ZDNet’s Jason Perlow has done a thorough job lining up the various e-reading apps available for the iPad and iPhone. His review covers: Apple’s iBooks Amazon Kindle for iPad Barnes and Noble eReader Kobo Reader (which is also the Borders eReader and will soon be the Whitcoulls eReader for the iPad) Ibis Reader (this is [...]

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Apple’s grip on the media business tightened this week with the release of its latest operating system update for the iPhone OS4. And as its mobile product line expands, its operating system has dropped the “Phone” from its name to become iOS4. iOS4 is a free upgrade for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPads. It’s rumoured [...]

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Just days after the launch of Apple’s iPad, it might be time for starry-eyed publishers to take a reality check from their iPad infatuations. Apple has just made the content business much harder. The reason is an escalation in Apple’s long-running battle with Adobe over its Flash platform. Apple’s latest move bans any content generated [...]

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Kobo has just posted this video (see below) of its near-complete ebook reading app for Apple’s iPad. Kobo on iPad from Kobo on Vimeo. According to the Kobo blog, they’ve been hard at work on this since the iPad was announced two months ago. What was intended to be a slight tweaking of their iPhone [...]

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Apple just announced that the iPad will ship in the US on 3 April with internet pre-orders open from 12 March. It will then be available in late April in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, Apple says. No word yet on whether the Aussies will be sending some of [...]

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