In the “what took you so long?” category for e-books, Sony introduces a digital library book today. The newest Sony Reader, dubbed the Daily Edition, is a $399 device with eInk and 7″ touchscreen. The library bit comes into play through a partnership with… Read More »
Archive for August 2009
Earlier this month, I slammed Sony for offering “affordable” e-book readers but not including a wireless option — something I consider to be the e-reader killer app (GigaOM Pro subscription required). At the time, the electronics giant promised to tell us more about its… Read More »
YouTube today announced it will share ad revenue with makes of popular one-off viral videos, a sensible move that we’ve urged the site to do in the past. Videos that are detected as accumulating a large number of views quickly will be added, with their creator’s… Read More »
Cell phone companies are by no means racing to use renewable sources of energy, such as solar and wind, to power the infrastructure that runs their wireless networks. Of the more than 4 million cellular base stations deployed world wide, less than 2,000 run on clean… Read More »
I’m on a keyboard productivity kick at the moment. Having been through the time-saving keyboard shortcuts in Google Tasks yesterday, I thought I’d take a look at the ones that I use in Gmail. I’m only going to cover the shortcuts that I use every… Read More »
Friday the 21st was the day Apple, Google, and AT&T had to hand in their long form essay responses to a series of questions from the FCC. Surprisingly, Apple published its entire response here, and Engadget has both AT&T’s and Google’s. I found the… Read More »
Channels.com 2.0 Launches; revamped site aiming to become a “web video DVR” lets users subscribe to video via RSS feeds. (VideoNuze) Guiding Light Actress Taking Her Lesbian Character to the Web; Since the soap is going off the air, Crystal Chappell taking the “Otalia” duo to… Read More »
Mobile Internet ad spending is expected to increase fourfold over the next five years, according to new projections from Juniper Research, with emerging markets fueling much of the growth. Despite all the hype, though, mobile ads will remain a small sliver of overall advertising… Read More »
We won’t know the whole story surrounding Nokia’s Booklet 3G netbook until September 2nd, but apparently, there’s a speculated price out there. $799 says Sascha over at Netbook News (translated). Sascha has fairly solid sources, so I’m inclined to believe the price,… Read More »
It seems the British government is going loony for anti-piracy rhetoric from the likes of U2 and David Geffen. Legislation proposed in the UK today would allow government ministers to cut off Internet access to persistent file-sharers. The bill comes out of… Read More »
Delaware, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts have some of the fastest Internet access speeds in the country, according to a new survey by the Communications Workers of America, while Hawaii, Alaska, Montana and Wyoming have the slowest. In other words, there appears to be a direct… Read More »
It seems the British government is going loony for anti-piracy rhetoric from the likes of U2 and David Geffen. Legislation proposed in the UK today would allow government ministers to cut off Internet access to persistent file-sharers. Earlier this summer the “Digital Britain”… Read More »
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