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How to Add Color to a Kindle: Pixel Qi’s Cheap Screens

Peter Kafka in Media on June 23, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Amazon’s Kindle gets many plaudits, but it also gets one consistent criticism: Why can’t it come with a color screen? It can, say the folks at Pixel Qi, a start-up based in Silicon Valley and Taiwan: It could use the cheap, lightweight color screens that we’re going to make.

Could iRex Be the Company Making News Corp.’s Kindle? Mmmmmaybe.

Peter Kafka in Media on April 15, 2009 at 9:24 am PT

The Dutch firm already makes a line of e-book readers and says it will have an innovative color screen ready next year. And its CEO confirms it has talked to News Corp. But there’s no deal yet.