By Edward Nawotka When will a viable competitor to the iPad emerge? Today’s feature story discusses the Tools of Change conference at the Bologna Book Fair, where nearly all the talk developing apps and e-books for the iPad. The simple fact is, up until now, nothing has been able to compete with the iPad when it comes to the readability …
E-Reader Deathwatch: WePad is Running Out of Lives
By Siobhan O’Leary Once viewed as a viable alternative to Apple’s iPad, the troubled WeTab (formerly known as the WePad) may now be on the last of its nine lives. The creator of the WeTab, Neofonie, announced this past weekend that co-founder and managing director Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen has resigned from the company after he posted a series of …
IDEO Offers Three Fascinating New E-reading Concepts
By Ed Nawotka The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo. IDEO here offers three fascinating new e-book tablet software concepts. Each involves a form of social networking — one oriented toward the news, a second toward your personal network, and the third is a multi-model storytelling concept that features a kind of geo-caching element to unlock new features …
WePad Becomes WeTab, Delayed to September
By Siobhan O’Leary The tablet-formerly-known-as-WePad is facing a few challenges in the run-up to its launch. Firstly, Neofonie, the Berlin-based creator of the iPad rival has just announced that the launch of the WeTab will be pushed back three months to September. Pre-ordering will continue via amazon.de. As Buchreport points out, the WeTab is not the first much-hyped device to …