Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Tax Can Be Taxing

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Tax and laws created before there was an Internet often can create conflict often between bricks and motor stores and online eretailers howe...

Australia Lifts Samsung Ban

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An Australia court has overturned an earlier ban on the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy tab in the country. Apple had previously won an injunction ...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

Can eBooks Meet Changing Social Demand?

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Three stories catch our eye that all point to a significant trend in the demand to loaning and renting ebooks. Some can be seen to be respon...
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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Does the Kyobo Reader Pass the 'So What' Test?

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If we had a colour ‘eink’ ereader device some 18 months ago we world may have been different today. If we had a colour ‘eink’ ereader device...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Spotify Delivers Pay Subscribers

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Some 4 years ago we awaited the launch of Spiral Frog’s music streaming service but . Unfortunately when it finally it came to market it wa...

Buffy the Facebook Mobile Slayer?

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Will Facebook’s ‘Buffy’ be the vampire mobile slayer or a step too far? Facebook are widely reported to be working with HTC to create i...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Cybercrime, SOPA and Copyright

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Cybercrime takes many different forms and always happens to someone else. We can take precautions against it but when it happens its impact ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Digital Content Is Different

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Yesterday we sat down with someone who is starting a new digital venture. As we discussed the potential, the market, the options and much mo...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Samsung and Apple Lock Horns

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We handed in our old and trusty HTC Hero Android last week which now some two years on is showing its age. We looked hard at what was on off...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

The Times Are a Changin'

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Today we have two different stories which by themselves are newsworthy. Together these demonstrate that the booktrade is not in full control...
Wednesday, November 09, 2011

KOBO Steps Up To Go Global

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In a move clearly aimed at the international market KOBO has been acquired by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten for a reported $315 millio...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Rethinking the Digital Future

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Technology is not only changing how we do business and is introducing a significant challenge in reducing the time to do business. As techno...
Thursday, November 03, 2011

Can You Define Tomorrow's Digital Library?

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Today we have two separate but interlinked news articles on libraries. Declining spend, visits, issues, stock, staff numbers would all send ...
Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Just When You Thought Standards Were Simple

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The amazing metadata map above is simply called Seeing Standards: A Visualisation of the Metadata Universe and is truly mind-blowing and a ...
Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Collective Endeavour On Cybercrime?

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What would bring representatives from over 60 nations to London to a special two day conference this week? The representatives include EU di...

Google To Take You Inside The Shop

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We all thought that Google Street was taking mapping to a new level when you could actually ‘walk’ down the street and see the sights as if ...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Sony Buys All Sony Ericsson

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Sony who was once ‘the’ electronics brand has had it share of market slippage and some years ago felt it had to enter the mobile market in ...

For Book Depository Read Amazon

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The UK OFT (Office of Fair Trading) has today cleared Amazon’s proposed acquisition UK Internet retailer The Book Depository. Many objection...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Amazon: Fiction Prizes, Japan and KF8

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Another day and that great river Amazon keeps on flowing. Today three disjointed pieces of news demonstrate why Amazon continues to chart it...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Facebook: For Delete Read Archive?

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What do you say on social networks and who you connect to may be one thing, but does the information collected against you go much deeper? I...

Nokia Slip Further Behind

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There was a time not so long ago when Nokia could do no wrong and they dominated the mobile Market. However, today their market share contin...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

A New Era of Author Care?

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We live in a connected world where information can be instantly available at a click. However, information on book movement and sales has to...