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Peter Kafka in Media on June 17, 2011 at 12:19 pm PT
Barnes & Noble’s newest Nook has fewer features than its predecessor, as well as many other rivals. That’s great, says Consumer Reports, which has crowned the new $139 device its favorite e-book reader. It’s the first time the magazine has put an e-reader made by anyone other than Amazon at the top of its rankings.
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Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 22, 2010 at 2:30 pm PT
Since Apple launched its iPad, more and more competitors are moving to launch similar devices to compete. The latest company to join the bandwagon is Japan’s Toshiba.
The maker of everything from nuclear reactors to consumer electronics on Monday said it will release worldwide a mini touch-screen notebook PC called Libretto W100 that doubles as an electronic book reader.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on April 21, 2010 at 6:03 pm PT
The hardware for T-Mobile’s HD2 is attractive but overall, the smartphone is significantly inferior to its touch-screen rivals.
John Paczkowski in News on March 1, 2010 at 9:01 am PT
Freescale Semiconductor, an ARM licensee and the company responsible for the chips used in the majority of e-book readers, has developed some new silicon that it claims
could help drive prices of the devices below $150 before the end of this year.
John Paczkowski in News on February 1, 2010 at 11:01 am PT
Come summer, Acer will enter the arena for e-book readers, releasing a device with a six-inch monochrome screen. The company will also debut an online applications store from which it will peddle apps for Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Mobile operating systems and for Google’s Android platform. But Acer has no plans to launch a touchscreen tablet to compete with Apple’s new iPad, despite the fact that Chairman J.T. Wang recently said his company was “developing something” along those lines.
Walt Mossberg in Mossblog on January 27, 2010 at 6:49 pm PT
Walt Mossberg provides his first impressions on Apple’s new iPad tablet computer.
John Paczkowski in News on January 27, 2010 at 10:00 am PT
After months of feverish speculation and as many years of wishful thinking, Apple uncrated its tablet computer–the iPad–at an invitation-only event in San Francisco this morning. We’re covering it live with photos and text.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on November 4, 2009 at 3:05 pm PT
Walt answers reader questions regarding Windows Live Email, switching from Vista and Apple tablet speculation.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 3, 2009 at 7:14 am PT
The Kindle gets plenty of attention, but the e-book reader is still a niche device. When will that change? When it gets cheaper. A lot cheaper, says a new Forrester study.
