Black Friday is expected to kick off a more upbeat e-commerce season this year, but heavyweights Amazon.com, Google and eBay are poised to make the biggest holiday gains, analysts said.
The US government has awarded Benetech $100,000 to create the first versions of open content school books that can be more easily accessed by disabled people.
Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt said during a trip to Baghdad this week that Iraq’s stabilization could lead to business opportunities in the country.
Yesterday I argued that a single search index administered by a non-profit could address issues around de-listing and indexing out-of-print books.
New York artist Nina Paley’s frustrating efforts to contribute to Wikipedia were chronicled in an
article in Monday’s Wall Street Journal.
I had a fascinating conversation on Saturday with Joe Ward, CEO of Groovy, which has a unique real-time transactional data technology.
Two great events coming up:
I ran into the stylish Shaun Sanders, from Graffiti PR, at the recent TEDxSF event and he told me about Geek Chic, Thursday December 3. It’s an event he’s organized to collect Christmas toys and also to have some fun.
While death and taxes are notable certainties, there’s another in the wireless world: make a 3G cellphone and you pay patent royalties to Qualcomm. But Apple may be evading some of the consequences.
