05:16 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book General | News

Unesco recently offered a workshop in Bangalore, India depicting the potential of e-Books. Participants from Asia and Europe identified the issues and complexities involved in e-book projects delineating the role of e-Books in education, research and libraries from the perspective of the publishers, distributors and users.

While I believe that the acceptance for e-books has at least somewhat improved, Shalini Urs, who leads a UNESCO e-Book Project Strategy Group, has a more gloomy interpretation of the current market:

"The e-Book industry and market place is a nebulous one with each of the players continuing to test waters and gingerly transiting into the arena. While most of the stakeholders believe in the potential of the e-Books, none is ready to take the plunge – not yet! The e-Book revolution though foretold in the year 2000 is yet to happen."

You can read the full press release here.

04:53 AM by Colin Dunstan in E-Book Readers | Alternative Devices

The Apple Newton refuses to die. The Worldwide Newton Conference 2004 has wrapped up photos and, thanks to Paul Guyot, there is real hope for an emulator. His talk, titled "Newton never dies, It only gets new hardware," describes and shows the Einstein Emulator, that will eventually allow the Newton OS to be built and run on top of Unix.

Forget Palm for a moment. Forget PocketPC. Will your next Linux PDA boot Newton OS next year?

Source: Slashdot

06:11 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

1src has a new look, and I must say I like it! Good job, guys!

05:32 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | iSilo/X

iSilo/X V4.15 is out of beta and now available for download (iSilo iSiloX).

iSilo V4.15 adds several new features such as a redefined category view (e.g. [font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]a top-level entry is added for listing all categorized documents[/size][/font]) and [font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]search of standard locations for links to external documents. A list of all changes is available here.[/size][/font]

Beside the usual bugfixes, iSiloX V4.15 adds support for dynamic title components ([font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]\Xdate; for the conversion start date with the optional parameters Y, Y2, M, M2, D, and D2; [/size][/font][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]\Xtime; for the conversion start time with the optional parameters, H, H2, M, M2, S, and S2; [/size][/font][font=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][size=-1]\Xtitle; for the first source file title).
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05:20 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Here is a new PalmOS-based game from iNDUSTRY Entertainment, the company behind the hit game Monsta: Master Kick.

Master Kick is a new arcade sports game based on the real life game of foosball, or table soccer. It gives players the opportunity to enjoy all the benefits of playing foosball as they know it and a lot more.

The screenshots look magnicient. The game is expected to be released this month, and you can preorder it now for $14.95 (instead of the reg. price of $19.95).

Thanks to iNDUSTRY Entertainment for the news!

03:57 PM by ignatz in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Engadget is reporting that a reader reports handling a Treo 650 in a Sprint store in Chattanooga. Here's what he had to say about it:

I was in the Sprint Store in Chattanooga TN yesterday talking about getting an upgrade flip phone for my girlfriend when the guy goes “hang on” runs over to another sales/tech rep and grabs something from behind the counter. He brings it over to me and it’s the full Sprint-ized new Treo. I played with it and the screen is amazing and there is Bluetooth. The keyboard for this Sprint unit has all white keys as shown in the pics above but the number keys are darker; exactly opposite the current Treo 600. He confirmed it does have a removable battery and according to him does take great pictures. It seems very fast processor wise. It has built in camera that the screen keeps up with the movement of the user in real time, no waiting for the frames to catch up when you are framing a shot. Also a neat thing that I liked was that it appears to have a built in video recorder also. Didn’t find out if it had sound or not. They said it will be a Christmas time release.

Head over to Engadget for more.

05:58 AM by Laurens in Archive | Sunrise

Another week, another Sunrise release. (This will be the last release for a while.)

The major new feature in this release is the Showcase: a special SDL with predefined documents for sites such as BBC News, New York Times and Reuters.

Many other, smaller changes and fixes were made as well.

Change Log

Download From PalmGear

Sunrise News

05:16 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Adobe has released an updated version Adobe Reader 2.0 for PocketPC.

New features include mobile data entry, which allows you to submit form data using handheld devices over a wireless connection; wireless printing; slide show viewing; downloading of digital editions of your favorite e-books in PDF format.

I am curious to hear if anyone of you is actually using the Adobe Reader. I've never become friend with its too bloated and too slow interface.