Sony has added a second option to its ebook reader line-up with the announcement of the PRS 700, slated for late November release in the US. No word on any international releases yet.
Among the new features of the PRS 700 is a touch screen with a stylus and on-screen QWERTY keyboard, the ability to annotate [...]

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Google has now officially launched its new Android-based mobile, an ‘iPhone killer’ or, certainly, a good enough debut to put some real excitement into the mobile phone sector.
Unlike the iPhone, Google’s Android is an open software platform that will be available to any hardware of application provider who wants to create products for it. The [...]

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The day your daily newspaper fix goes digital is now a step closer with the preview this week of an electronic paper aimed at the newspaper market.
Newspapers are likely to give a big boost to ebook publishers by getting ebook reader hardware into consumers’ hands. Once they’ve got the gadget, there’ll be plenty of demand [...]

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A few ebooks are starting to appear in Apple’s iPhone App Store. They crept in quietly a few days ago when there were about 170 of them, mostly public domain books selling for about US$0.99.
It’s probably an acknowledgement by Apple that, notwithstanding CEO Steve Jobs’s scepticism, they need to keep an eye on this emerging [...]

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Here’s an interesting little clip, admittedly very fuzzy and of no proven pedigree. But it purports to show you a demo of the HTC Dream, a new phone being built on the Google Android platform and slated for release in the US late this year. HTC is claiming it will be the first Android phone [...]

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