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Kobo, the Canadian company that's challenging Amazon and Barnes & Noble in e-book readers, says its new model, the Kobo Vox, is the first e-book reader that's integrated with the new Facebook Ticker, which lets you see friends’ activity (games they're playing, music they're listening to) in real time, and the upcoming Facebook Timeline, the site's upcoming revamp of user profile pages.

The launch of iCloud this week introduced a new phase of cloud computing: the battle for dominance of the consumer cloud. iCloud is a comprehensive service that puts most (eventually all?) of your data in a personal cloud that syncs across your desktop and mobile devices and archives in the cloud. In best Apple fashion, it requires (or allows) almost no set-up.

This new page is designed to enhance readers experience with books and authors by featuring a variety of activities and events including a spotlight “Book-of-the-Month” title.

There's a case to be made that Amazon's new browser is more important than its tablet. The second-day stories on Amazon's Fire tablet have started to zero in on the implications of a less-heralded—and more unexpected—announcement: The special-purpose browser Amazon's software engineers have designed to speed up Web searches on their new mobile device.

Random House Children’s will release the second e-book original from New York Times bestselling author Michael Scott, "Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas: A Lost Story from the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel." The story is intended whet fans' appetites for The Enchantress (May 2012), the  final book in Scott's six-part series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.

The vision of people seamlessly downloading borrowed books to Kindles and Kindle apps on their phones and tablets is not exactly a comforting one for book publishers.

iStoryTime, the library of children’s book apps, announced that many of its top selling storybook apps are now available on the NOOK Color Tablet.

Autography LLC and Open Road Integrated Media will host the first national literary ebook signing featuring Autography’s patent pending technology.

We now have new details about the vaunted Amazon tablet. Here are the key points:

    * Priced at $249;
    * 7 inch touchscreen;
    * New user interface based on Android with baked-in media stores;
    * Coming out this fall.

It's going to be a blockbuster.

The new Kobo eReader Touch Edition is now available in German.