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B&N says the Nook's battery lasts twice as long as the Kindle's, and Amazon doesn't like it. Photo: Lena Groeger/Wired.com

Amazon and Barnes & Noble are duking it out over the respective battery lives of the Kindle and the new touch-screen Nook. The field of battle is the ghostly ground of press releases and promo-page blurb, and the last word seems to have been had by B&N.

After B&N laid out the specs for its new e-reader, Amazon took issue with the numbers, saying that B&N’s claim rested on usage tests of just a half hour of use per day, with wireless switched off. Amazon’s usage tests assume an hour of use per day, also with wireless switched off.

So what did Amazon do? It simply doubled the battery life on the product page to reflect a half-hour daily usage. Sneaky.

B&N countered with a very detailed statement, outlining the exact tests made. It also looks like the Kindle was also tested in the same way:

With up to two months on a single charge, the all-new Nook has the longest battery life in the industry and superior battery performance to Kindle 3. In our side-by-side tests, under the exact same conditions, continuous use of the device resulted in more than two times Kindle’s battery life.

While reading at one page a minute, the all-new Nook battery lasts for 150 hours, where the Kindle battery, using the same page-turn rate, lasts for only 56 hours (both with Wi-Fi off). We’ve also done a continuous page turn test and at one page turn per second, the all-new Nook offers more than 25,000 continuous page turns on a single charge.

I love that B&N calls 150 just “two times” 56, when it could easily say “almost three times.” That shows some confidence. However this works out, it’s certain that both e-readers have insane battery life compared to any other kind of gadget. And if you’re basing your decision on this spec alone, instead of depth of catalog and ease of use, then you’re probably looking in the wrong direction.

B&N fires back at Amazon over Kindle battery life [CNET]

See Also:

• Barnes & Noble Slims, Simplifies Nook E-Book Reader
• Despite Reports, B&N Nook Competes Just Fine, Thank You

Continue reading Hasselblad’s 200 megapixel H4D-200MS camera now shipping, breaks your bank

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SeaMonkey is Mozilla’s browser that is more of an all-in-one type of solution with a built-in email client. I think this overview from Mozilla sums up SeaMonkey quite well for those:

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to deliver production-quality releases of code derived from the application formerly known as “Mozilla Application Suite”. Whereas the main focus of the Mozilla Foundation is on Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird, our group of dedicated volunteers works to ensure that you can have “everything but the kitchen sink” — and have it stable enough for corporate use.

SeaMonkey 1.1 was released just the other day, and I have to admit that it features some nice enhancements. It is mostly stuff that can already be found in Firefox 2 since that is the basis for the browser. Here are some of the highlights:

• Inline spell checking
• About:config warning page
  
• Drag and drop URL’s between existing tabs
• Tab preview
  
• Improved phishing protection in the email client

The tab preview functionality is pretty cool, but Firefox users can get an extension that does that. I have always found that feature to be useful when you have a bunch of tabs open and can’t see the name on it, but I’m not a very big fan of installing a lot of extensions to help keep Firefox slimmed down a little. It would be cool to see implemented in Firefox but there are a lot of other things I would rather see first.

I think SeaMonkey might be a good solution for some people looking for a packaged deal, but I still find it funny that the theme used with SeaMonkey is the old-school Netscape style.

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Thanks to “Jack of all Trades” for the tip!

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In case you’d forgotten (and who could blame you), Kingmax used to have a thing for setting small records — even if it meant one-upping itself. Four years later, the king is back and he brought a 64GB microSDXC card with him; the world’s first, wouldn’t you know? If history repeats itself, we can expect similarly sized storage from SanDisk and other manufacturers soon. We love passing storage milestones, but don’t get too excited: only a handful of devices currently have the architecture to support microSD cards bigger than 32GB, so make sure you have a compatible device before you empty your wallet. Don’t have one? Don’t sweat it; there’s no word yet when the new cards will be available, so you have plenty of time to upgrade. Head past the break to check out the press release.

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Since the Fukushima nuclear plant accident there has been an increase in awareness across Japan regarding power saving. Tapping into this, the team at the Japanese creative agency,Dentsu Design Ninja, have come up with a nice social media campaign aimed at spreading the message of energy conservation named “Setsudenpo” (setsuden meaning power saving in Japanese)

Visitors to the site can write their, 140 characters or less, power saving messages and ideas on an envelope held by a carrier pigeon character. A shortened link is then generated and users have the option of sending their message out via Twitter, Facebook or email. Recipients who click on the link are sent to a screen which automatically activates their webcam and asks them to turn off their lights. The webcam recognizes the change in light and displays the message only once the lights have been turned off. Once the message has been displayed it also shows users how much energy has been saved up until now by all the people who have used the service so far. It was nice to see the site also has English instructions for those who can’t read Japanese.

The actual power saving is obviously not a huge amount, but it is a nice creative and interactive concept at spreading the message. Although no product was linked to the campaign we could think of a number that would suit it well, including trying to help Japan’s declining population problem! After all there are certain activities that lend themselves to having turned out the lights and getting romantic.

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