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Only 8.5% Of Internet Usage Comes Via Mobiles

When you read the headlines of how ubiquitous smartphones are becoming, and how in some countries the mobile device is overtaking the PC in terms of internet access, you would think that mobile internet usage would directly follow from these facts. In reality, it seems that it still lagging behind: according to some figures out...

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: The Full Dive Into Media Interview (Video)

"We’re in the media business, but we’re not necessarily a media company."

Khush Tries Teaching the World to Songify Live (Video)

What happens when you mash up a karoke machine with your iPhone? A cool new app.

Apple v. Moto In Germany: One iPhone Injunction Ordered, Another One Lifted

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) in the last 24 hours has been dealt not one but two blows in court cases involving Motorola (NYSE: MMI) and patents in Germany, one involving IP licensing on older iPhone models (not the 4S) and one involving iCloud. However, as the day progressed, an injunction on the...

Canalys: Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Overtake PC/Tablet Market

Even if you throw the exploding tablet market in with the staid PC market, shipments of smartphones surpassed those of “client PCs” in 2011, a milestone for the computer industry.

Apple Clarifies: We Don’t Own The Content You Put Into iBooks Author

When Apple first released its free iBooks Author software, some were upset about its end-user licensing agreement, which states that works created in the program must be sold exclusively through Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The company has now tweaked the EULA to make it a bit more clear.

Apple Tweaks iBook Language: Your Content Is Your Content

A couple weeks after introducing its new iBooks Author app, Apple has clarified legal language about what happens to the books users create with the software. Apple continues to insist that users can only sell electronic books in the iBook format via its iTunes store. But it makes it clear that the content of those...

E-books and Self-Publishing Roundup, Feb. 2, 2012

The best stories of the week from across the web on e-books and self-publishing


1. Apple's iBooks push raises 6 questions about future of self-publishing (Fast Company)



2. Is Nook Simple Touch the best e-reader? (Gizmodo)



3. Franzen on e-books and the end of...

Living In A Smartphone World: Apple Number-Three Among ALL Mobile Players

It was five years ago that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) executives brushed off the idea of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as “not a threat” to Nokia’s top position in mobile sales. After all, Apple was only making smartphones and Nokia was still leading in that still-niche category, as well...

Journalism and Digital Education Roundup, Jan. 31, 2012

The best stories across the web on journalism and digital education



1. Stanford, Columbia share $30 million digital-media gift (Chronicle of Philanthropy)



2. Apple's new iBooks won't school college bookstores any time soon (Wired)



3. Knight Center course teaches journalists in digital world how to...

Apple Picks Dixons Group CEO Browett As New Retail SVP

Napoleon once described the UK as a “nation of shopkeepers”, so it is somewhat fitting that this is where Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has gone to find its next retail supremo.

SnagFilms Grabs $7 Million to Share Indie Movies Online

Terry Semel, who used to make really, really big movies for a living, is one of the investors in a start-up that works on the other end of the spectrum.