The Nook and the Kindle will both have new models this Spring or Summer if the rumor mill is correct. According to some, Amazon is working on a new nine inch version and Barnes & Noble (B&N) is working on a new device of its own while the tablet that both are trying to compete with, the Apple iPad will be announcing it’s newest iteration next month.
When a company which has single-handedly killed off many bricks-and-mortar retailers plans a chain of retail stores itself, you know the world has gone mad.
The website announced by J.K. Rowling back in July has yet to come out of beta. That means that only a select group of Harry Potter fans has been able to access Pottermore. When will it ever open to the rest of the public? Who knows.
Apple has removed several chart-topping games from the U.S. App Store. All of which are claimed to be copycats of other, better-known titles.
While many people are still trying to figure out what “cloud computing” really means, various businesses specializing in cloud services are going after the U.S. government’s business. Companies like Box and Amazon Web Services are looking to pick up federal government business by providing extra security and specialized “cloud areas”.
A lot of people are all agog at Apple’s new iBooks Author App. Don’t be. Self publishing software has been around for awhile. Not only has it been around it has been used and is being used successfully to publish books that can be sold for more devices than just Apple’s. Rather than rushing headlong into software that will limit where your book can be read, look around and try out a few different programs.
Both Liquipel and HZO showed off their waterproofing products at CES this past week. Both submerged treated iPhones in water. HZO used a fish tank and Liquipel used a casserole dish and sprayer. The iPhones continued to work in both instances. So how soon can you get your phone/mp3 player waterproofed? Depends on which technique you choose.
This little tidbit comes from the bass-ackwards school of business where the customer is stupid and exploitable until proven otherwise. That said, Verizon didn’t get to get to be the largest wireless and wireline carrier in these oddly dysfunctional United States by knowing when to quit, so gird your loins Joe and Jane Sixpack — they will be back.
First, he surprised everyone by not going with a studio partner and then not losing money. Having crushed those expectations in a big way, Louis CK has again upset the capitalist apple cart by taking his stash o’ cash and giving it to his employees and charity. Is this guy an effing commie, or what?
For all parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and family friends, Google has created an easy way for you to make sure that the children in your family get a phone call from Santa. Yes, the messages are limited and somewhat canned, but for a free service and a little smile from the kids your life, it’s not so bad. There are also some other services that will send letters and postcards to your little ones as well.
More 18,000 Likes and 11,000 Tweets for a media product not created by a big media company. The really, really cool thing about this story is the math underpinning it is easily understandable and, moreover, numbers of this size aren’t beyond what an average person can imagine. Is this enough to kill Universal, Warner or Sony? Probably not, but it’s good news nonetheless.
Groupon has suffered a string of problems this year. There have been questions concerning its accounting practices and complaints by businesses and consumers. Now Groupon UK is under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for multiple violations.
It’s been repeated ad naseum that Spotify isn’t iTunes. No one knows that better than the independent labels that increasingly dominate the creation and distribution of music. That said, pay forever music isn’t paying the bills for indies and provides little if any long term value for users.
Pop quiz — what’s the closest bookstore to where you live and are you sure it’s still there? Borders stores nationwide are either closing or just plain gone, and the reasons for the extinction are unmistakable: the economy (still) sucks and ebooks are growing by leaps and bounds.
Who gets big bailouts and even bigger subsidies? America’s biggest corporations, that’s who. Surprisingly or not, a list of the biggest scumbags includes Google, Hewlett-Packard, Yahoo, Wells Fargo and — you just keep laughing, Jeff — Amazon. Of course, it’s all perfectly “legal,” but galling nonetheless.
Kodak is putting it’s digital patents up for sale. That is a considerable portfolio considering that Kodak actually invented the first digital camera in 1975. Since then the company has been hard at work developing yet more digital technology that is used in cameras, cell phones and tablets.
As the Supreme Court said in it’s Citizen’s United opinion, corporations are people too and obviously they can exhibit the same behavior. In a “cut off your nose to spite your face” move, Barnes and Noble has removed copies of DC comics and graphic novels from it’s shelves because Amazon has an exclusive deal on the digital versions for its Kindle.
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