What if you could ask the author of a book a question while you were reading the book? That’s the kind of world Amazon wants to offer with its new @author feature, which the online bookstore launched on Wednesday with a group of writers including Susan Orlean and self-help guru Tim Ferriss. Readers can...
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With so many iPad lookalikes in the tablet market, it’s actually refreshing to see a new design. And the freshest of them all may be Sony’s new Tablet P with its dual-screens in a folding clamshell case, launching later this year with support for ATT’s LTE network. I’m not convinced the Tablet P will...
ATT’s $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA isn’t over with the Department of Justice’s decision to file suit against the merger. But it raises a lot of new uncertainty around the deal and the possibility that it might not go through at all. So what happens to T-Mo if ATT’s can’t buy it? Here...
New telco business models must be built on a foundation of cooperation and partnership with third party application and content providers (ACPs) who facilitate the development of advanced applications and services end users want. In such an ecosystem, network providers are best served by encouraging developers to create new applications, such as mobile and...
Software maker Openwave Systems is not going to sit idly by and watch all the other kids have all the patent lawsuit fun. On Wednesday the San Francisco Bay area company filed suit with the International Trade Commission and a federal court in Delaware accusing Apple and RIM mobile devices of infringing on five...
Lodsys, the patent firm famous for targeting both Apple and Google developers that utilised patents covering the in-app payment technologies used within the App Store and Android Market, has delivered a firm response to the Cupertino-based company, further reiterating that Apple’s license does not cover third-party developers, saying its “claim of infallibility has no...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Ask, and you shall receive. Well, maybe. Today Red Hat announced that it...
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