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2 weeks ago

iBooks Author 1.01 out with updated EULA

parislemon:

Notes Megan Lavey-Heaton for TUAW:

The change is an important one though, clarifying that Apple has rights over the format a book is in, not the content.

And we have yet another bit of controversy to file away under: Apple Is Not Fucking Stupid.

I haven’t weighed in on the EULA hubbub for this exact reason. If Apple was actually trying to suggest that they own the content of all iBooks published via iBooks Author, then yes, obviously that’s bad. But get this: Apple is neither the devil nor are they fucking stupid — as we’ve seen before.

Source: parislemon 26 notes | Comments
2 weeks ago

Drewbot: The Huffington Post Streaming Video Network is Doomed

dbreunig:

The NYT’s Brian Stelter reports on AOL/The Huffington Post’s live streaming video network announcement:

AOL and The Huffington Post are readying a live video network that will have 12 hours of programming every weekday when it starts this summer…

Roy Sekoff, a founding editor of The…

Source: dbreunig 3 notes | Comments
thisistheverge: Obama administration wants all students using digital textbooks in five years | The Verge Technology moves faster than you think. Five years may not seem like a long time, but if you think, it’s been barely five years since the iPhone and a lot has changed. 
2 weeks ago

thisistheverge:

Obama administration wants all students using digital textbooks in five years | The Verge

Technology moves faster than you think. Five years may not seem like a long time, but if you think, it’s been barely five years since the iPhone and a lot has changed. 

Source: theverge.com 12 notes
3 weeks ago

Ruby Released

parislemon:

Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm (and former Apple executive), has left HP.

With Palm hardware now dead and webOS now open-sourced, the writing has been on the wall for this to happen for a while. To hear HP tell it, this was the plan all along. As Arik Hesseldahl writes:

Rubinstein is said to have no immediate plans, and had completed a 12-24 month commitment to stay with HP after the acquisition. “Jon has fulfilled his commitment and we wish him well,” HP spokeswoman Mylene Mangalindan said.

Sounds almost like a prison term.

Source: parislemon 8 notes | Comments
thisistheverge: Bill Gates sent final, heartfelt letter to Steve Jobs | The Verge Bill Gates revealed the details of an intimate letter this week that he sent to Steve Jobs shortly before the Apple co-founder passed away in October. In an interview with The Telegraph, Gates says he learned of Jobs’ medical condition and wrote him a letter, one that Jobs later kept by his bed. “I told Steve about how he should feel great about what he had done and the company he had built,” said Gates, discussing Jobs’ children in the letter too.
3 weeks ago

thisistheverge:

Bill Gates sent final, heartfelt letter to Steve Jobs | The Verge

Bill Gates revealed the details of an intimate letter this week that he sent to Steve Jobs shortly before the Apple co-founder passed away in October. In an interview with The Telegraph, Gates says he learned of Jobs’ medical condition and wrote him a letter, one that Jobs later kept by his bed. “I told Steve about how he should feel great about what he had done and the company he had built,” said Gates, discussing Jobs’ children in the letter too.

Source: theverge.com 50 notes
thenextweb: Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp announced today at the Digitial Life Design (DLD) conference that the service is now serving 120 million people and 15 billion pageviews every month. Speaking about how Tumblr differs from traditional “editorial” services like WordPress, Karp quoted figures from website traffic measuring company Quantcast, not directly referencing internal figures from its own analytics. (via Tumblr: Serving 120m People, 15bn Pageviews A Month) These numbers are seriously impressive.
1 month ago

thenextweb:

Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp announced today at the Digitial Life Design (DLD) conference that the service is now serving 120 million people and 15 billion pageviews every month. Speaking about how Tumblr differs from traditional “editorial” services like WordPress, Karp quoted figures from website traffic measuring company Quantcast, not directly referencing internal figures from its own analytics. (via Tumblr: Serving 120m People, 15bn Pageviews A Month)

These numbers are seriously impressive.

