YouPad, iDon’t

May 3, 2010

Apple’s new iPad tablet whatchamacallit (is it a minimalist computer or an overgrown cell phone?) is flying off the shelves and into the hands of buyers who are eager to put it to good use. I have not yet figured out exactly what that good use is. I keep asking myself: What would I do with an iPad if I had one? There are a lot of Apple products in …

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A Victory For Old-School Publishers

February 9, 2010

Big retailers seldom acknowledge, let alone apologize for, the “needlessly high” price of the stuff they sell. But Amazon is feeling apologetic these days over having to boost the price of some electronic books. Amazon recently lost a much-publicized tug-of-war with Macmillan, one of the country’s six largest publishers. The outcome means that, in the short term, readers will pay more for some of Macmillan’s new releases, and this is …

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Microsoft, Google, Lewis And Clark

July 17, 2009

Hungry, wet and freezing, the Lewis and Clark party stumbled through the Bitterroot Mountains in September 1805 searching for the Columbia River and its outlet to the sea. “To our inexpressible joy,” wrote Meriwether Lewis on Sept. 19, they finally spied the prairies of the river basin where they would find food and salvation. I know how he felt. Off in the distance, I think I see the edge of …

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