Today’s tech titans are blessed with wondrous perks: company cars, private jets, even a free house for Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. But Russian oil titan Gazprom--one of the largest companies in the world--and its chief executive Alexey Miller, together have reached a new level: setting aside 119.7 million rubles ($3.69 million) for a new tablet. Gazprom published its tender offer on its website, which was previously noted by Bloomberg. The tablet will be designed to allow Miller to constantly monitor Gazprom’s operations, while offering him all the power of his desktop computer. And the manufacturer, whoever it might be, needs to design the tablet to include 3G, GPRS, and Wi-Fi—and the Apple iOS operating system, to boot. So did Gazprom just agree to pay $3.69 million for the best blinged-out iPad money can buy? Not necessarily. As the chief executive of a company that pulled in $153 billion in revenue in 2012, there are two concerns that Gazprom likely has in designing a tablet: security and bandwidth. GazpromWhy is this man, Alexey Miller of Gazprom, smiling? Perhaps because he's getting perhaps the world's most expensive tablet. Gazprom resulted when the USSR’s oil and gas ministry went private, which transformed a government-backed agency into one nominally controlled by the private sector. As such, Russian interests are competing with multinational corporations, especially in offshore areas where Russia’s influence legally ends. To read this article in full or to... Continue reading at 'PC World'
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Dark Horse Comics has penciled a contract with Barnes & Noble (it'll be sent off to be inked and colored next week*) to get the former's content onto the latter's Tablet and Color e-readers. Available in the Nook Comic store, you'll be able to pick up a mix of the publisher's licensed titles... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reading a book on a tablet like the Kindle Fire is “like trying to cook when there are little children around,” David Myers said. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Associated Press - Three of Christopher Hitchens' most contentious books are coming back into print, and debuting in digital form.Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, announced Thursday that books on three of Hitchens' favorite enemies—Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Mother... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Are you one of the many infuriated with Barnes & Noble over how it partitioned the storage on the Nook Tablet -- leaving you just 1GB for you own files? Well, it looks like the company has learned from its mistakes. While only about 5GB is free to load with apps and media on the new 8GB... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble Inc. said Tuesday that its fiscal third-quarter net income fell 14%, as rising costs offset higher sales. The company also said it will introduce a cheaper Nook Tablet.In its latest salvo in the tablet competition Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble said it will sell a Nook Tablet... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2012-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Future is encouraging media agencies to probe the numbers its magazine publishing rivals are claiming for their tablet editions, as part of an "educational" initiative to grow the tablet advertising market. Continue reading at Media Week
[ Media Week | 2012-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones has brought its 3 for 2 offer back for one week, but only on children’s books... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stora Enso has announced a restructuring plan that aims to cut costs in its annual magazine paper operation by about $63.6 million by third quarter 2013, with the goal of improving efficiency and productivity. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canadian bookselling chain Indigo Books and Music and Books-a-Million have joined ranks with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For a company which business depends on collecting data, Google sure was slow tabulating its report on smartphone usage. The study is available today, but the data is already outdated given strong holiday ebook reader and tablet sales and global impact of 37 million iPhones sold during fourth... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones is to open a Russian-language "bookshop" within its flagship London... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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That's a dramatic change from just a few months ago and, perhaps not coincidentally, before new Nooks and Kindles lowered price of entry for both categories. Between December and January, the number of Americans owning one of the devices rose to 29 percent from 18 percent. During the same time... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2012-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Polar Mobile, a digital media platform provider that builds apps for some of the biggest media companies, today announced it has secured an additional $6 million in funding. The new round, led by growth equity firm Georgian Partners, joins more than ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to ebook readers, which also jumped from 10% to 19% over the same time ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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vjoon®, a leading provider of cross-media publishing platforms and a global Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS) reseller, announces that vjoon customers such as Condé Nast, National Geographic, Reader’s Digest, Red Bull, ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales of Kindles and tablet computers helped boost revenue for Tesco electronics over Christmas,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Tip Sheet asked the author of The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel of North Korea what kind of impact the death of “dear leader” Kim Jong-il will have on the nation’s oppressed citizenry. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In order to see where U.S. adults fell in the conversion spectrum, the Economist Group partnered with the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism to conduct a digital behavioral survey in summer 2011. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ealier this month, Ziff Davis Enterprise [ZDE] completed a significant step in its OmniDigital strategy, rolled out earlier this year. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Analysis: Amazon's admission of selling a million Kindles per week is good news for the ebook market in general. Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2011-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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