Information Technologies: E-readers - Apple iPad vs Amazon Kindle

Thursday, September 23, 2010

E-readers - Apple iPad vs Amazon Kindle

I have provided below a podcast of about 2 minutes long, in which I have discussed iPad and Kindle E-readers; and given a comparison of some key attributes of these e-readers. .

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