Thursday, May 20, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Clark <3’s Lex: During an interview with MTV, Smallville‘s Tom Welling said that he’d love to have Clark Kent’s arch nemesis Lex Luthor back for the tenth and final season of the series.
“I want to see Lex [Luthor],” said Welling. “I want to see him …
Like the idea of the Kindle or the Nook but don’t want to shell out $260? Borders has you covered with the $150 Kobo eReader. It’s lacking the all-over 3G wireless connections found in its competitors but it costs over $100 less and features a Bluetooth connection that can be used to synchronize it “wirelessly with select …
Barnes & Noble Nook, you take the lead in e-book readers this round. Amazon, we’re awaiting your counterpoint software update.
The Nook’s version 1.3 software update, available today, brings the following new features to Barnes & Noble’s e-book reader:
– Improved page turn speed.
– Updated home screen featuring new Web, …
Best Buy will begin selling Barnes & Noble’s NOOK eBook reader starting this Sunday, April 18th. Aside from merely selling the $260 device, Best Buy will also be preloading Barnes & Noble’s free “BN eReader” software on “select PCs (laptops and desktops), netbooks, tablets and smartphones,” according to a recent press …
Now we have nooks and vooks, I’m going to go trademark wook and pook just in case.
This thing does look pretty cool. (And by the way, who built it? Can’t be internally developed.) I wonder whether Bezos is jumping up and down on his fedora right now. Or I mean, he is, but how hard? For the obligatory contrarian viewpoint, read …
