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Remember the vintage game "Pull the Rug Out?" It is a board game where players stack different items on top of a rug. Eventually, one of the players tries to pull out the rug without tumbling the pieces stacked on top of it. Google's recent announcement that it is phasing out several additional services, including the highly popular Google Reader, reminded me of this game, as I recall that the stack most always toppled to the ground. Google introduced Google Reader, gradually built up its popularity, and then pulled the rug out with little warning, causing its customers to stumble. As one Google customer put it: "Google spends millions of wasted dollars on pet projects, then kills one of their best products on a whim." Google's most recent spring cleaning brings the total number of services it has discontinued to 70 in just a year-and-a-half. That's right-a whopping 70 services that have been shut down in just 18 months. Among the services Google will discontinue with little warning is Google Cloud Connect, introduced with a lot of fanfare just two years ago. Cloud Connect is a plug-in that enables Google users to share and edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel files. To continue collaborating with Microsoft Office, Google users have just four weeks to uninstall Cloud Connect and install Google Drive. Companies that can't get to it by April 30 will be out of luck, leaving them without a way to collaborate on Office documents used by millions of employees, partners, and customers. But of all the services Google is discontinuing this time, the one that's drawing the biggest backlash is Google Reader, a service used by hundreds of thousands of users to keep track of their favorite websites and blogs via RSS feeds. The news of Google Reader's shut down drew outrage from users, who put together a petition demanding that Google reinstate the service. "Our confidence in Google's other products - Gmail, YouTube, and yes, even Plus - req

Remember the vintage game "Pull the Rug Out?" It is a board game where players stack different items on top of a rug. Eventually, one of the players tries to pull out the rug without tumbling the pieces stacked on top of it. Google's recent announcement that it is phasing out several additional services, including the highly popular Google Reader, reminded me of this game, as I recall that the stack most always toppled to the ground. Google introduced Google Reader, gradually built up its popularity, and then pulled the rug out with little warning, causing its customers to stumble. As one Google customer put it: "Google spends millions of wasted dollars on pet projects, then kills one of their best products on a whim." Google's most recent spring cleaning brings the total number of services it has discontinued to 70 in just a year-and-a-half. That's right-a whopping 70 services that have been shut down in just 18 months. Among the services Google will discontinue with little warning is Google Cloud Connect, introduced with a lot of fanfare just two years ago. Cloud Connect is a plug-in that enables Google users to share and edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel files. To continue collaborating with Microsoft Office, Google users have just four weeks to uninstall Cloud Connect and install Google Drive. Companies that can't get to it by April 30 will be out of luck, leaving them without a way to collaborate on Office documents used by millions of employees, partners, and customers. But of all the services Google is discontinuing this time, the one that's drawing the biggest backlash is Google Reader, a service used by hundreds of thousands of users to keep track of their favorite websites and blogs via RSS feeds. The news of Google Reader's shut down drew outrage from users, who put together a petition demanding that Google reinstate the service. "Our confidence in Google's other products - Gmail, YouTube, and yes, even Plus - requ

Read more about Icecream Ebook Reader 3.0 on Icecream Tech Digest.

Read more about Icecream Ebook Reader 3.0 on Icecream Tech Digest.

The digital reader rumor mill has unveiled two potential new Sony Readers that have not been announced yet. If the rumors are true, cross your fingers that the prices are reasonable.

The retail giant today unveiled the latest Kindle Cloud Reader app for free, which enables Kindle readers to run all e-books immediately from web browser. Now you don't have to download e-books form websites, said Amazon in statement.

A new report from the Nielsen research group reveals an interesting gender gap in the way men and women adopt new gadgets. According to the report, 61% of e-reader owners are female, a statistic that's grown steadily from last year. On the other hand, only 43% of tablet owners are women, an interesting divide for two similar classes of device. Ownership of both devices by women appears to be on the rise, as women only accounted for 46% of e-readers and 39% of tablets in late 2010.

Comic books are a widely loved part of modern entertainment culture and are no less valuable than movies or books. For example, San Diego Comic-Con International is attended by hundreds of thousands of people every year. Those comic books fans, … Continue reading →

Comic books are a widely loved part of modern entertainment culture and are no less valuable than movies or books. For example, San Diego Comic-Con International is attended by hundreds of thousands of people every year. Those comic books fans, … Continue reading →

As we are well aware about kindle cloud reader that it is a medium for reading EBooks from Kindle Book store without having any requirement of kindle E-reader

Right-up talks about some of the best free PDF readers for Mac in 2020. Along with viewing, these applications can help you do more with PDF documents.

California scientist has proved that E-readers become heavier with each loaded book.

Secrets are apparently hard to keep in the tech world. After a leak last week of two new Reader models, Sony officially announced the PRS-300 and the PRS-600 along with a drop in e-book prices.

Recently, we did a huge and important update on the Icecream Ebook Reader and added new and awesome features to it for an even better eBook reading process. Finding a decent software to manage eBooks is a rather complicated process. That's why we wa…

Recently, we did a huge and important update on the Icecream Ebook Reader and added new and awesome features to it for an even better eBook reading process. Finding a decent software to manage eBooks is a rather complicated process. That's why we wa…

All the Bookworms are using Amazon kindle E-reader these days for reading digital books over the electronic Gadget. The process to read and download the EBook in this gadget is easy and simple, but there are many readers, who are facing problem in downloading a Book from the Kindle Book store.

Here are some websites that both educate those interested in finding out more about the technology of eBook readers, and also offer product reviews by experts in the field that will help them arrive at the product best suited to their needs.

If you know any young reader in your neighborhood then you can gift this amazing Kindle for kids to him/her. This device will help kids to enhance their reading

Today we are celebrating our second birthday and invite you to celebrate with us. Since our first birthday, we have added new, awesome features to our products and released 3.0 versions of Screen Recorder and Ebook Reader. We have also … Continue reading →

Today we are celebrating our second birthday and invite you to celebrate with us. Since our first birthday, we have added new, awesome features to our products and released 3.0 versions of Screen Recorder and Ebook Reader. We have also … Continue reading →

New York Times will be releasing an new app soon, which is meant to attract an audience which are so called mobile-first reader. This app is specifically designed for the mobile readers, as according to Times, bigger part of the Times traffic come from mobile and when big stories broke the number reaches 65%.

If this rumor holds up, might this be the e-reader that finally appeals to a wider audience and puts the Kindle in its place?