Filed under: TECHNOLOGY | Tags: Amazon, Amazon.com, AmazonKindle, Apple, CNET Networks, Macworld, VerizonWireless, Yahoo
Verizon Wireless is prepared to back the competitors of Amazon‘s Kindle electronic reader by letting subscribers use the carrier’s network to download books, newspapers and other material, according to a Verizon Wireless executive. The executive also said he doubted the recession would inhibit the growth of such nonessential technologies as e-readers. Reuters (1/6)
I wrote this on the “Wall of Suggested Innovations” last night at CES Unveiled. To this end, I submit my plea to Apple. If you build it, they will come. And if you do, can you get Jobs to present it on his MacWorld Reunion Tour?
By midyear, Intel plans to have a media processor that will be compatible with Adobe’s Flash media player to allow for the screening of Web content via set-tops, digital TVs and other home-entertainment players. Intel also is partnering with Yahoo! on the “Widget Channel,” a platform for weather, news, games and other online content to be shown on TV screens. Multichannel News (1/5) , CNET (1/5)
Broadcom and Adobe Systems also announced a partnership to place Adobe’s Flash platform into Broadcom’s latest digital television and set-top box system-on-a-chip platforms. Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash is the standard for delivering online video to websites including YouTube and Hulu. (Cynopsis 1/7)
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