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Amazon’s third-generation Kindle models sold out in just a couple of days of its launch, but the Amazon doesn’t sound too surprised at the high demand. In a recent interview with CNET Ian Freed, VP in charge of the Kindle claims Amazon still reckons it has 70 to 80 percent of the ebook market, despite what rivals may claim. He also added “Obviously, from the beginning of Amazon we’ve [...]

There is no doubt that one of the most efficient sources of information today is the web with millions of blog giving you very detailed information about anything and everything. If you like to preserve all this information into your library as hard copy, Now You can now convert your blog (rather any blog’s posts) to pdf and download them as ebook for free or buy a printed copy of the same PDF. Recently [...]

Update: Amazon has recently changed the ship date for latest kindle to on or before September 20th. Its just been around 4 days when Amazon announced the latest wifi-only version of eBook readers along with other 3g version with cheaper price tag. The New Kindle 3 has already been selling well. At Amazon both the 3G + Wi-Fi Kindle 3 and the Wi-Fi only version are shown as temporarily sold out. Both [...]

Now this comes as a surprise, Just 2 days after Paypal had announced that they will be stopping Electronic Funds Withdrawal to Indian Banks – They seem to have made a complete U turn now. Paypal Asia team has recently sent an email to its customers stating “While we have received your appreciation for the advanced notice and the refund of the cheque processing fee, we also have heard loud [...]

Update: Microsoft announces press conference for windows mobile 7 on Oct 11 to announce windows slate As forecasted, 2010 would be the year of the tablet, there are number of tablets lined up for release but no big brand tablet is yet available to compete with Apple’s iPad. Competitors really need to get going fast before its too late in the race, and to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s chagrin, [...]

Social currency – the value locked away in your social network, is an often mentioned principle in online marketing. You build social currency by providing useful stuff to a growing network of fans and they reward the value of that stuff by sharing it with others, building their own social currency in the process. Pay With A Tweet (PWAT) – the idea of German-American company, Innovative Thunder [...]

If you got worried when Amazon’s Kindle went out of stock a couple of days back, you can rest easy as they have just announced a brand new model as expected. Amazon has come forth today to announce the latest addition to their popular line up of eBook readers with what they are simply calling the Kindle when in reality it is the Kindle 3. The latest Kindle is smaller (21%), lighter (15%), and faster. [...]

Update: Facebook to pay $10 million for the deal. Facebook, the largest social network is in final stages of negotiations to buy Hot Potato, the social activity service. Terms of the deal are likely still be negotiated, but it’s believed that this would largely be a talent acquisition for Facebook. Yes, another one. If the deal is completed, it would be the seventh known company that Facebook has [...]

You might have seen lot of screencast videos explaining the website and other products released by commercial or Government organisations. But have you come across one that’s actually done by the President himself. Here is one such example in which President Obama himself explains and walks you through HealthCare.gov – the new consumer-oriented website from the Department of Health and [...]