Discovery Trademarks “Everybook”

December 12, 2009

August 2009: Discovery E-Book Filing Raises Eyebrows

Is Discovery Communications gearing up for a jump into the suddenly hot e-book space? A filing made public this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office raises that possibility.

According to the filing, the Silver Spring-based media company applied in February for a patent on a product it describes as an “electronic book having electronic commerce features.”

And now in December 2009 it has a name …

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She Who Measures

December 12, 2009

You have never seen anything like this before.

She Who Measures

Dir. Veljko Popović / Croatia / 2008

Are we truly free? Are our desires our own or just a construct of the society we were born in or there is a chance to escape after all?

lead animator: Marin Kovačić
lead modeler: Milivoj Popović
music and sound: Hrvoje Štefotić

http://www.shewhomeasures.com/
http://www.lemonade3d.com

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The Ugliest Fight Ever: Apple Versus Google

December 12, 2009

What people have been saying since since July 2008 is now true: the Google Phone exists and is coming.

And right now it’s running what no one else has: Android 2.1.

While people are saying the “dogfood” test is mainly to wind up with a consistent, unfragmented Android platform, you can bet that what’s also happening is all the Googlers are busy seeing how Google works with the Google Phone.

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