Google Voice launches its very own phone booth

Remember how every new medium needs to refer to an old medium before people finally understand its value? People finally understood the value of TV when they were showed a classic play on a tv screen. The first thing on the radio was people reading books out loud. And to get people used to making free phone calls (like we all did when we were young and helpless in the pre-mobile era) Google...

Guru Gear helps you to find the good stuff

So today, just one day before my holiday, I was looking for all the right books to read. It was quite a hard job to pick the right ones. There’s so many titles that people I work with have been telling me about and there’s so many great books I read about on blogs and websites about the digital industry. It wasn’t easy to pick the right ones, but I managed to make a good...

Amazon starts selling apps…or ‘active content titles’

Yesterday I got an e-mail from Amazon, telling me they released the first two Kindle active content titles. So Amazon has officially kicked off their app store now. Although they prefer to call them “active content titles” instead of apps. When I wrote about Amazon’s announcement of the Kindle App Store earlier this year, I did mention that “..the e-ink technology is an...

There’s something in between e-ink and LCD, it’s called IMOD

In my last post about how the Kindle and iPad are companions instead of competitors, Ernst-Jan Pfauth asked an interesting question in the comment section. He asked if there’s a device on its way that merges the iPad’s color screen and video capability and the Kindle’s e-paper technology. The answer is yes. This autumn not-so-fancy tech company Qualcomm releases it’s...

The iPad and Kindle are companions

Let’s settle this once and for all. I’ve been writing quite a couple of articles about the Kindle and the iPad. For a lot of Apple fanatics it feels like Apple’s is taking on yet another company that thinks they can build better products than them. But it’s not like that at all. The Kindle could be considered as a tablet computer, but it has only one real thing it’s...