Month: February 2010
Tsunami in Honolulu – more like a quick tide
Update 2pm: Hawaii tsunami warning canceled; no damage seen in Islands. It is great to hear that tsunami passed without any damages and we also had a chance to see…
Looks like tsunami in Hawaii is going to be a minor one – but tsunami warning still in effect – stay at safe place
I’m watching KHNL (hawaii news) now and they just showed water slowly receding from Hilo bay and then surging back. But it was at most one feet water level difference.…
Tsunami warning in Hawaii
I’m in Honolulu, Hawaii on short vacation right now. And I’m staying in the hotel right in front of the Ala Wai bay in Honolulu. Today I was woken up…
HarperCollins Might Also Push Amazon To Increase Kindle eBook Prices
Looks like the publishers are not through making Kindle eBooks over all a much pricier place. After Hachette followed in MacMillan’s foots steps, it looks like Harper Collins might be…
Kindle is the most searched for eReader… and always was
I decided to do a little comparison on search volumes related to 3 leading eBook readers. You can do it for any search terms by using Google Trends from Google…
MacMillan Forces Amazon To increase eBook Prices To $14.99
In a recent drama, MacMillan made it publicly known that they were having problems with Amazon over the pricing scheme of eBooks on the Kindle platform. MacMillan was apparently already…
Kindle Apps Update
Since there is very little solid information about any of the upcoming Active Content for Kindle, I’ve taken the liberty to speculate about the following apps that are likely to…
Amazon Buys TouchScreen Company, Kindle Touch Ahoy?
Amazon, Kindle‘s parent company, has bought a relatively unknown and new company called TouchCo. Before the buy out, TouchCo used to supply touchscreen technological solutions to companies. The company specializes…
Kindle DX broken by air-travel
Almost a year ago I posted about Kindle 2 being broken by air-travel. Well this time if was Kindle DX that got it… I was returning from a vacation with…
Brother Releases Another Unspeakably Expensive E-Book Reader
Brother is a Japanese company who already have an e-Book reader in the market called the SV-100B. That e-Book reader never made it to anywhere outside Japan but it is…