Starbucks and Apple team up in music and book venture

by John Reynolds, 17 October 2011 Starbucks is teaming up with Apple to launch a digital initiative called ‘Pick of the Week’, which will offer Starbucks customers a free selected iTunes music track or book to download. Starbucks: offers James Morrison iTunes download The marketing initiative is being rolled out across all Starbuck’s UK outlets … Continue reading →

Babbage podcast from The Economist

  E-book, tablet, smartphone? Nov 23rd 2011, 16:56 by The Economist online RUMOURED new products from Amazon and Facebook,  America’s controversial anti-piracy law and Apple’s unexpected threat to HP’s market share. A twelve-minute podcast.   Continue reading →

Steve Jobs: 1955-2011 The New Yorker

Notes on Washington and the world by the staff of The New Yorker. October 5, 2011 Steve Jobs: 1955-2011 Posted by Ken Auletta Steve Jobs is dead. One big question is whether the unbelievably innovative culture he forged will live. Jobs was not a great human being, but he was a great, transformative, and historical … Continue reading →

#iSad

That’s the hashtag on Twitter about Steve Job’s death.  Today’s article is from  The Guardian and includes a short video: “Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, dies at 56 The mastermind behind an empire that has revolutionised personal computing, telephony and music, dies in California…” read more   Continue reading →