Kobo E-readers Released

It’s funny isn’t it, there’s so much press about Amazon’s new Kindle releases, and yet there’s not a lot of news about Kobo’s new range of e-readers that were released earlier on in the week before the Kindles?

Kobo has released the:

  • Kobo mini with 5″ e-ink screen , WiFi-enabled reader for $79.99
  • Kobo Glo with a  6″ e-ink touch screen, WiFi-enabled reader with front lit screen and Kobo’s proprietary ComfortLight technology  for $129.99
  • Kobo Arc with 7″ IPS screen running at 1280 X 800, 1.5GHz dual core processor and running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) . Prices are $199.99 for an 8GB model and $249.99 for a 16GB version.

The e-readers will be available October 1st while the tablet will start shipping in November.

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Kobo E-readers Released originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 9, 2012 at 9:00 am.

Firefox 4 rockets to 5% global usage share, IE9 wallows at 1.5%

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Using some early numbers from both StatCounter and Net Applications, Mozilla's noisiest hominid, Asa Dotzler, has illustrated Firefox 4's meteoric rise to around 5% of Web browser global usage share. Internet Explorer 9, which launched two weeks ago, seems to be enjoying a much more casual stroll in the park with just 1.5% of the global Web usage share.

Interestingly, we can see IE9 dipping between March 20 and 21, just before the 'Important' Windows Update rolled out. It's hard to say whether IE9 is only growing because of the installed-by-default Windows Update, but that small dip definitely sticks out -- did excitement peter out? Did people download IE9, try it out, and summarily uninstall it? Perhaps, given their close proximity, the stats show an attention shift from Microsoft to Mozilla?

Numbers-wise, if the bottom left corner of the graph shows 2.3 million downloads for IE9, we can guesstimate that that it has now been downloaded 5 million times. Firefox is clocking in at 37 million downloads after five days of public availability.

We wonder whether Microsoft knew its release schedule would coincide so closely with Firefox 4. Internet Explorer 9 -- a great browser by almost every metric -- was never going to do well against anything emanating from the maws of Mozilla. The main thing, though, is that Microsoft has now shown that it's serious when it comes to the Open Web. If Internet Explorer 10 is good, and 11 and 12, then we might finally see it compete with the zealous Mozillan horde.

Firefox 4 rockets to 5% global usage share, IE9 wallows at 1.5% originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 05:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How the iPhone 5 Stacks Up to the Competition [Iphone 5]

The new iPhone is finally here. Yes, people would line up to buy it even if it was made of bottle-caps and dog-poo, but it isn't. It's predictably a very good phone. How good? Let's see how it compares to the top competition. More »


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Holding Your Community Together During a Disaster

The fires raging across western U.S. states this summer, at times plowing through residences and other structures, might have gotten you thinking: "What if?" That is, what if one of my buildings were destroyed in the 44-square mile California Pondorosa fire in August, which leveled more than 80 structures? Or what if my community were in the path of the Trinity Ridge and Mustang Complex, currently charging through 293 square miles in Idaho? For a bunch of Southern Californians, the question "What if?" became: "What to do?"

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Zoho Docs 2.0 adds iPad support

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Zoho has offered an iOS app for a while now -- at least for the iPhone and iPod touch. Those of you who have been wanting to use the Zoho app on your iPad were out of luck, but that's no longer the case.

Zoho Docs 2.0 has landed in the App Store, and the most notable change is that it's now a universal app. Now you're able to take advantage of the app's mobile productivity powers on your larger iOS device. Retina display support has also been added, as have document sharing options -- which you can utilize in both the viewer and collaboration modes.

Just like the basic Zoho service, the app is available totally free of charge. Paid subscriptions get you additional storage space and start at $3 per month for professional use.

Zoho Docs 2.0 adds iPad support originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iOS 6 GM seed now available for developers

iOS 6 seeded to developers ahead of official launch

Developers, start your engines: the GM (Golden Master) seed of iOS 6 is now available and ready for download on Apple's Developer page. Essentially, the GM seed is the final version of the OS sent out to developers -- as an opportunity to fully test their apps -- before the rest of the general public, which will take place on September 19th. The Xcode 4.5 GM seed is now available as well. Head to the link below, log into your developer account, and venture over to the iOS Dev Center to find the download links.

Update: it looks like it's fully working now. Hop to it!

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iOS 6 GM seed now available for developers originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Catch Phil on the Ausdroid Podcast replay!

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If you were up before the sun yesterday morning (here in America, anyway), you might have caught our illustrious leader on the Ausdroid podcast. Missed it? Well, the replay's ready to go. Listen in as Phil joins Ausdroid's Lucas Burnett, Phil Tan, Geoff Fieldew, Tia Porter and Matt Booth.

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iPod classic lives to play another day

The more things change, the more they stay the same -- for our old pal the iPod Classic, at least. Sure Apple went and revamped the rest of its music playing brethren, but the HDD stalwart is, as its name implies, staying true to its roots. Death rumors aside, the high-capacity player is sitting pretty over in Apple's online store. Those who need a shot of 160GB nostalgia can still pick one up for $250.

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iPod classic lives to play another day originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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