Facebook and Twitter are preparing to flip the switch on features that will allow you to share your location with your friends at any time.
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ComScore’s latest numbers on U.S. smartphone market share show Apple holding second place, though Android is growing strongly.
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On Tuesday, Samsung showed off its first-ever line of 3D LED TVs as well as other additions to its LED, LCD, and plasma TV lineups, many of which offer built-in 3D technology.
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Birdfeed, the “very nice twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch,” has been purchased and replaced with Brizzly by Thing Labs.
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Google has added bicycle directions for Google Maps making it easier for cyclists to plan routes in 150 U.S. cities including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Portland and Washington, DC.
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Intego has released VirusBarrier X6 Dual Protection, which offers all the features of its X6 product for both Mac and Windows operating systems running on the same machine.
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Can you have access to your AVCHD camcorder’s files without an attached camcorder? Yes. Here are some options.
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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad, iPad
A couple of weeks before Apple announced the iPad, my wife told me she’d like to have a Kindle. I told her to hang tight, because Apple was likely going to announce a competitive device soon. They did, and we’re now set to pre-order the iPad in a couple of days. But exactly how iBooks will look and behave on the iPad, we’re not completely sure. The gang over at iPadInsider, however, have some video from Penguin that gives us our best idea yet.
At the FT Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference in London earlier this month, Penguin Group CEO John Makinson revealed some of the company’s titles that are coming to the iPad. “We will be embedding audio, video and streaming into everything we do. The epub format, which is the standard for ebooks at the present, is designed to support traditional narrative text, but not this cool stuff that we’re now talking about.”
The books, as expected, are more like applications than their print counterparts, with interactive elements and video abounding. This makes the books more for kids and more involving for adults. Of course, it’s the content that’ll actually move copies, and how comfortable the books are to read, we still don’t know (and likely won’t until April 3rd.
In the meantime, head on over to iPadInsider for the video of John Makinson’s presentation to see the iPad iBooks in action.
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