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Times Reader 2.0 (Mac)

Times Reader is a new, downloadable software application that lets you read The New York Times digitally, online or offline, in a paginated format as opposed to scrolling down a Web page. Times Reader lets you retrieve all the latest news and photos by "synching" data from the Web and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, New York Times Co., Times Reader, Channel Management, Internet, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management

Software downloads 2009-05-10

The New York Times Reader - technically simple, conceptually spectacular

The New York Times Reader - technically simple, conceptually spectacularVery NiceWhat would be great, is if templates in Expression and Visual Studio could be provided, so that news organizations and blogging services could rapidly adopt this technology, and allow users to view their content through these new RIAs. I certainly...

Tags: Web browsers, Channel management, rich Internet application, Times Reader, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Web browser, Web, blogging, Web service, Microsoft Corp., New York Times Co.

Discussion threads 2006-08-31

Microsoft and NY Times unveil Times Reader

Microsoft and NY Times unveil Times Readerre: Microsoft and NY Times unveil Times ReaderPerhaps I'm missing something, but exactly how is this different from what I've been doing for the past 5 years with the Times via Newsstand?http://newsstand.com/Dave RakowskiAllentown, PANotice that MS is trying to slowley make the internet...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Web browsers, RSS, Microsoft Corp., Times Reader, Internet, open standard, Microsoft Windows Vista, New York Times Co.

Discussion threads 2006-04-29

Image: NYT moves further into digital age

Times Reader harnesses the graphics power of Windows Vista to allow for better on-screen reading of the "Gray Lady."

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, graphics, Microsoft Windows

Image galleries 2006-04-28

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AVADirect Nano Cube

AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game

Product reviews 2009-11-04

News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Headline 2010: e-Reader device failure

The market knows best, right? Markets are bloody paths to progress. At this writing there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months. Fifty-two different devices coming to market (Here's what I wrote about Steve Jobs' approach to reader devices when there were just 45...

Tags: E-reader, Sales, Hardware, Markets, E-books, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-11-02

Clean install with Windows 7 upgrade media? Get the facts!

Unbelievable"Last week I complained about Microsoft?s shoddy documentation of how its upgrade procedures are supposed to work. I?m delighted to report that I got a tremendous and immediate response from within Microsoft, offering assistance in my testing and also promising to clean up and expand their documentation."So what exactly did...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, product key, acccount, clean install, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

40 years ago the Internet was born - now it devalues everything it touches

you are devaluing your proffesionshame on you.internet is one of the greatest invention in human history.Establishing walled islands on the InternetThe Internet is like a huge river, or better yet, sea, that allows users to move from small island to small island web application, to find the things they care...

Tags: Web site development, e-reader software, e-reader, Internet, Web site

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Apple pitching media companies on tablet?

Hehe, Apple just invented the eReader!![i]While the new Apple device isn't strictly an ebook-reader it appears that Cupertino is setting the stage for a completely new platform for deliverings, books, newspapers and magazines.[/i]Ah, I love how simply stating that this isn't "strictly" an ebook reader, you can credit Apple with...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, E-books, Smart phones, Kinda, Apple Inc., tablet

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Apple pitching media companies on tablet?

If you read between the lines in yesterday's post, one could conclude that Apple is talking to the New York Times about it's upcoming tablet product in an effort to get buy in from the media giant on what's presumed to be a completely new form-factor...

Tags: Media Company, Apple Inc., Fairfax Media, Tablets, Notebooks, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Times exec hints at Apple tablet

Gawker reports that Bill Keller, executive editor at the New York Times, may have outed the mythical Apple tablet. At a supposedly off-the-record meeting which someone graciously preserved on Vimeo with the entirety of Times' Web staff Keller gave us this tantalizing nugget: I'm hoping we can get the...

Tags: Apple Inc., Bill Keller, Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Apple slate "impending," says NYT exec editor; Much ado about nothing?

There's quite a ruckus brewing after Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, said that an Apple slate---read iTablet---was "impending." Gawker, Engadget and others have made hay over the following line, which comes at 8:30 in the video below: "I'm hoping we can get...

Tags: Apple Inc., Corporate Communications, WAP, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Marketing, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-26

WSJ chief criticizes news aggregators - creators carry cost burden

More important...than net neutrality? You are out of your mind. You probably think you are a journalist as well. What a joke. Do you even proof read your own dribble? It's obvious you don't. What kind of journalist would send out content with grammar and spelling errors? it has...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, advertisement, Google Inc., revenue

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

News to know: Windows 7, Net Neutrality, Nokia-Apple; Kindle

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Windows 7 Coverage Andrew Nusca: Liveblog: Microsoft CEO Ballmer kicks off Windows 7 availability Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-23

Nook Clarified: Really solid progress for e-readers

Yesterday, I posted a long analysis of what I thought was right and strangely wrong about the Barnes & Noble Nook. Matt Miller today got a clarification about my main concern, which was that Barnes & Noble seemed to have said, according to several published reports, that Wi-Fi would work...

Tags: E-reader, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless LANs, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-21

B&N Nook beats Amazon Kindle & Sony Reader, here's why

Thanks for double-checking on WiFintLooks good butNo international support. Like the Sony not available outside the US. Again Amazon Kindle is ahead of the curve even if the device is not as sophisticatedRE: B&N Nook beats Amazon Kindle & Sony Reader, here's whyI have a Kindle, the service for...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, B&N Nook, B&N, Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Amazon.com Inc., Sony Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary

An ebook reader is a pretty good idea for limited useI honestly don't see myself buying an e-reader for books, simply because the cost. $25 for a good hardback is something you want to keep. Even paperbacks are worth keeping if the story is there. You cannot keep...

Tags: Wireless LANs, E-books, Wireless and Mobility, ebook reader, nook, Wi-Fi, e-book, B&N, e-reader

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

B&N's Nook e-reader: Weirdly unrevolutionary

In addition to this posting, please visit this clarifications posting to get the whole picture. It would be nice to say, as Matt Miller has, that the e-book and e-reader market was revolutionized today. It simply got more interesting. A careful reading of the $259 Nook's...

Tags: E-reader, Device, E-book, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Inc., Wireless, B&N, Nook, Cover-flow, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Patch Tuesday: MS plugs critical IE, Windows Media Player holes

Is MS going to pay for my Gb/month overage?With ISPs grasping for profits I see the day when the "download cost" of these mega-patches become an issue!RE: Patch Tuesday: MS plugs critical IE, Windows Media Player holesWow, my Microsoft software is sure to be secure now.GOOD JOB!If only other manufacturers...

Tags: Patches, Microsoft Internet Explorer, media player, patch management, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-13