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Just two days after Sony said that its wireless e-reader, the Daily Edition, might not make it to buyers before the end of the year, Barnes & Noble said its Nook e-reader is sold out.
The first commercial electronic paper displays that can show color were unveiled Wednesday at the Flat Panel Display International show in Japan. The screens open the way for electronic book readers like Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader to add color, but so far only a single Chinese device maker has committed to the technology.
Asustek Computer on Monday unveiled the Eee Note EA-800, an e-reader with a stylus for taking notes on its 8-inch touchscreen. The device will be available in Taiwan later this week for the suggested retail price of NT$6,999 (US$228), Asustek executives said.
BenQ launched its second-generation e-reader on Friday, a device able to download e-books via Wi-Fi or 3G networks and take notes using the touchscreen.
Barnes & Noble, Sony and other eBook vendors may be the manufacturing brawn in the ongoing e-reader war, but the brains directing the challenge against Amazon.com's market-leading Kindle is Adobe Systems Inc.
The e-reader market is constantly moving, with new models being introduced (and prices dropping) on almost a weekly rate. The latest additions are from Sony, which has revamped its line of Sony Reader e-book readers. While two out of the three new models don't have wireless connections to a bookstore -- and are therefore missing the instant gratification that Amazon's Kindle offers -- the new devices are sleek and good-looking, with a lot of interesting features.
Ericsson will soon launch a platform designed to let consumers buy online content such as news stories with the charge billed to their mobile phone rather than other payment methods, such as a credit card.
The Federal Trade Commission today said it was going after three outfits that allegedly made robocalls to sell worthless credit-card interest-rate reduction programs for large up-front fees of as much as $1,495.
Google took a slap at Microsoft on Tuesday, saying the software giant's patent lawsuit against bookseller Barnes & Noble's Android-based e-reader stifles innovation.
It won't be easy for the iPad to change the e-reader and publishing markets, much like the iPod did to the music industry. But here's five recent Apple successes that give the iPad an edge.
Any business accepting credit and debit cards -- and using or considering wireless LANs -- should carefully review the recommendations for use of 802.11 wireless access points that are detailed in the guidelines issued Wednesday by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council.
Microsoft’s acid-tongued covert blogger Mini-Microsoft offered up a report card on Thursday’s all-company meeting at Seattle’s Safeco Field, giving CEO Steve Ballmer two zeros and accusing business division president Stephen Elop of “sucking the life out of the stadium.”
A debit card company that charged customers a fee for a debit card they had unknowingly ordered when applying for a payday loan online has agreed to settle a complaint brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the agency said.
Blippy, a social networking site that allows users to share their purchases and discuss shopping with others, will revamp its security plans and hire a Chief Security Officer after an embarrassing incident in which the site accidentally published a few of its members' credit card numbers on Google. (CSO first reported concerns about Blippy in ShmooCon: Inside Farmville's Sinister Underbelly.)
Lately, I've been getting a flood of press calls and inquiries about P2P payments. I wrote about the general topic in a link available to our clients, but something nagged at me: I hadn't actually done a P2P payment myself. As luck would have it, on Thursday, April 8 I went out to lunch with some colleagues, and saw my chance. I paid the entire bill with my Amex card, and told my lunch companions I would send them a bill via PayPal. What follows is a chronology of my experience actually trying to do what m
Mass compromise of payment-card systems or retailers holding credit- and debit-card information is said to the primary cause of payment fraud-- not online attacks such as phishing -- according to a survey of 131 financial institutions that was published Tuesday.
Microsoft unloads 11 updates for 25 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday while Adobe also gets IT managers' attention with its security advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
Taiwanese electronics maker BenQ plans to continue to focus on e-readers instead of developing a tablet device similar to Apple's iPad, and believes a color version of its nReader due out later this year will be one of the keys to winning the market.