Google wants to make e-books available to all devices with web browsers, from mobile phones to desktop computers, challenging Amazon's Kindle e-book reader which forces buyers to buy books through the company
Stephen King has published two works in internet. The first was "Riding the bullet", which sold around 500,000 copies online.
With that success, King started the publication of a second work online, The Plant, with the idea of selling each chapter at $1. But he decided to suspend the experiment, because it didn't work as he thought it might.
Vodafone is launching a cloud-based service designed for business people and consumers who are looking for a way to back up the data on their desktops, laptops and netbooks. The move is significant as Vodafone is making another move beyond the mobile market and is using cloud-based services to get there
Open-source softwares and social networking allow anyone anywhere to share and create contents online. People on longer need printed press such as newspaper, magazine as the cultural gatekeeper.
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", however, there is always a copyright concern around Google Book Search project.
Google Wave, Google's new real-time collaboration platform currently in private beta, is claimed to be more secure than traditional email because Google has focused on addressing privacy and security issues as the product was built from the ground up instead of waiting to deal with them later.
Circulation at newspapers shrank at an accelerated pace in the past six months, driven in part by stiff price increases imposed by publishers scrambling to offset rapidly eroding advertising sales.
Average daily circulation at 379 U.S. newspapers plunged 10.6 percent in the April-September period from the same six-month stretch last year, according to figures released Monday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.