Folks, I’d really like to apologize the the mess this afternoon.Virginia was the center of a 5.9 magnitude earthquake, and I;m afraid it was my fault. I was beta-testing a new tag for HTML5 and it got a little out of hand. I had thought that the value for the quake tag was in decimal, [...]
Entries from August 23rd, 2011
OnSale now cancelling HP TouchPad orders
August 23rd, 2011 · 11 Comments · hardware news
It looks like Barnes & Noble weren’t the only ones who bungled the TouchPad situation. One of the retailers that I pointed you at a couple days ago forgot to stop taking orders when they ran out of TouchPads. OnSale posted a note on their Facebook page earlier today and warned their customers that they [...]
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United Airlines now adopting a paperless cockpit
August 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · iPad
United Airlines announced on Tuesday that they were in the process of doing away with the voluminous stacks of paper flight manuals carried by each pilot. They started issuing iPads to pilots a few weeks ago, and expect to have them in the hands of all pilots by the end of the year. United are actually the [...]
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Publishers take note – Don’t Mess With Texas
August 23rd, 2011 · 8 Comments · humor
Every so often on this blog I like to post a funny or satirize story. Today the state of Texas decided to save me the effort. The Texas Department of Transportation is suing over the titles of a romance novel. The suit names Hachette , Barnes & Noble, and the author of said book, Christie [...]
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TouchPad clearance still going on
August 23rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Daily deals
It’s Tuesday morning, day 4 of the TouchPad frenzy, and things seem to have died down a bit. Hardly anyone has it in stock anymore, but there’s a rumor that there are still more units in the warehouses. BestBuy are supposed to get more in later this week. You might want to keep checking the [...]
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Daily Deals: Kindle, Aluratek Libre, NookColor, Augen The Book
August 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Daily deals
There have been a number of interesting deals flying under the radar this week as everyone scrambled to get a TouchPad. Barnes & Noble started carrying the refurbished NookColor for $180 late last week. I’m not sure that this is a deal; it might be better to say that this is the new retail for [...]
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B&N now cancelling most (all?) TouchPad orders
August 22nd, 2011 · 11 Comments · hardware news
If you ordered a TouchPad from Barnes & Noble on Tuesday and they didn’t cancel the order, congratulations. You are one of the lucky few that didn’t get smacked around by B&N today. One of my posts this morning pointed everyone at B&N’s electronics department, which at the time was one of the few places [...]
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New Agency Pricing lawsuit filed
August 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · lawsuit
Another anti-trust lawsuit has been filed to day, which now makes (I believe) 4 lawsuits in process in various parts of the US. ( Can you believe that it’s only been 2 weeks since the first lawsuit was filed?) Like the others, this is a class-action suit. It was filed by Finkelstein Thompson and it [...]
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HP TouchPad running Android shows up on Reddit (video)
August 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware rumors
Now this is a curious turn of events. In a post titled “One of the guys at work went to Best Buy saturday to get an hp touchpad, it already had android on it“, one person at Reddit is claiming to have gotten a Touchpad that runs Froyo (Android v2.2.1). It’s supposed to have been [...]
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Dedication Publishing to launch new e-reader in Canada
August 22nd, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
Éditions Dédicaces, a 2 year old French-Canadian digital publisher, have just started taking orders for their own branded ebook reader. The ER-009d is based on a 4.3″ (480×272) LCD screen and it has 2GB Flash, a microSD card slot, a touchscreen, microphone, speaker, and 7 hours of battery life. It ships with 300 public domain [...]
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