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With the ebook reader market getting bigger and bigger, Amazon is trying to keep relevant.  You could access Kindle books on your Kindle and on the iPhone app—now there is the Kindle reader for Windows so you can read on your laptop.  Sure a computer screen is usually hardly optimal… Continue Reading »

In what can only be seen as a move to compete with the Barnes & Noble Nook, especially considering the international edition Kindle was only announced less than a month ago—Amazon has made some changes to the current Kindle lineup. Good news! Due to strong customer demand for our newest… Continue Reading »

Many big companies have already entered into the e-Reader department, most notably Amazon and Sony.  Apparently Barnes & Noble have been working on e-Reader designs for quite some time now, and images and product information are finally beginning to surface.  Barnes & Noble has already announced a product event slated… Continue Reading »

A couple of days ago, Amazon not only slashed pricing of the Kindle 2, but they announced an international version of the Kindle 2 to be available on October 19.  The product has been exclusively sold in America, but now people all over the world can purchase a Kindle 2… Continue Reading »

Amazon first unveiled the Kindle 2 back in February and had it priced well over the $300 price point, since then we had seen a price drop in July that took it down to $299—now once again the price has been lowered.  Of course, that is not all, Amazon has… Continue Reading »

Amazon has never denied that the Kindle would eventually makes its way overseas, but at the same time they have never offered up even the slightest hint as to when we could expect that to happen.  That said, it looks like that time may be coming up. The story, which… Continue Reading »

With the economy still on a downturn, tech retailers are preparing for the upcoming holiday season by offering a variety of cheap gadgets.  With no hot new must have gadget this year and consumers not as willing to snap up pricey gadgets, retailers are hoping that cheap gadgets will have… Continue Reading »

Go figure.  You’d think publishers would be all over reducing overhead and being content providers.  You’d think reducing how much they are chained to print houses and paper producers would make publishers thrilled.  Fact: apparently, I don’t know the first thing about publishing. But I do know that publishers are… Continue Reading »

It looks as though it is possible that schools will soon start phasing out traditional textbooks and instead rely on tech products like Kindle and iPhone to provide course materials.  A pilot project in Oklahoma City at the Francis Tuttle Technology Center is giving e-readers and smartphones to students as… Continue Reading »

Welcome back to InterrupTech.  Catch up on the week’s most important tech stories in a hurry.  We cover HP’s new line of computers including the DreamScreen, a digital book outsells hardcover version, Facebook tops 300 Million users, Microsoft fumbles with the Zune again, and Android is picking up steam. Continue Reading »