Lexcycle announced Monday that they’ve been acquired by Amazon.com, the online retail giant. Lexcycle, who is responsible for Stanza (iTunes link), one of the best-selling ebook apps for the iPhone, stated in a blog post:

We are not planning any changes in the Stanza application or user experience as a result of the acquisition. Customers will still be able to browse, buy, and read ebooks from our many content partners.

It’s unclear exactly what the future holds for Stanza and Amazon’s own Kindle app. It’s probably fairly safe to assume that Amazon’s extensive catalog of over 270,000 ebooks will eventually be extended to the Stanza application, in addition to the current catalog of over 100,000 ebooks already available to Stanza users. It’s worth noting that the open ePub format used by Stanza’s catalog of ebooks is a container not supported by Amazon’s Kindle e-reader device.

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Say what you will about Google, but you can’t deny that they have a good sense of humor. They’ve one-upped their previous update (which proudly listed “enhanced version number” in the changelog, for anyone who doesn’t remember) by including Ninja. It’s doubtful we’ll actually see this so-called Ninja. After all, everyone knows you can’t actually see Ninjas. This is exactly the kind of tongue-in-cheek humor I like to see, especially from companies as big as Google. Keep an eye out for their next update. What will it include? Well if I had to guess, I’d put my money on Pirates.

I am on the go a majority of my day, so writing articles can be pretty tough when I am in a pinch with no computer. Well thanks to the WordPress app for the iPhone I can now post articles while I’m on the move. The app itself looks pretty plain, but it gets the job done. You have a ton of options available for writing your article such as categories, pictures, draft options, and you can even publish the article right from your phone! I am very impressed with how easy it was to setup and begin writing. If you have a WordPress blog and an iPhone, you need to give this app a try. In fact I wrote this article from the app using the landscape keyboard and it couldn’t have been easier!

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Via: Mobile Mike