[on Wednesday, Oct. 27, I emailed you the digital readings for next week. If you didn't get them, email me for them. Read Turner; skim Katz]
Post by Sunday (10/31! next Sunday!) at midnight.
Here's some links related to how our network society is changing our social world:
0-21-2010 20:18
Location tracking App stirs dispute
http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/10/117_74987.html
Monitoring how Twitter users are feeling can predict the stock market three days in advance
By Niall Firth
20th October 2010
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1322133/How-monitoring-Twitter-users-feeling-predict-stock-market-days-advance.html#ixzz13FPKIUJA
Facebook 'accidentally outing gay users' to outside firms through targeted ads
By Niall Firth
22nd October 2010
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1322916/Facebook-accidentally-outing-gay-users-advertisers.html#ixzz13FPQQLLt
And another fascinating statistic:
1. Mark Whitaker
2. Internet Sector of British Economy Larger than Most Others
Who would have thought 20 years ago this would happen? These years are a very novel development, just as Castells argues.
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Internet accounts for 7.2% of British economy: study
Oct 28 05:28 AM US/Eastern
The Internet contributed 100 billion pounds (155 billion dollars, 115 billion euros) to the British economy last year, about 7.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), a report showed Thursday.
The sector is bigger than the construction, transport or utilities industries in Britain, according to the study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which was commissioned by the British arm of Internet giant Google.
The research also predicted that by 2015, the British 'Internet economy' is likely to grow to 10 percent of GDP, eclipsing the financial sector.
"The Internet is pervasive in the UK economy today, more so than in most advanced countries," said Paul Zwillenberg, a partner with BCG in London.
"Whether they are driving international expansion, improving their interactions with customers or the efficiency of their supply chains, UK companies are increasingly embracing the Internet's potential."
Much of the growth is driven by consumption, the majority of it online spending but also what consumers spend on getting access to the Internet, while the rest comes from government spending, private investment and exports.
The study found that about 62 percent of adults, or 31 million people, have bought goods or services online so far this year and collectively they spent about 50 billion pounds last year on goods or travel.
More than 19 million out of a total of 26 million British households have an Internet connection and broadband access has doubled since 2005.
Overall, Britain was ranked sixth among major economies on the BCG "e-intensity index" which judges the reach and depth of the Internet, after Denmark, South Korea, Japan, Sweden and the Netherlands.
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.cc58070f3f3b3257db047a1b6231a166.421&show_article=1
If you want to look at the report yourself, it is here:
http://www.connectedkingdom.co.uk/downloads/bcg-the-connected-kingdom-oct-10.pdf
[Particularly for South Korea's rankings]
1. Kim Ye Seul
ReplyDelete2. messenger phishing
3. It is possible that you can talk to friends and work business through the messenger even if you do not have to meet in person or by phone. Especially unlike mail, the messenger is possible to conversation in real time. Because of this messenger's convenience, people who use the computer have a messenger ID. But messenger does not check friends who talk to you. You can only check the their ID registered your messenger. Recently, new fraud appears using the messenger's charateristics. This is the messenger phishing. Messenger phishing is way that stealing your friends' ID and falsing friends they said that borrow money. People send money no doubt because they can't check friends' voice and face and registered only acquaintance in the messenger.
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Voice phishing through Internet messengers is becoming more rampant, the National Police Agency reported, alerting people not to remit money, even to close acquaintances.
The NPA said a total of 697 voice phishing cases were reported in July alone, a drastic increase from a monthly average of 232.
"Thanks to various campaigns, people are cautious of suspicious calls. But many people are still less aware of phishing attempts using Internet messengers," an agency official said.
In general, criminals contact victims using stolen messenger IDs.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/09/117_51374.html
1.LEE Hak Rin
ReplyDelete2.3G network brings internet to Mount Everest climbers
3. I Surprised that new social network about 3G is used by moutain Climber. but when people climb to mountain using the internet then audience like me do not see danger situation about moutain climber.
