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Borders Books announces e-reader with apps for iPhone, OS X and the iPad

by Mel Martin (May 8th, 2010)

Borders has announced a very low cost e-reader that will ship in June. The device, made by Canadian company Kobo, will sell for U.S. $149.99 and come preloaded with 100 classic books. At a much lower cost than the iPad, the Barnes and Noble Nook, and the Amazon Kindle, the book reader may get ...

An iPhone and iPod case that includes speakers

by Mel Martin (May 7th, 2010)

We all know that the iPhone and iPod touch have pretty skimpy speakers. iPods have no speakers, so we're dependent on headphones or speakers to get any tunes out of them. Portable Sound Laboratories has an interesting solution that will protect your electronics and give you good sound at the same ...

Can't find the apps you need? Of course there's an app for that.

by Mel Martin (Dec 31st, 2009)

If you're like me, you find it impossible to keep up with the constant stream of apps being written for the iPhone and iPod touch. As a result, you wind up missing some useful or fun apps that you would buy if you just knew that they were in the App Store. Searching the App Store using iTunes ...

NDrive brings a low cost nav solution to the iPhone

by Mel Martin (Nov 30th, 2009)

Gee, I thought we had seen all the nav apps, but new ones keep popping up. NDrive, a new U.S. $32.99 app [iTunes link] is actually pretty good for the money, and has a reasonably complete feature set. I don't put it in the class of the TomTom, Navigon or Magellan apps, but they cost twice as much. ...