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* Barnes and Noble (BKS) may spin off its Nook e-reader business, news that came as a surprise to many. The company slashed its fiscal 2012 guidance and now expects sales of $7.1 billion instead of the $7.3 billion forecast. The reason? Lower-than-expected sales of its Nook Simple Touch. (CNNMoney)
* Over at The Loop, writer Matt Alexander argues that e-ink-based e-readers like the Kindle and Nook are doomed. Wonderful they may be, but he sees their real purpose as patching "a gap that cannot be patched technologically" yet by many tablets. (The Loop)
* One of Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's first orders of business may be dealing with whether to back a tax deal called a "cash rich split-off." While Yahoo would stand to save up to $4 billion in taxes, such a deal might not fly with the IRS. (The Wall Street Journal)
* Warner Brothers just clinched a deal with Netflix (NFLX), Redbox and Blockbuster that doubles the window for DVD releases of its movies. In other words, each of the three services will have to wait 56 days intend of 28 days before they can offer up Warner Brothers DVDs for rental. (All Things D)
* Samsung reported record quarterly profit of nearly $4.5 billion thanks to sales of its Galaxy phones and the sale of its hard-disk business. (Bloomberg)
* iPhone 4S users consume almost twice as much data as users of the iPhone 4, due in large part to Siri, Apple's personal voice assistant. (Bloomberg)
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New devices from Amazon and Barnes & Noble are drawing de-facto comparisons with Apple's iPad. Turns out, the search for the uber-tablet is totally misguided.
FORTUNE -- November may well be remembered as the month the "tablet wars" got more interesting, when Amazon and Barnes & Noble catapulted competitive devices into a waiting and eager market. For the Kindle Fire in particular, media and consumers fixated on the idea that a MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 23, 2011 11:15 AM ETBarnes and Noble's Nook Tablet is a beautifully designed device that sports a slick interface. Too bad it costs so much and lacks for extras.
FORTUNE -- Barnes & Noble is not in an enviable position. Its new Nook Tablet is launching in the shadow of Amazon's Kindle Fire, a device many reviewers -- myself included -- think is likely to take second place behind Apple's dominant iPad. (In fact, I MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Nov 15, 2011 8:19 PM ET
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
"Chrome OS will be killed next year (or "merged" with Android). ... Chrome OS has no purpose that isn't better served by Android (perhaps with a few mods to support a non-touch display)." -- Gmail creator Paul Buchheit (Boy Genius Report and TechCrunch)
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Unfortunately, Yahoo finally made good on all those layoff rumors by cutting roughly MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Dec 15, 2010 7:59 AM ET
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"Street View, we drive exactly once. So, you can just move, right?" -- Google CEO Eric Schmidt, when asked about Street View (Fortune Tech)
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says he has proof that new MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Oct 27, 2010 8:26 AM ET
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
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ABC, CBS and NBC are blocking TV programming on their web sites from being viewable on the newly-launched Google TV. (IT World)
HP is finally releasing a tablet, the Windows 7-loaded MORE
Google may also be creating controversial cataloging issues in its attempt to index the world's information,
Saying they've unearthed a very specific 129,864,880 books (and growing since tallied on Sunday), Google today blogged their method and rationale for counting every book the world has ever produced.
Google (GOOG) has its own special counting method, which may end up being controversial to the world's librarians who've standardized on ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers). Google contends that MORE
Seth Weintraub - Aug 6, 2010 11:27 AM ET
In the face of Kindle price cuts and wild iPad sales, Jeff Bezos is taking Amazon into new markets and onto every device he can. Will it be enough?
Jeff Bezos has been dismissed before. For most of the dot-com boom, he was assumed to be a one-shot wonder, inches away from having his bookstore, Amazon.com, (AMZN) extinguished by Wal-Mart (WMT). Now, with Apple's (AAPL) mad rush into books and MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Jun 29, 2010 3:00 AM ET
Google will launch a digital book store as early as next month that takes on Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Noble with Google 'Editions'.
Chris Palma, manager for strategic-partner development at Google, announced the new service at Random House's Manhattan offices at an event sponsored by the Book Industry Study Group. The title of his presentation was called "The Book on Google: Is the Future of Publishing in the Cloud?"
Google's vision of MORE
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