Internet access to our world as nervous system that possibly reach anywhere. I think that we reaction to eachother and help themselves like signal SOS used by 3G. and we can immediately check my situation. and we can spent our time as useful like human organism system.
I think it's hard to express that I realized some of new thing. however I can tell for sure that Social change due to 3G, and it is likely to.
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Everest climbers can now get weather and safety advice through a 3G mobile network Mount Everest climbers can now surf the internet and make video calls through a 3G network, Nepalese telecoms firm Ncell says.
The company has installed eight 3G base stations along the route to Everest base camp. The wireless network could help thousands of tourists who visit Mount Everest every year, Ncell claims. Climbers and trekkers in the Everest region have so far relied on satellite phones and a voice-only mobile network.
The coverage would reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, company head Pasi Koistinen, said. He added that this had not been tested yet. The 3G network will help climbers and trekkers stay in touch with their families and trip organisers, Mr Koistinen said. It will also enable them to receive weather reports and safety information while they are climbing.
What is your reaction to this news? Where is the most remote place you have managed to access the internet? You can send us your views and experiences using the form below.
At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws. In most cases a selection of your comments will be published, displaying your name as you provide it and location unless you state otherwise. But your contact details will never be published
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11651509
1. Jung Jae Hoon
ReplyDelete2. Social networking can be risky for college applicants
3. After I read this article, I am embarrassed. Because, before graduate high school, I was posting pictures on my mini-homepage showing alcohol consumption. If admissions officer in k-m university looked my mini-homepage, I couldn't be admitted. I am apposed to this way that evaluate people by observing social networking site. because I think it's a breach of a person's privacy to estimate people through this way in secret. And act patterns of a individual has changed according to the circumstances. therefore, that way can't estimate people appropriately.
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NEW YORK ― High school seniors beware: It's okay to kick back and enjoy senioritis, but think again before announcing what you do online ― that raw photo or foul message can end up getting viewed by an unexpected person.
An increasing number of college admissions officers in the U.S. are turning to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other social networking sites to evaluate applicants, a practice that's becoming another worry for high school seniors.
Most recently, one Korean student in the Fairfax district reportedly had his admission revoked from an Ivy League school after posting pictures on Facebook showing alcohol consumption.
He stressed that students should remember every posting they submit online is not only open to their friends, but others who can possibly make or break their academic career.
A 2008 survey done by education company Kaplan showed that 10 percent of admissions officers from 500 top U.S. colleges acknowledged looking at social networking sites to evaluate prospective students.
Of the schools utilizing online information, 38 percent said what they saw "negatively affected" their assessment.
Considering the fast growth of social media tools in the past year, experts say more schools are likely to incorporate online resources in applicant evaluations.
"What's written on applications isn't everything ― and schools know that all too well," says Kim Il-joo, a counselor at a Manhattan-based college prep school. "It's going to become more and more natural for admissions officers to start surfing the Web to find out real details about a student's background and thoughts."
He advised high school seniors to refrain from posting inappropriate photos and messages online or simply modify settings so that only friends can see.
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site : http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/06/123_65721.html
1. Kim hee jun
ReplyDelete2. Smartphones getting cheaper
3. Nowdays, we can find someone who use smartphone easyly. It would be much easier then now. According to Atlas Research and Consulting, a market research firm, smartphones accounted for nearly 45 percent of the mobile phones sold last week, with the iPhone 4, Galaxy S and Optimus One ranked among the top-selling models. Now I am using iPhone 4 and realize this is new world for me! But there is a big disadvantage which is about bills. Too expensive. I have to handle it, though. So convenient and easy to life. Use Internet and get information everywhere. The thing which make life easy is getting cheaper. It could be a good information to us who live in this world.
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Smartphones work more like handheld computers than conventional phones, but consumers have been grumbling that they are priced like computers too. However, with handset vendors and wireless carriers rushing to introduce models that are less outrageously priced, cost-conscious brick-phone users may find the urge to splurge.
