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Quick Note: Kobo for Android smartphones now available; Stanza updated
June 18, 2010 | 12:30 pm

Screen shot 2009-11-05 at 8.58.43 AM.pngAccording to eBookNewser the application has been released for smartphones. They are reporting that Kobo has said it will support other Android devices such as tablets, netbooks and ereaders in the near future. More info here. Just noticed that Stanza has been updated. Here's what the App Store says: Improved stability when upgrading with extremely large libraries; Fix for some CBZ import failures; Make status bar black when hide status preference is disabled; Use PDF keywords as subjects when importing PDFs...

10 reasons Palm failed – SF Chronicle article gets it right
April 30, 2010 | 12:27 am

tx.jpegAs we all know Palm has been sold to HP. Normally I would not consider this a TeleRead subject, but I'm quite a Palm fan and have been since their earliest days. As a matter of fact I still write for the oldest Palm blog on the net PalmAddict. As we see the passing of Palm, I have been following all the articles I can on the subject - after all I knew, and wrote about, most of the major Palm players before the Apple crew moved in (Ed Colligan never did get it when I told him...

Palm’s future looks bleak
March 21, 2010 | 7:15 am

Fifteen years ago, the device that singlehandedly created the PDA market, and also probably did the most to start the e-book ball rolling, was the humble Palm Pilot. It was truly a marvel for its time—which is why it is so sad to see Palm floundering today, an also-ran in the smartphone market behind Apple and Android-powered devices. Palm’s stock prices hit a 52-week low on Friday after a lackluster earnings announcement, and analysts have downgraded their opinion of the stock to “sell”—with two analysts even lowering their price target to $0 (meaning that they think Palm’s stock prices will...