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| Monday, 29 June 2009 08:48 |
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by Dara Kerr Font size Print E-mail Share 3 comments The B&N Bookstore app lets you read book reviews. (Credit: Barnes & Noble) Barnes & Noble has joined the iPhone app generation. The world's largest bookstore announced on Monday its B&N Bookstore app , which is available for both the iPhone and iPod Touch . Among other things, users can browse books and reviews, and find store event information. One of the first big brick-and-mortar retailers to create an iPhone app, Barnes & Noble partnered with LinkMe Mobile and Spotlight Mobile to design phone-friendly features. One of them lets users snap a photo of a book cover, which then links to more information about the book. Although this seems a bit redundant--since to take a photo of a book you'll have to have it in hand--it could prove helpful in quickly scanning a friend's book collection and later reading reviews, synopses, and the like. Yes, you could do that with a Google search, but a photo couldn't hurt, right? The app also includes a store locator, recommendations on other books that might appeal, a store events calendar, online purchasing, and video clips of interviews with authors. Other apps for bookworms include Amazon Mobile , which lets users search, shop and read reviews; SnapTell , which, like the B&N Bookstore app, lets users take a picture of a book cover and get information on the book; and BookBargin , which compares prices of books at different online stores. These apps and the B&N Bookstore app are free. Barnes & Noble's president, William Lynch, said the company decided to create an app based on an increase in the store's mobile traffic. |
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| Monday, 29 June 2009 07:15 |
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crunchgear
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I don't know if you guys are aware, but nothing is better for making people think you're awesome than doing card tricks. No, seriously. Anyone you know with a ton of friends only has so many friends because of their card trick repertoire. Actually, there is one thing that's cooler than doing card tricks: doing card tricks with virtual cards . |
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| Monday, 29 June 2009 05:30 |
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cnet
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by Erica Ogg Font size Print E-mail Share 12 comments Apple CEO Steve Jobs briefly addressed his state of health onstage at an Apple event last October. (Credit: James Martin/CNET News) After taking a medical leave of absence in January, Steve Jobs on Monday officially resumed his work as CEO of Apple. "Steve is back to work," Apple spokesman Steve Dowling, told Bloomberg News . Jobs will be working at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., "a few days a week" and working from home on the rest, according to the report. Jobs initially was said to be taking a break from work to focus on recuperating from a hormone imbalance . But in April he received a liver transplant from a hospital in Tennessee. Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook handled the day-to-day duties of running Apple in Jobs' absence. Meanwhile, Senior Vice President of Marketing Phil Schiller filled in for Jobs as keynote speaker at Apple's product events and, most recently, the Worldwide Developer Conference. During his absence, the company Jobs founded didn't seem to miss a beat. Apple released both the latest update to the iPhone operating system, as well as the new iPhone 3GS hardware , and the stock soared from $85.33 the day he announced his temporary leave to close at $142.44 on Friday. |
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| Monday, 29 June 2009 04:55 |
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boy genius report
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Over the past few month, we’ve seen several sites run cost comparisons on the latest and greatest smartphones from each of the top four carriers in the US. Good — presenting readers with cost analysis is always a good idea. We’re finding that just about all of these comparisons do so on the high end of the spectrum however, comparing the cost of owning each of these great smartphones along with the most expensive plans available from their respective carrier. Fair enough, we suppose. The simple fact of the matter is that not everyone is interested in an expensive unlimited plan though. For these people, comparing the maximum possible cost of several smartphones definitely makes for an exciting read, but we don’t know how useful it really is. Unlimited plans continue to gain popularity as cost is driven down but the fact of the matter is that they’re just not for everyone. As such, rather than compare the highest possible cost of four popular smartphones maybe it makes a bit more sense to compare their relative entry-level costs — the base price , where most comparisons happen. Yeah, let’s give that a shot… T-Mobile G1 Handset: $149.99 Monthly cost [UPDATED]: $29.99 voice plan (300 minutes, unlimited weekends), $24.99 T-Mobile G1 Unlimited Web (unlimited Web/email/data, 400 SMS/MMS) $54.98/month — $1,319.52 over 2 years + $149.99 for the phone Total: $1,469.51 Sprint, Palm Pre Handset: $199.99 (after $100 rebate) Activation fee: $36 Monthly cost: $69.99 Everything Data Plan (450 minutes, unlimited nights/weekends, unlimited Web/email/data/SMS/MMS) $69.99/month — $1,679.76 over 2 years + $235.99 for the phone plus activation (after $100 mail-in rebate) Total: $1,915.75 (after $100 mail-in rebate) Verizon Wireless, BlackBerry Storm Handset: $149.99 Activation fee: $35 Monthly cost: $39.99 voice plan (450 minutes, unlimited nights/weekends), $29.99 Email and Web for BlackBerry (BIS, Web) $69.98/month — $1,679.52 over 2 years (excluding SMS/MMS) + $184.99 for the phone plus activation Total: $1,864.51 (excludes SMS/MMS, starting at $5/month) AT&T, Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB Handset : $199 Activation fee: $36 Monthly cost: $39.99 Nation 450 w/Rollover (450 minutes, 5000 night/weekend minutes), $30 Data Plan for iPhone (unlimited Web/email/data) $69.99/month — $1,679.76 over 2 years + $235 for the phone plus activation Total: $1,914.76 (excludes SMS/MMS, starting at $5/month) ———————– So what have we learned here? Look at your potential purchases from your own unique perspective. Wireless plans are complicated and should not be handled on an even playing field; each carrier has similarly priced plan options that feature both high and low points. For example, the bare-bones entry plan for the G1 reduces the two-year cost of the handset dramatically compared to the three other handseys but it only affords the user 300 minutes each month and doesn’t include free nights as other plans... |
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| Monday, 29 June 2009 03:18 |
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boy genius report
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History shows us the Dev Team always works with the quickness, but this time the folks who have unleashed a world of new functionality for the iPhone are slowing things down. Before you fall flat on your back and start kicking and flailing around, know that there are very good reasons for the iPhone 3GS jailbreak delay. In a nutshell, not enough people have the 3GS in hand yet according to the Dev Team, and the exploit it attacks to jailbreak the iPhone 3GS is volatile — Apple is going to have a very easy time plugging the hole. Because there are a handful of issues in OS 3.0, the Team also feels OS 3.0.1 is extremely close to release. Oh, and Apple has to do something about that pesky ultrasn0w as well of course. For anyone wanting to jailbreak, just relax for a little while and let the Dev Team do its thing and do it right. Read |
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