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The CEA’s Gary Shapiro to host a Reddit AMA tomorrow

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:07:22 +0000

The modern phenomenon known as the Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session is perhaps a perfect example of the sort of knowledge acquisition that is only possible because of the Internet. But you know that already. Here’s something you probably don’t know: A gentleman by the name of Gary Shapiro will be hosting a Reddit [...]

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Acer Iconia B1 7-Inch Tablet Already Available In The UK for £99

Aggregated Content — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:37:09 +0000

By Adrian Diaconescu Now that was fast. Acer unveiled the Iconia B1 tablet a few weeks ago at CES and said it’ll go on sale “soon,” which usually means anything but that, but the 7-incher is in fact up for grabs already. Well, it’s only available in the UK for now, but you know what they say [...]

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At CES, an E Ink Watch Raises $200,000 in Two Days

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:16:58 +0000

Most of you met the newest addition to the TeleRead team, the reporter and author Juli Monroe, when we published her introductory post a couple days back. (If you missed it, click here to give it a look.) But last weekend, we republished an article of Juli’s about E Ink readers that was originally written [...]

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TeleRead Goes to Vegas

Dan Eldridge — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 04:48:41 +0000

Those of you who read TeleRead regularly probably noticed that our coverage was a little bit thin last week … but not to worry! I’ve got an alibi: I was in Las Vegas since last Sunday, covering the 2013 International CES for NAPCO—my employer, and TeleRead’s parent company. This was my first-ever trip to CES, [...]

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Morning Links — Even Polaroid is selling tablets now!

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:31:03 +0000

Polaroid Kids Tablet Debuts at CES (Good E-Reader) Your Gadgets Are Slowly Breaking the Internet (Technology Review) Q&A With Atria Books Amy Tannenbaum (Digital Book World) Early Signs Point to a Big Holiday Quarter for Apple (Giga OM) Kindle Daily Deals: The Center of Everything by Laura Moriatry (+ 3 others)

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Morning Roundup — International CES Edition

Dan Eldridge — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:10:27 +0000

Forget Apple, Amazon and Google: CES is for the little guys (Digital Trends) Engadget’s 2013 CES Preview: Tablets (Engadget) Incredible photos from the CES vault: 1967 to 2012 (The Verge) Why I chose a crappy Kindle over the iPad for my kid (Pando Daily) Kindle Daily Deals: Apocalypse Z by Manel Loureiro (and others)

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OLPC 3.0 tablet revealed; will be shown at CES

Chris Meadows — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:15:00 +0000

Over the last few days, reports and pictures have surfaced showcasing the new OLPC XO-3 tablet that will be debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. The 8-inch tablet will cost under $100 for its target market. In terms of what’s under the hood, The Verge reports: In terms of raw [...]

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More tablet/netbook hybrids on the way, but what to call them?

Chris Meadows — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:24:06 +0000

Plenty of hybrid tablet/laptop devices are on their way. Dan Ackerman on CNet reports on four prototypes that were shown at CES—tablets with keyboards that flip out from behind, or slide out of hidden slots, and so on. These could offer the benefit of tablets for easy reading and net surfing, then turn into full-fledged [...]

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Gadgetell CES BlackBerry PlayBook hands-on

Chris Meadows — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 19:16:52 +0000

On our sister blog Gadgetell, Shawn Ingram posts a CES hands-on report with the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, the seven-inch device that is BlackBerry’s attempt to compete with the iPad. A photo gallery accompanies the article, including shots of children’s book applications. Ingram is impressed with the device so far, even if its control scheme seems [...]

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Paltry ereader lineup at CES says Kindle Review

Paul Biba — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:24:39 +0000

Kindle Review sums up the show: Mirasol’s Color eReader is mighty impressive – and not scheduled to release until Q3, 2011. Pixel Qi is pretty impressive too – except the lowest priced version of the Pixel Qi screen Adam tablet is $499. Which means that until Q3, 2011, iPad 2 is the only real threat [...]

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Over 80 tablets shown at CES this year

Chris Meadows — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:30:59 +0000

The Consumer Electronics Show is on, and the RSS feeds are being flooded by scads of posts about this or that new tablet or e-reader. If I tried to cover all of them, I could be here all night. In fact, PC Magazine reports that over 80 tablets are going to be shown at the [...]

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CNet rounds up CES e-readers, their current states

Chris Meadows — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:15:00 +0000

CNet has another one of those year-end retrospective articles that start popping up around this time. This one looks at the scads of e-book readers that were introduced in the Consumer Electronics Show in January, and follows up to find out what happened to them all. What do I mean by “scads”? The article is [...]

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Some info from the Consumer Electronics Association on ereaders and tablets

Paul Biba — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:52:41 +0000

CEA, the Consumer Electronics Association, is the trade organization that puts on CES each year. CEA is not too well known to consumers, but it is one of the largest trade associations and does all the stuff that trade associations do, including engage in economic analysis. Each year at this time CEA invites the press [...]

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Where have all the e-ink readers gone, long time passing?

Chris Meadows — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:12:01 +0000

Jon Stokes at Ars Technica wonders whatever happened to all the Chinese e-ink readers that were on display everywhere you looked at CES but are now conspicuously absent from E3. He points to the examples of the Plastic Logic Que (or “QUE”) and the Sprint/Hearst Skiff, two of the most anticipated devices from early days. [...]

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E-book reader quick links: Samsung, Apple, Amazon

Chris Meadows — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:03:39 +0000

Samsung has revealed a new e-ink reader, the E61, this one with a physical qwerty keyboard similar to the Kindle’s. This reader joins Samsung’s E6 and E10 readers from CES to make a trio of new e-ink devices. It uses the standard 6” 800×600 resolution e-ink screens seen in most such devices. Like the other [...]

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