Tech News Highlights For Today

I know I keep saying this but it has been super busy again in library land today thus a rather short (at least for me!) blog posting!

Here’s a link to a paidContent article titled “Not a good sign: Barnes & Noble just keeps slashing Nook tablet prices” which relays the fact that B&N has cut the price of its Nook e-readers and e-reading tablets and speculates that B&N may be getting ready to sell its e-book vision:

http://paidcontent.org/2013/06/17/not-a-good-sign-barnes-noble-just-keeps-slashing-nook-tablet-prices/

A second link to an interesting paidContent article titled “News is like water now — it takes the path of least resistance” which discusses the ways people are getting their news today in our high tech 24-7-365-internet-connected world:

http://paidcontent.org/2013/06/17/news-is-like-water-now-it-takes-the-path-of-least-resistance/

And a third link, this from the tech site Gigaom, on one of my favorite topics (you’d never know that be reading this blog!) – the subject of large media/cable companies like Time Warner and Comcast dragging and hindering any other company that tries to make it easier for consumers who increasingly like to watch Internet TV instead of cable TV to be able to access their content via the Internet. The article is titled “How big cable uses its muscles to prevent online competition” – here’s the link:

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/12/how-big-cable-uses-its-muscles-to-prevent-online-competition/

Have a great day!

Linda R.

References

Hesseldahl, Arik. Tweet Is Now a real Word, and the Oxford English Dictionary Says So. All Things Digital.

Ingram, Mathew. News is like water now — it takes the path of least resistance. paidContent. Online. Accessed June 17, 2013.

Owen, Lauren. (2013, June 17). Not a good sign: Barnes & Noble just keeps slashing Nook tablet prices. paidContent. Online. Accessed June 17, 2013.

Roettgers, Janko. How big cable uses its muscles to prevent online competition. Gigaom. Online. Accessed June 17, 2013.