Chunghwa Telecom Co Ltd, the largest telecom and Internet services provider in Taiwan, plans to launch e-book services for smartphone users by the end of this year, Chang-Rong Chen, vice president of its mobile business group, said Wednesday, Dow Jones Newswire reported.The telecom carrier is now...
Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, the biggest contract manufacturer of electronics in the world, was selected by China Mobile Ltd<0941><CHL> to help it produce e-book readers, sources reported. Reportedly, China Mobile Chairman Wang Jianzhou said during his visit to Taiwan that Hon Hai...
Fujitsu Limited, a Japanese multinational computer hardware and IT services firm, will cooperate with a Taiwanese firm to set up a color e-book production plant in Taiwan, sources reported.The Japanese firm will help the local firm transform its STN and roll-to-roll equipment for cholesteric liquid crystal display...
The big question around Google's new push into e-books is how, if at all, it will change Amazon's fortunes.
As Amazon drops its Kindle price again, this holiday season could be digital readers' break-out moment.
Sharp Corporation will introduce into the Japanese market the PC-Z1, a new Mobile Internet Tool that is as easy to handle as a mobile phone and that has performance similar to that of a PC. The PC-Z1 will make its debut as a new category of mobile devices designed for the era of cloud computing.
China's digital book market could become the biggest in the world as local e-readers gain on Kindle.
HarperCollins has been trying to sense the movement toward eBooks for sometime and has been one of the most aggressive publishers in its approach to digital.
Three recent filings by Amazon.at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office indicate that the company is thinking about additional ways to monetize its print and electronic book sales by possibly including ads in books and by creating some sort of Kindle-related social network.
October 6, 2008 TOKYO -- Sony Corp. is introducing a second electronic book reader in the U.S., with upgraded hardware, that will go on sale in November ...