Glue is a free Firefox add-on that lets you take your social network to every major site you visit. At heart, it's a semantic Web tool: it can "read" and contextualize the content on the sites you visit, and serve up your ...READ»
Despite the rapid rise in popularity of electronic books, nobody thinks physical books are dead--not quite yet. And that means there may be a market for this oddly retro device from U.K. bookseller Blackwell: It's an on-demand ...READ»
A survey conducted in Norway found that music consumers who regularly download illegally pirated music tracks are also the largest purchasers of legitimate digital music files, by a factor of 10 over non-pirates. So, you have to ...READ»
Oprah is now officially on Twitter.
The Chicago talk show host completed her first tweet just this morning, and is devoting a block of time in her broadcast today to discussing the microblogging site. "HI TWITTERS. THANK ...READ»
BestBuy is considering launching a digital movie service that will roll out this summer, in cooperation with CinemaNow, the company that built a similar system for Blockbuster. The idea: the retailer could sell its Insignia Blu-ray ...READ»
Amazon reveals that Samsung's much-anticipated micro-HD camera, the HMX-R10, will be available on May 15 for $500. Samsung boasts that it's the smallest HD cam in the world--but what's truly noteworthy is the angle of the camera's ...READ»
Product recommendation is one of the most elusive--and potentially profitable--forms of merchandising online, where consumer behavior can bring in reams of data about the way people shop. But figuring out what to do with that data, ...READ»
As promised months ago, Apple has implemented a tiered pricing structure for iTunes music tracks today. But with many of the same tracks available from Amazon at a lower price, and a fresh report showing that Amazon's music ...READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation had too much to drink and bought a bunch of stuff he didn't need. Here's today's innovation news:
1. Can you read me now? Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam told attendees at the CTIA ...READ»
There are certain parts of childhood we all miss: Recess, picture books, nap time. Today, International Children’s Books Day (on what would have been Hans Christian Andersen's 204th birthday) gives us a chance to relive some of ...READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation worked a double shift, popped a couple of brewskis, and then fell asleep in his work clothes. Here's today's innovation news:
The family can stop worrying: Jeff Bezos got a warehouse job in ...READ»
While you were sleeping, innovation plotted its comeback. Here's today's innovation news:
President Obama's auto task force appears ready to keep GM and Chrysler afloat with more bailout loans, pending concessions from ...READ»
Obopay is an payment system that works on your cell phone--kind of like a mobile PayPal. The service is cheap, easy to use, and fantastically convenient. Not only that, it's well-backed; today Nokia [NOK] announced it would funnel ...READ»
When Samsung joins the e-book fray, where Amazon, Sony and Fujtisu are already playing, it confirms one thing: the e-reader is becoming the next "must-have" lifestyle gadget. The Papyrus, a touchscreen e-reader that ...READ»
Palm's Not-So-Smart Bet
When Palm ships its Pre smartphone, will it be too little, too late? Talk to the hand. [via NYT]
Tivo-Proof Advertising
Stop the ffwd button: Boost Mobile's visually arresting TV spots beat obnoxio ...READ»
Sony and Google joined forces today to tackle the Amazon Kindle, the current king of e-books...by releasing half a million out-of-print books for the Sony E-Reader from Google's Book Search library. Will it be an effective ...READ»
The Kindle is clearly a paradigm-shifting device, signaling as it does the start of the digital book revolution--so it's only natural to expect people to get shaken up by it. And earlier this year the Author's Guild got antsy about ...READ»
Well that was sooner than expected: The new Kindle 2 is just out of its box for a week and Amazon's gone and released a "Kindle" e-book reader app for the iPhone. Does this mean Amazon's fallen out of love with its wacky ...READ»
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been making the talk show rounds with the new Kindle 2, and many hosts blabber on about their love for the feel and smell of real, paper books. They croon wistfully over the printed book's demise, and express ...READ»
Amazon's [AMZN] new Kindle 2, shipping this week, shames the original Kindle with a host of improvements: better enclosure, faster page-turns, a better Web experience and seven times the memory. But the Kindle 2 is put to shame by ...READ»
As we reported yesterday, the new Amazon [AMZN] Kindle can read to you. Apparently, this is a problem.
The Authors' Guild says that the Kindle's text-to-speech feature could infringe upon book copyrights. Its probably afraid that a ...READ»
One of the most interesting new features in Amazon's Kindle 2 e-reader is the text-to-speech function built into the device. It's a primitive bed-time story reader, and while it won't match, say, HAL 9000 for elegance in ...READ»
In all the fuss about the new Amazon Kindle 2 yesterday, it was easy to forget that the "upgraded" device still has a relatively small paperback-sized screen and can only cope with greyscale imagery. And that's where Fujitsu's new ...READ»
As the media huddled outside the Morgan Library in Manhattan this morning awaiting the unveiling of the Kindle 2, the big question was: when can we touch it? Sure, we came to hear Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tell us how skinny it is (25% ...READ»
The rumors and photos of the Kindle 2 that leaked over the weekend were accurate. Now we're at Amazon's official press conference with Jeff Bezos filling in the details:
5-way controller for more fluid navigation.
16 shades of ...READ»
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