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Amazon vs. Apple: Don’t cry for book publishers

Monday, February 1, 2010

Amazon and Apple are apparently in an epic battle to sell e-books that will cost book buyers more money than what they currently pay. Who do we root for in this battle?
It started because Apple has big plans to make the new iPad the e-reading device of choice, turning the popular Amazon Kindle into digital [...]

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The flaw in the Apple iPad’s e-reader plans

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Reading ebooks on the Apple iPad’s big screen will probably be more enjoyable than reading on the Amazon Kindle or the Kindle app on the iPhone. (Some people may prefer actual books.)
But will it matter if you’re reading an ebook using the Kindle app on the iPad or Apple’s new iBook app? Frankly, I don’t [...]

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The Apple iPad pricing is revolutionary. But is the iPad?

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Apple’s iPad is iCandy, that’s for sure. But based on the demonstration I saw today — from the Internet and not live — I was largely underwhelmed with the exception of one key area: price.
The iPad looks like a giant iPhone or, more precisely, a giant iPod touch, a device I don’t think is generally [...]

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The Apple tablet: Will we really need one?

Thursday, January 21, 2010

I’m as interested as anyone in seeing the tablet-type product Apple is expected to introduce on Jan. 27. But there is one thing I am especially curious to find out: Will people feel they really need an Apple tablet?
Apple will not be the first computer maker to introduce a tablet. Indeed, the iPod was not [...]

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The five items that caught my eye from CES 2010

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Monitoring the Consumer Electronics Show from your desktop can be as exhausting as covering the massive event live. Well, not really — there’s a lot less walking. But if one wanted, you could spend all day reading the breathless coverage from sites like Engadget, Gizmodo and the major newspapers that staff the annual gadget fest.
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A few of my favorite things

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Few things are more alluring than a cool piece of technology waiting to be unwrapped. But what gadget gifts become the items you can’t live without, the ones you use again and again? These are at the top of my wish list.

Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin. When this high-end iPod dock was first released in 2007, [...]

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