[Alexander Turcic]

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Current E-Books Trends
Google to sell e-books that you cannot download
The best e-book and digital library news

E-Book Readers
iLiad iRex to ship Spring 2006 in US
iRex iLiad: What do you want to know?
iRex iLiad first preview

General Chat
3 Steps to Highly Efficient News Reading
Amazon may be first with unlimited online storage... yes Amazon!
AOL In2TV - Broadband television has arrived!!
Can man or machine find the best news stories?
Docvert 2.0 converts MS Word files to clean HTML
Get your RSS feeds delivered via e-mail
Microsoft's latest stunt: On 10 dot net
New virus encrypts your data and demands $300 ransom
Tracking TV shows via RSS

New Links
Wikipedia Optimized for mobile devices

Other E-Book Resources
The Unbinding: New online serial novel in real time

Other Gadgets
Crackberries, come and chat on Google!
Gartner report says Origami needs better hardware
Origami Q&A
Sci-Fi-inspired Eurotech WWPC Wrist PC

Palm
A sample of news from Palm Addicts
Documents To Go V8.003 adds support for encrypted PDF
myKbd input system 1.20
Palm Addicts overview of PalmOS game emulators
Palm handheld celebrates 10-year anniversary
Palm stock splits 2:1 in premarket today
Palm Treo 700p rumored launch date: 05/28/2006
Pennovate Notes has been updated to version 2.4.4
Sprint Treo 700p photo may have leaked

Pocket PC
ActiveSync becomes Vista Mobile Device Center
Agile Messenger for WM 5.0 Alpha released

Portable Audio/Video
DRM drains your battery by up to 25%

Smartphones
Apple to introduce iPhone this year, says Barron's
Samsung SPH-B5200 phone slides both ways

WiFi / Bluetooth Technologies
Sharp introduces tiniest 802.11g/b WLAN module