The great control freak strikes again: Apple allegedly has told European newspaper and magazine publishers that they will not be allowed to offer free iPad magazine e-subscriptions to print subscribers through Apple’s e-newsstand app.

The reason is obvious: Apple can not earn a 30% fee from money that is not collected through their store. This is also the reason why iBooks is the only e-book app that is allowed to offer in-app purchases. This shows again, if you want to do anything on Apple’s devices you are caught in their walled garden. The price you have to pay to get in it, is that Apple will tell you, what to do and what not.

So with the rapidly growing number of Android devices this might be another point for the open system from Google, and Apple could soon be forced to be much less restrictive.

Foxit provides solutions for reading, editing, creating, organizing, securing PDF documents and eReader devices. They just announced the release of Foxit PDF Reader Version 3.3. The new verson of Foxit Reader further enhances PDF document viewing security by implementing a Safe Mode feature.
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I recently stated in a forum that I prefer to de-DRM the Amazon ebooks and read them on the PC with mobipocket reader instead of Kindle for PC, because the mobipocket reader is so much more convenient. But the last update for the Kindle for PC from Amazon brought the Kindle for PC closer to mobipocket reader but still does not catch up.

But I have to admit that Amazon added some pretty big improvements and they are promising even more improvements.

The improvements are:

• Ability to create and edit notes and highlights. Always wondered why Kindle for PC lacked this important function, since it is much more useful to do that kind of stuff on the PC and later sync it to the Kindle.
• Brightness Controls. Nice!
• Full Screen Reading. Also nice!
• Background Color Setting. White on black (night mode), black on white, and sepia.

The overall reading experience is much better than before, the Night Mode is great for night reading and easy on the eyes, the Sepia imitates a book and is preferable to black text on a white background.

There are more new features to come:

• Search function– search in a book or across your Kindle library.
• Two Page Reading Mode. I use that with mobi reader since I got a 16:9 Monitor.
• Zoom and rotate images. Kindle DX already has this function.
• Collections – same as announced for the 2.5 Kindle software.

Kindle for Mac is slated to get some improvements including -

• Create Notes and Highlights.
• Search.
• Zoom.

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Sony gives away one of 20,000 BDPS550 Blu-ray player as a bonus for every sold BRAVIA LCD TV.

The promotion begins on 16 March 2009.

The Sony’s BDP-S550 regularily costs about $649. It will provide real Full HD enjoyment to owners of these TVs.
The player also features 7.1 channel audio capability, Bonus View and BD-Live.

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The device surely is not a high-end-player like iPod and Co. but it’s free of charge on the other side.

The player has no integrated memory but a SD-card-slot instead. It is compatible to MMC and SD cards up to a size of 2 GB.

Lots of people have collected big numbers of these small memory chips, like I did myself, in any memory size. For those the player could be an interesting choice. Especially when you want to go outside and do some downhilling with your bike, you probably wont take your invaluable iPod-Touch with you.

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