Digg - The Latest News Headlines, Videos and Images. Ziff Davis, Inc. - Ziff Davis Publishing - Corporate Information. Borders Launches eBook Store, BlackBerry and Android Apps. To compliment its desktop, iPhone, and iPad apps, Borders unveiled new BlackBerry and Android eReader apps today, and opened the doors on its new eBook Store that allows users to purchase books directly from Borders.com and download them to their eReader of choice.
The new Borders eBook store features over 1.5 million titles for download, including thousands of books for free, and all of the books in the store are available in multiple formats like ePub and PDF. The eBooks downloaded from the Borders eBook store can be read in any of the Borders eReader apps, or on devices like the Kobo eReader. The new Borders eReader Apps for Android and BlackBerry look and feel like the apps already available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, iPad, and for the Mac or PC.
The Borders eBook Store is the other major announcement of the day. Borders opened the eBook Store with over a million titles from new best sellers to free classics that are in the public domain. AppScout - The Best and Worst New Software, Sites and Web Applications - Reviews, News and Opinions. Catergory Archive for ‘Google’ TechCrunch. An In-Depth Look At Pivot, Microsoft's Newest Data Visualization Tool. At Microsoft’s PDC event a few weeks ago, Microsoft Live Labs introduced a new technology, called Pivot, to make sense of interconnectedness between objects on the web.
The underlying premise of Pivot is to view relationships between “collections” of individual information on the the web. Many of the connections between items on the web aren’t necessarily tangible, but Pivot helps crawl massive amount of objects on the web and produces sleek visualizations of all that is connected. We sat down with Microsoft Technical Fellow Gary Flake, who created Pivot, and Microsoft evangelist Brandon Watson to take an in-depth look at the application. While Pivot is currently in private beta, we have 500 invites for TechCrunch readers who use the code “16FC 2946 0C4C 4CCB” when downloading the app here. Pivot is itself a standalone application, but it relies heavily on Internet Explorer’s rendering engine. Another real-world use of Pivot is extracting data from Facebook. Technology.