Among the new devices that may touch off price falls are the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini, Motorola Moto Mix, LG Electronics Optimus One and Pantech Mirach. Industry observers believe that improved affordability, as well as the public’s growing appetite for social media, will continue to extend the explosion in smartphone sales.
These devices are priced around the 500,000-600,000 won (about $534) range, significantly lower than currently popular models like the Apple iPhone and Samsung Electronics Galaxy S that are sold for around 800,000-900,000 won.
Industry watchers believe that the cheaper smartphones, which usually have smaller screens compared to premium models, but still deliver a wealth of mobile Internet and multimedia functions, will generate significant demand from consumers in their teens and early 20s, who have previously been priced out of the market.
Smartphones had been a hard sell in previous years due to their high prices and lack of a content ecosystem, but the introduction of intriguing devices like the iPhone and Galaxy S finally have these high-end devices going mass market.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/tech_view.asp?newsIdx=75298&categoryCode=129
1. 3G network brings internet to Mount Everest climbers
ReplyDelete2.LEE Hak Rin
3. I Surprised that new social network about 3G is used by moutain Climber. but when people climb to mountain using the internet then audience like me do not see danger situation about moutain climber.
Internet access to our world as nervous system that possibly reach anywhere. I think that we reaction to eachother and help themselves like signal SOS used by 3G. and we can immediately check my situation. and we can spent our time as useful like human organism system.
I think it's hard to express that I realized some of new thing. however I can tell for sure that Social change due to 3G, and it is likely to.
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Everest climbers can now get weather and safety advice through a 3G mobile network Mount Everest climbers can now surf the internet and make video calls through a 3G network, Nepalese telecoms firm Ncell says.
The company has installed eight 3G base stations along the route to Everest base camp. The wireless network could help thousands of tourists who visit Mount Everest every year, Ncell claims. Climbers and trekkers in the Everest region have so far relied on satellite phones and a voice-only mobile network.
The coverage would reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, company head Pasi Koistinen, said. He added that this had not been tested yet. The 3G network will help climbers and trekkers stay in touch with their families and trip organisers, Mr Koistinen said. It will also enable them to receive weather reports and safety information while they are climbing.
What is your reaction to this news? Where is the most remote place you have managed to access the internet? You can send us your views and experiences using the form below.
At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws. In most cases a selection of your comments will be published, displaying your name as you provide it and location unless you state otherwise. But your contact details will never be published
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11651509
1. Bae Jin A
ReplyDelete2. You can browse civil affair document through smart phone.
3. I remember when I first got ipod. I was surprised with that machine's incredible function. When I bought ipod, it was not a common things. At that time I used only internet service like messenger and e-mail with my ipod. But there are many superb machines these days and people also want many useful web services. To satisfy people's needs, developer creates applications to make people's life easy and convenient. Banking, helping study, leisure services are now common and more useful applications are developing this time. No one knows what kinds of applications make their life better. What a expecting future!
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You can see "the mobile civil affair generation" using smart phone to browse constructing land-use database and land register.
The Ministry of Pubic Administration and Security said that "civil affair 24 mobile" will be started on 29 by way of showing an example. People can use this service by using of smart phone and get a convenience.
People go to the administrative ministry and use internet when they need some civil affair documents. But from this, people can make effective use of civil affair without thought to time and space.
This service is limited to the essential 10 services like confirmation service, reading civil complaint and etc because mobile service demand and stability need to be forecated to become popular.
People can read civil affair documets involved in real estate and tax through smart phone without confirm identity.
And identification confirm, issue confirmation service etc, will be provided.
