Technology
Barnes & Noble’s CEO William Lynch announced that the company will be adding NFC ( near-field communication) to their Nook e-reader platforms.
He also put some more icing on the cake by announcing that B&N is dry as a bone because the Barns & Noble Simple Touch with Glowlight has sold out. This sure has eyes bugging out across the tech and book world as Lynch goes on to say what other goodies the NFC chips will do with their Nook e-readers.
William Lynch says they’ll be embedding the NFC chips into their books. Barnes & Noble will work with the publishers to have the chips embedded into the hardcover versions that includes the editorial reviews.
You’ll be able to go to any Barnes & Noble and use your device on any of their books and pics and more to get information about the products. That’s like shopping with an extra kick. You can waltz around the store and get more info on the books and products which should be entertaining in itself. +Continue Reading
If it isn’t providing the world’s most advanced and largest search engine features, phone services, maps, video games, news, Gmail, documents and more, the dominating mega corporation has now revealed their cloud storage arm called Google Drive.
Yes, now Google has thrown in their silver lining to the cloud storage arena with their Google Drive.
Mind you, because it’s Google they’re not going to put out some average, run of the mill kind of product they’re going to brand it as much as they can just short of coming to your home and and tattooing their name on your forehead. Google Drive is nothing like the other cloud storage companies. Yes, Goggle Drive offers you 5 gigabytes of storage for free and it scales upwards to $50 for a terabyte, but Google has employed every aspect of the Google experience online from its documents to just about everything else that you the user needs. +Continue Reading
Google is going for Apple’s jugular by switching emphasis from smartphones to tablets. Is Apple scared? I doubt it. They will peddle tablets that are co-branded. Sources indicate that Google will sell them through a store much like Apple and Amazon. This is a last ditch effort to save struggling sales of Android based tablets. The question is whether or not it will work.
The Nexus One from HTC in 2010 was a similar flailing punch by Google, but they caved under the flood of better Android-based phones that hit the market a few months later. Google doesn’t get that having a piece of hardware with the search engine giants multi-colored logo on it makes it feel like a child’s toy – it cheapens it. Google is too full of themselves to get it though. I would never by hardware that has Google’s name on it. However, they have roped Samsung and AsusTek in on the deal of producing the hardware. So Google will not actually build the units, but they will be available from many retailers. In fact, Taiwan’s Asus is due to release the first co-branded tablet later this year, in the online store. +Continue Reading
In the last few decades, the marketing and advertising ways of communicating have changed tremendously. Surely, the internet has made it easier for companies to put up ads and commercials for a fraction of the cost of an actual billboard on the side of the expressway. Nevertheless, some of these techniques are quite intrusive sometimes, or at least that’s what some consumers think. As you may already know, technological companies are always trying to stay ahead and usually file for patents before the product has been released or the idea put into practice.
The last idea filed to be patented by Google is definitely intrusive to say the least. The idea is that their new technology will have the ability to study the background noise that is being produced during a call, and then move up to play ads, which depend on the environmental conditions that Google is able to detect. +Continue Reading
The entertainment industry’s fight against piracy has made The Pirate Bay a poster child for the entire online community. The Pirate Bay, commonly abbreviated at TPB, was always a popular site for file sharing, but now stands for online freedom and the fight against the hated entertainment industry/United States Government.
Since The Pirate Bay faces real and imminent danger and can be taken offline potentially any day, TPB and its loyal members have begun creating measures to continue providing file sharing services. One member actually created a script that copied all of the links and mirrors for the files and compressed them so that they could be stored on a simple USB! This would then preserve all of the files so that TPB would live on however this wasn’t enough and TPB has gone even further and developed drones! +Continue Reading
For those of you who are Xperia fans, you’d be glad to know that the newest Xperia smartphone has been announced by Sony. The Xperia sola will feature Android and of course the well-constructed Sony technology. Among the newer features that this smartphone will offer its users are the Xperia SmartTags. These tags will make it even easier for consumers to add their own personal touch, because it enables them to make the changes in the settings and even apps in no time.
The Xperia sola will be released sometime before the end of June 2012 and consumers will be able to choose among red, black and white.
One of the many things that make the Xperia sola unique is the new and exclusive floating screen capability. This is definitely taking the touchscreen capability to the next level, or should we say the new floating screen because users will simply hover their finger over the screen and not actually have to touch it. Whenever it’s time to click a link or photo, users can tap it and it will load just like any other touchscreen device. +Continue Reading
Online piracy is being viciously and ruthlessly battled by the United States government in an attempt to protect copyright holders and the entertainment industry from further losses. Illegal downloads are like tiny cuts being reopened again and again – one cut doesn’t hurt but when there are hundreds and thousands of them they slowly bleed the substantial profits from the big wigs.
For years now the US government has been trying to stop pirating, but only recently have they struck major blows. While many will argue that the entertainment industry and many other companies have a monopoly and that the prices they are charging for their products are outrageous and disproportionate, almost everyone will concede with the fact that pirating is still illegal (albeit justified). So of course the United States government comes running to aid the entertainment industry and is now shutting down sites with a fevered intensity – guilty and innocent sites alike. +Continue Reading
Barnes & Noble’s CEO William Lynch announced that the company will be adding NFC ( near-field communication) to their Nook e-reader platforms.
