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CES 2015 Idea Round-up
A final few items of interest to close out CES:
Remix is the Android tablet that can replace your laptop (Mashable)
Hands On With Netronix 6.8″, 13.3″ E-ink Android eReaders (video) (Digital Reader)
Smart Baby Bottles, 3-D Food Printers and Other CES Oddities (Recode)
Besides all the new tech presented at CES, it is also a place for discussion and ideas and trendsetting. Here is a round-up of some of them:
On net neutrality, Internet providers are betrayed by one of their own (Ars Technica)
Troll fatigue: Earnest debate on patent abuse at CES (Ars Technica)
One-on-one with FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez about the Internet of Things (Ars Technica)
Toyota releases fuel cell patents for royalty-free use to all (Mashable)
And finally, a couple of overview article about the CES event itself:
CES is basically a Toy Fair for grown-ups. Is that a bad thing? (Mashable)
Gallery: The weird, wacky, and wonderful world of CES (Ars Technica)
CES is finally over. Here’s everything you missed (Gigaoam)
The selfie stick has taken over CES 2015 (Mashable)
At CES, everyone wants to be the Oculus killer (Gigaoam)
Daily Links: Authors Guild drops HathiTrust Case
Digital Life:
Authors Guild Drops HathiTrust Case (Publishers Weekly)
Online outlets showed Hebdo images but offline media didn’t. Why? (Gigaom)
Twitter’s New Video Feature Is Only a Few Weeks Away (Recode)
Microsoft’s Spartan Web Browser Breaks Cover, Confirming MS Plans to Push IE Down a Well (Digital Reader)
DDoS service targeting PSN and Xbox powered by home Internet routers (Ars Technica)
Broadband and telephone news:
With McDonalds U.K. Deal, the Other Wireless Charging Group Fights Back (Recode)
Got an Asus router? Someone on your network can probably hack it (Ars Technica)
Finds and Deals:
Amazon’s Gold Box Deal
The Kindle Daily Deals
Barnes and Nobles’ NOOK Find of the Day is The Millionaire Affair by Jessica Lemmon.
The Kobo Store Daily Deal is Innocent Blood, Book # 2 in the Order of the Sanguines Series by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell for $1.99(normally $9.99).
And in the remember this one category, John Jakes’ classic North and South (The North and South Trilogy)
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Daily Links: CES 2015 Day 3
More new shiny toys for day three:
The YotaPhone 2 is coming to a U.S. carrier, exec says (Android Central)
Hands On With the Hemingwrite (Digital Reader)
Cast-Fi is a speaker with a display and a port for Chromecast (Gigaom)
This Gadget Could One Day Charge Your Mobile Device from 15 Feet Away (Digital Reader)
USB 3.1 and Type-C: The only stuff at CES that everyone is going to use (Ars Technica)
Hands-on with Intel’s new mini-desktops: Faster, smaller, more expandable (Ars Technica)
Your future kitchen knows when food is spoiling, tells you what to make for dinner (Mashable)
I tried to search for USB Type-C cables
You can check out the official CES website here.
Daily Links: Free download Tor 2014 anthology
FREE:
Some of the Best from Tor.com 2014 is Free to Download Now! (Tor.com)
The Time Machine is January’s Whispersync for Voice Freebie (eBook Reader)
Digital Life:
World’s first (known) bootkit for OS X can permanently backdoor Macs (Ars Technica)
Newspaper websites and other online forums continue to struggle with comment policies (Talking New Media)
Here’s how a real teenager uses, and doesn’t use, social media (Gigaom)
Yahoo’s U.S. share on Firefox quadruples after deal (Computerworld)
Broadband and telephone news:
At CES, FCC’s Wheeler hints at Title II net neutrality decision (Gigaoam)
AT&T defends unlimited data throttling, says the FTC can’t stop it (Ars Technica)
Finds and Deals:
For the Kindle Daily Deals,
For the Nook Daily Find, I Belong to You by Lisa Renee Jones is $1.99 today.
At the Kobo store, today’s deal is The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro.
If you are looking for a good quality wireless speaker, you can buy a Sonos Play: 3 at Amazon and get a Fire HD 6
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Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other links of interest on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.
