Thursday, March 18, 2010

Barnes & Noble Has No Illusions About What It’s Becoming

11:49PM March 18, 2010 | 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 March 18, 2010 | 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 »


Windows Phone 7 Tablet Concept Should Be Real

10:14PM March 18, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

LG, Samsung and ASUS have all developed hardware for Windows Phone 7, but none tickle my fancy quite as much as this WP7 tablet concept, which has a kickstand that folds into a keypad, and joystick controls on the back. More »


Lawnmower Scooter: Vroom Vroom Splutter Splutter

8:58PM March 18, 2010 | 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 »


Mobile

Nokia CEO Hints At Snapdragon Phone For Future

8:36PM March 18, 2010 | 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 »


Amazon Threatens To Dump Two Major Publishers (Read: They Just Lost The Price War)

6:07PM March 18, 2010 | 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 »


Computing

The Return Of The Commodore 64

4:00PM March 18, 2010 | 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 March 18, 2010 | 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]


HTC: We Disagree With Apple’s Actions And Will Defend Ourselves

3:08PM March 18, 2010 | 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

The Secret To “Ripping” Your Books

3:00PM March 18, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

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It’s easy to rip your CDs and turn them into easily stored digital files: You pop in a CD, click a few buttons, done. Now try ripping a book into a digital format. Struggling? Here’s the setup you’ll wish you had. More »