Category: Whispernet
Apple iCloud Fails To Impress In Light of Kindle Whispernet and Amazon Cloud Drive
There’s been a fair amount of interest lately in Apple’s recently announced iCloud service that brings greater attention to the cloud based storage options available to consumers today. So far…
Free Kindle Books on Open Library
Open Library is an amazing non-profit project (partially funded by California State Library). It is trying to catalog book (and e-book) titles and their locations, thus creating a gigantic library. As…
Social Media and Technology Blogs for Kindle
Mashable is a leading social network news blog that was founded in 2005. You can get it on the Kindle and Kindle DX for 99 cents a month. By downloading…
Why there will be fewer Kindle firmware updates in the future
Personally I’m used to updating software. Pretty much every week one or another piece of software on my PC updates – be it Windows itself, the antivirus, iTunes or whatever.…
International Kindle FAQ
My post about international release of Kindle received more attention than any other post on this blog so far. A lot of readers are asking questions so I’m going to…
Modding the Kindle For European Wireless
iReaderReview reports interesting piece of news. Someone has started a project to hack the Kindle for use with European wireless networks. It looks like they’ve already managed to switch the modem…
More Plastic Logic News
Plastic Logic has revealed that their device will use AT&T’s 3G network to download content. This move places the Plastic Logic Reader in even more direct competition with the Kindle,…
The Kindle’s UK Launch Date Will be Finalized Soon
Amazon will soon have a UK launch date finalized for the Kindle, according to British mobile phone trade publication, Mobile Today. Although its not currently clear when this date will…
MicroStrategy Targets Kindle DX For a Business Environment
Business intelligence software vendor, MicroStrategy, has decided to make its reports available to the Kindle DX. Now, any company that is a client of MicroStrategy’s services has the option to…
Sprint Earnings Per Kindle User – Kindle Economics #1.1
According to nielsen wire, average Kindle user earns Sprint $2/month. Given 12 cents/MB price this yeilds 16.6MB on average downloaded by Kindle user per month. This includes book purchases, periodicals,…