Amazon has unveiled Kindle for BlackBerry, a free e-book application that lets users read over digital 420,000 books bought from the online retailer, including over 100 New York Times bestsellers, on various BlackBerry devices.
It also lets the user to synchronize bookmarks with the Kindle electronic reader and other supported devices.
The Research In Motion’s BlackBerry [...]
Feb
19
2010
19
2010
Kindle comes free with BlackBerry
Feb
19
2010
19
2010
Kindle app finds home in RIM
Latest news in stock for all the book- lovers is; Kindle the e-book app will be readily available in RIM’s smartphone. It shall provide the users an option to purchase from the online retailer and synchronise bookmarks with the e-reader.
e-books bought from Amazon can be downloaded and synchronized to Kindle using its Whispersync wireless technology [...]
Feb
9
2010
9
2010
iPod prices to slide
Consumer is the king for he decides what should be the price of a product, particularly if the economy is picking up from a recession.
The latest indication of the consumer’s power is seen in the Apple’s reported decision to cut the price of its iPod, a portable media player.
Reports quoted Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope [...]
Feb
4
2010
4
2010
Amazon buys screen-maker Touchco
The world’s largest online retailer of books Amazon.com has reportedly bought Touchco, a company which makes flexible touch screens. The move is seen as an effort to strengthen technology aboard its Kindle e-readers to make itself more competitive against Apple’s iPad.
The New York Times reported that Amazon.com would merge Touchco, a small startup company, [...]
Jan
6
2010
6
2010
3bn and counting!!!
In an arguably historic milestone Apple’s application store downloads have gate-crashed through the 3bn mark. The applications which are available across 20 categories for iPhone and iPod users worldwide achieved this milestone in 18 months. Sounding euphoric on the development Apple CEO said, “Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months—this is like nothing [...]
Jan
5
2010
5
2010
Apple Apps downloads cross the 3 billion mark
Apple shocked quite a many on Tuesday by announcing that over three billion Apple Apps have been downloaded by the iPhone and iPod users across the globe since the company opened its App store in July 2008. What’s eye catching is that in April last year, within a period of one year alone, the company [...]
Jan
5
2010
5
2010
Nokia, Apple to fight it out in court
In a bid to gain edge over the other in the smartphone market, Nokia has once again filed a lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of patent infringement.
The market leader in mobile manufacturing, Nokia, has filed the case in the Delaware court. As per it, Apple has infringed seven patents held by Nokia in various [...]
Jan
1
2010
1
2010
Will Kindle Pay For Not Disclosing Its Sales?
Kindle electronic reader, an Amazon.com product gave it an all-time high stock price in the month of December 2009. Then why the question is arising about its sales figures now?
The company reported near Christmas that Kindle electronic reader has given the best sales figures across all its product categories in the particular month. But none [...]
Jan
1
2010
1
2010
iPod’s hearing lawsuit victory upheld
The victory of Apple over a lawsuit, which alleged the tech-giant’s iPod music player of posing a risk to hearing, has been upheld by the US Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit. The lawsuit, which was filed by John Kiel Patterson, a resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2006, was further amended [...]
Dec
31
2009
31
2009
Apple wins appeal over iPod
A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a class-action lawsuit seeking to hold Apple Inc responsible for possible hearing loss caused by using its popular iPod music player.
Joseph Birdsong and Bruce Waggoner had filed a lawsuit against Apple for potential hearing damage against the headphones supplied with iPod. Neither of the plaintiffs suffered from any [...]