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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...