enTourage announced three major deals with publishers that will bring thousands of new book titles to its dual-screen eDGe ereader. Targeting the higher education market, the trio includes Cengage Learning which publishes a wide variety of educational content under brands such as Delmar, Heinle, and more, O’Reilly which offers over 1,ooo titles in technology and programming, and the University of ...
Reuters - China's top search engine operator Baidu Inc, helped by a surge in new advertisers and lower traffic acquisition costs, is poised to deliver strong results in the coming months following a forecast-beating quarterly performance.
AFP - Chinese Internet search giant Baidu said Thursday its profits more than doubled in the second quarter, as its customer base widened at the expense of rival Google.
AFP - Two weeks after 10 Russian spies flew back from the United States to Moscow, the buzz of interest around the ring's most photogenic member, the feisty redhead Anna Chapman, shows no signs of receding.
News Analysis: Persistent discussion about problems with Apples iPhone 4 antenna reception and more recently that the smartphone had caused Microsoft Exchange Server crashes could have a corrosive effect on iPhone image as the coolest mobile device on the market. -
I have to confess that I hadnt actually heard about the
problems with the iPhone 4 and ...
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is leading 38 states in an investigation into Google's WiFi data collection, which was done with Street View cars. He will sue if he doesn't receive answers from Google. -
Thirty eight states led by Connecticut Attorney General
Richard Blumenthal July 21 asked Google whether it had tested its Street View
software was intended ...
Apple iPad owners outnumber those of the Amazon Kindles, according to an analysts estimates. Amazon faces e-book pressures from not only Apple, but Google and other booksellers. - Apples iPad has surpassed the estimated ownership base of
the Amazon Kindle, according to a July 21 analyst report, and could exert
considerable long-term pressure on the e-reader as well as ...
HTC's Peter Chou, who built the Nexus One for Google's Andy Rubin and Mario Quieroz in happier times, at the phone's launch in January.
In this week’s episode of Too Long; Didn’t Watch, we talk to Maureen Orth. An award winning journalist, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair Magazine, former correspondent for NBC and author of two best-selling books, Orth’s career as a journalist spans four decades. Her passion though is education, specifically as founder of the Marina Orth Foundation which promotes advanced learning in ...
Another quarter of topping Wall Street expectations for the maker of the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
With a badly-needed OS update coming, RIM shows off features that have not previously been the focus of its mobile computing phones.
PC World - The (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology used by the majority of the world's mobile phones will get some scrutiny at next week's Black Hat security conference, and what the security researchers there have to say isn't pretty.
Mark Zuckerberg and “The Facebook Effect” author David Kirkpatrick are engaged in a live conversation right now at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Here’s a live-blog of the event. (There will be paraphrasing and temporary typos.)
Q: Can you explain what the Facebook Effect is?
Kirkpatrick: It’s a concept about how this massive social phenomenon is changing the world — ...
AP - EBay Inc. has been concentrating on building its mobile offerings, including applications for Apple Inc.'s iPhone and cell phones that run Google Inc.'s Android operating software, so consumers can use their phones to shop on its main eBay.com site or transfer money through its PayPal online payment service.
A group of researchers from Northeastern University and Harvard University have gathered enough data from Twitter to give us all a snapshot of how we Americans feel throughout a typical day or week.Not only did they analyze the sentiments we collectively expressed in 300 million tweets over three years against a scholarly word list; these researchers also mashed up that ...
Since the announcement of OpenStack crossed the wire on Monday, much of the emphasis has been on Rackspace's decision to open source their code and what this might mean in terms of the other major (proprietary) cloud players. But there are 25 companies who've signed on to the OpenStack organization and the benefit of the open source project will ...
fbLike, the OpenGraph-powered Facebook dashboard, has introduced a new kind of Facebook advertising system.
Centered on fbLike's product comparison engine, myBrands, the system leverages Facebook's "Like" recommendation function to create an unobtrusive advertising network. Instead of charging based on the standard CPM (a fee per thousand views), fbLike instead charges based on CPL, or "cost per Like."
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Applied Materials, one of several major corporations to jump into the solar energy business four years ago, announced today that it is scrapping its line of equipment used to make thin-film solar panels and laying off an estimated 500 employees in this division.
The semiconductor company was hoping to become a major force in the rapidly growing ...
Typically, we'd associated terms such as "lasers from space" with global destruction. However, the good folks at NASA have used three satellites and LIDAR laser technology to do something much more interesting -- and with much more value for residents of Earth.NASA scientists have used data collected by the ICESat, Terra and Aqua satellites to create a topographical map that ...