Amazon is planning to bring a Kindle reader to the Mac platform, according to a report from Fast Company. The question came up after Microsoft announced during the Windows 7 launch this week that Amazon would release a Kindle reader for that OS, and an Amazon spokesperson confirmed for the magazine that Kindle was coming to the Mac, too.
Cory Doctorow's fabulous spit in Microsoft's eye, from 2004. Translated by fans into multiple formats and languages, for free, because of his openness.
HONG KONG — The Associated Press is considering whether to sell news stories to some online customers exclusively for a certain period, perhaps half an hour, the head of the news organization said Tuesday. The AP licenses its stories and photographs to many of the Internet's main hubs, including Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN, and its work also is used by hundreds of Web sites owned by newspapers and broadcasters.
The number of tech titles available on Kindle gets a big bump. But the market is still broken in many respects. Read about the difficulties in formatting for Kindle and the inability to get publisher updates through Amazon (or Apple for EPUB books).
H-P, Dell and others are plotting strategies and developing devices to rival Apple's attention-grabbing iPad, hoping to capitalize on new interest in a category of gadgets that was all but moribund." />