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Enhanced ebooks are an emerging storytelling form. I’ve yet to see an enhanced ebook that captures my vision for the platform’s incredible narrative potential. I hope this post, which was originally written for authors and publishers, gets readers and creators thinking about the platform’s potential. Here’s some enhanced e-book wisdom for my author colleagues: It all starts with  you . I’m approaching this from a fiction writer’s perspective, though non-fiction writers can benefit from this advice. Prepare your work’s enhanced ebook experience from the very beginning, as you conceive your book. As you plot and write, always remember that you’re now armed with countless opportunities to push your narrative beyond words. Take advantage of that, and the many emotionally-resonant strengths other media have over text. Presently, enhanced content is often an afterthought, tacked on at the end of a production process as a blingy differentiator. We are now in an age of storytelling where ...

  Steve Jobs has stepped down as the CEO at Apple after he said he could no longer fulfill his chief executive's duties and expectations. He is to be replaced by Apple's chief operating officer Tim Cook. Mr. Jobs has been on medical leave since the 17th of January after undergoing a liver transplant following pancreatic cancer. Apple press released Mr. Jobs letter to the Apple board; August 24, 2011 Letter from Steve Jobs To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee. As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple. I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are a...

Google TV is upcoming to the UK in the next 6 months according to a story. The news is expected to be officially broadcast later today at the Edinburgh Television Festival. Google TV allow the use of various web services through a set-top box connected to the television. The service will agree to users to search the Internet, switch between TV and net connection, use smart phones as a remote and access a high def YouTube channel.

Mozilla has out its Firefox 6 version now 2 months after the launch of Firefox 5. even if Firefox 6 is not a main repair, there are a few notable changes from the older version. for a short time, these are; Site-specific permissions, improved site identity block, faster tab groups, improved Firefox sync, a new Android version and several developer tweeks

Google has broadcast a deal to pay money for out Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion (£7.7 billion). Both the boards for both companies generally accepted the deal which is due for completion by the end of this year or early next. previous this year, Motorola divide into two separate companies, Mobility, which develops and manufactures mobile phones, and Motorola Solutions, which covers wider technologies for company customers and governments. Shares in Motorola shoot 56% by the close of trading in New York yesterday to $38.13.

The city Police are in the development of testing facial recognition software to the front of next year's Olympics. The software is at present being put through it's speed as Police attempt to identify rebel and looters after the new trouble in the capital and surrounding areas. According to the Press Association, facial recognition will be used at the Olympics along with “a range of technologies at the place to help protect visitors”

A phone next to a notebook computer, projecting onto the same work space A newly available Apple patent application has provided additional hints that projectors could one day end up in future Apple products, including the company's phones, tablets, and as an handbag for notebook computers to help make it easier to share content with one another. The application "Projected display shared workspaces" was filed in February 2010 and pulled up this morning by Patently Apple. It draw round a system for taking what's on screen and projecting it onto a nearby surface. What's interesting about the system proposed in this particular patent filing is that it can join projections from multiple devices into one screen, in what's dubbed the "shared workspace." The application notes that "consumers frequently share data stored on electronic devices with other people," but that portable devices classically come with small screens, making it tricky to sha...

Deal now stopped up in the U.S., Apple has ended the day with a go ahead on Exxon Mobile, becoming the most valuable publicly traded company by market capitalization. The Cupertino, Calif.-based technology company passed Exxon the past during trading for the first time, only to end up the same way it began the day, below Exxon. According to Yahoo Finance Apple currently sits at $337.17 billion, compared to Exxon's $330.77 billion. Market capitalization is clear as the value of shares times the number of shares exceptional. Exxon surpassed General Electric, based on that metric, in 2005. The benchmark comes 14 years after Apple was bailed out by Microsoft in a $150 million investment and partnership deal that had the two companies doing business together at a time when Apple's future was unclear. In its rise to the No. 1 market cap spot, it passed Microsoft in that same metric early last year. Despite the title win for Apple in trading today, its stock closed down 2.76 perce...

