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1-800-The Book —Oh My
1-800-The Book—that’s the number you have to call when you have a customer service question for your Barnes & Noble nook. Or at least that’s what I had to do when my son’s nook crashed and burned last month. Let me start off by saying I love the nook. This is not a commentary that the nook is a bad little ereader, because it’s not. In fact, in our family we own two of them. We also own a Sony Reader Pocket Edition and an iPad.
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9/2/2010
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Realtime Tour de France Coverage Courtesy of ANT+ and Google
08.31.2010
Guest: Dallin Doney
Dallin Doney, business development manager, ANT Wireless, and Dylan Casey, product manager, Google Inc., discuss their companies’ participation in providing fans with realtime access to cyclists’ stats via the Web during the 2010 Tour de France.
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Realtime Tracking at the Tour de France
Thousands of races and cycling competitions are held throughout the world each year, many of which are only familiar to avid cyclists. But one race that just about everyone has heard of is the Tour de France. For more than 100 years, thousands of riders participate in the Tour, which is watched by millions of fans from all over the globe.
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9/2/2010
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Apple Works its Magic on TV
As much as I sometimes want to dislike Apple for its secrecy and king-of-the-mountain attitudes, the company continues to capture my imagination. I may have
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9/1/2010
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CEIVA Pro 80
Photo Sharing Made Simple
Okay I’ll admit it; I’m that girl. You know, that girl who doesn’t go anywhere without her camera? In fact on a
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9/1/2010
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WHERE
Three Days with WHERE
Let’s say you are out of town for a couple of days or maybe you’re unfamiliar with your own city because you
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9/1/2010
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Big Link Enters the Value Chain
General Electric just paid $230 million for Attenti, an Israeli company that makes people-tracking devices for criminal offenders and Alzheimer’s patients. It was only
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9/1/2010
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Look Out: Falling Prices
As we head into autumn, the connected devices market is seeing steady drops in pricing. Just this week, Borders, www.borders.com, announced price cuts for the Kobo and Aluratek ereaders, and Roku, www.roku.com, dropped the prices for its video set-top boxes. Amazon.com also recently cut the price of the Kindle, ushering in an ereader price war that shows no signs of slowing down.
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9/1/2010
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The Car of the Future
Could the most connected machine in the world be a car? It very well could be that a wireless-enabled car could become the “fourth screen” in your life, alongside your TV, PC, and mobile phone.
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8/31/2010
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AOL Was Right
Apple’s launch of the iPad this past April prompted a curious headline from U.S.-based NPR asking, “Apple’s iPad: The End of the Internet As We Know It?” The story described how iPad customers feel safe inside of the iTunes app store, caring more about being protected from malware and other unwelcome content than about Apple’s controversial censorship of applications. Yesterday’s “walled gardens” have become today’s “gated communities,” in National Public Radio’s view.
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8/31/2010
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