We’re still not about say the e-book reader industry has branched out beyond the infancy stage, but one of its flagship products certainly has reason to celebrate. Amazon has announced it’s hit some pretty big milestones with the Kindle . The two bullet points it’s currently touting loudest is that the reader has…

It’s official: everyone’s making an e-reader . While we’re still a little unsure of where all this is heading (hey, call us Luddites, but we actually like turning pages!), we’re always glad to see an ever-expanding offering of literacy-encouraging gadgets. Chinese company Aigo has just announced its own model, the daringly named …

Fashionably late to the e-book handheld party, Borders and Kobo announced today a partnership that includes plans to develop and release both an e-reader and e-book service. Mum’s the official word on hardware, but The New York Times Bits blog is claiming there’ll be “more than one version” released, all with wireless…

Google’s little green man has been getting quite an education lately, popping up in a number of e-book readers (why hello there Nook , Alex , eDGe ). Not to be left out, Netronix is reportedly also looking to work with Texas Instruments on assimilating Android into its product line, according to company …

HTC promised the world an Android 2.0 -based firmware for its Hero line once it figured out the nitty gritty details of porting Sense to Google’s latest code, leapfrogging Donut altogether — but now, it looks like they’re gonna do one better. Screenshots found today show a Hero running Android 2.1, which would…

Other than a delightful-looking keyboard, it’s a little tough to tell what sets the iriver Story apart from its E Ink brethren (other than its complete lack of wireless), but the little issue of a $400 US pricetag for import versions doesn’t give us much reason to find out. Meanwhile, in the UK the…

Take it for nothing more than it is (a lovely, delicious and completely unsubstantiated rumor ), but word on the Australian streets is that iriver may have an Android-based portable media player on the horizon. According to local distributor C.R. Kennedy’s iriver product manager, Danny Bejanoff, the outfit is looking to…

It’s not exactly an e-book reader of its own as previously rumored , but Barnes & Noble’s announced an alliance with Plastic Logic in which it’ll servce as the “exclusive eBookstore provider” to the long-in-development e-reader, which unless we’re playing with semantics here means any and all…

Ugh. Another one bites the gently gnashed rock particles, as they say. Polymer Vision , which was already having some pretty significant cash flow issues back in April, has reportedly caved under pressure and sought shelter under Chapter 11. According to the Hampshire Chronicle , the company famous for developing a bendable e-paper display has…