At the last IDF, Intel made quite a few important announcements and one of them was the up coming app store for the Atom/Moblin platform with the Atom developer initiative. Well, months have passed and that store has been shaping up gradually but so far it has been restricted to only the US and Canada. [...]

Just as Mobinnova had promised use even before they released the Beam, the netbook is now running Android instead of Windows CE. Good riddance I say — that OS is getting really old really fast when compared to the latest crop. Beam has made the switch over Android and it seems like Laptop Mag got [...]

If you, like me, are totally tired of seeing the same old netbook specs and designs every other day — this one’s a sight for our sore eyes. A new Eee PC netbook has just been leaked and it sure looks great. Meet the Eee PC 1018P — soon to be released and unveiled at [...]

AMD has a list of things that it thinks it should do. It has released news of it bringing about really great chips with fusion characteristics for a long time now. None of that has made it to the market yet but we now have another announcement to deal with. AMD has finally realized that [...]

Amazon’s Kindle satisfies preferences identified by e-book readers in the United States, based on a recent survey released by Strategy Analytics. The survey reported that current e-book readers report a high level of satisfaction with their devices, and prefer e-books to physical or “dead tree” books. It also reported that e-book readers are looking for [...]

Amidst the price wars of content between Amazon and Apple, Scribd, the giant content sharing site, has launched a program to make its 10 million books, articles and documents compatible with the full spectrum of readers and mobile devices. Once considered to be the “YouTube” of document services, Scribd has become a hub for authors [...]

The transition to electronic textbooks, once thought to the next big boon for publishers, is meeting with surprising resistance among students and professors. Studies conducted on the Kindle DX at business schools across the country showed an overwhelming–90%–support of the ereader by students for casual reading. However only the tech savvy “power users” embraced the [...]

Kindle’s market is stretching beyond the casual reader to research and academics. As proof, PhysOrg.com, the leading web-based science, research and technology news service, just announced it is giving its subscribers a way to keep up with news on their Kindle e-readers. The service will offer Kindle users two options for news feeds. [...]

Viliv’s S10 Blade appeared late last year and then quickly disappeared in the tidal flow of new gadgets in the first two months of 2010. But its back now, thanks to the folks over at UMPC. Chippy at UMPC has managed to get hands on time with a production sample and so far it shows [...]

Amazon has a free application that will let Blackberry users buy and read books from directly from the bookseller’s website.  Unlike Kindle’s app for the iPhone, the Blackberry application lets users purchase content seamlessly from Amazon as well as view the books already purchased for a Kindle. This could be Amazon’s way of thumbing [...]