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Gates: MS, Barnes & Noble Have E-book Deal
News Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have struck a partnership to take advantage of an emerging category of handheld "e-book readers", CEO Bill Gates said during his keynote at the giant Consumer Electronics Show Wednesday evening.
[January 6, 2000, 9:29]
Yahoo! Scripts An E-book Offering
News has signed deals with four major book publishers to sell e-books on its shopping channel. s new e-book site. Analysts cite numerous roadblocks hindering consumer adoption, chief among them the high cost of e-book readers and widespread satisfaction...
[September 6, 2001, 8:31]
Microsoft, Donnelley Sign E-books Deal
News Donnelley Vice President Mark Bayer said in a release that the deal would solve the "chicken-and-egg problem," by dramatically increasing the number of titles available to e-book users. Publishers have been reluctant to put their content into...
[November 5, 1999, 10:26]
Microsoft In E-commerce Deal With W.H. Smith And BT
News The companies said the site will operate as a book "portal" selling educational and entertainment titles. Microsoft said today that it has finalised a deal to create an online store selling books, videos and music with W.H.
[March 24, 1999, 15:21]
Universities Launch E-book Experiment
News That's not a bad deal for a cash-strapped student facing book bills in the hundreds of dollars. Critics say that most consumers aren't yet willing to read book-length segments of text online and that e-book devices remain too expensive for the mass...
[August 10, 2005, 18:10]
Amazon To Launch Kindle E-book Reader
News The Kindle is equipped with a Wi-Fi connection that taps into an Amazon e-book store, which users can access to purchase new electronic books — and Amazon has reportedly signed onto a deal with Sprint for EVDO access.
[November 16, 2007, 8:26]
The New Yorker Enters Digital Age With E-books
News As companies and publishers face competition in the e-book industry for consumer attention and funding, analysts say Microsoft has captured a positive ally. Kevorkian said, however, that Microsoft and other e-book companies have yet to tap into the...
[January 30, 2001, 14:53]
Barnes & Noble Pulps E-books
News In 2000, Adobe expanded its e-book efforts, purchasing e-book technology developer Glassbooks and also signing a deal with Barnes & Noble to distribute e-books in Adobe's .PDF format. Meanwhile thousands of e-book titles were listed as unavailable.
[September 10, 2003, 8:45]
Kinati MiniBQM PC Personality Backup And Transfer
Downloads Featuring backing up and migrating Outlook Express e-mails, screensaver, wallpaper, address book, IE favorites, Office templates and dictionaries from one PC to another. MiniBQM is ideal for business or home users who wants to make backups of their...
[August 20, 2004, 1:31]
Priceline To Put Travel Services On EBay
News People will be able to book flights and hotel rooms and make car reservations through the auction format or immediately, using eBay's "Buy it Now" feature. Priceline.com will offer travel services on eBay under a deal the companies announced on...
[February 4, 2002, 6:31]
Exclusive: Pocket PC Glitch Means Few Readable E-books
News As a result, not all e-books will be initially available to owners of Pocket PCs, the people analysts say are the most likely consumers to first visit the new e-book "store". Anyone who bought a Pocket PC with the intention of reading e-books on it...
[August 8, 2000, 8:59]
New Flare-up In Battle Over E-books
News Sarnoff talked up some of the potential new economic models that e-book publishing could spawn. But in addition to the customary war of words between the two camps, an equally heated dispute emerged at e-Book World on Monday over the business model...
[November 7, 2000, 9:48]
Branson Steps Into Mobile Phone Market
News For example, Xtras can offer access to Internet radio or even the facility to book holidays direct from the handset. Make enquiries and book tickets for Virgin holidays, flights and trains In typical headline grabbing style, Branson hit out at the...
[November 11, 1999, 12:46]
M'Learned Web: The Trouble With E-commerce...
News First thing in the morning you go to your computer and you dial up one of the book-selling sites and, your mind still fogged with dreams from the previous evening, you order a copy of Geri Halliwell's autobiography.
[December 3, 1999, 13:25]
AOL Makes Interactive TV Move - Deal With TiVo
News Another example may be watching 'Oprah,' and there's a book review. Maybe you could click on that book and purchase it automatically. Internet Goliath America Online took what analysts are calling a necessary step Tuesday when it inked a deal with...
[August 18, 1999, 8:31]
The Day Ahead: Amazon.com's March To Profits Still Hazy
News In the fourth quarter, Amazon made a point of saying its book business was profitable. When pinned down on an analyst conference call, Jenson did add that Amazon's book business was profitable in the first quarter.
[April 27, 2000, 12:04]
HarperCollins And Palm To Offer E-books
News Palm has an e-book reader application, dubbed the Palm Reader, that runs on Palm and Pocket PC-based handhelds. Palm has signed a deal with HarperCollins Publishers to distribute e-books through Palm Digital Media, a publisher and distributor of e...
[November 21, 2001, 11:46]
KmAnywhere 2005 Standard
Downloads Favorites, RSS channels, Internet account and password, message, address book, photo, MP3 music, office files, pdf. Four major modules: notebooks, browser, e-mail and contacts, to help you deal with the barrage of electronic information anywhere...
[October 3, 2005, 21:38]
Roundup: CES Heralds New Techno-culture
News Gates: MS, Barnes & Noble have e-book deal TiVo lands 'Blockbuster' deal Mon, 10th Jan 2000 Sony new TiVo player: Bigger, cheaper Mon, 10th Jan 2000 Taking digital music beyond the PC Mon, 10th Jan 2000
[January 6, 2000, 10:29]
LoveLetter Worm Variant Spams Spies
News On systems with Microsoft Outlook installed, the program will mail copies of itself to each entry in the Outlook address book. Two years ago, speculation of widespread American monitoring of other countries' communications caused a great deal of...
[May 17, 2001, 9:02]
