Lauren Goode in Media on April 12 at 1:45 pm PT
Following disappointing sales of the first Nook Touch, Barnes & Noble is launching a new Nook Touch that combines E-Ink with a glowing screen.
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 14, 2011 at 8:24 am PT
The Kindle Fire will ship to customers today —
one day early — and the company’s new lineup of E-ink devices will ship tomorrow —
a full six days early. But how many of them have been sold? Amazon declines to say, as usual. In press releases, Amazon Kindle VP Dave Limp goes so far as to say that the Fire is Amazon’s bestselling item across the site, and that it is building millions more than planned. Meanwhile, sales of E-ink Kindles are “more than double any previous Kindle launch,” Limp added.
Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on August 10, 2011 at 8:14 pm PT
Walt answers a reader’s question about which e-reader is best for someone with light-sensitive eyes.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on June 28, 2011 at 4:39 pm PT
If you’re heading to the beach this summer and you plan to read an e-book, you won’t want to take your iPad. Luckily, the latest versions of the Nook and the Kindle offer glare-free screens and other reader-friendly functions.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on June 1, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Ricoh, the Japanese office equipment concern, has an idea for an office tablet. And it’s not quite like any other tablet you’ve seen on the market yet.
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Beth Callaghan in News on November 9, 2010 at 1:45 pm PT
Your e-reader may be about to enter the wonderful world of color. E Ink, the company that makes the grayscale display for Amazon’s Kindle,
has announced E Ink Triton, a new technology that displays 16 shades of gray and thousands of colors. Amazon hasn’t commented on whether a color Kindle is imminent, though. Chinese manufacturer Hanvon will be the first to ship an e-reader with the new E Ink screen.
John Paczkowski in D8 on June 2, 2010 at 3:25 pm PT
Qualcomm may not be a household name, but it probably should be. The company commercialized the CDMA mobile standard and its chips can be found in many of today’s smartphones. Though if things play out as Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs would like, they’ll soon be showing up in a wide variety of consumer electronics devices as well.
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Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 1, 2010 at 8:00 am PT
The launch of Apple Inc.’s iPad is fueling an ocular debate: What type of e-reader is easiest on the eyes: the black-and-white screens that simulate ink on a printed page or the back-lit color screens used by computers and the iPad?
The question isn’t just academic. A battle is under way to replace a 550-year-old invention called the printed book, and the winning technologies could have a big impact on everything from how students learn to the way people read a novel at the beach.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on March 31, 2010 at 5:15 am PT
With the iPad, Apple hopes to create a new category of device, one that, in the words of CEO Steve Jobs, is “more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone.” And though the iPad is unproven at market, some Chinese electronics manufacturers are betting that it will succeed in doing just that. And they’re cloning the hell out of the device.
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.