On the 6th of August, 1991, a summing up of a project was posted by Tim Berners-Lee. The project was for organising information on a computer network using a web of hyperlinks and was named the WorldWideWeb or W3. This project was at the same time debuted as a openly accessible service on the Internet, and so the 'web' was born. As www celebrate it's 20th birthday, it remains the best ever growing phenomenom of our time and has revolutionised the way the world works nowadays.

McAfee, an IT security stiff, claims to have exposed one of the major sequence of cyber attacks ever to have taken place. Using code name operation Shady RAT, after the remote access tool, McAfee lists 72 different organisations that, they say, have been hacked more than the last 5 years. These firms include the International Olympic board, the UN and even security firms themselves. In an interview with the BBC, McAfee's chief European technology officer, Raj Samani, said the attacks were still going on. He went on to say; "This is a complete different level to the Night Dragon attacks that occurred previous this year. Those were attacks on a specific sector. This one is very, very broad. In some cases, we were allowable to delve a bit deeper and see what, if anything, had been taken, and in many suitcases we found evidence that intellectual property (IP) had been stolen." McAfee refused to pinpoint who they think might be responsible, but there is speculation that China...

LAS VEGAS--Facebook's online privacy woe are famous. But here's an offline one: its massive database of profile photos can be used to recognize you as you're walking down the street. A Carnegie Mellon University investigator today explained how he pull together a database of about 25,000 photographs taken from students' Facebook profiles. Then he set up a desk in one of the university grounds buildings and asked willing volunteers to peer into Webcams. The results: facial recognition software put a name to the face of 31 percent of the students after, on average, less than three seconds of rapid-fire comparisons. In a not many years, "facial visual searches may become as ordinary as today's text-based searches," says Alessandro Acquisti, who presented his work in collaboration with Ralph Gross and Fred Stutzman at the Black Hat computer security conference here. because a evidence of idea, the Carnegie Mellon researchers also developed an iPhone app that ...

The British Library is making digital copies of more than 40,000 classic books accessible for the iPad. The e-books will be complete with their original page markings and drawings and will take in novels, poetry and historical accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries. Users will have to pay a monthly payment of £1.99 to entrance the full collection. Apple's iPad was selected to open the service because its tangible interface was clever to "recreate the experience" of flipping through the real books. The British Library said that it hoped to add other mobile devices in future and that it was talking to a range of partners, plus Amazon.

Microsoft's Live.com database showed an HTC mobile device moving across Columbus, Ohio, last week. (Credit: Screen snapshot by Declan McCullagh/CNET) Microsoft has ceased publishing the estimated locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other devices with Wi-Fi connections around the world  The decision to rework Live.com's geolocation service comes following scrutiny of the way Microsoft made available its database assembled by both Windows Phone 7 phones and what the company calls "managed driving" by Street View-like vehicles that record Wi-Fi signals accessible from public roads. Every Wi-Fi device has a unique ID, sometimes called a MAC address, that cannot normally be changed                                                                                   ...

Samsung bring to a close tablet sales in Australia due to Apple clash, report says Apple and Samsung came to an agreement at some stage in a hearing in a federal court in Australia today. Samsung agreed to stop advertising the tablet and won't sell the device until it wins court approval or the lawsuit is resolved. Apple, meanwhile, agreed to disburse damages if it loses the violation lawsuit. It's the latest development in the rapidly escalating legal battle between the two buyer electronic giants. Apple claims Samsung's products copy the look and feel of the technology used in its products. Samsung disputes the claim. The lawsuit has spread quickly into several courts more or less the world. Apple is the middle of several patent lawsuits as it look for to maintain its dominance in the smartphone and emerging tablet categories. Its fight with Samsung is seen as particularly key, as the Korean company has seen its market share in the smartphone business flow with its smas...