Source: thenextweb.com 71 notes
8bitfuture: $35 computer starts production. While the Raspberry Pi computer may be little more than a small circuit board, it is powerful enough to play Quake III and handle Blu-Ray video. Featuring a 700MHz processor, HDMI port, USB 2.0, and 256MB of memory, the device was the idea of a Cambridge University student back in 2006, after he noticed that new students had far fewer programming skills than in previous years.  The theory goes that most family computers are large investments for the home, with uses that center around media, and web browsing. Gone are the days when parents can simply let their kids tinker around on the computer, and even if they did allow it, manufacturers aren’t exactly producing builds that are easy to open and understand. The Raspberry Pi Foundation wants to create a computer that any parent can buy for a child (or a child can buy for themselves) and feel comfortable with experimenting. Both US$35 and $25 models are about to enter production, with 10,000 of the computers to be constructed in the next few weeks, and you can check out their website here. $25. wow.
1 month ago

8bitfuture:

$35 computer starts production.

While the Raspberry Pi computer may be little more than a small circuit board, it is powerful enough to play Quake III and handle Blu-Ray video.

Featuring a 700MHz processor, HDMI port, USB 2.0, and 256MB of memory, the device was the idea of a Cambridge University student back in 2006, after he noticed that new students had far fewer programming skills than in previous years. 

The theory goes that most family computers are large investments for the home, with uses that center around media, and web browsing. Gone are the days when parents can simply let their kids tinker around on the computer, and even if they did allow it, manufacturers aren’t exactly producing builds that are easy to open and understand. The Raspberry Pi Foundation wants to create a computer that any parent can buy for a child (or a child can buy for themselves) and feel comfortable with experimenting.

Both US$35 and $25 models are about to enter production, with 10,000 of the computers to be constructed in the next few weeks, and you can check out their website here.

$25. wow.

Source: singularityhub.com 129 notes
1 month ago

Apple to announce tools, platform to "digitally destroy" textbook publishing

futuramb:

Apple is slated to announce the fruits of its labor on improving the use of technology in education at its special media event on Thursday, January 19. While speculation has so far centered on digital textbooks, sources close to the matter have confirmed to Ars that Apple will announce tools to help create interactive e-books—the “GarageBand for e-books,” so to speak—and expand its current platform to distribute them to iPhone and iPad users.

Now I am becoming really curious about this…

It would be extremely interesting if 2012 and especially 2013 becomes the year of self publishing. Apple has completely changed the music industry, and artists can very easily self publish albums, without the need of a record label to support them. If they do this for (text)books, in the sense that they release both the tools (“Garageband for e-books”) and they open their iBook store to anyway (as they have with iTunes, and the App Store), we may see a flood of self published books to come out. 

Source: futuramb 26 notes | Comments
thisistheverge: We always thought the window was pretty mature technology, but Samsung’s here at CES to prove us wrong. The Smart Window, currently in prototype phase, casts a touch-controlled interface onto transparent glass with ambient light. (via Samsung Smart Window demonstration (video) | The Verge) I’m not really sure why I would need information displayed on my window… Maybe I just don’t see the future in a way Samsung wants me to see it. I like my windows the way they are.
1 month ago

thisistheverge:

We always thought the window was pretty mature technology, but Samsung’s here at CES to prove us wrong. The Smart Window, currently in prototype phase, casts a touch-controlled interface onto transparent glass with ambient light. (via Samsung Smart Window demonstration (video) | The Verge)

I’m not really sure why I would need information displayed on my window… Maybe I just don’t see the future in a way Samsung wants me to see it. I like my windows the way they are.

Source: theverge.com 37 notes
dbreunig: Why add the oval? (Via Fortune) Apple Inc.’s Computing Share Skyrockets But seriously, why add the oval?
1 month ago

dbreunig:

Why add the oval? (Via Fortune)

Apple Inc.’s Computing Share Skyrockets

But seriously, why add the oval?

Source: dbreunig

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