Thursday, March 18, 2010
Business
Barnes & Noble Has No Illusions About What It’s Becoming
11:49PM John Herrman | Barnes & Noble’s departing CEO, Steve Riggio, has been selling books for 30 years. His replacement, William Lynch, has been selling them (online) for about two, following 10 years in e-commerce — and four with Palm. [B&N]
Online
Back Up Your Cloud-Stored Memories With These Free Tools
11:21PM Kat Hannaford | Today I’d like to talk to you about… backing up. I don’t just mean connecting an external hard drive to your laptop and transferring all your files over. I’m talking ’bout backing up the cloud. More »
Design
Windows Phone 7 Tablet Concept Should Be Real
Design
Lawnmower Scooter: Vroom Vroom Splutter Splutter
8:58PM Kat Hannaford | Small garden owners who can’t be arsed pushing a conventional lawnmower around in neat lines, nor afford a proper ride-on mower, rejoice: designer Vicky Petihovski has created a (concept) mower just for you. More »
Phones
Nokia CEO Hints At Snapdragon Phone For Future
8:36PM Kat Hannaford | What Nokia needs is less Symbian, and more innovative phones like they were wheeling out a couple of years ago with their N-series line. Merely whacking a 1GHz Snapdragon chip in won’t help pick them up off the floor, however great they’re doing financially. More »
Business
Amazon Threatens To Dump Two Major Publishers (Read: They Just Lost The Price War)
6:07PM Jason Chen | Amazon is getting serious about getting its way with ebook pricing, threatening to do what they did to Macmillan (pull physical and digital books) unless publishers agree to certain demands. More »
Computers
4:00PM Jesus Diaz | Brace yourself, lovers of all things retro, because the Commodore 64 will raise from the death in all its keyboard form factor glory. It will probably be based on the Cybernet ZPC-GX31, although I hope it looks like this: More »
The Return Of The Commodore 64
4:00PM Jesus Diaz | Brace yourself, lovers of all things retro, because the Commodore 64 will raise from the death in all its keyboard form factor glory. It will probably be based on the Cybernet ZPC-GX31, although I hope it looks like this: More »
Software
Amazon Kindle App For Mac OS X
3:23PM Brian Lam | Oh hey, the Kindle app for OS X is out. It’s free, but you have to buy the books, of course. It doesn’t have multitouch, like the Windows app, though. [Amazon via TUAW]
Business
HTC: We Disagree With Apple’s Actions And Will Defend Ourselves
3:08PM Rosa Golijan | As if a big, bold “HTC DISAGREES WITH APPLE’S ACTIONS” doesn’t sum things up, HTC has taken the chance to remark that they will fully defend themselves and remind us of their history of innovation. Here’s what they wrote: More »
Cameras
