Lightspeed Illuminati

Sun rising in the ebook realm? Are you ready to strike it rich with ebooks? Sorry, you’ve come to the wrong post. The world of pork belly futures and other commodity speculation is best left to those deep-pocketed captains of industry who think they can catch the scent of market trends like a sniffer dog [...]

As of late, the blogosphere has been burning with passionate posts comparing the current crop of e-readers and e-reader capable tablets—particularly the Kindle and iPad, but also the legions of newly introduced devices, such as the NookColor, the Kobo ebook reader, and the WISEreader. The comparisons often bristle with the zealous conviction of judges on [...]

I devoted a good portion of this cloudy, humid Sunday morning digging through the attic, collecting and boxing ancient electronics gear to take to the recycling center on Monday. Ancient, in these days of accelerating product releases, is anything more than about six years old. If you’re talking about cell phones or MP3 players, you [...]