FT.com / Companies / Retail - Barnes & Noble launches online Kin. Taiwan: How to Reboot the Dragon. Morris Chang is living proof of Taiwan's ability to transform its economy. In 1985, the China-born Chang, once a long-serving executive at Texas Instruments in the U.S., was lured to Taiwan by the government as part of its effort to develop a high-tech industry. He was hired to manage a state-funded research institute, but shortly after his arrival, an influential technocrat, Li Kuo-ting, called Chang to his office and told him: "Think about how you want to start a company. " The conversation led Chang, backed by state funding, to found Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), now the world's largest... Subscribe Now Get TIME the way you want it One Week Digital Pass — $4.99 Monthly Pay-As-You-Go DIGITAL ACCESS — $2.99 One Year ALL ACCESS — Just $30! Taiwan Today. Executive Yuan set to promote e-book industry Publication Date： 07/08/2009 Source： Economic Daily News The government is devising an action plan to promote the electronic book industry, which will begin with the digitalization of textbooks and library documents.
Reports said relevant businesses in Taiwan intend to jointly set up a large company like Amazon as a digital publishing platform, and to seek funding from the National Development Fund to help expand the market. Under the government’s initiative, the Government Information Office will propose a subsidy plan to help develop the e-book publishing industry. The e-book business is included in the Executive Yuan’s plan for promoting the cultural and creative industry, one of the “six emerging industries” the government intends to foster for the good of Taiwan’s economic future. According to reports, more and more domestic companies are investing in the development of e-readers. eBooks: Bestsellers, free eBooks, eReader - Barnes & Noble.
Video: Sony PRS-600 Touch is fast but too dim to satisfy PRS-505. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo unite against Google Books. Guerre des ebooks (2/7): Les catalogues | L'actu des ebooks. ASUS to launch Eee-book reader this year? Video: Sony Reader Touch Edition gets touched, desktop software. Brain Gym Studies. E-Readers More Eco-Friendly than Paper Books. A new study by The CleanTech Group reinforces the argument that e-readers are ultimately more eco-friendly than print.
The production of one e-reader is the equivalent of the production of 22.5 paper books. CleanTech predicts that e-readers will save 9.9 billion kg of CO2 over the next 3 years, when e-reader sales are expected to reach 14.4. In 2012, CleanTech predicts, e-readers will save 5.3 billion kg of CO2. According to the report, it takes a year’s use for an e-reader to offset its carbon emissions.
While the production emissions of a single e-reader vastly outweigh a book’s (169 kg of CO2 vs. 7.5 kg) using an e-reader’s full storage capacity would offset nearly 11,185 kg of CO2 emissions. In 2007, 125 million trees were harvested by the book and magazine industries, with brick-and-mortar bookstores leaving twice the carbon footprint of online retailers.
La carte du Tendre, version univers du livre num. Codex and InkSeine -- the roots of Microsoft's Courier? Yesterday, the cats over at Gizmodo got a look at what appeared to be a pretty groundbreaking product from Microsoft -- the Courier -- a dual-screen, multitouch tablet with an advanced UI the likes of which we've rarely seen. According to the site's report, the product was in "late prototype" stages, and judging from the video, it looked to be pretty far along (at least as far as software was concerned). Today, MobileTechWorld looks as though it might be shedding a little more light on the device and its software... but it might not be quite what you think. The article in question points to two very revealing projects within Microsoft's R&D labs that have marked similarities to the Courier.
The first is its prototype tablet PC interface called InkSeine. InkSeine UI Courier UI The second item of note is Microsoft Research's Codex Project (a project we covered back in October of 2008). [Thanks, Polo] Read - Microsoft's Courier Tablet detailsRead - Codex projectRead - InkSeine project Comments. IREX unveils DR 800SG wireless ebook reader (updated with hands- IREX is currently, right this very second, taking the wraps off its big new splash in the ebook space, the new DR 800SG.
The 8.1-inch unit has wireless connectivity courtesy of Verizon in the US and Qualcomm's Gobi multi-mode 3G for switching it up in the rest of the world. There's also 2GB of built-in storage, memory card expansion and stylus input ("true finger touch" is coming in Q2 2010 to a future product, right now you can only use the stylus, and a color reader is in the works as well for 2011), and IREX claims to have the fastest page refreshes in the biz. Perhaps most notable is that the reader is Barnes & Noble's first big play in the space, with support for the B&N eBookstore -- though the whole thing is an "open platform" with support from content from Newspaper Direct and LibreDigital stores as well, and format support of PDF, EPUB, Newspaper Direct, Fictionwise, eReader and TXT.
IREX unveils DR 800SG wireless ebook reader with touchscreen See all photos 6 Photos 10 Photos. QooQ : votre coach culinaire au bout des doigts. La société Unowhy commercialise une tablette tactile et multimédia baptisée QooQ qui a pour vocation de devenir votre coach culinaire. Unowhy n’est pas à son coup d’essai dans les nouvelles technilogies puisque la société a déjà lancé deux applications pour iPhone et iPod Touch. iDélices, la première application culinaire française et iVidéoCocktails, la première application de recettes de cocktails en vidéos. QooQ veut nous faire découvrir de nouvelles recettes de cuisine, enrichir notre expérience culinaire. En effet, 80% des personnes connaissent entre vingt et vingt cinq recettes et les répètent régulièrement.
Actuellement, il y a un véritable phénomène de mode sur la cuisine, il suffit de voir le succès des émissions de TV sur le sujet (Un dîner presque parfait notamment). La tablette est vraiment très belle en terme de design et c’est un point important, on a envie de la toucher ! Pour utiliser QooQ, il faut la connecter en Wi-Fi ou Ethernet. QooQ, un coach presque parfait ? Txtr - Index. 5-inch BeBook Mini now shipping in the US for $199 (hands-on) Kindle Sales explode for Random House – $2.9 to $22.6 million « Posted on November 15, 2009 by switch11 Crains New York has the scoop on Random House’s explosive rise in ebook sales from a year ago - September 2009 sales (of Kindle ebooks) were $22.6 million – a huge increase from a year ago when they were just $2.9 million.
The Lost Symbol was a huge part with 100,000 eBook Sales in its first week out (5% of total sales).In first half of 2009, Random House kindle ebook revenue grew 400% from a year ago. The September figures were supposed to be kept secret but Crains’ secret agent ferreted out the details. More Signs and Speculation about rise of eBook Sales Random House aren’t the only sign that ebook sales are exploding - Pearson said that Penguin revenues rose 12% and one of the reasons was ‘strong growth in eBook sales’.MediaPost covers In-Stat’s prediction that ebook sales will jump from $323 million in 2008 to $9 billion in 2013.
The last two factors only come into play starting end December – so sales will rise even faster then. La tablette multimédia tactile, partout dans la maison et pour t. Dream android development. MiLibris | Livres numériques, Editeurs, Presse, Journaux, Magazi.