SlashGear is reporting that Irex, who had filed for bankruptcy, has secured a new round of financing. In September they will be launching IRX Innovations which will focus on the enterprise market, rather than on the consumer segment. According to a Dutch Financial website (in Google translation): The Eindhoven company iRex, a spinoff from Philips, went bankrupt late June after an adventure on the American market had failed. The company hoped the lines of Amazon and Sony reader for the U.S. to win, but came too late and too expensive digital reading boards. Nine years with corporate e-readers produced a...

As the iPad emerges as a powerful force for e-reading, the fate of dedicated e-book devices is either dim or bright, depending on who you talk to. Last week, Jeff Bezos made a lot of sound and fury about how well the Kindle is selling, but since he keeps all sales figures close to his chest it’s not at all certain what it signifies. Now Wired has a story about how the iPad is killing off some of the shakier e-reader companies, whose prospects were unclear even before its launch: Audiovox, iRex, Plastic Logic, and Cool-er have all...

Thanks to a tweet by edejager, I picked this up on the eReaders website. The original text is in Dutch and here is a Google translation: The Dutch company iRex Technologies has applied for suspension of payments, reports the FD. Disappointing sales of the DR800, the last descendant of the iRex ereaderfamilie have led to financial difficulties which the company has been trapped, said Hans Brons CEO iRex-. Philips spinoff iRex Technologies was the foundation of electronic paper as currently applied in many eReaders. The company launched in 2006, the iLiad eReader, one of the first commercially available eReaders which...

There have been a number of recent reviews of this unit and all of them have been less than favorable. Smart Bitches, by SB Sarah, now chimes in and feels the same way as the rest of the crowd. You. Can only. Use. The Stylus. To Interact. With the Screen. Seriously. I poked at the screen, pushed the buttons on the side, looked at the back. I handed it to Hubby and asked if he could figure out how to turn the page. Both of us were all, “WTF?” Then, I realized: it wouldn’t react to my fingers or my fingernails. Just...

Tech review maven Walter Mossberg has posted a review of the Irex DR800SG e-book reader. This reader costs $140 more than the Kindle e-reader and is compatible with the Barnes & Noble store among others. Mossberg was not terribly impressed, pointing out a number of areas where its design and user interface could use improvement. In observation of Read An E-Book Week, DriveThruRPG and White Wolf are offering a free watermarked-PDF download of the 224-page World of Darkness rulebook (list price $24.99) for as long as the week lasts. Enjoy! A recent survey shows that 90% of...

Here's another review. This time from The-eBook-Reader. The reviewer likes the unit but feel that it is priced too high. Here's a video that was included in the review: ...

Here is the video review that comprises part 1. Background info and more pictures at the site here. ...

Best Tablet Review reported this and I checked and it is indeed on the Best Buy site. The price is $400 and it has an 8.1 inch screen with a 1024x768 resolution. The digitizer is a Wacom unit, so you should really accurate stylus tracking. The unit has 3G wireless, but nothing in the specs on the Best Buy site says what it will connect to. Their press release, linked below, says that there will be phased in-store access in the coming months. If you go to the IREX site, however, they say that the 3G, provided by...

Here's another press release. Today is just one release after another! The rather expensive IREX will be available at Best Buy and will be targeted at newspaper and magazine readers. No picture was included in the release. Given what's going on in the market now, I, personally, wouldn't spend this much $ on an ereader today. Westlake Village, Calif., Oct. 19, 2009 – From the Austin American-Statesman to China’s Zhejiang Daily, IREX Technologies will give readers access to more than 1,200 leading periodicals when its DR800SG eReader hits Best Buy shelves. Agreements with NewspaperDirect and LibreDigital – two leading...

“The IREX DR800SG will launch in Europe the first half of 2010. Additionally, users will have the ability to download content to the device while traveling abroad next year.” That’s the word in a news release. The reminder of the release follows. U.S. launch is happening apparently in early October---at least that’s when the device goes on sale at Best Buy. IREX Technologies Turns the Page on eReaders With New 8.1-inch Consumer Device NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- IREX Technologies today wrote a new chapter in digital reading, combining technology that provides a traditional reading...

So what do you think of the latest iRex reader, the DR 800SG---which will work with Barnes & Noble’s e-book store?  See Google and Techmeme roundups and  CNET and Engadget pieces. From Engadget---repeating many details already given here: “The 8.1-inch unit has wireless connectivity courtesy of Verizon in the US and Qualcomm's Gobi multi-mode 3G for switching it up in the rest of the world. There's also 2GB of built-in storage, memory card expansion and stylus input (‘true finger touch’ is coming in Q2 2010 to a future product, right now you can only use the stylus, and...

A $399 e-reader with an 8.1-inch E Ink screen will go on sale from iRex Technologies by next month---at hundreds of Best Buy stores, according to a report in the New York Times. No photos are on the Web yet. The one here is of an existing iRex model. A promising preview of the new one’s looks? 3G wireless Excerpt from Brad Stone’s Times article: “Owners of the new iRex DR800SG will be able to buy digital books and newspapers wirelessly over the 3G network of Verizon, which is joining AT&T and Sprint in supporting such...