Barnes & Noble has introduced a $249 color e-book — with a 7-inch Color Touchscreen and advertising sponsored free books. It will begin shipping around Nov. 19, and is now available for pre-order. The NookColor forgoes E-Ink for an LCD color screen. It is a half-inch thick, weighs less than a pound, and has a [...]
Google announced on Tuesday that it will provide $5 million in grant money to non-profits “working to develop new approaches to journalism in the digital age.” Google is providing $2 million to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, half of which will be earmarked to support U.S. grant-making, with the other half going [...]
U.S. Rep. David Wu will join presenters this week for the sixth-annual Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON), Oct. 27-28 at The Nines hotel in Portland. This year GOSCON returns to Portland after being hosted in 2009 in Washington, D.C. “Last fall, when the City of Portland adopted the nation’s first open source software policy, one [...]
At Rail-volution last week in Portland, Chris Smith from Portland Transport debuted what he is calling the world’s first “Transit Appliance“. The Transit Appliance delivers real-time transit arrival times to a dedicated, one-piece display in your home, coffee shop, library or anywhere transit users gather. Drawing upon a number of a variety of Open Source [...]
Two of the largest media companies in the Pacific Northwest are joining forces to create a new online advertising network, reports TechFlash The Seattle Times and KING-TV announced the launch of BeLocal, a partnership that allies the biggest daily newspaper in the state with the top TV station for community news sites and hyperlocal blogs. [...]
Adobe’s MAX conference, Oct 23-27th in Los Angeles, is emphasizing the company’s content creation, management and playback tools for mobile devices. Adobe chief technical officer Kevin Lynch introduced Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite. It focuses heavily on the creation of e-books and other electronic publications, and is intended to give designers more control over interactivity and [...]
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