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Amazon Kindle has created new pavements for readers and scholars. Peoples can have thousands of e-books, newspapers and articles in front of with a single click, experiencing least burden on their shoulders. With their intention of introducing relatively big size kindle, Amazon is taking one step further in building a real educational platform for its audience. In this regard, Germany is also planning to challenge a competition to an Internet Tycoon by developing a portable e-reader that will be a product of the Europe’s biggest telecommunication companies, Deutsche Telekom.
The Mighty German company has tested dozens of e-readers prototypes in Berlin entitled “News4me” . The project is headed by Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and is aimed to cater the needs of Internet niche who rely on laptops and cell phones. Though Telekom’s e-reader can not be considered as a true competitor of Amazon’s Kindle as it really lacks some key features such as unavailability of online content and RSS Subscription. Its mainly because the company itself is not manufacturing the device and therefore will not provide any kind of content for its use.
Thus, Germans will be restricted to download only personalized content from printed books and media. As pointed out by News4me Engineer, Dávid Kapitáni, their aim is to provide a relatively larger and bendable size of e-reader screen that can be easily operated by wide number of users:
Our aim is to give each reader to deliver the news to its current personal interest. We want the reader with a selection of individual articles from various newspapers subscribed to a mobile device with large screen supply," says technician the research goal in conversation with press. Model is the newspaper of paper combined with software engineering. The principle is similar to the service "as the Google service iGoogle. However, the News4Me offer to articles in newspapers or magazines reprinted. In addition, the researchers also take the form of real print products as possible retained.
He further added:
Every reader of a newspaper or magazine has individual preferences for certain issues that particularly interested him. Hardly anyone reads the output of a print medium from front to back through. With the user can News4Me its individual newspaper from various sources and categories together.
Deutsche Telekom is the world’s leading telecommunications and information technology service providers offering international standards and its current e-reader project seems promising. Though the prices are still undeclared by the company, it seems that they have already started targeting ads to earn revenue.
According to recent updates, France is also trying to develop a similar portable product named as “Read&Go”. However, News4me and Read&Go are not publicly available in France and Germany right now.
However Amazon will definitely challenge them a tough competition. Amazon’s self provided content and its on growing acquisition (including the latest AbeBook acquisition) to enhance their Kindle’s capabilities will really give them a bitter pill to swallow.
