Archive for June, 2010

Jun 30 2010

eReader Battle: Kindle vs. iPad

Published by under General,Reviews,Technology

Source: Top Ten Overall Electronics Articles
Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle are two of the hottest products on the market. They are neck and neck against one another as a top product desired by consumers. The Kindle is solely an eBook Reader device whereas the heavily featured iPad offers the eReading capability. The most important feature of an eReader is readability. Even …
from Top Ten Overall Electronics Articles

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Jun 30 2010

eReaders for Kids: V.Reader Brings Stories to Life

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Source: Top Ten Overall Electronics Articles
While in the young stages of life, children want to be like their parents. They want to play with their parent’s toys and do the things they do. To save parents the hassle of hiding their expensive toys from sticky hands and slobbering mouths, VTech has created an eBook Reader, the V.Reader animated eReader system, designed for these …
from Top Ten Overall Electronics Articles

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Jun 30 2010

Going Green with eReaders

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Source: Top Ten Overall Electronics Articles
Twenty-four trees are required to produce a ton of paper for printing books, and twelve are needed for a ton of newsprint. Thirty-five percent of those books printed are destroyed before they are even read. In 2009, eBook Readers took off and the latest reading trend began to grow. In 2010, these reading devices became more popular and started …
from Top Ten Overall Electronics Articles

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Jun 30 2010

Seagate Introduces 3TB External Hard Drive

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Seagate today announced the world’s first 3 Terabyte (TB) external desktop drive. Available immediately, the 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk external hard drive helps to meet the explosive worldwide demand for digital content storage in both the home and the office. With 3TB of capacity people can store up to 120 HD movies, 1,500 video games, thousands of photos or countless hours of digital music.
from PHYSorg.com: Hardware News

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Jun 30 2010

Users Fume as Software Update Bricks Sprint EVO Phones

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Less than a month after the release of the Sprint HTC EVO 4G, many of the smartphone’s users recently found their devices rendered completely inoperable. That’s because a firmware update released by Sprint this week seems to have gone badly awry for an unknown number of the customers who installed it. For those customers, the firmware update has “bricked” their phones — a term not so affectionately used for phones that behave more like doorstops than multifunction communications devices. The screen is blank, the signal is gone, the phone is dead.
from TechNewsWorld

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Jun 30 2010

The New Hacker Hobby That Will Change the World

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Personal computing altered the world forever, and now the digitization of biology is poised to bring about sweeping change. Craig Venter’s recent announcement of the first synthetic genome was a huge milestone, but many outside of Silicon Valley remain unaware of the “do-it-yourself biology” movement. This movement consists of smart engineers who like to tinker in garages, basements and living rooms, hacking the genetic codes of various organisms.
from TechNewsWorld

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