NOOKstudy: B & Ns...
Barnes & Noble has developed NOOKstudy, a free (as in beer) software suite that could make the average college student’s life a little easier. The software, which will be available for the PC and Mac, gives students the ability to download and organize electronic textbooks, as...
Gawker Media Grinds To ...
We’ve had our fair share of outages around here, but we’re not nearly as big as the Gawker blogging empire is, so it’s worth noting that every site in the Gawker Media blog network is currently down and out. From Gizmodo to Gawker.com , Kotaku , Jezebel and Lifehacker ,...
Borders Launches Its Ow...
Borders has been rather marginalized in the e-book wars thus far, not having the primacy of Amazon nor the sexy Nookiness of B&N. I liked their official e-reader, the Kobo , but until my opinion counts for points in the market, that doesn’t really improve their...
Clifford Stoll, Hacker-...
Back in the olden days I read a paper book called The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll. Read the original: Clifford Stoll, Hacker-fighting Astronomer, On This Whole Internet...
Hands-on With the Hitac...
The Hitachi Life Studio is supposed to be the next generation of portable drives. Aside from the odd addition of a magnetic flash drive to the front of the case, this clever little drive includes media management software from Cooliris that essentially offers an “easier” way...
WhaleShark Media Unveil...
We first heard of WhaleShark Media in March when MySpace VP Mobile John Faith jumped ship to join the secretive new startup . Now we have all the details. The company is led by former BankRate COO Cotter Cuningham , and has raised over $30 million in funding from Austin Ventures and a...
Chango Closes $1.4 Mill...
Toronto-based advertising startup Chango closed a $1.4 million Series A funding, with new investors Metamorphic Ventures and privately from Geoff Judge , a VC at iNovia Capital and co-founder of 24/7 Real Media. Read the original here: Chango Closes $1.4 Million Round, Brings Search...
“Lawyers Are Expensiv...
As you may have read yesterday, TwitPic and Posterous are currently in a row after the latter introduced a “ Rescue your photos from TwitPic ” tool that provides users with a one-click way to import TwitPic photos over to their Posterous blog. Read the original...
Disruptive Invoicing? T...
Tradeshift , which has been described as the “Skype for invoicing”, has announced a raft of new partners in the SaaS accounting space, along with plans to open up its API to enable more third-parties to tie into its free invoicing system. The launch partners who have had access to a...