By Todd Haselton |
Steve Jobs’ first boss was Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari. In Steve Jobs the book about the late Apple CEO’s life, Walter Isaacson discusses Jobs’ time working for Bushnell and how, after arguments and general dislike for Steve Jobs among other employees, Bushnell asked Jobs…
By Adriana Lee |
There is little doubt about technology’s transformative nature. Never before has humanity reached this level of connectedness, thanks to the innovations that have emerged over the past few years. Today, the devices, services and programs we dream up, use and evangelize have the immense power to sway…
By Todd Haselton |
Former Apple sales exec David Sobotta recently discussed what it was like to work for Apple in a new book titled The Pomme Company, which covers his 20-year tenure at the firm until 2004. He worked with Tim Cook, but never reported to him directly…
By Adriana Lee |
We’re used to seeing “tell-all” books target the likes of entertainers, athletes and politicians. This one, however, is a little different. This one sets its sights, not on Hollywood, but a bit north — like on Cupertino, California. Now, a year after Apple co-founder Steve…
By Todd Haselton |
Microsoft and Barnes & Noble announced on Thursday that the two firms have officially completed a previously announced strategic partnership focused around the Nook Media brand. Nook Media LLC, as it’s officially known, includes Barnes & Noble’s college and digital businesses and is a subsidiary…
By Killian Bell |
After announcing that Google Play had reached 15 billion downloads back in May, Google has today announced that its store has now surpassed the 25 billion downloads milestone, with more than 675,000 apps and games now available to Android smartphones and tablets. The celebrate this…
By Maximum PC |
While we were busy listening to all the Spotify coverage at F8 a few weeks back, the Zuck let a little something else slip that we missed at first: Facebook’s active user base is now over 800 million strong. Let that number sink in. 800…
By Emily Price |
If you were thinking about picking up a Nook for school this year, Barnes & Noble is offering some free books for your device to sweeten the deal. If you purchase a Nook and register it before October 31 of this year, the bookseller will…
By Emily Price |
As you may (or may not) remember – I’m a bit of a pack rat. I hang on to all my old gadgets- and quite a bit of other stuff as well. I’m thinking about moving in the next few months, am trying to get…
By Emily Price |
Do you ever feel like Facebook is in a way a biography of your life? A company called Social Memories wants to take all your Facebook memories and turn them into a paper book that you throw of your coffee table and flip through. All…
By Emily Price |
Soon you’ll be able to borrow books from your local library to read on your Kindle. Today Amazon announced Kindle Lending Library, a feature that will give Kindle owners access to books from 11,000 libraries across the United States on their Kindle, or any other…
By Emily Price |
If you own a Kindle, now you can download audio books from Audible to your eReader over Wi-Fi. Kindle owners have been able to listen to audio books on their Kindles for a while now, however, books had to be purchased directly from Audibles website,…
By Emily Price |
Part of the draw of e-books (to me at least) is that they will theoretically last forever. Barring a small fire attacking every single computer and backup service I use, the e-books I purchase should be with me forever, more than I can say for…
By Tom Moccia |
As I walk through the bookstore on a busy Saturday I can’t help but think about the print industry and the effect technology has had on the different segments. Why has the Internet all but killed the newspaper business, yet the print versions of books…
By Winston Sih |
Barnes and Noble has announced that a new DIY publishing option for independent publishers and self-publishing writers will be available this summer and writers will be able to distribute their works through BN.com and Barnes and Noble’s e-book store. The new service was designed to…
