Tue October 26 2004
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08:01 PM by cbarnett in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
This is an alternative memo/notes program that encrypts the note with 128bit encryption. The basic version is free. Not a bad idea for those who may not already be using ewallet software to encrypt sensitive data on their devices. Craig. |
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07:52 PM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge According to a study from global market analyzer IDC, the mobile device market (smartphones and PDAs) in Western Europe grew by 38% during the third quarter of 2004, with over 1.8 million units shipped during 3Q04 compared to 1.3 million units in 3Q03. This steady increase was mainly driven by Blackberry and smartphone sales. The interesting part of the paper is a table showing how individual mobile device vendors were doing in Q3. All of them (that includes Nokia, HP, Sony Ericsson, RIM) exhibit a growth in market share - on the expense of palmOne, who saw shipments drop by 16% year on year to 138,900 units. And there remains a gloomy outlook: |
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07:41 PM by Colin Dunstan in More E-Book Readers | Legacy E-Book Devices
Today I stumbled over the instruction how to download any secure BBeB book from Sony's e-book distributor TimeBookTown. The books will still be encrypted, but it is nice to have a few copies for "closer inspection." Here is the instruction, originally from the Librie group at Yahoo: Example: http://www.timebooktowns.jp/contents...1B0090900Z.LRX Let's count the hours until they will notice and pull the plug. |
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07:40 PM by cbarnett in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
Two versions are available, one for SD/MMC and similar cards, the other for memory stick and memory stick pro cards. These are a great idea. They are small enough to carry around in your pocket, and are a lot faster when you want to transfer many or large files to or from your cards. Craig. |
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05:30 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Portable Audio/Video
Battery has also improved. The iPod Photo offers up to 15 hours of music playback, and up to 5 hours of image slideshows with music (the standard iPod brings it up to 12 hours). Another nice feature: composite video and audio, allowing you to plug your iPod to an external video source. Only drawback: it is slightly bigger (thicker to be exact) than its monochrome brother. |
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10:26 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | News
Does this sound like a real alternative to E-Ink's E-Paper (as used in Sony's monstrous Librie)? You bet! Paper-like display technologies are beginning to emerge, but so far many developments still need active matrices and have focused on reflective, black-and-white displays. “More and more content is produced in color. New display technologies cannot afford to ignore that if they are ever to compete with books, art, magazines and posters,” said Adrian Geisow, manager of Displays Research, HP Laboratories, Bristol. Unfortunately it can still take a few more years of further applied research to properly develop and assess the commercial potential of this technology. Thanks to Teleread for the link. |
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10:02 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book Software | Reading and Management
"We are honored to be selected as a winner in Pocket PC magazine's 2004 Best Software Awards," said Ryan Wuerch, Motricity's chairman and CEO. "It is a great industry validation for Motricity, our products and the expanding popularity of eBooks. This award further validates our strength and presence in the eBook marketplace and we are pleased that eReader is the software of choice for avid eBook enthusiasts." Other finalists were: Mobipocket Reader, TomeRaider Interestingly, only commercial PPC e-book readers using proprietary formats made it into the final round. |
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Mon October 25 2004
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07:42 PM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
There are also some wonderful screenshots of the device after its OS was converted to English. |
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