Daily Links: CES 2015 Daily Digest – Day 2
Some of today’s interesting shiny gadgets:
Clear out an HDMI port for Intel’s $149 Compute Stick (Gigaom)
Lenovo, Toshiba field handwriting input solutions (Teleread)
Hands On With The Boogie Board Play & Trace at CES 2015 (video) (Digital Reader)
Hands on: Dell XPS 13 packs a 13-inch screen into an 11-inch laptop (Ars Technica)
CES Snapshot: Panasonic’s “Smart” Mirror (Recode)
The very weirdest things you’ll see at CES 2015 (Mashable)
And from reading all this coverage, I guess that selfie sticks
You can check out the official CES website here.
Daily Links: Zuckerberg Launches Book Club
Digital Life:
Zuckerberg Launches Book Club (Publishers Weekly)
VPN Services consider leaving Canada to protect customer privacy (Torrent Freak)
Netflix, VPN Users and the Real Question for Content Providers (Teleread)
Apple to make price adjustments in the App Store due to VAT and exchange rates (Talking New Media)
Angie’s List launches a new digital-only weekly magazine into the Apple Newsstand (Talking New Media)
Gaming and streaming news:
PS Now subscriptions to offer all-you-can-play access starting at $15/month (Ars Technica)
You Can Finally Get ESPN on the Web, for $20 a Month (Recode)
Google announces “Cast” line of home audio products (Ars Technica)
Broadband and telephone news:
Only 25Mbps and up will qualify as broadband under new FCC definition (Ars Technica)
AT&T offers data rollover, but with much stricter limits than T-Mobile (Gigaom)
Deals and Finds:
The first book in Zuckerberg’s book club is The End of Power
The Amazon Fire Phone
There are over 30 mysteries and thrillers priced at $1.99 or less in today’s Kindle Daily Deals.
Barnes and Nobles Daily Find is featuring 18 thrillers and mysteries for just 99 cents . They are also offering Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger games for $1.99.
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Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other links of interest on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.
Daily Links: Over 2300 MS-DOS games Free
Today, there are several must-read stories from Ars Technica:
- Over 2,300 MS-DOS games now completely free to play at Internet Archive
- Office for Android tablet demo goes public, available on Google Play
- Apple starts selling carrier-unlocked, SIM-free iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
- Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificate to users visiting YouTube: Inflight service promises no data is collected, but practice sets a bad precedent.
NYT editor says NYT Now mobile app has not proved a success, but NYT Cooking app is a winner (Talking New Media)
FCC Launches Consumer Complaint Help Site: Says filing complaints contributes to consumer protection (Broadcasting Cable)
Moon+ Reader Pro sporting new Material Design (Teleread)
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Daily Links are interesting links I discover as I go about my online day. The frequency and number of links posted depend upon the daily news. I also post other links of interest on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.
Daily Links: CES 2015 Daily Digest
Just a few of the more interesting new shiny gadgets and stories from CES 2015:
E-ink Demos a 13.3″ Second Screen E-ink Monitor at CES 2015 (video) (Digital Reader)
CES Snapshot: Garmin’s Fashionable Fitness Tracker (Recode)
Android TV arrives at CES, quietly kicks Google TV to the curb (Ars Technica)
Quick look at Alcatel’s new affordable Pixi 3 line of phones (Android Central)
CES 2015: This 4K TV is thinner than a smartphone (USAToday)
Scout 5000 Is a Cutting-Edge Wearable—for Your Dog (reviewed.com)
You can check out the official CES website here.
Onyx BOOX Afterglow 2 e-reader
While I love my tablets, I really don’t like reading on them for any length of time. I had been looking for an e-ink e-reader that runs Android, has the Google Play Store and is capable of running the Scribd app. I had seen a few that looked interesting but weren’t quite what I wanted. When I found the Onyx BOOX AfterGlow 2 at Amazon for $129, I decided to take the plunge and get one. The Afterglow 2 has a frontlight, runs Android 4.2 and comes with the Google Play Store installed on the device. It can read multiple file types, including ePubs, Mobi, and PDF files. It has physical page turn buttons and is even capable of text-to-speech (currently the languages are English and Polish).
Right now, I am keeping it in a JAVOedge Universal eReader Book cover that actually fits pretty nicely. (This is the cover that didn’t fit the Fire HD 6 I bought a few months back.) I will be doing a full review after I have played with it for a bit, but, in the meantime, here are a few pictures:
In the box…
The apps page showing Google play. Note the shadows at the bottom where the frontlight is.
In the JAVOedge cover
Stay tuned for the review!
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