Daily Archives: August 6, 2012

Kno Starts Renting K-12 E-Textbooks

August 6, 2012
Kno Starts Renting K-12 E-Textbooks

See Also Apple’s Big Plan To Revolutionize The Textbook Stinks An Industry Insider Explains Why Apple Is Going To Have A Hard Time Revolutionizing The Textbook Business Kno’s TextBooks For The iPad Look Really Good Kno is launching its first e-textbooks for the K-12 market tonight. Here’s the thing: It’s entering a market that...

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Music Innovators: Montag Reimagines the Album

August 6, 2012
Music Innovators: Montag Reimagines the Album

While listening to a Spotify playlist from music discovery service We Are Hunted, I came across an intriguing artist I hadn’t heard of before: Montag. I starred the song, called ‘True Love’, and a bit later went back to explore more of Montag’s music. It turns out he is in the middle of a...

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General Assembly Just Opened A Sleek New NYC Campus

August 6, 2012
General Assembly Just Opened A Sleek New NYC Campus

Daniel Goodman / Business Insider General Assembly recently opened a new 12,000 sq ft. campus across from its original New York location on Broadway. The new space began hosting classes only days after it opened in June. It has beautiful signage, classrooms rigged with cameras to stream classes, and a long worktable made of...

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The Google-Free iPhone

August 6, 2012
The Google-Free iPhone

When the iPhone launched in 2007, there were three key components of the device that relied on Google: 1) Maps 2) YouTube 3) Web search Let’s look at that list today, following the news that YouTube has been given the boot in the latest beta build of iOS 6: 1) Maps 2) YouTube 3)...

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Where the Tea Party is right, and wrong, about tech policy

August 6, 2012
Where the Tea Party is right, and wrong, about tech policy

It must be difficult to be a member of the Tea Party, having to balance the desire for more rights for everyone — including corporations — with less government to enforce those rights. A recent Heritage Foundation event featuring Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), highlights the movement’s dichotomy. (Watch it in its entirety in the...

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Teambox Offers Box, Dropbox and Google Docs in One Collaboration Platform

August 6, 2012
Teambox Offers Box, Dropbox and Google Docs in One Collaboration Platform

Teambox is a collaboration platform that offers its own tools and integrations with third-party apps. Today it is offering the capability to integrate with Box, Dropbox and Google Docs. You hear this debate a lot about what services people prefer inside the enterprise world. Consumer services are competing with more enterprise focused apps. Dropbox...

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An Influential Angel Investor In Dropbox Has An Accounting Mess On His Hands (SABA)

August 6, 2012
An Influential Angel Investor In Dropbox Has An Accounting Mess On His Hands (SABA)

Vimeo/Saba Bobby Yazdani See Also HP And Rackspace Launched More Attacks On Amazon’s Cloud Today The 8 Things That Scare Microsoft People Are Getting REALLY Angry Over OpenStack, A Key Cloud Tech Bobby Yazdani, the CEO of cloud-based HR software maker Saba, is in the middle of a giant accounting mess. Today, Saba announced that...

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Sprint Drops iPhone 4S Price To $150 Weeks Ahead Of iPhone 5 Announcement (AAPL, S)

August 6, 2012
Sprint Drops iPhone 4S Price To $150 Weeks Ahead Of iPhone 5 Announcement (AAPL, S)

Email More Screenshot Sprint dropped the price of the iPhone 4S to $150 with a two-year contract over the weekend. All Things D was the first to pick up on the sale. You can now get the 16 GB iPhone 4S for $150 and the 32 GB and 64 GB for $250 and $350,...

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Amazon launches social gaming studio, kicks Zynga when it’s down

August 6, 2012

Deciding to strike while a key competitor in the game market is reeling, Amazon on Monday announced the launch of Amazon Game Studios. It also unveiled the unit’s first game, the literary-themed Living Classics, which debuted on Facebook Monday.  “Amazon Game Studios is exactly what it sounds like: a new team at Amazon that’s focused...

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How Much Is Expert Testimony Worth To Apple? $75,000

August 6, 2012
How Much Is Expert Testimony Worth To Apple? $75,000

In the case of Samsung vs. Apple, one of the biggest tech trials on U.S. soil, today’s been all about Peter Bressler, one of Apple’s expert witnesses. He’s fought with Samsung lawyers, and affirmed just about everything Apple has accused Samsung of. As an inventor or co-inventor on about 70 design patents, and a...

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