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Google Acquires eBook Technologies to Rival Amazon and Barnes & Noble

January 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Google Acquires eBook Technologies

Google after opening its online bookstore last month went to another step in competing with Amazone.com by acquiring eBook technologies, a company which is famous for making digital reading projects. The Internet book store, which opened Monday on 6th December 2010 in the U.S., draws upon a portion of the 15 million printed books that [...]

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3 New Games from Chillingo; TxT Fighter, Ninja Penguin Rampage and Neon Battle HD

December 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Chillingo launched three games for the iOS-powered devices.  Chillingo is a Leading Independent Games Publisher and division of Electronic Arts Inc. TxT Fighter is a fighting game with a twist — this unique Text-‘em-Up is frantic fun and improves your texting skills! The thumb is mightier than the sword in this unique take on the [...]

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Google Editions E-Reader Service to be launched in US by the Year End

December 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Google Editions will launch in the US this year, with international launches to follow soon after in. Dubbed Google Editions, the new venture will take a different approach to book selling than most of its competitors, including Amazon’s Kindle or Apple’s iBookstore. Instead of relying on a single, centralized store, Google will let users buy [...]

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Google Editions To Launch Soon – Rival to Amazon, Barnes and Noble

December 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google is now in the “final stages” of launching Google Editions, which was originally expected to be up and running this summer. The project recently got past several technical and legal hurdles, the article said. Google Editions is expected to have an open format that will allow users [...]

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MacTech benchmarks Office 2011, finds big gains

November 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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“MacTech” has released the results of its extensive benchmark study of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. The goal was to see how well the new Office applications performed compared to Office 2008 and 2004 across a variety of configurations. The results show significant speed gains all around, particularly in general app launching times, and in [...]

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