next Kindle Fire Android Tablet Clears the FCC
— Do you recall all those rumors about Amazon is working on a larger Kindle Fire, and how that tablet is expected to be released this fall? I think it cleared the FCC yesterday. — Now here's something guaranteed to wake you up this morning.
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Amazon Cracks Down on Kindle Web Browsing
— When the Kindle launched in late 2007 it came with an experimental web browser as well as free web browsing over the 3g connection. As nice as that was to have, all good things come to an end. There are reports over at MobileRead today that Amazon …
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Google eBookstore now Live in the UK
— It looks like I was right on Saturday when I posted that the UK Google eBookstore would open soon; I have to say that it happened faster than I expected. The UK branch of the Google eBookstore is now up and running (here).
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Updated: Amazon Appstore Expands to Australia, Netherlands, India - Elsewhere?
— I've just gotten word from an Australian gadget blog I follow that Amazon have quietly expanded their Android Appstore to include Australia. It's not mentioned on their support pages, so I'm still waiting for confirmation.
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First look at the new Sony Reader PRS-T1!!!
… The Dutch web retailer and ebookstore bol.com accidentally leaked the product page for the next Sony Reader, and that means the FCC filing for the new Sony Reader that I found last month has just turned very real.
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24Symbols launched an iPad app, but there's no reason to get it
— The newly launched ebookstore 24Symbols released their new iPad app on Tuesday, and right now I'd say that the €10 a month subscription that they're charging is not worth the money. — 24Symbols is a fairly new startup with a novel ebookstore idea.
Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).