MobileRead Week in Review: 08/07 - 08/14

[Alexander Turcic]

In case you've missed any MobileRead news from this week, here is our usual roundup:

Current E-Books Trends
DRM on digital textbooks eased - and still they didn't learn
In Korea e-books are soaring
Paper No Longer A Mature Technology?
Teleread podcast on p-books vs. e-books

E-Book Conversion
Reading PDF Documents on a PDA

E-Book Webstores
eReader 10% discount code
Fictionwise Weekend Special

General Chat
Handheld Explosion To Come From Businesses Replacing Laptops
Ibiblio.org Internet Library
Introduction to mobile Web design
Is Cisco planning a Nokia takeover?
Mac OS X runs fastest on generic Intel hardware
Mobile search engines round-up
Reminder: Individual RSS Feeds

iSilo/X
iSilo 4.28 and iSiloX/C 4.28 beta 2

Link Swap
Ext2 IFS Linux Ext2/3 driver for MS Windows
OSx86 hacking resources
PHONifier open-source proxy for mobile devices

Other E-Book Resources
Google pauses online books plan

Other Gadgets
Linux and Windows 95 on Sony's PSP

Other Readers
FBReader for Maemo - new screenshots!
Tomeraider offers metapublishing

Palm
CompUSA informed about Palm Treo 700?
Is HTC behind the Windows Mobile-based Treo 670?
Mike's thoughts on Treo 670 rumors
Mr. FontSmoother Alex Pruss unleashed
Palm's Hawkins points to 'secret' product line
Palm Addicts To The Rescue
Palm Backup Program List
Palm is "Switzerland over OS" says CFO
Palm News Quickies
Palm wins, Palm OS loses, says Pocketfactory
Selling bonanza at PalmSource

Pocket PC
Dell Axim BlackBerry killer in the works?
Dell Axim X50(v) A05 ROM posted and pulled again
Vidya Pocket Task Manager 1.0 for Pocket PC

Portable Audio/Video
Playing Doom on Apple's iPod

Sunrise
Sunrise 0.42d released

WiFi / Bluetooth Technologies
Extend Orb Streaming Media with add-on API
Navizon blends GPS + WiFi + Cell signals
Video demonstrating WiFi hacking