Publishers joining Apple’s iBooks store are turning their back on Amazon and its vision of the flat $9.99 ebook. Apple forced the music industry to charge 99 cents per song, so why are they helping publishers set their own prices?
Tags: 311, analog, art, digital music, fail, Fingers, iphone app, led, phones, price, print, store Posted in 1, 2010, 3, 311, 7d, Apps, Brains, Ces, Downloads, Fingers, Gadget, Gadgets, Iphone, Ipod, Ipods, Itunes, Jeff Bezos, Love, Money, Music, Music Industry, Object, Sim, Sports, Steve Jobs, Technology, Ui, ad, ads, ai, all, amazon, analog, apocalypse, app, app store, apple, apple i, art, ati, best, book, books, box, business, ci, cia, com, computer, content, dance, digital, digital music, doom, download, drm, drm-free, ds, dust, ebook, ebooks, fail, feature, flash, flip, free, go, hardware, html, iBooks, ibook, ice, ideo, in, industry, ion, ipad, iphone app, iphone apps, isp, itunes store, kindle, led, list, live, mac, magazines, moment, multitouch, nano, news, ny, one, os, ouch, pc, phone, phones, pre, price, pricing, print, pro, publishing, push, que, raid, reader, rsa, s, scale, star, steve, store, tech, text, the, time, toilet, top, touch, via, video, vision, w, war, week, wire, wired, with, xp
Many airlines offer in-flight wi-fi and though you might not choose flights based on download speeds, it helps to know what to expect from apiece carrier. With your help, we conducted our first Mile-High Wi-Fi Test. Delta Airlines won.
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I’d buy an iPad just to read comic books. Think I’m nuts? I probably am, but see how you feel after this first look at what Panelfly, maker of a favourite comic book iPhone app, is building for the iPad.
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For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to make some improvements to Apple’s iPad. Some of these entries are definite improvements. Others? Uh, not so much.
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Tablets today are thought to be prefabricated in one of two ways: Upsizing a smartphone or downsizing a laptop. Many of these new tablets are decent, but both methods render something less than the perfect tablet.
Tags: environment, iss, nvidia tegra, Optimism, peripherals, push, Slate, stores, war, watch Posted in 1, 2010, 3, Alk, Apple Ipad, Apps, Archos, Background, Cea, Cellphone, Ces, Crashes, Desk, Droid, E3, Email, Evolution, Fingers, Gadget, Gadgets, Gesture, Google, Google Chrome, Google Chrome OS, Hd, Interface, Iphone, Itunes, Joojoo, Keyboard, Laptop, Laptops, Microsoft, Netbook, Nvidia, Nyt, Object, Optimism, Photos, Rf, Sim, Skype, Slate, Smartphone, Smartphones, Steve Ballmer, Storage, Sync, Tablet interfaces, Tegra, Ui, Ups, Webkit, Windows Phone, accessories, ad, ads, ai, alert, all, android, android apps, anger, app, app store, apple, arm, art, ati, basic, battery, book, box, browser, camera, chrome, chrome os, ci, cia, clear, com, computer, computing, concept, content, courier, dance, danger, dap, data, design, desktop, desktops, ds, eac, edge, eds, emi, environment, eos, event, fail, feature, features, files, fire, flash, games, go, google android, graph, graphics, hardware, hp, hp slate, hulu, ice, ideapad, ideo, in, internet, ion, ipad, isp, iss, law, layers, led, lenovo, list, live, lte, mac, machines, mbrace, media, meta, microsoft courier, mid, mini, moment, multitouch, norton, nvidia tegra, ny, one, opera, operating system, operating systems, original, os, oses, ouch, ovi, palm, parts, party, pc, pcs, performance, peripherals, phone, phones, photoshop, physics, pre, print, pro, processor, processors, programs, push, que, rant, remote, s, scale, sense, size, soc, software, space, star, steve, store, stores, surf, surface, tablet, tablets, the, time, top, touch, touchsmart, update, video, videos, virus, viruses, vision, w, war, watch, wd, web, widget, windows, windows 7, windows 7 touch, windows mobile, windows xp, wire, with, xp, youtube
Like other substance addicts, tech-crazed geeks live in a state of denial. Let’s grappling it, if you’re reading Gizmodo, you’re probably addicted to technology to some degree. But just how addicted are you? Take this simple test to find out.
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This isn’t a review. It’s not even breaking news. It’s just a reminder that someone somewhere is doing something awesome.
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Ker-BOOM. That’s the thundering explosion of Amazon purchasing Touchco, a little company that makes incredibly cheap, infinitely multitouchable displays, and merging it into their Kindle division. Kindle Touch. It actually sounds kind of nice.
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A B&N employee (who’d just updated their store’s Nooks) sent us all information on the new Nook firmware update that, according to the date on this memo, should hit later today.
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It’s taken me a couple of days for me to understand the wet sickness I felt in response to all the post-iPad whining, until it finally came up in a sputtering lump: disgust.
Tags: apple, author, computing, dmca, free, Google, pre, web Posted in 1, 2010, 2100, 3, Alk, Apps, Ces, Copyright, Droid, Engineers, Firmware, Gadget, Gadgets, Google, Hd, Intel, Iphone, Love, Macs, Mark Pilgrim, Microsoft, Nerds, Netbook, Nyt, Object, Rf, Sim, Technology, Tools, Ui, Ups, Wikipedia, Xl, ad, ads, ai, all, america, android, app, apple, apple i, ardi, arm, art, ati, author, best, blockquote, book, box, broken, browser, browsers, buying, ci, com, comment, comments, complaining, computer, computers, computing, content, culture, design, digital, dive, dmca, ds, dust, film, flip, free, go, government, html, ice, in, internet, ion, ipad, iss, john naughton, kid, law, led, lg, list, mac, meat, movie, ny, one, os, ovi, phone, pre, pro, processor, processors, programs, review, rim, s, school, sd, sense, star, tech, tends, text, the, time, top, w, war, web, windows, with, xp