Technology

Lonely Planet, the big travel publisher with the great little books, has released their first five ebook titles to the iBooks store that lets you read ebooks on your iPad. Lonely Planet Discover guides are for Great Britain, Italy, Spain, France and Ireland are the ones available, and odds are there will be many more, since this is a great use of the iPad. You could download and store all 5 guides on your device and throw all the paper copies away, saving a lot of room in your backpack. Plus they are interactive, containing over 300 hyperlinks to websites of hotels, restaurants and other local attractions.Read more

VESA ( the Video Electronics Standards Association) recently introduced the DisplayPort v1.2 digital communication interface, with double the data transfer rate of v1.1, 21.6 Gbps vs. the current version’s 10.8 Gbps. The new version also leaps past HDMI by allowing support for up 4 monitors on a single plug, plus FullHD 3D at 120 frames per second and bidirectional USB data transfer rates of 480 Mbps. The new standard will be backward compatible to DisplayPort v1.1 capable systems.Read more

Backed with a massive $20 of venture capital money, Shmuel Tennenhaus recently came out of stealth mode to launch BingandKing.com , a combination of Don King’s face and hairdo with the Bing search engine.
What's next- StingandBing.com? BingPatrickEwing.com? (puts on sunglasses…) DavidCarusoandYahoo.com (takes off sunglasses…)?

According to his LinkedIn profile, Shmuel is an Ecommerce Expert and Product Evangelist, among other things, which could be seen as strange, considering he has a rabbinical degree in Jewish studies. Be that as it may, he’s seems to be a savvy marketer. Watch the video and decide for yourself. Read more

Flurry and comScore have announced an alliance for mobile app stats. A new joint offering unites comScore’s mobile data with Flurry Analytics mobile application usage data to give publishers, marketers and advertisers a better look at the consumption habits of application users on iPhone, Android and Blackberry devices. The service will be available as part of comScore’s leading Mobile Media service in Q1 of 2010. Flurry Analytics will provide real-time data, such as frequency of app use, length of use, the user’s geographic location, new vs. return usage and Wi-Fi vs. carrier network usage, via comScore’s audience measurement platform.Read more

The former chip manufacturing division of Motorola, Freescale Semiconductor, is set to showcase a concept design for Smartbook tablet computers at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show later this week. The design, being touted as a second generation tablet PC, plays right into the media buzz around the mythical Apple table, offering device manufacturers an integrated solution based on their version of the ARM Cortex-A8 processor chip, the i.MX515.Read more

Barnes & Noble is still scrambling to deliver it’s Nook e-reader to customers before Christmas and promised that those who do not receive their Nook by Christmas Eve will receive a $100 Barnes&Noble.com Online Gift Certificate along with a humble apology. Most of those who pre-ordered the device in time for a pre-holiday estimated ship date will get their Nook on or before December 24, but there are expected to be a small percentage who will not, due to the heavy demand. Priority is being given to those who ordered before November 20, according to a statement made by B&N at the time.Read more