Tagged: E-books & News
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Barnes & Noble shares rise following reports of Microsoft’s US$1bn Nook acquisition News
09.05.2013 Pre-market trading saw shares in Barnes & Noble rise 23pc following a report claiming that Microsoft is planning to buy up Nook Media’s digital assets.Categories: Mergers & Acquisitions, Digital Media -
The five minute CIO: Ger O’Sullivan News
12.04.2013 Ger O’Sullivan, head of ICT policy with Ireland’s National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals, outlines why the new junior cycle can be an opportunity to foster... -
Amazon acquires bookish social community Goodreads News
29.03.2013 E-commerce, gadget and cloud giant Amazon has acquired Goodreads, the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations which has a community of 16m who have added 530m... -
How the internet has made the world greener (infographic) News
30.03.2013 Going digital via the internet has saved millions of pounds in plastic and paper, an infographic reveals. -
Number of kids reading e-books rises 21pc since 2010 - report News
15.01.2013 The number of children reading e-books has nearly doubled since 2010 and kids who read e-books are reading more, especially boys, a new report suggests. -
E-reader player Kobo to create 30 new software engineering jobs in Dublin News
12.12.2012 Kobo, a major e-reading platform with more than 10m users in 190 countries across smartphones, tablets and e-readers, is to create 30 new jobs in Dublin with the establishment...Categories: Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, eCommerce, Games/Entertainment, Internet, Mobile, Mobility, Multimedia, Phones, Wireless Communications -
The tech gift guide: E-readers for bookworms and tablets for multimedia mavens News
07.12.2012 Tablets and e-readers are popular gifts for the holiday season, but with so many new releases in 2012 it can be hard to know what to choose. Never fear, as whether it’s a simple...Categories: Computers -
Dell offers users free pocket edition of Windows 8 for Dummies News
06.11.2012 Windows 8 marks a significant shift for Microsoft away from a tried-and-tested user interface into the unknown of Live Tiles, touchscreen controls and apps where programmes used...Categories: Operating Systems -
The rise of e-reading: are books going to become an endangered species (infographic) News
21.09.2012 Amazon UK’s latest figures in August revealed that for every 100 books sold on Amazon.co.uk in 2012, 114 e-books have been sold. The advent of e-readers has only helped bolster... -
Wikipedia enables EPUB export feature for users to download articles as e-books News
18.09.2012 Wikipedia has announced a new EPUB export feature for its English version that will allow users to create a personal collection of Wikipedia articles that they can then download... -
The technology business week: Innovation Nation aims to woo firms to Ireland, Facebook closes Instagram acquisition News
10.09.2012 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Amazon expected to unveil new tablets and smartphone today News
06.09.2012 E-commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon is expected to reveal today a new smartphone based on the same Android OS it developed to power its Kindle Fire tablet devices.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Tesco acquires e-book platform provider Mobcast News
04.09.2012 Tesco customers should soon have more choice in how they buy and enjoy e-books, thanks to the retail giant’s acquisition of digital bookseller Mobcast for US$7.2m. -
Sony introduces Evernote to new Reader News
28.08.2012 Sony’s new Reader PRS-T2 comes with a number of enhancements to take the e-reading experience as close to paper as possible, as well as a brand new feature: Evernote, the... -
Actor Russell Crowe helps a new start-up, with US$25K pledge via Kickstarter News
09.08.2012 Actor, film producer and musician Russell Crowe has given a US start-up a bit of a dig out. Crow has pledged US$25,000 via the US crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to help a... -
Fifty Shades of Grey books outsell Harry Potter on Amazon.co.uk News
01.08.2012 The popular Fifty Shades of Grey triology has overtaken the seven Harry Potter books to become the best-selling book series on Amazon.co.uk. -
OverDrive e-books now available in one-third of Irish public libraries News
12.06.2012 Interleaf Technology, a technology provider for library services, announced today that its e-books and audio books solution, OverDrive, is seeing continued growth in Irish... -
Edco’s e-books could make textbooks a thing of the past News
24.05.2012 The full curriculum of post-primary schoolbooks for the next school year are available as e-books, as Edco now plans to tackle primary school editions.Categories: Web, Software Development, Software, Mobile, Internet, Finding a Job, Education, Digital Media, Computers, Apps, Application Design and DevelopmentTags: E-book Readers, E-books, Education, Software, Notebook, Laptops, iPad, Tablet Computers, Tablet, Edco -
Tablet computer ownership to surge 200pc in next two years News
25.04.2012 If you thought Apple selling 12m iPads in the last quarter is some feat, think again. Research suggests that total global tablet sales including consumer, commercial, industrial...Categories: Internet, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Media, Mobile, Mobility, Wireless Communications -
Weekend news roundup – hacker in residence, Google’s privacy bumbles News
23.04.2012 In our trawl through the weekend newspapers' tech coverage, we learn that 20-year-old Cork coder James Whelton has been named 'hacker in residence' for seasoned tech investor...Categories: Digital Business, Digital Media, Economy, Funding, Games/Entertainment, Internet, Investments, Security, Servers, Web