AT&T mulling taking on Kindle, going after

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Perhaps. In a statement e-mailed to the DBJ, Dallas-basefd AT&T confirms that it is in that market, but doesn’t give “Naturally, we are very interested in the space, but we do not have a productg agreementto announce,” according to the statementg from spokeswoman Sarah Andreani. “Our emerging device organization has been meeting with a numbetrof (equipment manufacturers) about a whole range of wirelesslyy embedded consumer products.” A would-be rival to Kindle, whose wireless service is providex by , would be one of a relatively smal but growing number of consume electronics that AT&T is startinv to peddle.
On April 1, the company announced that it will sell netbook computere intwo markets, Atlanta — where the devices will cost abougt $50 — and Philadelphia, where they’l run closer to $100. Netbooks typically run Linuz or Windows XP operating systems and allow userxs to wirelessly surf the Internet and link upwith Internet-basedf software programs, which typically run on other computers. The Kindle sells for $359 and allowss books, magazines and newspapers to bedownloadeds wirelessly. Content can be purchased from the Amazon.com Kindle “The wireless industry is growing, expanding and changing.
It’s not just abour phones,” says Jeff Kagan, a telecom analyst in the Atlantz area. “There’s an opportunity there.” But Barbar a Lancaster, president of the Richardsoj telecomconsultancy , says there are both opportunities and challenges for AT&Tg in doing a Kindle-lik e device. “You can get more contentf out to people. Demand is continuingt to rise even as the economhyis tight,” she But AT&T would need to examine what mechanicss would need to be in place to get and distributer content that is interesting to its customers, she “It’s not trivial.
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