Continuing our Social Books series, today I’m looking at book highlights. The increasing popularity of e-readers, in particular the Kindle, has made it common practice to highlight passages and quotes within books. There have been various efforts to make those highlights social and today I’ll look at the two leading services. One is from...
If you’re a first-time entrepreneur, there can be a lot of confusing financial jargon to deal with — especially when you’re raising funding. If you don’t want to get screwed, some things are probably worth fighting over so that you don’t get screwed, but others probably won’t make a difference. Which is which? You...
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Most of what we hear about cloud computing in Europe tends to fixate on the notion that cloud adoption there lags that in the US by one to three years. That may be generally true, but it’s still a simplistic analysis. Despite the economic mess over there, IDC predicts a 30 percent compound annual growth...
SAP’s Sanjay Poonen said in a meeting of bloggers and analysts today that Windows 8 will rise to the number two spot in the tablet market in part due to Samsung’s patent lawsuit loss to Apple last month. It’s not the sole reason that CIOs cite. But for many, it certainly is the nail...
My flip-top trashcan is on the fritz. It’s a simple machine, so as I started at the traveling pin that was responsible for the problem I thought, I could totally fix that. My husband suggested tape, but I was thinking we needed to mold a little piece of rubber onto it (I imagine that...
Today it was announced that PayPal has joined the Windows Phone family, its application having made it to the platform. To see such a major application released this close to the launch of Windows Phone 8 is almost surprising. PayPal’s arrival, while a single step forward, does help to close the application gap that...
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Wikimedia today announced that it has enabled a new EPUB export feature on Wikipedia, but only on the English version of the site. You can use the new feature to collate your personal collection of Wikipedia articles and generate a free ebook, which can then in turn be read on your mobile device(s). So,...
TripIt, the trip planning and itinerary app for the Web, iOS and Android, is a great tool for travelers, but boy is it ugly. One you get past the loading screen, the app’s design showcases a complete lack of personality and attention to detail, which truly weighs down an otherwise useful tool. There’s good news, however,...