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  Microsoft may take on Kindles and Nooks

  Microsoft is investing $300 million in a Barnes & Noble spin-off that has agreed to create a free Metro style Windows 8 application so customers can shop at the spinoff's store, but Microsoft reserves the right to compete against Barnes & Noble with its own e-reader hardware presumably based on Windows 8.

  By Tim Greene | 01 May, 2012 05:29

  Tags: applications, Barnes & Noble, business issues, corporate issues, e-reader, Investments, Microsoft, Microsoft e-reader, operating systems, SEC Filings, software, Tablet, Windows, Windows 8

• Thinner Kindle -- coming soon?

  For those of you who think that the Kindle's one third of an inch thick architecture is just too thick, you may be able to check out a new slimmer Kindle come August this year. According to a Bloomberg.com article, Amazon.com plans to introduce the next version of the Kindle electronic-book reader.

  By James Mulroy | 31 May, 2010 18:19

  Tags: amazon, e-reader, kindle

• Samsung introduces eReader

  At a splashy event in New York's Time Warner Center, Samsung dove headlong into the electronic book market with the Samsung eReader, a US$299 device which allows you to take notes in the margins and share content with other Samsung eReaders.

  By Robert S. Anthony | 10 March, 2010 11:04

  Tags: e-reader, samsung

• Taiwanese researchers show several flexible e-reader screens

  Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) showed off a number of flexible display screen technologies in Taipei on Thursday as part of a show promoting e-readers and e-paper.

  By Dan Nystedt | 26 November, 2009 20:09

  Tags: e-reader, Industrial Technology Research Institute

• Some Sony e-readers may not arrive for the holidays

  When Sony unveiled the Reader Daily Edition, its first e-reader with a wireless connection, it said it would be available in December in time for the holidays.

  By Nancy Gohring | 19 November, 2009 10:47

  Tags: e-reader, sony

• Intel makes an e-reader for the visually impaired

  On Tuesday, Intel will start selling a nifty new e-reader that can snap pictures of books and newspapers and then read them back to people who have a hard time reading the printed page.

  By Robert McMillan | 10 November, 2009 16:00

  Tags: e-reader, Intel

• Android comes to an e-reader called Alex

  Android is known for smartphones but the mobile platform will also power the new Alex e-reader from a Fremont, Calif., company called Spring Design.

  By Matt Hamblen | 20 October, 2009 08:05

  Tags: Android, e-reader, Google, smartphone