Amazon Kindle DX Wireless goes on sale by January 19
January 15, 2010Amazon. com reveals that the much awaited “Global Wireless” version of e-book reader Kindle, the DX will be on sale from January 19th in many countries.
Amazon Kindle DX Wireless, a sleek and thin as most magazines, feature a large 9.7-inch screen, which is considered an ideal display for a broad range of reading material viz. personal documents, graphic-rich books, newspapers, magazines, PDF, AZW, TXT, PRC, MOBI (non DRM), MP3, HTML and Word Document files.
In contrast to the standard model, it supports a 3G connection, a more reliable battery, but is still deadlock on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
In addition, Amazon Kindle DX Wireless’ also features an auto-rotation function, along with internal memory of 3.3GB, which has capacity to store up to 3,500 e-books, periodicals, and documents.
Nokia Launches New Assault in Patent Battle Against Apple
January 2, 2010According to a Reuters report, Nokia’s latest patent strike against Apple underscores the changing dynamics of the cell phone market, with the sector leader no longer holding the whip hand over rivals in terms of product development.
However, Reuters reports analysts believe the risks involved in stepping into a legal minefield to help make up lost ground, notably in the fast-growing smartphone market, could pay dividends given the huge stock of patents Nokia has built up as a founding father of the handset industry.
The aggressive move comes as Nokia, which has stumbled badly in the fast-growing smartphone sector, tries to win back market share from the likes of Apple and Blackberry maker Research in Motion.
Apple trails Nokia in cell phone shipments, but has gained a lot of ground against the market leader in the smartphone segment thanks to the iPhone.
Both firms earlier this year launched patent infringement suits against the other.
Analysts say the dispute reflects the shifting balance of power in the mobile industry as cell phones morph into handheld computers that can play video games and surf the Web, Reuters reports.
Google limits free news access
December 3, 2009In response to subscription-based news organizations’ complaints, Google News will only allow a user five free clicks per day for paid news content.
Google announced a new policy Wednesday that allows news publishers to limit the amount of subscription content that Internet users can access for free from Google News.
In the existing program called “First Click Free,” Google allows participating publishers who offer a subscription-based news service to display the first page of an article that a user accessed through Google News for no charge. If the user then clicks on another link on that page, the user will be taken to a page that requires a registration or subscription.
After discussions with publishers, Google updated the program Wednesday to limit the total number of free clicks for pay news services to five per day for each user. Previously, users could access an unlimited number of subscription-based articles from Google News.
Google also made it easier for news sites–such as those Murdoch controls–to opt-out of Google News.
Where they used to have to fill out an online form to opt-out of Google’s news aggregation site, publishers will soon have a means to opt-out or set other options automatically, using a small file placed on their sites.