This service related with civil affair will be offered to people in the form of web and application in view of convenience and accessibility.
http://news.naver.com/main/hotissue/read.nhn?mid=hot&sid1=105&gid=488441&cid=396964&iid=266144&oid=030&aid=0002093089&ptype=011
1.Yun Yeon Jung
ReplyDelete2.Social media boom reignites privacy debates
3.Noadays, Social networking system is quite big issue. I use facebook these days, But actually I thought It is nothing special website, but suddenly i realized that i am addicted that site that fast. When I first made my facebook, I could find some friends through other ID. Like naver, daum , nate on..etc. But This is the problem. Well, Obviously, It relates to privacy problem. If i dont want to be added their face book friends, But They could find my facebook site through Their ID without my consent. But Social networking service has lots of fun. We can connect other people even the other side of world. But we should consider about our privacy problem as well.
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Social networks like Facebook (www.facebook.com) and Twitter (www.twitter.com) are the planet’s latest online epidemic, but it bears further watching as to whether increasing questions over privacy will eventually return to stunt their growth.
And the debate over how to manage sensitive data in a social-networking era has now arrived in Korea, where Internet companies are seen scrambling to leap on the social media bandwagon.
At the center of controversy is Daum (www.daum.net), the country’s second most popular website behind Naver (www.naver.com), which recently unveiled ``Social Web,’’ a specialized search service for postings on social networking services Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Naver’s Me2Day.
Type in an online ID of a Facebook user and Daum will show a profile, recent postings, recent interests and online friends the person frequently has conversations with. However, users may find themselves sharing a wider range of information than they intended, particularly when considering that many Korean users tend to use the same ID over multiple social networking services they subscribed to for different purposes.
For example, a person who uses Facebook to connect with casual friends and Me2Day for work-related ones may find himself in an awkward situation after rambling on Facebook about his recent job-searching adventures.
Daum downplays the privacy worries, saying that it only exposes the amount of personal data users have agreed to share on each social networking platform.
However, Facebook and other popular social networking services have been criticized for their complicated privacy settings that leave users confused about the level of confidentially they are signing up to, as well as their repeated attempts to make more information about users available by default. This means that Daum will likely continue to face difficult questions on whether it can protect users from unwanted attention.
It seems that the biggest problem related to privacy issues is that there is no clear-cut conclusion over how restrictive the controls should be. Social networking sites base their business model on the presumption that users will share information about themselves, giving up some of their privacy to share pictures, updates, status and information with their online friends. Thus, a service that allows members to keep too much of their information private is a service that will likely suffer.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_74409.html
1. Lee Bo Ok
ReplyDelete2. Leaking of private information
3. When we want to sign up web site, we usually have to enter resident registration number. And we also exposure name, adress, phone number etc.
Sometimes personal information has been collected and distributed without control, causing harm to the right to privacy. And this illegally accessed personal information can be wrongfully used.
So many people dislike at providing their personal information on the Web. It is uncomfortable that stranger know about me.
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Social Networking Site Apps Leak Personal Data
Social networking is an easy and convenient method of staying in touch with friends and family. Users have a reasonable expectation that their personal data will be protected. Many, though, have warned not to add personal information that could indicate their address, phone number or any other data that could identify them to strangers.
According to a recent investigation by the Wall Street Journal, MySpace and certain applications are leaking user information to advertisers. Every time a user clicks on specific advertisers, their user ID numbers are transmitted, which makes their personal information accessible. The advertisers receiving the ID numbers have stated that they have not used the information. These specific numbers could allow the recipients access to photos and personal information including gender and age. Google Inc, Quantcast Corp. and Rubicon Project were among the advertisers receiving the information.
Facebook, one of the fastest growing social network sites on the web, also shares user IDs with advertisers according to a report filed by the WSJ earlier this week. Facebook has announced that it will block transmission of user IDs in the future.
The lesson here is to be very careful what you add to your social networking account. There are too many ways in which information can be transmitted. Once that information is leaked you have no control of how your information will be used. Limiting personal information would seem to be the prudent choice.
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http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978628230
1. Jeong So Ra
ReplyDelete2. Korean census using 'Internet' goes over 19%
3. from Oct.22, Census started. Census means the process of officially counting something, especially a country’s population, and recording various facts. Korea have conduct the census every 5 years ended as number such as 1995, 2010. I received the letter says "Let us do not omit you preparing tomorrow". It is sended for me to participate the internet census. But, I think it has some offensive part. Frankly, I don't agree an object of census. I think Census invade my personal life. I want to hide my age, career, past address etc.
