By Siobhan O’Leary You’ll have to wait a little longer to get your hands on the much anticipated txtr e-reader. The Berlin-based company wrote on its blog that problems arose in the mass production of the device that had not surfaced in smaller samples, and distribution will be delayed until the issue — which affected the device’s wireless component — …
Inside the Nook
By Edward Nawotka The new Barnes & Noble Nook device has been dissectedby some industrious hackers. What they found is that the entire system software—a variation of Android 1.5—was installed on a microSD card. What this means is that another industrious hacker is likely to be able to “jailbreak” the Nook, opening it up to all kinds of customizations, such …
What’s the Buzz: Twitter Considers Subscriptions; Amazon Reveals Kindle Statistics; Waiting to Buy an E-reader
By Hannah Johnson Would you pay to read certain people’s Twitter streams? Next year, you might have to. As reported in Techradar, a new subscription model is set to launch in Japan in 2010, which will give Twitter users the option to charge a fee to their followers. Most likely, the fee will be a small one. If the model …
Berlin’s TXTR Aims to Fight the E-Powers That Be
Berlin-based e-book platform and e-reader txtr will launch in Germany at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009.