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HP can’t save print industry, but big props for trying
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21 Oct 2009Hewlett-Packard is announcing two projects Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Summit that it hopes will give new life to print–books and magazines in particular. BookPrep and MagCloud let content that’s been too expensive or difficult to print reach readers more easily. Andrew Bolwell, director of new business initiatives at HP, told me these products are [...]
HP can’t save print. But big props for trying
In: web resources
21 Oct 2009Hewlett-Packard is announcing two projects at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday it hopes will give new life to print–books and magazines in particular. Additions to two projects, BookPrep and MagCloud, let content that’s been too expensive or difficult to print get out to readers more easily. Andrew Bolwell, director of new [...]
GE shows off pocket-size ultrasound scanner
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21 Oct 2009Jeff Immelt holds the GE Vscan ultrasound scanner. (Credit: Rafe Needleman/CNET) SAN FRANCISCO–In a wide-ranging interview at the Web 2.0 Summit, Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, announced a low-cost and very portable ultrasound scanner called the Vscan. “It’s about the same size as a BlackBerry,” Immelt said, holding up a white device that appeared [...]
Wolfram Alpha iPhone app is cool but overpriced
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19 Oct 2009The iPhone app for Wolfram Alpha (iTunes store link) got approved by Apple surprisingly quickly, I was told in a breathless e-mail from Wolfram PR on Sunday. But the real surprise was the price: The app is $49.99. The rationale is twisted. “It’s less than half the price of a graphing calculator, but it does [...]
KaChing takes on mutual fund industry
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19 Oct 2009When I wrote about KaChing last December, the site was a fantasy stock market where you could track the pretend portfolios of other investors. But the game of make-believe is coming to an end at the company, and KaChing is now letting users attach real money to their accounts. In doing so, this company is [...]
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