Paul Mooney pointed me to this article by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing: Amazon and Macmillan go to war: readers and writers are the civilian casualties
Although Apple’s new tablet won’t be available for at least another two months, vendors are already racing to stoke demand for iPad accessories.
The most unique and mysterious feature of the Apple iPad, is the A4, an Apple chip developed by the 150 plus strong engineering team it acquired when it bought PA Semi for $278m nearly two years ago.
Steve Jobs said Wednesday that while Amazon has gone a great job with the Kindle, Apple plans to “stand on their shoulders” with the iPad’s e-reader functionality.
It was interesting to see that Apple did not choose Intel’s Atom microprocessor for the iPad.
Critics who blasted the first Google Books settlement have begun weighing in with objections to the modified agreement, which Google and authors sealed late last year to allay concerns that the first pact would give Google a monopoly in digital books.
Foremski’s Take: My first impression of Apple iPad is that its low price of $499 is due to the fact that it’s basically a storefront for Apple’s iTunes and iBooks online store.
Google has successfully “colonized Earth,” the New Yorker’s Ken Auletta said during a conference Tuesday.
I’ve had a wonderful morning although the two teenagers are home studying for their exams this week so I’ve had to share the computer today (my laptop died about a month ago and my second computer is now dead.. time for a new one).
When Eric Schmidt was brought into Google [GOOG] in 2001 his job as CEO was to provide ‘adult supervision’ to the founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin.