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My TED favorites- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
- Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
- Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
- The technology of the heart: His Holiness the Karmapa on TED.com
- Let the environment guide our development: Johan Rockstrom on TED.com
- Super foods superheroes
- The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
- Animal instincts: Saturday TEDTalks playlist
- What physics taught me about marketing: Dan Cobley on TED.com
Tag Archives: amazon
Kindle v3.0 on the way ?
Amazon plans to introduce a new version of their Kindle e-book reader in August. However after a recent price cut just three weeks ago, Amazon is now out of their current Kindle and their site suggests a new model is on the way.
The device is rumored to be even thinner an updated refresh screen and [...]
Posted in Design • Globalization • HighRes • Reading • Tablet
Tagged amazon, ebook reader, enhanced imaging, kindle, new model, touch screen
Amazon’s Kindle capitulation ?
Want to confuse customers? How about taking the “if ya can’t beat`em, join`em” approach….
I wonder what Bezos thinks about when you pull this type of capitulation. I cannot help but wonder about Amazon’s own statement: NO KINDLE REQUIRED. If anyone sees this add and is deciding which to choose, this move by Amazon cements the [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Innovation • Interactive • Media Players • Reading • Tablet
Tagged amazon, apple, capitulation, change, content, ebook, ereader, ipad, kindle, Reading, Tablet, tipping point, trends
New eReader price wars
So what happens when Apple’s $500 iPad sells like mad? Well a price war of course between the Nook and Amazon’s Kindle.
It appears that Apple has produced a product that consumers have been wanting and are willing to pay quite a premium. But at the same time Apple has cut into Amazon’s ownership of eBook [...]
Posted in Design • Globalization • Network • Reading • Rich media • Tablet • Technology
Tagged amazon, apple, ebook sales, ereader, ipad, kindle, kindle DX, nook, price war
My latest read – The Future of the Internet
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University wrote The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It. This book is very interesting for all the wrong reasons. Zittrain documents that existing, closed, controlled systems are damaging the internet an [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Innovation • Interactive • Internet2 • Media Players • Network • OLPC • OpenSource • Reading • Rich media • Smartphone • Technology
Tagged amazon, connecting to the internet, content, copyright, drm, ebook, future of the internet, future technologies, generativity, GM, iphone, itunes, jonathan zittrain, kindle, knowledge, Network, OLPC, one laptop per child, onstar, Reading, security, Smartphone, Technology, TED, tivo
The new $500 Kindle DX
With a bit of hype and fanfare Amazon.com launched a bigger Kindle DX today. The new ebook reader has a price point of $500 and supports native PDF files and bigger screen that rotates. Cool. The announcement however is not showing up at CNN.com or the NYTimes websites. Digg had it posted 1.5 hours ago.
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My favorite OS for kids
Sugar is a great little OS for little learners around the world. Its the way an OS and laptop should be introduced to children. Engineered for Children…what a concept.
Tags: OLPC, Sugar Labs, Amazon, XO, open source, globalization, trends
Posted in Education • Globalization • Network • OLPC • OpenSource • TED • Technology
Tagged amazon, children, Education, give one get one, OLPC, one laptop per child, sugar labs, xo, XO laptop
Amazon to sell OLPC
As reported by the BBC and others, Amazon has announced it will begin selling OLPC’s XO unit this fall. The new unit will support dual boot to SugarOS or WindowsXP. OLPC’s first GiveOneGetOne (G1G1) program struggled late last year.
Many canceled their orders when shipping glitches and production delays hit the first XO laptop. This new [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Interactive • OLPC • OpenSource • Technology
Tagged $100 laptop, amazon, Globalization, OLPC, sugar, trends, windows, xo
New Kindle from Amazon
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Posted in Design • Innovation • Reading • Tablet • Technology
Tagged 3g, amazon, amazon kindle, ebook, ebook price, ebook sales, predecessor, Reading, storage, wireless options