Amazon has won a patent for technology that will enable an “electronic marketplace for used digital objects”. (Credit: Amazon; CBSi) In news that made us double-, then triple-take, Amazon is seeking to create a marketplace for second-hand ebooks. It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds; a service called ReDigi, which has been around since October …

Customers buying the Kindle Paperwhite through Amazon International are now getting their devices shipped directly to Aussie shores. (Credit: Amazon) We knew the Paperwhite would be coming sometime early this year — but we did not expect that Amazon would try to sneak the release in unnoticed. Following up on a report on Gizmodo that claimed some Australian customers were …

Four cores just not cutting your smartphone mustard? Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa processor brings all the cores to the yard. A quad-core wafer. (Credit: AMD) Although, yes, the new processor designed for tablets and smartphones has eight whole cores, they don’t necessarily all run simultaneously. Instead, the processor is divided up into two lots of four cores: an ARM Cortex-A15 …

A new smartphone by Russian company Yota Devices intends to integrate an E Ink reader as a secondary display on the back of the phone. (Credit: Yota Devices) Earlier this year, we saw the a concept smartphone by Onyx International, an Android device that eschewed the more popular OLED screen in favour of the rather lo-fi E Ink. Then came …

(Credit: John Chandler) Designer John Chandler shows you how to make a not-quite-so-budget iPad Mini case out of a Moleskine notebook. There’s something very satisfying about DIY — saving money, creating something with your own hands; pretending to be MacGyver. Maybe you won’t save that much money with this trick by designer John Chandler — a Moleskine of the right …

The Sony TCM-450 cassette Walkman.(Credit: Sony) After 33 years of life, Sony has finally discontinued production of its line of cassette Walkmans. In a “wow, they were still making those?” kind of news, Sony is finally retiring its range of cassette Walkmans, according to Japanese news website Akihabara News. The three devices in question — the TCM-400, the TCM-410 and …

(Credit: PopSlate) Is it an iPhone or an e-reader? Well, still an iPhone. But one with a case that does some really great things. If you had an E Ink display on the back of your iPhone, what would you use it for? Gregory Moon and Yashar Behzadi have a few ideas. The pair are the minds behind PopSlate, a …

(Credit: Aaron Rasmussen) Meet Mr Ghost, the antenna that turns your iDevice into a tool for exploring the supernatural. There are more things in heaven and earth than we can perceive with our senses; this much we do know. Are any of those things supernatural? Well, ghosts have never been scientifically proven, but here at CNET Australia, we’re deeply fascinated …

(Red by Minette Layne, CC BY-SA 2.0) A fox in Norway nicked off with a smartphone — then figured out how to use it. There are all sorts of words used to describe foxes: “sneaky”; “cunning”; “clever”. We think that all of them apply in the strange tale of 16-year-old Norwegian Lars Andreas Bjercke and a fox with sticky paws. …

Rumour has it that the Windows Phone 7.8 update will be released on Wednesday night. (Credit: Microsoft) Pre-existing Windows Phone users who will miss out on Windows 8 will still be able to get a bunch of new features with an update to Windows Phone 7 — which might arrive as soon as Wednesday night, according to WMPoweruser. The website …