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5. by the end of this October, It is done by Internet. And next month(November 1~15), an investigators directly visit homes which is not answered. The National Statistical Office of Korea announced that they'll accomplish 30% of internet survey. If it is so, Government would save much money.
investor of N.S.O intend to increase internet survey rate. Because the number of household composed of 1 member and of working together families is getting high, and mode of thinking of privacy have changed.
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7. http://article.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=4556382&cloc=olink|article|default
1. Cho Mi Ryung
ReplyDelete2. Why many people want to use smartphone?
3.According to the wikipedia, It's exactly defined that it is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than basic feature phone. These days, Many people are using it. So it is attracting a lot of attention from people. We need to find out it in modern times. Because It will be getting more and more popular, It will be necessary to live in our life in the near future. From now on, let's look at the two reasons why many people want to use the Smartphone.
First above all, Smartphone offers convenient lifes by using wireless internet.
I will explain you with having a few examples. At first, you can find your destination easily. Specifically, if you need to find restaurant, turn on your application about finding functions of the Smartphone. Smartphone can answer the question. Before ir unveiled, Almost all people were trying to find computer somewhere. But now, By using Smarphone can settle the matter. For the other example, we can be it with other people using the social network service in realtime.
The other reason, The softwares are fairly creative in terms of many people.
After Apple makes the iPhone which has a speed reaction velocity, Smartphone has a great populatiry. After that, Market share of large enterprieses, Samsung and LG and so on, is decreasing in the cellular phone market.
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
``The demand for e-books will likely be centered around tablets. The dearth of e-book content continues to be a problem and we have to diversify our content sources to add to the overall pool,’’ said a YoungPoong official.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_75214.html
1. Kim Byungyup
ReplyDelete2. iPad as a hope for the disabled
3. Technology itself actually recognized as a tool to improve people living standard, and we hardly doubt about its bad effect before recent decades when a size of technology exceeds human capacity. So we nowadays come up with both-sided of technology, even a number of people out there distrust effectiveness of technology.
However, as you can see from a linked video, technology still helps many people who need help anyhow. A lot of people cast doubt on credibility of information of the Internet for many reasons, such as wrong information, uncensored contents, etc, but what I want to say is that technology is always neutral that counts. It depends on people who use it. The Internet never sells drugs or let you know how to make a bomb.
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4. http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/10/29/nyregion/1248069258198/becoming-han-solo.html
IPad Opens World to a Disabled Boy
Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver a computer mouse, but when a nurse propped her boyfriend’s iPad within reach in June, he did something his mother had never seen before.
He aimed his left pointer finger at an icon on the screen, touched it — just barely — and opened the application Gravitarium, which plays music as users create landscapes of stars on the screen. Over the years, Owen’s parents had tried several computerized communications contraptions to give him an escape from his disability, but the iPad was the first that worked on the first try.
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http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
``The demand for e-books will likely be centered around tablets. The dearth of e-book content continues to be a problem and we have to diversify our content sources to add to the overall pool,’’ said a YoungPoong official.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_75214.html
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
``The demand for e-books will likely be centered around tablets. The dearth of e-book content continues to be a problem and we have to diversify our content sources to add to the overall pool,’’ said a YoungPoong official.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_75214.html
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_75214.html
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_75214.html
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_75214.html
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_75214.html
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_75214.html
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_75214.html
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_75214.html
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/10/129_75214.html
1. Kim Min Su
ReplyDelete2. Bookstores caught up in tablet wars
3. Books are heavy ! I always carry many books or copies of Univ things. For this reason, actually I need laptop until not long ago. But lately, tablet's applications 'book viewer' catch my interest. (I'm contented with my cellphone, so I'm interested in tablet pc than smartphone.) Most college students carry their books of copies in the bag yet, but after a few years, students may have to tablet or smartphone in place of books. If this happens it will cause 'wars' in bookstores. (E-book market) Maybe this wars is already in progress to some degree.
