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Enderle just wanted to write “JewJew.”

December 10, 2009

While we brought the Joo Joo up in passing, Rob Enderle proclaimed that the former CrunchPad could crush the market for tablet computing, thereby souring Apple’s entrance into the market altogether. The only problem with his assertion is that the Apple tablet isn’t the same beast as the Joo Joo, and to say that the [...]

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Point of the iTablet? Try these variants.

August 3, 2009

All this talk about the iTablet, and we’re still confused as to what the ultimate point is. Not about the talk itself, but about the reasoning to release an iTablet in the first place, novelty factor aside. The iPhone Blog was keen on pointing out the OS possibilities for the rumoured iTablet, and that consideration [...]

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More obstacles for eBook adoption.

May 8, 2009

By chance, shortly after writing our take on the status of eBooks and the Kindle movement, we hopped online to buy a bunch of books that we’ve been meaning to acquire. The books themselves aren’t specifically relevant to this discussion, but what is relevant is the type of books we were after. To clarify, the [...]

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On Amazon’s Kindle and the eBook format.

May 5, 2009
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The very idea of an eBook reader is the stuff of the future. One device to store a library of information? Just imagine – clearing up household clutter by being able to get rid of all one’s books (and bookshelves!) and replacing them with one small device. A device that, so conveniently, is about the [...]

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E-Books: now hip?

August 31, 2002

Every month or two, there’s mention of the E-Book revolution, and the consensus usually tends to remain in the favor of traditional books. However, some people are taking the E-Book issue out of the casual reader’s hands, and putting it into the hands of college students.
Reading a novel on my computer remains something I dislike, [...]

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