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Picture the scene....I'm on holiday, lying by the swimming pool, relaxing in the summer sun. It's a 4-star hotel, nothing fancy, catering to families from all round Europe; Britain, France, Germany, Norway. As I look around my fellow guests, I notice that many of them are reading from ereaders - Kindles, Kobos and the odd Nook. A few people are
Over the Christmas holiday my nephew showed up at my house with an Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7” Inch tablet. My Mom, who just turned 88, ended up playing with it and decided she wanted one. So, we stopped by Best Buy and picked one up. I spent some time adding free apps from the Amazon Android Market that I
...or "Why DRM is killing ebook sales outside of Amazon or Barnes & Noble". Being a international superstar and global jetsetter*, I had the pleasure of passing through Dublin's Connolly railway station today. In the atrium there was a billboard display of book covers complete with QR codes. "Totally cool," I thought. Scan the QR code, buy the ebook, download
Amazon is expected to release a new line of Kindle devices when they hold their big Santa Monica, California event later today. Rumors seem to indicate not one, but two new Kindle Fire tablets, as well new versions of the Kindle e-reader. All of this has been expected for a little while now, especially when Amazon mysteriously announced last week that
It's a good time to be in a geek in the UK at the moment. Over the past week there's been a raft of announcements for predominately US-based offerings making it across the pond so here's a quick round up of the latest news. Barnes and Noble are bringing the Nook to Britain and if the marketing is right, it
If you are looking for a way to hold your iPad, maybe your hand hurts after a while, then this dock might be something you want to look at. Octa has an iPad Vaccum dock that puts your hand in the middle of the iPad. Best part - you can use this for your iPad, Macbook Air, Kindle, Nook, or
3feet almost need no introduction. Their universal smartphone and tablet stands are well-known for their neat design and their (probably) unique feature of being dishwasher-proof. Being universal, the 3feet stand works with iPads, TouchPads, Playbooks, Xooms, iPhones, Nexus, Galaxies, Lumias, Nooks, Kindles... Pretty much anything that's reasonably flat and you want to see. The 3feet can hold a device at