Amazon Pulls Macmillan Books Over E-Book Price Disagreement
As Venture Beat and other blogs have noticed Friday evening, books from Macmillan, one of the largest publishers in the United States, have vanished from Amazon.com. — The question is why. — I've ...
Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism
GAME CHANGER? — The more, the better. That's the fashionable recipe for nurturing new ideas these days. It emphasizes a kind of Internet-era egalitarianism that celebrates the “wisdom of the crowd...
Future Shock
I'll have more to say on the iPad later but one can't help being struck by the volume and vehemence of apparently technologically sophisticated people inveighing against the iPad. — Some are trying ...
How Do E-Readers Stack Up With iPad In The Mix? Use Our Chart As A Guide
When we did the first version of this chart heading into the 2009 holiday sales season, four contenders—including the unexpected Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) Nook—were set to crowd the instant-download ...
Irony: You Need A Map To Find Google Street View On The iPhone
We came to a strange realization on Friday at SEL headquarters: Google Street View is terribly unintuitive on the iPhone. As Danny Sullivan suggested, you practically need a map to find it.
Omni Group Commits to Bring Five Productivity Apps to iPad
In a blog post, Omni Group has committed to bringing five of their productivity apps to the iPad including OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, OmniPlan, OmniFocus, and OmniGraphSketcher. … The Omni Group start...
Steve Jobs' Entourage Forbids Pictures of His ‘Labored Old Man Shuffle’
By all accounts, Steve Jobs personally drove the rapid creation and wildly successful hyping of the just-unveiled iPad. So you'd think his handlers would be confident in his healthy image, no matter ...
Firefox-based attack wreaks havoc on IRC users
World's first inter-protocol exploit, but not the last — Underscoring a little-known web vulnerability, hackers are exploiting a weakness in the Mozilla Firefox browser to wreak havoc on Freenode an...
Nexus One for AT&T's 3G bands likely in the works
By all appearances, Google's trying to break Android free of the surly bonds of the manufacturers and carriers that support it, opening its own online store and selling unlocked Nexus Ones to anyone w...
iPad v. A Rock
This speaks for itself. Thanks to Phil Santoro for creating it and sending it us (a play on the iphone v. rock joke). — Information provided by CrunchBase