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- eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?
- Over the past couple weeks, I've been conducting polls about ebooks as I think about doing some publishing. The overwhelming response to the polls has been that there is not a sufficiently broad selection of books available in e-formats, regardless of what format, whether for Amazon's Kindle, the Sony Reader...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Google revs Android SDK
- Speaking of Android, Google released a new SDK (sdk v0.9_r1) a few hours ago. Some features that caught reader plusminus' eye include: The new Desktop-Style Home-Screen (moveable and customizable shortcuts. Completely slideable once to left and right!) StreetView (awesome implementation, can use Compass if available! Feels...
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Want to know what key political players are reading?
- This is an interesting idea -- Google's now sharing with the world what is catching attention from presidential candidates and political commentators. Political news isn't hard to find online -- it's basically everywhere. Popular news featured on Google News is often political in nature, and there is certainly...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Apple acknowledges reception problem in iPhone 3G
- According to an email response received from a MacRumors reader purportedly from Steve Jobs, the iPhone 3G connectivity issue affects 2 percent of iPhones shipped and is fixable through a software update. The email response was as follows: We are working on some bugs which affect around...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- News to know: Limelight's Olympics; Software prices; Wordcamp 2008; Windows 7 Server
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn't 'Melt' the Internet Larry Dignan: Limelight by the numbers: Akamai's thorn? Podcast: CIO tells how he reduced impact...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Gateway P-7811FX
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Back to School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.Gateway's budget-minded, 17-inch gaming laptops have impressed of late, offering high-end graphics and enough CPU power to make for a decent gaming experience. Our...
- Product reviews 2008-08-15
- Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?
- Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?Check with the college to see what is their preference...If there isn't one then being as I'm from a Windows IT background that moved over to Mac I'd chose the Mac. If you do need Windows you can run Boot Camp, VMware,...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-15
- Question from a reader - What notebook/OS for college?
- Constant Reader Mikey sent me a question that I though was worthy of wider discussion: What notebook should he get for college? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- ClipSpeak (zip)
- ClipSpeak is a portable, lightweight text-to-speech tool that speaks text copied to the clipboard. It is intended to be as transparent as possible to the user, keeping user interface and interaction to a minimum. Features: Speak text copied or cut to the clipboard. Stop ongoing speech with the right-control key....
- Software downloads 2008-08-15
- HP Pavilion dv7-1025nr
- Editors' note: This review is part of our Back-to-School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.The $1,499 HP Pavilion dv7-1025nr is both familiar and brand new at the same time. On the one hand, the desktop-replacement laptop is like any other Pavilion:...
- Product reviews 2008-08-14
- Lenovo ThinkPad X200
- We were a little surprised when Lenovo announced an X series laptop with a 12.1-inch wide-aspect display; after all, the similarly sized ThinkPad X300 had won over many hearts and minds when it was introduced earlier this year. But the new ThinkPad X200 does nicely round out Lenovo's ThinkPad family....
- Product reviews 2008-08-14
- Dell Studio S1535-125B
- Note: This review is part of our Back to School 2008 roundup, covering specific configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.Dell's new Studio line incorporates some of the sleek, tapered design of the company's high-end XPS laptops while keeping the price of a nicely equipped machine...
- Product reviews 2008-08-14
- Origin and History of Singing Bowls (exe)
- Exploring the origin of the singing bowl and how they came to be introduced to cultures around Asia. Theories on their initial usage and, their early production methods are also discussed. This ebook will be of interest to those interested in Tibetan culture. This version is the first release on...
- Software downloads 2008-08-14
- Google adds two new features to Gmail for Google Apps
- Google adds two new features to Gmail for Google AppsSimple but helpful.Yes, the new feature should have been there a long time ago but its better late than not at all. A simple feature yet definitely helpful. Thanks Google guys!RE: Google adds two new features to Gmail for Google AppsOh...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- NVIDIA responds to Intel's Larrabee GPU
- NVIDIA responds to Intel's Larrabee GPUCISC and RISC.I have wondered how Intel proposed to scale their CISC x86 instruction set up to more than a few cores. They can only do this by reducing the complexity of each core, and use less transistors. That means dropping all the clever stuff...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- News to know: SAP; Microsoft patches; Nvidia; iPhone
- Notable headlines: Dennis Howlett: SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do Michael Krigsman: Business Objects Influencer Summit: Strategy to execution Larry Dignan: Microsoft plugs IE, Office in big patch haul Roland Piquepaille: No more need for...
- Blog posts 2008-08-13
- eBooks, volume 2: What's the bridge document that would drive ebook reader adoption?
- eBooks, volume 2: What's the bridge document that would drive ebook reader adoption?How about none of those?The selection is not wide enough. I don't want anything but books on my eboook reader, assuming there's one good enough to buy (which there isn't).None of the aboveFor crying out loud, the...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- eBooks, volume 2: What's the bridge document that would drive ebook reader adoption?
- Last week, I ran a poll about the number of ebooks people purchased each month. The results suggest that most people don't buy ebooks, but get them from various free sources, such as Project Gutenberg, Biblomania and O'Reilly Open Books. Fifty-nine percent of respondents said they bought no books during...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Next XenServer -- code named Orlando -- now in beta* testing
- Citrix recently released a beta test version of its next generation XenServer, code named "Orlando," which is expected to ship in September. Th next version will offer a variety of new features including automated high availability, support for the Xen hypervisor 3.2 and Windows Server 2008 guests, performance statistics,...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- Lijit secures $7.1 million series C round
- Lijit Networks, which provides search and analytics engines that benefit both bloggers and their readers, announced today that it has closed a $7.1 million series C funding round. Foundry Group, which was a late investor after Lijit closed its $3.3 million series B round last year, led this round. Existing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
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