Tag: IBOOKS

The school year's already begun for most American college students, and they are no doubt racked with the same problem that we had as undergrads: carrying around countless handouts, course packets, articles, essays and notes. Depending on the breadth of your study and the wickedness of your professors, you could be faced with a small mountain of paper for each class. (Your author recalls, not so ...

Do people read e-books more slowly than printed ones? A small survey by Nielsen Norman Group alleges that we may process digital words at a lazier pace than we do those on the page, but, when further analyzed, the results of the survey raise questions about the participants themselves. A group of 24 volunteers "who like reading and frequently read books" were asked to read Hemingway short ...

As we all expected, Apple today unveiled the latest generation iPhone, simply dubbed the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 is exactly the same device that leaked on Gizmodo back in April, but don't think just because a few prototypes made it into the hands of tech-bloggers through some shady avenues there are no surprises left in store. In fact, even that attractive outer-shell has some impressive hidden ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Pinhole photography enthusiasts will get a big kick out of this widdle biddy camera, styled like a fish-eye Lomo. Francesco Capponi's cricket-sized gizmo doesn't ...

You might have noticed something missing from the iBooks announcement yesterday -- McGraw Hill. Mere hours before the Apple event, the publishing company's CEO, Terry McGraw, went on CNBC and let it slip that there would indeed be a tablet, and that his company had worked closely with Apple to bring its collection of text books and other educational publications to the iPad. Yet, when Apple ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The Apple Tablet iSlate iPad finally made its official debut yesterday, but the company seems to be offering only a limited release of some of the gadget's services. The iBooks Store and the iBooks app will apparently first launch only in the States. [From: Engadget] Windows 7 recently became the "fastest selling operating system ...

Apple is never one to sit on the sidelines of any market niche for too long, so it's no surprise that it envisions the iPad as not just a Web-browsing device or over-sized iPod touch, but as an entry into the over-saturated e-book reader market, as well. To that end, Apple has unveiled the iBooks Store, a "print " media companion to the iTunes store loaded with publications from Harper Collins, ...