A new e-reader will enter the market

E-readers are likely to get hotter with the next generation of devices sporting color screens and large displays expected to launch through the year.

One of the first products to announce its arrival is the Skiff e-reader, a lightweight device with a 11.5-inch full flexible touchscreen that makes it the largest e-reader on the market, beating the 9.7-inch display Kindle DX.

Unlike other e-readers designed for reading mainly books and PDF files, the Skiff is optimized for newspaper and magazine content and will use Sprint’s 3G network to offer wireless connectivity. The device will debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas later this week. The company hasn’t announced availability and pricing for it yet.

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Lost Recap

The final season of Lost will start to air on Tuesday, February 2, and just in case you need a recap from all seasons pasts, this eight-minute-forty-second video should scratch that itch.

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Women’s feet getting bigger

Women’s feet are getting bigger, with the average shoe size up from a five to a six in the past five years, figures have found.

Medical experts believe that the rise in size is down to the obesity epidemic, pointing to high-density foods such as pizza being eaten during puberty stimulating the growth hormone.

The research from Debenhams found that in 2009, ladies’ size nines sales increased by 23 per cent, while sales of size sixes jumped by 17 per cent.

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Ministry Launches Effort to Plant Prayer Rooms Across All U.S. Colleges

An international prayer ministry will start to work this year on setting up prayer rooms on all U.S. college and university campuses.

On Jan. 1, U.K.-based ministry 24-7 Prayer launched its Campus America initiative with the aim to establish prayer rooms on the 2,614 college and universities in the United States in hopes of seeing a year of unbroken prayer on America’s campuses.

The 24-7 prayer model calls for local Christians to organize and commit to praying in one-hour shifts all through the night and day. In the ten years that the group has existed, it has mobilized prayer rooms in more than 100 nations, including on hundreds of university campuses.

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