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The European Parliament has approved the move to make USB-C a common port for charging on portable digital devices, a move which was proposed back in September last year.

The Kobo Aura H2O waterproof eReader is now available in Australia and New Zealand.

Amazon has announced a big upgrade to its Android-based Kindles, adding better displays and a 'Mayday' button for free live technical support.

Kobo has announced some big additions to its hardware lineup in Australia, with a bunch of new e-readers and tablets on the way.

Dick Smith will be stocking Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD tablet in Australia when it's released here in June.

Amazon's latest announcements aren't just about new devices - new functions have also been implemented for the Kindle family.

Along with the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has introduced the Kindle Paperwhite, an e-reader with a front lit display.

When Amazon announced that its Kindle Fire had sold out, a lot of people assumed a replacement model must be close at hand. The arrival of the Kindle Fire HD - along with the Kindle Paperwhite - proved them right.

Despite continuing global macroeconomic problems, there's a great deal of upside for the semiconductor market, with analysts forecasting growth this year will be in the order of 3.4 percent, bringing in revenues of $296 billion, and with growth in 2012 expected at 3.1 percent with revenues hitting $305 billion.

Worldwide shipments of eReaders will nearly triple from the 25 million expected to reach the market this year to 67 million eReaders by 2016.

International Data Corporation (IDC) has initiated a Worldwide Quarterly Media Tablet and eReader Tracker, saying that vendors shipped 4.8 million media tablets globally in 3Q10, compared to 3.3 million units in the second quarter of 2010 and that Apple's iPad accounted for nearly 90 percent of the media tablets shipped worldwide in 3Q10.