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IDC Examines the E-Readers, 10.8 Million Units Shipped In 2010

Not long ago, IDC issued a press release meant to inaugurate the debut of its Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker, and part of said release had, of course, information on the current situation on the e-reader market.That the tablet market had boomed last year is something that was confirmed yet agai...

18 January 2011
09:49 GMT

Physical Books Have Only 5 Years to Live

No more than two years ago, editors from some of the world's most renowned magazines said that printing will not disappear entirely for at least another decades – their estimates have now halved.Even the editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson, told the New York Observer that the magazine, in its current ...

23 August 2010
03:14 GMT

iPad - To Be or Not to Be an e-Reader

Is the iPad heading towards the e-book-reader’s market category? It may be too soon to tell. But last-minute details about the product will ensure a more appropriate opinion on this matter. Macworld drew an analysis on these specific details and came up with the following aspects to discuss upon. One of the fi...

15 March 2010
06:21 GMT

iBookstore Gets Organized Before iPad’s Unveiling

The multi-announced Apple iPad is on its way and the last-minute preparations are blazing. Apple is organizing its book-selling categories and its process of certifying iPhone applications to work on the new, larger device, as mobile media research firm Busted Loop relates. The iBookstore will be divided into more th...

12 March 2010
04:42 GMT

Butterfly Wing Iridescence Makes for Color E-Readers

Scientists have been trying to create a color e-reader for a long time, but the extreme demands that such a goal imposes of existing technology has meant that progress was slow. It was only recently that a group of experts managed to create a prototype of an electronic reader with a color display, but they admit to h...

24 November 2009
04:24 GMT

Innovation Makes E-Readers More Brilliant

A recent innovation, devised by experts at the University of Cincinnati, and described thoroughly in the May 1st issue of the scientific journal Nature Photonics, managed to bring e-readers to the same level as printed media, scientists at the university announced. The new Electrofluidic Display Technology (EDT) ensu...

30 April 2009
06:53 GMT

World's First Bendable e-Newspaper Reader Gets Official

It's becoming pretty clear that classical newspapers will go extinct at some point in the future, either because electronic media will overcome the classical one or due to the fact that the Earth's forests will be considered far more important for our lives than reading the paper in the subway, on our way t...

9 September 2008
01:56 GMT


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