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At least one company thinks the world hungers for another mobile operating system. Canonical, the company that builds and maintains Ubuntu Linux, is planning to release a version of their operating system for smartphones and tablets.
ZDNet scored an interview with Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, who discussed plans for mobile Ubuntu ahead of Canonical’s developer conference this week.
The launch of iCloud this week introduced a new phase of cloud computing: the battle for dominance of the consumer cloud. iCloud is a comprehensive service that puts most (eventually all?) of your data in a personal cloud that syncs across your desktop and mobile devices and archives in the cloud. In best Apple fashion, it requires (or allows) almost no set-up.
The Publishing Business Virtual Conference & Expo has announced speakers for its third-annual free virtual event, to be held October 27.
In a surprise move, authors’ groups slammed their one-time university partners with a lawsuit demanding that the schools’ surrender digital collections and stop working with Google. The lawsuit opens a new phase in the fight over digital libraries and comes the same week that Google’s controversial books settlement is expected to die in court.
The lawsuit is a response to a digital book sharing plan announced last month by a group of prominent schools, including Michigan, Cornell, Duke and the University of California regarding "oprhan books"—books whose authors can't be found.
Bertelsmann AG announced Random House's half-year earnings in a press release today, accompanied by a letter from Bertelsmann chairman and CEO.
Apple made headlines Tuesday by passing Exxon Mobil to become the world's most valuable company in market capitalization, making a dramatic turnaround from being nearly broke years before. Now it's time to ask what company might be next in line to make a similar transformation.
At the moment, all indications point to Amazon, the company that began as an online bookseller but now is directly challenging Apple with its new Kindle Cloud Reader that bypasses Apple's App Store by offering books and other down-loadable content through the Web instead of a native iOS app.
INTERQUEST, a leading market and technology research and consulting firm serving the digital printing and publishing industry, today announced a 10-percent increase in attendance at its annual 2011 Digital Book Printing Forum held during the Publishing Business Conference and Expo in New York City on April 5.
While their customers may argue over whether it's better to be "a Mac" or "a PC" in a long-running series of TV commercials, Microsoft and Apple now are arguing over a trademark. According to an article on MobileMarketer.com, Microsoft has filed an objection to Apple's application to trademark the term "app store" for its exclusive use, claiming it is a generic term.
WOWIO, Inc. today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for a broad patent application covering a variety of methods that allow for the delivery of ads in eBooks
Ask a sampling of your book industry peers, and you will find that most publishing careers do not begin with an engineering degree.