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The electronic book explosion has been muted here, but optimists see tablet computers, like the Apple iPad, lighting a bigger torch. And traditional bookstores that napped during the debut of dedicated e-book readers are now rushing to develop e-book applications for mobile devices and have them installed in upcoming tablet devices.
This has them engaged in an unlikely proxy war driven by the rivalry between Korean technology giants Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Kyobo, the nation’s largest bookstore, currently has its e-book applications prepackaged in Samsung’s Galaxy series of smartphones and the partnership will extend to the upcoming Galaxy Tab tablet computers, which Samsung touts as a potential ``iPad killer.’’
LG Electronics, which has been late to the tablet party, is expected to unveil its first touch-screen computer next year, and it remains to be seen whether it will establish partnerships with book retailers the way Samsung did.
YoungPoong was one of the book retailers and publishing companies that jointly established the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub last year to add to the wealth of e-book content available and create an ecosystem of applications. Bandi and Luni’s, YoungPoong’s rival book chain, and major online retailers Yes 24 and Aladdin, also have stakes in the Korea Electronic Publishing Hub.
It remains to be seen which device will end up changing reading habits more ― tablets, referring to the all-purpose touch-screen computers like the iPad, or dedicated digital readers for books and newspapers like the Amazon Kindle. At least for Koreans, however, the answer seems obvious as they race to leap on the tablet bandwagon.
It was just earlier this year when electronics makers and Internet companies like iriver, InterPark, and Book Cube competed to push dedicated e-book readers out of the gate. However, industry observers say they have since combined to sell less than 50,000 of their products.
And although Samsung is promoting its Galaxy Tab heavily, the debut of the tablet doubled as a death sentence to Papyrus, Samsung’s first e-book reader that was just released in February. The sales of Papyrus have been disappointing, with consumers here turned off by the device’s lavish price tag and the lack of a content ecosystem, and Samsung says it now prefers to concentrate on tablets instead.
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1. KIM JIO
ReplyDelete2. Save the energy, save earth, save us and save me
3. Many of smart phone user complain about battery problem. They die to search a new version of main program to make running time longer. When this project succeed, many ppl can happy without stress. Of couse, It is good for environment.
From that transistor come out to real life, their is no excuse anymore that late or absence for team-project-task, likes 'I-didn't-receive-a-message-cause-my-batteries-out' Than, I will happy too.
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Europe targets wasteful gadgets
The Steeper project wants to make gadgets far less power hungry. Wasteful gadgets could soon be a thing of the past thanks to European research into less power hungry devices.
Called Steeper, the project's goal is to make gadgets 10 times more efficient when in use and almost eliminate energy consumption when idle.
It is looking into ways to produce more efficient transistors - the building blocks of many digital devices.
Nanotech, novel materials and manufacturing methods are all targets for the researchers.
Steeper is being co-ordinated by the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and gets its name from the novel transistors it is focussing on.
Steep slope transistors get their name because of the abrupt change they exhibit when switching between on and off states. If the research teams succeed in their aim of making such devices they would use far less power than existing transistor designs which typically leak energy even when supposedly turned off.
This inefficiency contributes to the growing amount of energy lost when gadgets and household appliances are put into standby mode.
About 10% of all the energy used in homes and offices across the EC is sucked up by appliances in standby mode, suggests research by the Commission's Joint Research Center.
If this grows unchecked, suggests the JRC, by 2020 the energy consumed by devices in standby or off mode will grow to 49 terrawatt hours per year - roughly equivalent to the current annual energy needs of Austria, the Czech Republic and Portugal combined.
"Our vision is to share this research to enable manufacturers to build the Holy Grail in electronics, a computer that utilizes negligible energy when it's in sleep mode, which we call the zero-watt PC," said Professor Adrian Ionescu from the Nanolab at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in a statement.
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