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Motorola Cliq (T-Mobile)The Motorola Cliq ($200 with a two-year contract from T-Mobile) caught my attention because of its sleek design and its innovative MotoBlur overlay for Android. Overall, the new features lived up to my expectations, and I applaud Motorola for doing something different to separate itself from the...
Washington Post Saturday, October 17, 2009Tweaking Windows 7 - FeatureWashington - If you'll be among the millions to get Windows 7 when it's released later this month, you'll no doubt want to get started right away with making the new operating system feel like your own. That means learning how to customise how Window...
Earth Times Saturday, October 17, 2009Price War Over Books Worries IndustryPublishers, booksellers, agents and authors are fretting that a pricing battle between Wal-Mart and Amazon is taking prices for some titles so low that it could damage the industry.
New York Times Saturday, October 17, 2009Google Editions Bookstore to Face Stiff Challenge From Amazon, Perhaps AppleGoogle Editions, the online bookstore the search engine is planning for 2010, will offer 500,000 electronic books to any device with a Web browser, including PCs, laptops and smartphones. Gartner analyst Allen Weiner said
google Editions poses way too many unanswered questions, from
google's lack of experience selling media, to the effectiveness of offering e-books through Web browsers. Apple could also roll into the e-book scrum. The company is reportedly preparing to
launch a tablet device in 2010. - If Google thinks it's going to waltz in and disrupt the electronic book foundation Amazon has laid with its Kindle device, it's got to do more than just claim it wants to offer electronic books through a Web browser. Oh, and it may have to contend with Apple if it launches that o...
eWEEK Saturday, October 17, 2009Greentech: X Prize Sets First-Round CutsThe surviving teams in the Automotive X Prize competition will advance to the next round in the quest to produce a 100-mile-a-gallon vehicle.
International Herald Tribune Saturday, October 17, 2009Top iPhone Healthcare AppsMobile apps are helping organizations like Blue Cross of Northeast Pennsylvania and the University of Louisville School of Medicine improve patient care. They could be coming to your pocket soon.
Information Week Saturday, October 17, 2009Federal Judge rules that ringtones are not public performancesIt’s hard to believe that some of the music industry’s attempts to dam the tide of digital music could get any more ridiculous, but then again, we all tend to underestimate the insanity of an industry that has become entirely frenzied by the disintegration of their business model. Luckily, though, it seems like federal judges [...]
Geek.com Saturday, October 17, 2009Google's YouTube bandwidth bills may be close to zeroEarlier this year, an analyst report did the rounds that spelled doom for
google and YouTube. Essentially, the analyst took YouTube’s bandwidth requirements, multiplied it by standard bandwidth costs, and came up with a number for Google’s deficit that would have crumbled many third-world countries. Worse, while the analyst posited that Google might be losing [...]
Geek.com Saturday, October 17, 2009IBM Rolls Out Asset Management UpdateNew features include broader support for software license management, along with discovery of services for the z/OS platform.
Information Week Saturday, October 17, 2009Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And ChinaEditor's note : This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa , an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @ vwadhwa .
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