Microsoft kills Courier tablet project – BusinessWeek
Microsoft confirmed it has canceled further development and production on its tablet project, codenamed Courier, which industry watchers speculated could help drive down costs of Apple’s popular iPad. “At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, and incubated. It’s in Microsoft’s DNA to continually develop and [...]
Apple iPad To Come With 30k Free E-books, Report Says – PCWorld
Over 30,000 classic book titles will be available for free in Apple’s iBookstore when the iPad arrives on April 3, according to a report from AppAdvice. The e-books will come from Project Gutenberg’s free digital library, alongside paid titles from most major publishers. The volunteer-supported Project Gutenberg, which digitizes literature in the public domain (out [...]
Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
Starting next month, the more than 400 million Facebook users could begin seeing a new kind of status update flow through their news feed: the current locations of their friends. Facebook plans to take the wraps off a new location-based feature in late April at f8, the company’s yearly developer conference, according to several people [...]
