MobileRead Week in Review: 06/05 - 06/12

[Alexander Turcic]

If you missed our frontpage news at any point this week, here is the best way to catch up:

E-Book Webstores
Amazon to open an audio book download store

General Chat
"Perpendicular recording" technology advances! Hard drives still yet to hit market
Debian 3.1 Released
Grassroots works! MS IE to do "tabbed browsing"
Happy Birthday to Shaun McGill
Reminder: MobileRead Newsfeeds
Store 30gig on a Credit Card - Coming in 2006

iSilo/X
iSilo 4.27 and iSiloX/C 4.27 enter beta1

New Links
Skweezer with better Web optimization for mobile devices

Other E-Book Resources
PDA Fiction - great blog on e-books
Summer Reading resources

Other Gadgets
Apple Switching to Intel Processors
BlackBerry-only store to open in NYC on June 16
myPower ALL MP3300 universal rechargeable battery

Palm
AeroPlayer for Palm OS 6 is most likely not alone
EasyConvert for FontSmoother 1.0 beta
EasyConvert for FontSmoother 1.00 release
Mike Rohde's final day at PalmSource DevCon
PalmOne replaces dead m1xx handhelds
palmOne Tungsten T5 for $280 deal
SharkCache reduces startup times on PalmOne LifeDrive
Why PalmOS? (According to PalmSource)

Plucker
EasyConvert for FontSmoother and Plucker alpha
Plucker ported to 800x480 Nokia 770

Pocket PC
Card Export II for PPC emulates USB Mass Storage
HP iPAQ hw6515 review
Microsoft's push e-mail isn't really push?
Microsoft announces Push Technology for Windows Mobile 5.0
SafeMode for Pocket PC V0.5

Portable Audio/Video
Archos AV 700 Mobile DVR widescreen player announced
DVD Decrypter is Dead
FlashTrax Digital Multimedia Storage and Player
Refurbished iPods deals

WiFi / Bluetooth Technologies
How to crack WEP - 3rd part secures your WLAN
Top 10 WiFi connected U.S. cities
United to offer in-flight WiFi service in 2006