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E-readers haven been a boon to active literature and periodical lovers since the early 2000s, though the first commercial attempt at the concept came in the late 90s via LCD. Reading is simply something that millions of people love to do and it is not likely even with all of the other things available to distract us that we will ever stop reading novels, plays, and magazines as a form of escapism or personal learning, among other pursuits. As e-readers go, any device that can display text on a screen can technically serve as one, but there is a reason specialized e-reader devices prevail. Unlike other devices that offer an app for downloading books or other reading material, an e-readers full resources exist for that sole purpose. An e-reader optimizes its portability, visibility, and battery life for nothing else, and Amazon’s Kindle Oasis does this better than most. Read more »

Internet TV has evolved to become much more than simply the ability to watch pirated TV shows on your computer as it was in its very earliest stages. With such a demand to watch more TV and be able to do so whenever, wherever, there were several necessary steps along the way to get to where we are now. These evolutions included being able to link a computer to a TV screen, which was really just using what you could watch online until devices like TiVo and the Roku, and from there TVs that could actually connect to the Internet, then wireless connections from apps on a smartphone or table to the TV. Internet TV realizes its most current advancement in the Amazon Fire TV 4K with the Alexa voice remote. Read more »

The computer and tablet reliability scores are in for the 2015 RESCUECOM Computer Reliability Report, bringing in some new names in the tablet market.

Most of the big names from previous reports have once again claimed a spot in the rankings for 2015, though several have notably risen or fallen in reliability score. Along with shifts in rankings among the report’s regulars, there are a couple of newcomers making a splash in the tablet world this year. Read more »

For many people, working from home and being able to sell items on sites like Amazon and eBay would be a dream job.  However, it’s not as simple as it sounds.  Marketing is a major concern, as is keeping track of how all items appear across different online sales channels.  Cool person in technology Jason Nadaf has created a platform that helps online business owners to unify their sales approach easily.  Nadaf’s program SureDone helps people sell their inventory across numerous online sales channels all at once without wasting time posting the same item on many different sites.  Nadaf’s platform lets users create one universal listing to ensure the same information and photos are on every site where a product appears.  Users can use SureDone to add new listings whenever they want or automatically edit current listings with new information.  Rather than having to update many different channels, sellers can update all their listings from just one page. Nadaf’s platform puts listings on eBay, Amazon, Etsy, and Google Shopping. If product listings aren’t updating properly with SureDone, a small business owner may want to contact a computer support provider to learn the cause of the problem. Read more »

RESCUECOM released the results of the computer reliability report for the first quarter of 2014 today.  The report revealed that Samsung has once again risen to the number one position in the reliability rankings.  In the previous reliability report, Amazon debuted in the number one ranking with an extraordinarily high reliability score.  While Amazon managed to maintain a strong score this quarter, the company could not keep the top spot in reliability.  Instead, perpetual top performer Samsung once again became the most reliable computer manufacturer on the market according to the study. Read more »

RESCUECOM has just released the 2014 Computer Reliability Report, and it contains a shocking change in the status quo regarding reliability statistics. Up until now, it had become commonplace to see Samsung and Apple in the top positions in technology reliability.  However, that is no longer the case as a new player has come from nowhere to dominate the field.  Amazon’s line of Kindle Fire tablets have not only sold excessively well and taken a sizeable chunk of the overall market, but also managed to provide extremely reliable products.  Despite Amazon’s impressive market share, the company’s tablets accounted for a nearly insignificant amount of tech support calls to RESCUECOM’s Certified Level-3 technicians.  With so few people calling in for tablet computer support help with their Kindle Fires, Amazon’s reliability score came out to be 7590, nearly ten times the score of their nearest competitor, Samsung!  Read more »

College textbooks are rising in price faster than college tuition, which itself is outpacing inflation.  Over the last thirty years, college textbook prices have increased by 812%.  This fact means that current college students should take every chance they can get to save money on buying books each semester.  Cool person in technology David Miller founded SlugBooks to help students in their quest for the best and lowest prices on their textbooks.  Many universities overcharge for textbooks in their bookstores because they know most students don’t have the time and information necessary to find better prices online or elsewhere.  Miller’s company SlugBooks takes the difficulty and time-consumption of textbook price hunting away with its online tools for finding good textbook prices.  Miller’s website lets students find the textbooks necessary for their classes and then searches the web to find the best deals available on those books.  Miller’s goal is to make it easy for students to find cheaper prices and spend the least amount possible on textbooks to help them save money for the semester but still got all the books that they need.  Whether someone is taking a class in Advanced Network Services or in Political Science 101, SlugBooks can help them find inexpensive alternatives to getting the necessary textbooks. Read more »

Video streaming services on the Internet have become wildly successful since their inception, and because of that, you will often find just as many people sitting down in front of their computer to watch something as people sitting in front of their televisions.  Internet streaming services have become just as varied as TV channels.  There are subscription services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, HBO Go and Amazon Prime as well as pay-per-video services like iTunes and CinemaNow.  It’s becoming just as difficult to remember what videos you can find on what services as it is to remember what TV channel plays a certain show.  Luma is a cool product that is here to fix that issue.  Luma aims to be a comprehensive guide for what’s available and playing on Internet streaming services.  Users can simply search for any show they want to watch and Luma will tell you everywhere it’s available online and whether it’s free, part of a larger subscription or available for a one-time purchase.  You will know exactly where you can find what TV show or movie you want to watch and you can keep a list of what you want to see from every service all in one place.  Luma could potentially make streaming movies and TV shows a much easier process for those who use multiple online video services. Read more »

While the rise of the eBook market has made self-publishing a viable concept for new writers, the process of getting your eBook onto online retail stores can still be complicated and difficult.  However, a new company called Tablo is looking to change this aspect of the self-publishing process.  Tablo is a cloud-based company that offers authors tools to not only help format their novels and short stories, but also easily publish them to online retail stores with a click.  This attempt to disrupt the eBook industry could potentially save many writers hours of time and stress if it delivers on its promise of an easier solution.  Authors want to spend more time honing their craft and less time navigating the complicated route to getting their work online.  Tablo is a cool product that’s in a position to capitalize on this market. Read more »

This week, the U.S. Department of Justice takes Apple to court.  The government claims that the computer technology giant was part of a conspiracy to fix prices in the eBook market along with five major publishing companies.  Allegedly, Apple worked with all of the major publishers to radically change the eBook market and enforce their preferred “agency” model as opposed to the standard wholesale model.  Amazon, the dominant retailer of eBooks before Apple entered the market in 2010, sold eBooks on a wholesale model.  This model involved paying publishers a fixed price for each eBook sold, and then reselling it to the consumer at whatever price a company chose.  The wholesale model allows retailers to choose their own profit margins on books they sell.  The government says that Apple tried to create a new standard by working with publishers to replace this wholesale model. Apple’s new agency model had publishers, not retailers, set a standard retail price for eBooks. Retailers then received a 30% cut of the price specified by the publisher.  Read more »