Here, from jkOnTheRun. Toshiba's mistake. Photo is from video interview with Otto Berkes, Origami's chief architect. Related: Why e-book fans should root for the Origami to succeed--and what it will take, by our newest contributor, Snappy, based in Asia. ...

[Poll=9] Related: Pro-DRM blog and Screw DRM says Cambridge-MIT researcher, from MobileRead. (Time stamp changed from 7:56 a.m. EST to move this higher in the blog.)...

Here, from Bloomberg News via Los Angeles Times. Court ruled that Matel didn't infringe. Excerpt from Bloomberg: "LeapFrog had claimed that Fisher-Price copied the technology from LeapPad books that lets children press the letters of a word to hear how they sound. LeapFrog sought $58 million in damages. El Segundo-based Mattel said that its PowerTouch books used different technology and that the LeapFrog patent was invalid." LeapPad shown....

Chin up if you're in the e-book biz and sales aren't what they they should be. Almost nine billion people are supposed to by walking Planet Earth by the year 2300. By then maybe Vista will even be done for real. Meanwhile, for helping to develop readers and countries, there's a new machine out--beyond the "$100 laptop" from the MIT-based One Laptop Per Child project. It's the Intel's $400 Edu-Wise laptop written up in Engadget. As with the MIT machine, the price is a tad theoretical. Some are thinking this might be more like Intel's $750-plus machine. Yes, the Intel...

I badly want the Origami/UMPC to succeed. Why? I love e-books, and the Origami can run many fine programs such as uBook and thus read popular formats like HTML. So what can Microsoft do to improve the odds for its new baby? Three items top my wish list: A price of $499 or less, which some say the Origami may achieve in the next six months. Battery life of at least four hours in real life. Some at Microsoft--not everyone--have acknowledged the problem, and a longer life may be on the way. Keyboard keyboard keyboard. I'd like to see Microsoft unveil a good...

...people want to be buried with their favorite e-book-reading gizmos. So what triggered this? Go here and here....

At least one iPod-related software guy at Apple reads the TeleBlog. But my ego will puff up only so much after hearing that Apple will help address the threat of the iPod to ears. It's a class-action lawsuit and heavy publicity in the aggregate--not TeleBlog items alone--which made the big different. Still, I'd like to think we helped in a small way. At any rate, no matter what the reason for the update, hats off to Apple for wising up. I'll try the update later today. The update will be for video iPods and Nanos. I own a Nano but...

Kudos to Creative Commons for holding monthly salons for artists and other creators in San Francisco and encouraging similar activities elsewhere. The idea isn't to ballyhoo CC directly but rather share tips on how and why the artists are using CC-licensed content. "You know, you guys were fantastic in demonstrating what you've done with your stuff," CC founder Larry Lessig told Geek Entertainment Television, thereby inspiring GETV to caption the video: "No need to kiss ass, Larry, we already love you." I also enjoyed a typical Lessig poke at the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which, among many other...

"Of course, ebooks as currently envisioned by Google and Amazon, bolted into restrictive IP enclosures, won't allow for this kind of exchange. That's why we need to be thinking hard right now about an alternative electronic publishing system. It may seem premature to say this — now, when electronic books are a marginal form — but before we know it, these companies will be the main purveyors of all media, including books, and we'll wonder what the hell happened." - if:book Related: TeleBlog post on E-Book Museums....

The BBC reports "the latest chapter of the e-book." TeleRead earlier linked to a video version of the BBC report. Via MobileRead....

Hoaxes past, from the Christian Science Monitor. Now that you're tipped off, I won't bother doing the April Fool's act, but you never know about our sly contributors. Meanwhile here's last year's act, 'More than Human' version of Bill Gates is on the way. Related: Comment on Gates item....

Six or seven years ago, this would be totally untrue, as the HP Jornada 720 HandheldPC retailed for around US$999 back in the Fall of 1999. Today, the J720, as I call it in short, goes for below $200, averaging $140. This is a depreciation of $859 over seven years or $122+ per year, ignoring inflation and all the economics and stuff. At this price, it became a good candidate as a poor man's e-reader--in other words, an e-reader for me. So how did the J720 become my e-reader? More than e-book capabilities alone To start off, the J720 is a HandheldPC (HPC)...