E-Books Take a Walking Tour of Shakespeare's London With Your iPhone If you visit Stratford-Upon-Avon, it's hard to escape the town's connection to Shakespeare. But when you visit London, the place where the playwright actually spent most of his life working, there aren't so many signs. It's with that in mind that Victor Keegan built the Shakespeare's London iPhone app, "to remind us of these buried memories of… Audrey Watters View comments
Op-Ed A Future Without Personal History Remember those pieces of paper with handwritten words on them that you used to post to people? "Letters" I think they're called. To be honest though, I wouldn't have a clue, as I've neither sent nor received one in my 16-year-old life. I'm sure the majority of readers here have at least sent a personal letter to friends or family in their… Guest Author View comments
Internet TV VUDU Brings HD Movie Rentals to Boxee Box Boxee Box, the rather oddly-shaped device that brings Internet content to your TV, announced today that VUDU would finally be available with the latest version of the Boxee Box firmware. VUDU and Boxee first announced their partnership last October and today that deal will bring thousands of HD movies to Boxee Box users. Mike Melanson View comments
Government Record-Breaking Music Donation to Library of Congress Universal Music Group, largest of the "big four" music companies, has made the single largest donation of music ever to the Library of Congress. The donation consists of over 200,000 metal masters, discs and tape from the late Twenties to 1950. Highlights include the master of Louis Armstrong's version of "Ain't Misbehavin" and Les Paul's "Guitar… Play Curt Hopkins View comments
Cloud Providers Tropo Sponsors Node.js PaaS and NodeFu This week NodeFu announced another forthcoming Node.js platform-as-a-service offering powered by Amazon Web Services. But NodeFu isn't a company - it's an open source project sponsored by Tropo (one of our Cloud Startups to Watch in 2011). "We plan to follow Heroku's business model consisting of free Node.js hosting for average-size… Klint Finley View comments