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Battle of the e-book readers: Sony vs. Kindle

August 13th, 2009

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Sony’s e-book readers are hanging in there, continuing to give Amazon’s Kindle some competition. Sony has announced that it will market two new e-book readers at the end of this month, PC World reports.

One is a direct competitor, a touch-screen Sony reader with a 6-inch screen to sell for $299, the same price as the Kindle. Sony is calling the other one a pocket e-book reader. It’s got a 5-inch screen and is bargain-priced at $199.

See also the recent New Yorker piece by Nicholson Baker about his Kindle experiences. Warts and all.

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US, Canada, and Spain ‘win’ the battle for most expensive cellphone bills

August 13th, 2009

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It’s not the kind of thing you’ll probably want to brag about winning, of course, but, according to new research conducted by the OECD, people in the US, Canada and Spain come out on the top of the heap when it comes to high cellphone bills. The research was conducted by categorizing bills into three usage categories, with the mid-range being 780 minutes per year of voice calls, and 600 SMS per year. For that amount, people in the US of A pay about $635 (the highest rate), while runners-up Spain pay just over $500. The countries with the lowest phone bills include the Netherlands and Sweden, where that same usage runs about $130. Yes, that’s a huge discrepancy, alright, meaning that in the Netherlands you’d pay around $11 a month with that level of usage, while in the US the same amount will run around $53 a month. Then again, they don’t get to watch “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” in the Netherlands, do they?

Update: The CTIA has issued a statement in response to the OECD’s study, stating that it is, essentially, inaccurate by way or its choice of unrepresentative calling packages. The CTIA’s full statement is after the break.

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Dell lets loose Vostro 10 series from bullet-time

August 13th, 2009

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Dell lets loose Vostro 10 series from bullet-time

We knew it was coming soon, and here it is, Dell’s latest entry to the Vostro line of low-cost notes that won’t break the bank — but don’t give off that netbook vibe, either. The three models are the 14.1-inch 1014 and 1088, and the 15.6-inch 1015. All feature Intel Core 2 processors, optical drives, 802.11n, two megapixel webcams, and maximum memory and storage allocations of 4GB and 320GB respectively. Other than screen size the only difference seems to be higher-end ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 graphics in the 1088, while the others make do with a rather more pedestrian Intel solution. Dell hasn’t graced these with an official price in the US just yet, but that should change any minute now.

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