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Kindle free 3G-era fails?
Although Amazon has pushed its Kindle Touch 3G as always connected via a free 3G connection that users can take advantage of (almost) anywhere in the world, it seems it’s not quite as free as expected. A first user report signals a limitation of 50Mb of traffic per month.
As El Reg puts it, the abuse vividly pictured by XKCD may have pr [...]
Pricing the books: Kindle vs paper
One would think that with the emergence of electronic book readers (or eBook readers), paper books would fall out of consumer grace (saving the forests and helping students move around without a truck of paper books). As we’ve learned by now, that didn’t happen.
EBook readers are basically divided in two: the classical LCD/TFT backlit tablet [...]
Buying stuff online: Amazon
Amazon is a weird little devil, especially in Europe. The awkwardness of its business comes from the fact that it is so very distributed among various countries that abiding by local commercial laws results in strange behavior.
For example: I live in France and I want to buy Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood. I look for prices:
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