Computerworld today announced ORTEC has won the 2013 Honors Laureate Award. Computerworld’s annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change. ORTEC won for its work optimizing the logistical processes of North Star Alliance, a not-for-profit organization established in 2006 to build a network of Roadside Wellness Centers [...]
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Goodreads, a leading site for readers and book recommendations that helps people find and share books they love. “Amazon and Goodreads share a passion for reinventing reading,” said Russ Grandinetti, Amazon Vice President, Kindle Content. “Goodreads has helped change how we discover [...]
BlackBerry® and Zimbalam, a leading global digital music distributor for developing and independent artists, announced today that they are working together to offer unsigned musicians an easy and efficient way to bring their music content to the BlackBerry® World™ storefront. Zimbalam and BlackBerry will leverage Zimbalam’s expansive distribution network and custom technologies to give independent [...]
Amazon MP3 Store Now Optimized for iPhone and iPod touch: Amazon’s 22-Million Song Catalog Available to iPhone and iPod touch Users for the First Time Buy once and enjoy everywhere!—All MP3s purchased from Amazon are stored for free in customers’ Cloud Player accounts and can be enjoyed on iPhones, iPads, iPods, Kindle Fire, Android phones [...]
WhatsApp Inc., the company behind WhatsApp Messenger, and BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB) today announced that WhatsApp will bring a native version of its popular mobile messaging service to the BlackBerry® 10 platform. BlackBerry 10 provides an ideal platform for social apps such as WhatsApp Messenger to fully leverage innovative new features like BlackBerry Flow, [...]
Largest-display, highest-resolution version of Amazon’s best-selling tablet now available in Europe and Japan New, lower price for Kindle Fire HD 8.9” in the US — starting at just $269 for Wi-Fi and $399 for 4G Amazon today announced that Kindle Fire HD 8.9” — the large-screen version of its best-selling tablet — is now available [...]
47.8 Million iPhones Sold; 22.9 Million iPads Sold Apple today announced financial results for its 13-week fiscal 2013 first quarter ended December 29, 2012. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $54.5 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.1 billion, or $13.81 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $46.3 billion and [...]
O2 has recruited the multi Brit award winner Emeli Sandé to be the face of its new music app O2 Tracks in a major new £7.3m through-the-line advertising campaign. O2 Tracks, available now, brings the UK’s Official Singles Chart Top 40 direct to customers’ phones and reaffirms O2’s commitment to bringing a range of music [...]
Apple today announced the launch of the iBookstore in Japan featuring titles from major and independent publishers, including a great selection of books from Kodansha, KADOKAWA, Bungeishunju, Gakken and Gentosha. The iBookstore has a wide selection of emerging and established authors including Shyotaro Ikenami, Jiro Akagawa, Atsuko Asano and Ryu Murakami. The iBookstore in Japan [...]
Enjoy your entire music library on the go – no CDs, no wires, no local storage needed Access to Amazon Cloud Player in Ford SYNC AppLink-equipped vehicles is the latest in a series of customer benefits exclusive to the Amazon ecosystem of digital content and is available on the 2013 Ford Fiesta, Mustang, Focus, E-Series, [...]
Amazon.com, Inc. today announced its Amazon Cloud Player app for iPad and the iPad mini is now available in the Apple App Store. The app allows customers to play or download music stored in Cloud Player to their iPad, play music that is already stored on their device, and manage or create playlists. “We introduced our [...]
PANTUM wins BLI Winter 2013 Pick Award in ‘Outstanding Personal A4 Monochrome Printer’ category Chinese printer manufacturer PANTUM is pleased to announce that its P2000 Series has won the 2013 Winter ‘Pick’ recognition from BLI (Buyers Laboratory LLC), one of the world’s leading independent testing and research organisations, in the ‘Outstanding Personal A4 Monochrome Printer’ [...]
Apple® today announced that iTunes U® content downloads have topped one billion. iTunes U features the world’s largest online catalog of free educational content from top schools and prominent libraries, museums and organizations helping educators create courses including lectures, assignments, books, quizzes and more for iOS users around the world. “It’s inspiring to see what [...]
The San Diego Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) will host a special event with Facebook’s Head of IR, Deborah Crawford, in the evening of March 12, 2013. The special event is being sponsored by NASDAQ OMX, the world’s largest exchange company, and hosted at AMN Healthcare. The program will feature a fireside [...]
Prime Instant Video is now home to previous seasons of popular shows like Rachael Ray’s Week in a Day, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Cupcake Wars, House Hunters, Iron Chef America, Chopped, and Throwdown With Bobby Flay This is the first online-only subscription distribution deal for Scripps Networks Interactive Amazon.com, Inc. today announced a content licensing [...]
