Robert Scoble, who just joined Fast Company to develop online videos, is interviewing attendees at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland and might have gotten something of a small scoop regarding the future of the Sony electronic book reader (see below).
This morning at the WEF, Robert was interviewing two well known technology journalists, David Kirkpatrick of Fortune and John Markoff of The New York Times. Robert has been conducting many interviews of WEF attendees and streaming the videos live on the Qik video hosting site. Based on a question from someone viewing the interview live on Qik, Robert asked the journalists what they thought about Amazon’s ebook reader, the Kindle (see top left).
Kirkpatrick said (see top) he had spoken this morning to Howard Stringer, the chairman and CEO of Sony Corp. of America, and Stringer was “jealous” that Amazon had introduced the Kindle with free wireless. The Kindle incorporates a 1xEV-DO modem from Sprint, as I discussed in my “Thinkernet” column examining the ramifications of the ebook reader.
Kirkpatrick also said Stringer told him wireless for the Sony ebook reader is “not too far in the future.” Kirkpatrick didn’t elaborate. So, will the next Sony reader incorporate cellular (or even WiFi)?
Robert has been doing a great job of interviewing people from the WEF, and I wrote about it this morning in my mobile television weblog.
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