Google has resolved an outstanding legal dispute with French publishing house La Martiniere Groupe and agreed a deal to start scanning the company’s copyright protected out-of-print works, signing one more in a number of major deals with a French publishers this year. Google will now allow La Martiniere to sell books using Google’s eBook...
Daily Archives: August 25, 2011
My Apple Story (AAPL)
Image: Phil photostream via flickr I was never a True Believer. In fact, probably the opposite. I’m not one of those guys who discovered the joy of computing with an Apple II or an original Mac, and then faithfully bought macs throughout his life. One of the fellowship of fans who kept Apple above...
Why don’t you buy a jet fighter?
There once was a scrap yard owner who had financial troubles. He had a tough time competing with other scrap yard owners and just didn’t know how to differentiate from them. Then one day he got offered an old russian jet fighter. The plane was stripped of its electronics and guns and in bad...
Ladies love e-readers, guys prefer tablets
Is it too early to assign gender stereotypes to gadgets? New Nielsen data suggests that e-readers are more popular with women while guys prefer their tablets. Smartphones are now equally popular between the sexes. According to Nielsen’s second quarter survey, 61 percent of e-reader owners are women, up from 46 percent in the third...
10 Things You Need To Know This Morning (AAPL, NWS)
Image: AP Today’s huge and very sad news is Steve Jobs resigning as CEO of Apple for medical reasons. Jobs will stay on as chairman of the board and participate in major product decisions, although he’s housebound. Tim Cook is taking over as CEO, and with him the company is in the best hands....
Jive Software’s IPO Is Either Really Good News Or Really Bad News
Jive Software, which makes social networks for the enterprise, just filed to go public. What’s notable about the filing is that Jive not only isn’t profitable, but doesn’t expect to be profitable any time soon. That this type of thing is happening again is either really good news or really bad news. It’s really...
Screenreach announces first major US deal, with NSCAA Game of the Week on FOX Soccer
We’ve been following the story of UK based startup Screenreach for some time now, and last week we reported on its partnership with Bauer Media to bring location-based content to radio apps. Back in April, we also reported that Screenreach had penned a deal that would see its technology rolled out to 800 coffee...
Seedcamp Hatches The Seedhack Event: A European Hackathon On Steroids
What if we could combine top-notch hackers with leaders from across different companies? What if we could bring talented developers from all over Europe to create innovative solutions for organizations or sectors that desperately need them? Could this format potentially form great new startups that address untapped needs? Those are the three rhetorical questions...
Freestyle AQUOS: Sharp Japan Rolls Out 4 Portable, Wireless, Ultra-Thin LCD TVs
Sharp in Japan updated their line of AQUOS LCD TVs with the so-called Freestyle AQUOS F5 series . The four TVs in that series, sized at 20/32/40 and 60 inches have a few common selling points: they are extremely thin, light (one of them is “portable”), and networked. The 60-inch flagship model (pictured above...
Qik rides mobile video sharing to 10 million users
Mobile video provider Qik hasn’t lost a step since being bought by Skype: Its user base has doubled to 10 million since the purchase was announced in January. The fast growth highlights the overall momentum in mobile video sharing and calling, which is fast becoming a mainstream pursuit, as people use their mobile-based video...