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  • Behind the scenes with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team: ‘I think about this really as a first release’

    Behind the scenes with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 team: ‘I think about this really as a first release’

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    CNET had a chance recently to get embedded deep within Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 engineering group, listening in on meetings with OEMs, arguments, celebrations, and all the other drama that comes with trying to ship a huge product that's new from the ground up in just a couple years' time. There aren't any blockbuster revelations in here -- no launch devices, ship dates, or prices -- but it's an interesting look at the project from Windows Phone engineering VP Terry Myerson's perspective, who acknowledges that it'll take a long time and several releases to catch up to the competition but still thinks they'll "actually have a lot of happy customers" with version one.

    On a related note, some existing Windows Marketplace devs have started getting notifications that Microsoft wants to send them loaner Windows Phone 7 devices -- yes, loaners, meaning they'll need to be returned to the mother ship at some point down the road. They're apparently set up for delivery in July, which should give publishers plenty of time to stock up the Marketplace in time for that planned holiday launch.

    Behind the scenes with Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 team: 'I think about this really as a first release' originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • The Skiff, she is dead

    The Skiff, she is dead

    Posted on June 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Not to say I told you so, but I told you so. The Skiff newsreader that made waves at last CES is dead, abandoned by News Corp. who bought the e-reader software but not the device from Hearst. The software will probably be used in News Corp’s “Next Issue Media” endeavor that was supposed to [...]

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  • Wanna read Kindle books on your iPad? Of course you do~! UPDATE

    Wanna read Kindle books on your iPad? Of course you do~! UPDATE

    Posted on March 12, 2010 | No Comments
    All the Apple marks are excited about the iPad. Not me, but whatever. What I am excited about, though, is seeing consumers use the items they've bought in the manner of their choosing. Say you've bought a bunch of books from the Amazon Kindle store. (Don't tell Devin!) Those books are only "supposed" to work with the Kindle and the various Kindle readers, but with a bit of work you can read them wherever you want—yes, including on your iPad.

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  • Condé Nast betting the farm on tablet PCs

    Condé Nast betting the farm on tablet PCs

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    It's good to see at least one print media outlet start to get it. Conde Nast announced recently that Wired isn't going to be the only one of their properties showing up on tablets; GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Glamour will be there as well.

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  • Shock: Sony invites devs to make games for the PS3

    Shock: Sony invites devs to make games for the PS3

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Flash: Sony executive is bullish about the PS3! The Wii—you've heard of it, yes? Years ago, it was hard to find because it was massively popular. You could find one on eBay, but for like $8 million. Nowadays? Not so much. Games like New Super Mario Bros. Wii will sell, sure, but third-party publishers are finding out: Hey, our games aren't selling too well here...

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  • eBooks on the iPad may not be so outlandishly expensive

    eBooks on the iPad may not be so outlandishly expensive

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    The NYT has a report on ebook pricing for the iPad, saying that Apple may charge $9.99 for popular titles, just like everyone else in the free world. While most prices will be higher - it's an iPad! Why go slumming? - popular books can hit the $9.99 if need be. Apple takes 30 percent of the sale while the publishers take 70 percent.

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  • MADS teams up with Netbiscuits for integrated mobile marketing solution

    MADS teams up with Netbiscuits for integrated mobile marketing solution

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Mobile marketing solutions provider MADS has partnered with Netbiscuits, which offers a B2B web software platform for the creation, publication, and monetization of mobile websites. In essence, MADS' mobile marketing platform will be integrated with Netbiscuits mobile website publishing platform, which enables the latter's publishers to monetize their sites utilizing mobile ad campaigns via the MADS network, which self-reportedly includes over 20 global ad sales agencies.

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  • Amazon fighting with publishers over pricing

    Amazon fighting with publishers over pricing

    Posted on January 31, 2010 | No Comments
    Apparently all is not well in e-book land. In an unusual move, publisher Macmillan took out an ad in the Publishers Marketplace magazine protesting the tactics being used by Amazon regarding pricing. The issue is Macmillan is trying to price at $9.99, and Amazon is trying to lock the lowest price at $15 per title.

