Random House drastically raises the price of e-books for libraries
Oddly, Random House deciding to triple the price of its e-books for libraries is being considered a compromise. While others, like Penguin, are pulling their electronic tomes from the virtual shelves of our lending institutions, Random House is at least willing to still play ball — even if it’s making
Targeting Merchants, Square Debuts Register iPad App And Analytics; Now Processing $4B In Payments Per Year
As we reported earlier this year, mobile payments company Square revealed that it was planning to add a number of new operational capabilities and data analysis to the register, including in-depth analytics. Tonight, Square is debuting this functionality in the form of a new iPad app. The app aims to
El Departamento de Defensa quiere un mayor control sobre Internet
El Gobierno de EE.UU. afirma que debe controlar la tecnología de Internet más estrechamente para poder protegerse ante ciberataques.
Windows 8: Microsoft apuesta por un futuro centrado en las tabletas
¿Tiene sentido combinar una interfaz de escritorio convencional con una optimizada para el tacto?
Una ciudad con Internet ultrarrápido invita a los innovadores a jugar
Una ciudad de Tennessee con un servicio de Internet que tiene una velocidad de un gigabit por segundo convoca un concurso dotado con 300.000 dólares para hallar formas de aprovecharlo.
World’s collide as Super Mario Bros and Portal become Mari0 (video)
Remember when the amalgamation of Super Mario Bros and a Portal gun seemed like the most amazing, yet impossibly lucid pipe dream? As it turns out, the cake named "Mari0" by developer-house Stabyourself actually wasn’t a lie. But lest you thought this just a redo of Super Mario Bros with a skosh of Aperture
A Yelp Review Of Yelp Stock
With Yelp stock beginning its second day of trading tomorrow morning, I wondered what a Yelp review of Yelp stock might it look like.
Everything, Everywhere, All the Time
The web is a blessing and a curse: there is simply too much information. And it’s coming at us too quickly. Meanwhile, the tools we have to process the data flow are failing miserably, and yet, very few people are building us better ones. Instead, these days, it’s far easier to build the next great photo-sharing
How would you change Amazon’s Kindle Fire?
The Kindle Fire is less a tablet and more a $200 window into Amazon’s storefront. The 7-inch slate that shares its DNA with the BlackBerry PlayBook lacks any physical features bar a micro-USB port, headphone jack and speaker. Internally, that 1GHz CPU is paired up with 512MB of RAM and 8GB storage, with
Movilway Expands Mobile Payment Services To The Underbanked In Latin America [Video]
Movilway, the company pioneering prepaid mobile payments in Central and South America, recently updated their arsenal of tools to include a new custom Android tablet Point Of Sale (POS) terminal as well as a new MoviPIN system for online purchases. Both systems — available at select locations — bring