Daily Archives: December 4, 2011

Kobo gives away free e-book per month to new buyers

Posted on December 4, 2011 by admin

Kobo is trying a unique strategy to lure readers away from Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble by promising regular free e-books. Anyone who buys a Kobo Touch and first uses it on or before March 31 gets a free e-book each month. The publishers include Harvard Business Review Press, e-Reads, F+W Media, Gooseberry Patch, and New Word City, as well as four independent authors…. Continue reading →

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Carrier IQ: any logging is the fault of HTC, other makers

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Carrier IQ followed up its technical discussion of how its system works with an implication that phone designers like HTC were compromising the security of its device tracking. In a chat with The Verge, marketing VP Andrew Coward was careful not to mention HTC by name but gave strong clues that a standard Android log file containing the normally unsaved information had to have been populated by HTC with the tracking data. HTC’s software in this view was making copies of whatever the Carrier IQ programming interface saw…. Continue reading →

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Intel Ivy Bridge desktop chip specs, benchmarks leak

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The desktop versions of Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors have most of their details outlined in full through a roadmap discovered this week. The X-Bit Labs copy shows all the chips falling under the 3000 series in the same Core i3, i5, and i7 tiers, with four cores still the maximum for non-Extreme chips. Clock speeds would have a higher baseline, starting with a 2.7GHz Core i5 (3.2GHz after Turbo Boost) and peaking at a 3.5GHz Core i7 (3.9GHz)…. Continue reading →

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Apple had offered Samsung patent license given to IBM, Nokia

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Apple had made an olive branch license to Samsung for a patent that the Korean company turned down, a discovery within redacted court documents found on Saturday. Normally unavailable, the details given to The Verge showed that Apple in November 2010 offered the same license for its iOS scrolling feedback patent that it ultimately secured with IBM and Nokia. As a cornerstone of iOS’ intuitiveness, it showed Apple willing to make a significant concession to Samsung first before it turned to the court…. Continue reading →

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