Sony is seeing “huge interest” from schools in its eReader electronic book reader, according to Stan Glasgow, the president and COO of Sony Electronics, the unit which sells all of the company’s non-Playstation electronics products in the US. It’s a further sign that the education market might be a bigger early player in the ebook [...]

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This story from Infoworld previews a significant development in the popular e-Ink screen technology that’s used in most of today’s dedicated ebook readers such as the Amazon Kindle and the iRex Iliad. The display could allow users to annotate pages in electronic books, make amendments to documents, and erase parts of the page with as [...]

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In what is possibly the first reported virus attack on an ebook reader, the iRex Iliad – chosen by Dymocks booksellers as its ebook reader of choice – has been hit by an adware infection. Thought to be the imgInSOYt worm, it falls into the category commonly referred to as “adware”. These low level infections [...]

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Apple has released a Software Developers Kit (“SDK”) for its iPhone. With 10 million iPhones sold already, and momentum growing, this should provide a further boost by opening the iPhone up to a multitude of new applications from third parties. An SDK provides independent software developers with the tools they need to write applications that [...]

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In spite of another round of ebook hype prompted by Amazon’s Kindle launch late last year, the signs are not good for 2008 to be the Year of the eBook. One of the best indicators I found was here, at CeBIT, the world’s biggest ICT trade show which runs 4-9 March in Hannover, Germany. A [...]

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