MobileRead Week in Review: 04/22 - 04/29

[Alexander Turcic]

Ok kids, time for the weekly roundup of what we've covered this week:

E-book Devices, iRex iLiad
iRex iLiad on steroids: How to enable 3G
iRex iLiad hits Japan
iLiad Firmware with long-awaited Mobipocket Reader (almost)
Proposed iLiad Packaging/Installation Standard

E-book Devices, Sony Portable Reader
New Sony Reader Ads: "Fit 80 books in your carry-on"
Sony Reader hack: clock in status bar
html2lrf released - HTML to LRF converter
Docudesk (Sony Reader) PRS Browser for OS X
pielrf beta - Text to LRF with Easy TOC, autoflow, etc.

E-books, Content
PDFRead 1.6 released

E-books, News
Let's face it: DRM didn't help anyone
E-books are "bound to fail"
Fujitsu to release colour e-book reader
Adobe InDesign CS3 adds support for OPS content

Miscellaneous, Announcements
Wiki server move - read-only mode

Mobile Devices, General Talk
Dell introduces flash-based laptop drives

Mobile Devices, Handhelds and Smartphones
Jeff Hawkins on Palm Addicts Videocast #82
Crackberries for the Nations

Web to Mobile, General Talk
Bloglines versus Google Reader