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Scribd and Lulu Join Forces

Online self-publishing firm Lulu and social document sharing site Scribd have just announced a partnership in which Lulu will begin using Scribd's iPaper viewer to display Lulu's free e-books online...

RWW Live: iPhonemania

Today we did our fourth RWW Live podcast, which we're running fortnightly on the TalkShoe platform. Today we devoted the whole episode to the iPhone, with a segue at one point into Foocamp (Marshall...

Apple's App Store: 10 Million Downloads Later

Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch has been growing quickly over the weekend. Close to 250 applications have been added since Friday. As Medialets reports, at the same time, the average...

gPhone? Just a Rumor - The Real Story Is The Android Developer Revolt

Of course, we all know that the event of the past week (or perhaps we should say the event of the year, given the news coverage), has been the launch of the iPhone 2.0. Yet even amidst the iPhone...

Microsoft-Yahoo: Setting the Record Straight Once More

It seems Mondays are slowly becoming the traditional days for Microsoft/Yahoo updates. Today, Microsoft saw the need to 'set the record straight' after Yahoo had released a statement on Saturday...

SugarSync Adds File Send Feature

File synchronisation and backup is a growth area - Syncplicity, SugarSync, Mozy and Microsoft's Live Mesh compete in the space to provide cross-platform, cross-device and cloud-available data. One...

iPhone: The New Personal Computer

When Apple first announced the launch of its iPhone platform, we wrote here that it is a game changer. Even the core of iPhone is a major advance in mobile computing, but with the platform...

Geeks Make Public Presentations Fun Again

At a time in history when Powerpoint is both ubiquitous and widely despised, when students in classrooms pay increasingly little attention to the education they're paying for because Facebook is more...

Do Facebook Users Care About Commenting On Mini-Feeds?

Recently, Facebook changed its layout involving the commenting functionality on Mini-Feed items. Before, you had to click on the plus sign ("+") to add a comment, but now the word "comment" is...

Bezos Invests in Social Gaming Network

Jeff Bezos clearly thinks there is a future in casual gaming. Just this May, he invested $3 million in Kongregate. Today, Bezos invested an undisclosed amount in the Social Gaming Network (SGN),...