iPad quick link roundup
A few iPad quick-links: Remember how McGraw-Hill’s CEO blithely leaked about his company’s involvement with the iPad last night? Insiders tell VentureBeat that as a result, any mention of his company...
View ArticleAmazon capitulates in Macmillan e-book disagreement: Higher e-book prices ahead?
It appears the feud is over, with the publisher winning this time. Turns out Amazon’s pulling Macmillan titles was just a token gesture. Amazon has posted the following announcement to its Kindle...
View ArticleThe Case for the Kindle by John Miedema
The Case for Books is the title of Robert Darnton’s new book. I am reading the hardcover print edition, my other Christmas gift after a Kindle. The physical casing of books seems in question in the...
View ArticleAmazon purchases touch-screen startup; on e-ink, LCD, and eyestrain
One fairly big news item to hit today involves Amazon’s purchase of Touchco, a 6-person startup company with a new multitouch-capable, completely transparent touch-screen overlay technology. A number...
View ArticleMore Amazon/Macmillan feud fallout, conversations, and conspiracy theories
TechCrunch’s M.G. Siegler reports that another “winner” in the Amazon vs. Macmillan feud is Barnes & Noble, who is getting a lot of new purchase traffic for books Amazon is currently unwilling to...
View ArticleConcentration by Court Merrigan
Chris Meadows recently wrote on the sapping of our attention spans. In between clicks away to gmail, Facebook, and Chris’s own links, I was just able to read through to the end, and the comments after....
View ArticleReading on an iPad in before you go to sleep can keep you awake
That’s what this article in the LA Times tech blog says, and on pretty good authority too. Evidently light emitting devices like a cellphone or the iPad can cause the inhibition of the body’s secretion...
View Articleto ipad or not to ipad, this is the question
i bet i’m not the only one out here pondering whether an ipad is a good purchase or not… i also guess that like for macs in general, there are those completely ecstatic about it, no matter which flaws...
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