03:25 AM by Colin Dunstan in More E-Book Readers | Legacy E-Book Devices

EContent goes to great lengths in Epaper: The Flexible Electronic Display of the Future describing why electronic paper such as E-Ink will become an affordable and widely used technology within the next years. As Mobileread reported earlier (here, here, and here), a next-generation flexible electronic paper is in the works which will hopefully go in full-scale production by 2007.

Do people want electronic paper? Sony spokesperson Atsuo Omagari says, "our business [of the Sony Librie] went well as planned so far," there's a feeling amongst industry watchers that its overall customer reviews have been somewhat underwhelming." Sony responded to address the situation. "They began selling with new devices a CD, which contained about 100 Japanese novels on it, as well as some very useful tools, most notable of which was a one-step-simple printer driver, so now whatever can be printed off of a computer can print directly to the device."

It sticks out like a sore thumb that Sony is not reading Mobileread. Can someone please tell them that the key to successfully selling an e-book device is to remove it from its ridiculous DRM obstacles?

06:07 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

I hope you guys enjoyed the first round of Y! 360° invites. Since it is just too troublesome to send each individual an e-mail, I decided for something else.

More than 2'000 invites to Yahoo! 360° - just one click away! You have to sign in to your Yahoo account first, or, if you don't have an account yet, create one in order to use the new service.

Feel free to spread the word!

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01:56 PM by doctorow in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

StoryCode is a new free service that aims to take the pain out of choosing books by offering rational, impartial recommendations, based on an "unique analysis of the 'DNA' of stories" (doesn't that sound as frightful as a bulldog chewing a wasp?).

Anyways, the online book database is still pretty vacant, but isn't that why we are here, to fill it out with useful information?

10:28 AM by pruss in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

FontSmoother v1.21 includes simple built-in global font substitute (no need for Fonts4OS5/FontSubst/FontHackV if you want the same font in all enabled applications). Also includes FontSubst compatible fonts. Added DataCute, Devotions and DailyReader to freebie list.

For anybody who doesn't know: FontSmoother decreases the "jagginess" of bitmap fonts and allows you to use smooth fonts in most applications on your OS 5 PDA.

http://www.zlthemes.com/Programs.php
http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?xyz=90288

Upgraders can just hotsync the new shareware version over the old, though it's slightly better to uncheck the old one in YAHM first and then check the new one. It'll take over all registration data, etc.

09:33 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Thanks to Loren I am now a beta tester of Yahoo! 360°, Yahoo's new integrated blogging, photosharing, and social networking answer to Orkut, Friendster, LiveJournal and MySpace. Link to my blog.

This is for our registered Mobileread members: I have 100 invitations available. All you have to do is reply to this thread and say something nice. I also need your e-mail address for the invite, which you can either post in this thread (not recommended) or send me in private via PM.

Since it went wrong so many times in the past, I repeat: You must be registered here (it's easy, painless, and takes only a few seconds) to receive an invite!

08:54 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Video streaming services are popping up like mushrooms in the dark lately. Now Microsoft has launched its MSN Video Downloads service, which will provide daily television programming, including video content from MSNBC.com, Food Network, FOX Sports and IFILM Corp., for download to Windows Mobile-based devices running Windows Media Player 10.

The service is initially available in the United States only and a one-year premium membership to the MSN Video Downloads service with access to all available videos costs US$19.95. In addition, people can access a limited amount of free content without a paid membership.

The culprit: As far as I know ATM only few mobile devices have Windows Media Player 10 installed (Dell Axim X50, beta WM2005 devices).

[via Geekzone]

08:01 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

A quick update: My favorite free audio player for Windows Mobile has been updated. Changelog is in Japanese, but from what I gather the update has to do with fixes in the effects code (bass boost etc.). Download GSPlayer 2.22 from here.

07:23 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Last month I shared with you my first experience with Connexion on a flight from Frankfurt to Chicago. At that time I also planned to write an in-depth paper about Boeing's WiFi service. Unfortunately, mostly due to lack of time, I haven't been able to finish this endeavor.

If you haven't heard of Connexion before: Connexion by Boeing uses a satellite link to allow passengers to surf the Net, check email, and send instant messages, all while at 35,000 feet!

So let's pass this one over to someone else. Tom's Networking wrote a great article on Connexion. I couldn't have done it better!