- Financial Times passes 2m users for its HTML5 web app | Media | guardian.co.uk
"Mobile now driving 12% of subscriptions to the newspaper's digital offering" (dopost financial_times app html5 )
- Billionaires’ day at the Leveson inquiry | Media | The Guardian
"What was interesting on Monday was the way in which the proprietors take it for granted that busy prime ministers are interested in their views on Russia, Chinese tourist visas (the Barclays also own expensive London hotels) and quantitative easing for their own sake, not because they fear what their newspapers might do to them if they don't keep the boss sweet." (james_murdoch leveson_inquiry newspapers )
- Facebook Buys AOL Patents From Microsoft For $550 Million In Cash | TechCrunch
"Microsoft and Facebook today announced that Microsoft would be selling to Facebook 650 of the 925 patents that it bought from AOL to Facebook for $550 million in cash." (dopost facebook microsoft patents )
- “Why I break DRM on e-books”: A publishing exec speaks out — paidContent
"…Recently, I began chatting with a publishing industry executive about this. This person — who I’ll call Exec — was interested in learning how to break DRM on e-books. About a month later, Exec is a convert and was ready to talk about the experience, albeit anonymously." (dopost publishing drm ebooks )
- The Problem With Patents | Marvels – WSJ.com
"The problem is that the system allows too many inessential patents, which leads to even more inessential litigation." (wsj patents )
- Introducing Google Drive… yes, really | Official Google Blog
"Just like the Loch Ness Monster, you may have heard the rumors about Google Drive. It turns out, one of the two actually does exist." (dopost google_drive )
- Identity and privacy principles | Government Digital Service
Most of all, I like the way these principles are written from the point of view of the citizen, not the corporation. (principles dopost identity government )
- Tor Books goes completely DRM-free – Boing Boing
"Today, Tor Books, the largest science fiction publisher in the world, announced that henceforth all of its ebooks would be completely DRM-free." (openness dopost drm ebooks )
- Could the NYT make money from its scoops? | Felix Salmon
"…shouldn’t the NYT, which can always use a bit of extra revenue, take advantage of the fact that its stories can move markets so much?" (nytimes journalism ethics )
- This Amazing Device Just Made Wheelchairs Obsolete for Paraplegics
"The young man in this video looks like he's riding a Segway. But Yusuf Akturkoglu was paralized after falling from a horse five years ago, and he's being mobilized by an amazing device invented by Turkish scientists. It's going to change lives." (invention disability mobility )
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