Google Launches eBooks

Google never stops thinking, aiming to take the ebook market to the next level with a multi-device platform the application launched on Monday December 6th. Currently the application is only available to users in the U.S.

 

Google announced Google eBooks and Google eBookstore on Monday, launching a long-anticipated cloud-based system to allow readers to buy e-books online from a choice of booksellers and to read them with a variety of devices.

Google’s launch is essentially a cannonball into the e-book waters, promising to splash out all the water where e-book sellers Amazon and Apple now swim.

Google eBooks (previously code-named Google Editions) will be available through the new online Google eBookstore at Books.google.com, where readers in the U.S. can now purchase “hundreds of thousands” of titles and browse more than more than 3 million titles, said Abraham Murray, product manager of Google Books.

Until today, only searching and browsing were possible. The eBookstore will be activated for international users early next year.

Continue reading at Computerworld

 

HBCU iphone App

 

 

Being a news Junkie pays off, spotted this at CNN this morning and saw this iphone APP. Spelman College students Jonecia Keels and Jasmine Miller created an App  called HBCU Buddy that gives students looking for information on Historically Black Colleges/Universities(HBCU’s) the “overview” on all of the HBCU’s in the country. As a very proud graduate of a HBCU, University of Maryland Eastern Shore this brought an instant smile to my face. If you are looking for information on HBCU’s please download this app.

Mac Book Air 11 inch

(Photo via apple.com)

Brand spanking new! Apple has unveiled their version a netbook…the Mac Book Air 11 inch. At $999 it’s definitely pricey well Apple standards but if you have the money, to be able to slide a mac book in your bookbag or oversized purse is priceless at least for the level the cool that comes with pulling a sleek Mac Book out of your bag and having the creative accessibility that Apple provides.

 

 

Apple’s New takeover?

Starting something new…discussions. Starting off with Technology meets music again with Apple’s Ping. What do you all think?

http://m.wired.com/epicenter/2010/09/apples-ping-social-music-network-is-already-too-big-to-fail/

http://www.apple.com/itunes/ping/