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  • Apple announces e-book store

    Apple announces e-book store

    Posted on January 27, 2010 | No Comments
    Apple’s hoping to recreate the magic of what iTunes did for music with the addition of a vast selection of electronic books. Announced at Apple’s event today, the iBook store. Book pricing has been set similarly to what’s offered on Amazon.com’s Kindle platform — the first book shown at Apple’s event was priced $14.99, a [...]

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  • Amazon Opens Up Kindle Digital Text Platform To Authors Outside The U.S.

    Amazon Opens Up Kindle Digital Text Platform To Authors Outside The U.S.

    Posted on January 15, 2010 | No Comments
    Amazon.com this morning announced that it is expanding its self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform worldwide, giving more authors and publishers the chance to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers around the world in the Kindle Store. Until today, DTP was only available to authors and publishers based in the United States. Amazon says additional language options with DTP will be added in the coming months.

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  • AppMakr Transforms App Store Landscape, Enables Anyone To Make Their Own iPhone App

    AppMakr Transforms App Store Landscape, Enables Anyone To Make Their Own iPhone App

    Posted on January 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Every once in a while, a startup comes around with a product that we not only cover, but actually want to use ourselves. PointAbout, a Washington, DC-based self-funded startup, has done just that. AppMakr is absolutely ridonkculous. Basically, AppMakr allows you to create your own iPhone app – for $199. You can include feeds from [...]

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  • Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

    Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    As if we didn't have enough pretenders in the ebook space, here's Ray Kurzweil with a new format of his own and a bagful of ambition to go with it. Set for a proper unveiling at CES in a week's time, the Blio format and accompanying application are together intended to deliver true-to-life color reproductions of the way real books appear. Interestingly, the software has been developed in partnership with Nokia, in an effort to turn Espoo's phones into "the smallest text-to-speech reading devices available thus far," though apps are also being developed for the iPhone, PC and Mac. The biggest advantage of this format might actually be behind the scenes, where the costs to publishers are drastically reduced by them having to only submit a PDF scan of their books, whose formatting remains unchanged in Blio. We'll be all over this at CES, but for now you'll find more pictures and early impressions over at Gizmodo.

    Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Location-based mobile advertising platform AdLocal enters America with years of Japan Know-how

    Location-based mobile advertising platform AdLocal enters America with years of Japan Know-how

    Posted on December 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Mobile advertising is poised to become a huge growth area, with research firm Kelsey Group seeing the market grow from just $160 million in 2008 to $3.1 billion in 2013. eMarketer projects mobile advertising spending in the US will balloon from $648 million in 2008 to over $3.3 billion in 2013. While some believe search will account for the biggest chunk of the market, others expect geo-aware advertising, another way of bringing "relevant" ads to users, to have a bright future, too. This is where AdLocal, a location-based, self-service mobile ad platform that (re-)launched yesterday, comes in. Offered by Sunnyvale-based Cirius Technologies USA, the platform has been around in Japan since 2006, currently commanding the largest share of location-based advertising in Japan's $1 billion [PDF] mobile ad space. And now Cirius is ready to utilize the years of experience the company gained in the world's most competitive mobile market in the US (AdLocal isn't available outside America and Japan at this point). AdLocal allows advertisers to manage their campaigns and publishers to add their mobile sites or applications by themselves through a Web-based dashboard. By locating a mobile user's physical location via GPS, cell identification and other methods, the mobile ad network can tell when a consumer is close to a specific business address and then serves up ads for that business in real-time.

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  • The Mag+ shows how we might one day read magazines, if mags don’t die first

    The Mag+ shows how we might one day read magazines, if mags don’t die first

    Posted on December 17, 2009 | No Comments
    See that tablet concept thing designed by design agency BERG? Yeah, that might be the future of print publications. But you probably already knew that. For the past 20 years tablets have been deemed the next-gen magazine, but so far nothing has been produced that actually steps up to the task. And don’t get excited, [...]

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  • “This means something:” Why the magazine industry is suddenly crowing about tablets

    “This means something:” Why the magazine industry is suddenly crowing about tablets

    Posted on December 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Whenever companies do something inexplicable, the nerd in me always comes back to that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind when Richard Dreyfus keeps building models of a mountain, culminating in a huge, muddy mess in his kitchen. Throughout it all he keeps saying “This means something.” Well, the latest molehill into a [...]

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