Archive for October 20th, 2009

Tech News for the Day, Tuesday, October 20, 2009

You’ve never seen pop-up books before until you have seen the Electronic Popables.

For those who love music games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero might appreciate the Altec Lansing Stage-Gig.

Every wanted an alarm clock that you could personalize? Check out the Hannspree XV-S Photo Alarm Clock.

Check out this new GPS device, the TomTom Go I-90.

Acer has a new, very lightweight notebook with the AS1410.

Check out this terrific new headset: the Jabra Stone.

Check out the dualbook enTourage eDGe, it is both e-reader and netbook.

Here’s a little something for the youngsters. Check out my review of the Leapster2.

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War is coming: Amazon and Wal-Mart

Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating, but Wal-Mart CEO said: “If there is going to be a ‘Wal-Mart of the Web’, it is going to be walmart.com”.

Some people area saying that Wal-Mart’s sudden price drop on books is sending signals that it intends to wage a price war with the world’s biggest bookstore, Amazon.com.

The price of $10 per book that is not made to be an e-book sounds pretty good considering some hardbacks can sell at very high prices.

Perhaps we are looking at a time when books are going to truly go out, and e-books will take their place.

Whatever the case, I’m not certain if we can talk about this whole issue of Wal-Mart and Amazon’s tactics as the coming of a war. However, it does create very sensational news.

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Barnes and Noble’s ebook reader is real, called the Nook

b-n-e-reader-rumorOkay, I think I have a handle on this Barnes and Noble e-book reader rumors and whispers that I am hearing.

Thanks to the Wall Street Journal, they have confirmed that the ebook reader has a dual screen with e-ink on top and color screen on the bottom.

Apparently, the source of this comes from some advertisment that one of the Journal’s reporters saw that is slated to appear in the New York Times Book Review on Sunday, October 25th.

By the way, it will be entitled the Nook.

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