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Google makes book mobile

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Google has launched its mobile books service whereby the 1.5m books that it has scanned are available to mobile users as well as traditional desktop users.

Google hopes to fight of Amazon’s Kindle which has sold 1/2m to date (Sprint estimates from users downloading books). Amazon is expected to launch the Kindle v2 later this month which is slimmer and has a metallic back (there are leaked pictures on the ‘net).

The e-book market is expected to be worth $1.2bn by 2010.

Google is hoping to extend its service soon with the addition of out-of-print titles and even current titles doing deals with publishers.

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Kwiry reminders get Amazon, Netflix

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Reminder service Kwiry has announced some nifty little updates, bringing Amazon and Netflix into the fold. Kwiry works essentially like clever Post It notes – you text reminders like ‘pick up dry cleaning’ or the name of a song you’ve heard and want to write down before you forget it to a short code. Kwiry then integrates it with whatever application you like, like your calendar, RSS or Facebook feed, or you can get your reminders emailed to you. All very clever.

Now kwiry has got two new additions – Amazon and Netfilx. For the former you can now send texts and get the name of a film, book, whatever added to you Amazon wishlist. For the latter, you can get films added straight to your Netflix queue.

It’s a very clever little piece of software, but there is one minor gripe. It’s a US only service at the moment and while there is a workaround for international users, it would be nice to see a dedicated service for those of us on the other side of the pond.

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