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- Meet Nook: Barnes and Noble's sexy new book reader
- Much better than a Kindle in a LOT of ways, butThere is still the issue of being able to use my books on any device I own. Plus, what is the pricing on books? If I can read my purchased ebooks on any device I own and the books are...
- Tags: E-books, Barnes & Noble Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Sony launches two new readers including a pocket-sized $199 device
- Sony on Wednesday will unveil two new e-book devices, a pocket edition with a 5-inch screen for $199 and a touch-screen version starting at $299. The devices will be available at the end of August. The company also plans to reduce all new releases and best sellers...
- Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Touch Edition, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Barnes & Noble offers free Wi-Fi in stores nationwide, no purchase necessary
- Barnes & Noble offers free Wi-Fi in stores nationwide, no purchase necessaryWowNow i can sit in Starbucks next to Barnes and Noble and mooch free Wi-FiBordersBorders Books should have done this long ago. Instead, I smell another growing Circuit City with Borders.RE: Barnes & Noble offers free Wi-Fi in stores...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Barnes & Noble Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-07-29
- Sony, Google announce 1 million free books
- Sony, together with Google, on Wednesday announced it is providing access to more than 1 million free public domain books in its eBook Store, including classic novels, biographies, historical texts, romance novels and more. The titles, which Google has digitized as part of...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Public Domain, E-books, Service Management, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- The ROI From Twitter: "Don't bother" telling your CFO, O'Reilly says
- O’Reilly Media held a Webinar this afternoon that was promoted as delivering “power tips†on how to use Twitter. In the question and answer period, after Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein delivered their tips, one of the questions was: “How do you quantify...
- Tags: ROI, Twitter, Tweets, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Mr. Bezos, Tear Down This Wall
- Amazon is not-so-quietly building a wall between itself, its competitors, and open e-book formats. It's time to show them that those of us who seek e-book readers without boundaries will not stand for their market monopolization and Soviet-style platform containment. So while I...
- Tags: Device, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Wall, Stanza, E-books, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- China and IP: the piper will get paid
- China and IP: the piper will get paidThe poetic justice is this....Our greedy US corporations sent all of their manufacturing to the far east and thus trained them on how to create these knock-offs. When you lay down with dogs....Chinese government is not just looking the other way, they are...
- Tags: IP, Federal Reserve Board, intellectual property
- Discussion threads 2009-04-28
- MWSF Appearance: Peachpit Press booth
- I'll be giving a talk about my new book The Garmin nüvi Pocket Guide at the Peachpit Press booth (Moscone South 812) today at 2:00pm here at Macworld Expo. This year Peachpit has a 30-by-30 foot booth featuring a bookstore, Safari Books Online demo area, and an...
- Tags: Booth, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- BookSearch 1.2.1 (Mobile)
- Have you ever been at Barnes and Noble or Borders and wondered if you could find the same book you wanted cheaper online? We at campusbooks4less.com have the solution. Booksearch.app allows iPhone users to search for online prices of books given an ISBN number, even enabling them to purchase the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Campusbooks4less.com, Booksearch.app, Retail, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-07-29
- Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?
- Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?It depends....In my kids' school district, math teaching is geared toward taking the district assessments and focuses specifically on learning what will be on the next assessment. Assessments are given quarterly. While this school district didn't exist 40 years...
- Tags: math instruction, calculator
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Globalization's roots in the boom 90s
- I've always wanted to read Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat," a book that describes the globalization forces that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century, and in Friedman's mind, constitutes version 3.0 of a globalization wave that will be more intense - and move faster - than...
- Tags: Outsource, Telecommunications, Worker, Computer, Fiber, Thomas L. Friedman, Globalization, Outsourcing, Productivity, Strategy, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Transactional memory and Solaris
- Transactional memory and SolarisWhat's the timing?When will complete near enough working systems - hardware and software - be available for people outside Sun to evaluate?Soon enough for people to delay projects they are currently considering?Cue a quite possibly justified warning from Anton that this could hit sales of current Sun...
- Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, x86 product, Murph, Sun Microsystems Inc., hardware, Microsoft Windows, software
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
- Protectionism never works
- Protectionism never worksNow if you can just convince...those in the unemployment line that have lost their jobs to outsourcing... Or the parents of kids who have been chewing on lead based painted toys from China.Totally free markets work only in perfect economic models. The true answer lies in the middle...
- Tags: Protectionism, Daimler AG, free trade
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?
- Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?Good article. Kindle is a good idea, but too restrictiveI really like the Kindle idea. I do lots of reading on my large screen but want to take this with me. The Kindle, I thought, was the way to go.However, your...
- Tags: E-books, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., e-book, Much needed revolution, Much Needed, book industry, Books
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- Video of my Out-of-Box experience with Amazon's Kindle (and some quick impressions)
- No. It's not a review of the Kindle, yet. There are plenty of those already circulating the Web and I'll get to mine better late than never. But, after missing the Amazon press conference in NYC where the members of the press were offered Kindles to take home...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Video, Amazon Kindle, Advertising & Promotion, Engineering, Marketing, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Amazon's Kindle: Can it make its technology invisible?
- Amazon's Kindle: Can it make its technology invisible?Do they not get it, NO ONE wants an e-book?What is it that keeps prompting these folks to continue to try to sell e-books? I know of absolutely no one that likes and uses them, in fact I know of no one...
- Tags: E-books, Notebooks, e-book, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, laptop computer, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-11-19
- The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built (and sort-of once did)
- The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built (and sort-of once did)A *cheap* Apple? BuwahahahaAre you trying to give Steve Jobs a heart attack?RE: The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built (and sort-of once did)hi, im frm india. i read ur cheapest laptop details. when i...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, One Laptop Per Child project, Apple Inc., computer
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- NY's 'Halo 3' launch was no riot, but it was close
- NY's 'Halo 3' launch was no riot, but it was closeToo much hype over just a gameit may be a good game, but it's just a game, the Xbox 360 just a console (same for PS3 and Wii), and none of that will pay the rent, put food on the...
- Tags: Games, game, Halo 3, riot
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- Survey finds increasing uncertainty over offshoring
- Survey finds increasing uncertainty over offshoringUnrealistic view of "thinking part of job""However, according to The Work Foundation report, Indian workers don't see things that way. "Indian business insiders see future offshore outsourcing as an advantage for Europe, enabling it to focus on the 'thinking part of the job,' providing opportunities...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, offshoring, Survey find, outsourcing, survey
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- Why municipal WiFi is an educational expense
- Why municipal WiFi is an educational expenseGreat idea, not practicalMUNI WiFi has been in operational for a couple of years in the City of Cerritos, but it's not free. Access fees are vary depending on how often the user needs to access the Internet ranging from hourly to monthly. Collaborating...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Access Fees, Internet Service Provider, Wi-Fi, municipal Wi-Fi, school district, tax
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
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