All You Ever Wanted To Know About eBook Formats

One thing the iPad has done is increase awareness of electronic books, or eBooks. I have been reading eBooks for a long time, and in the past I read eBooks on my Pocket PC and Windows Mobile devices using eReader, and I now enjoy reading books on my nook.

Evernote iPhone App Integration

Last week I wrote about what is for me the most important program I use, Evernote. One of the reasons why Evernote is so good is that it runs on so many platforms.

How A Small Company Tackles the Mobile Market

This is part two of five parts of my interview with Ellen Craw of Ilium Software. Click to read Part One.

Microsoft Attempting to Lead by Following: Windows Phone Abandoning True Multitasking, Emulates iPhone OS 1,2,3

Frank provided an overview of the initial Windows Phone 7 news coming from the MIX event last night:

Windows Phone 7 Series News Adds To The Mobile Mix

One of the bombshells dropped that Frank picked up on was this news (via Engadget):

Confirmed: Marketplace will be the only way to get apps on Windows Phone 7 Series

This means that Windows Phone 7 users must get all their apps from Microsoft's online market just like iPhone users have to use the iTunes App Store.

Seesmic for Windows Phone 7 Twitter Client Announced: What's With All the White Space?

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is many months away from delivery on an actual phone. But, Microsoft is trotting out partners at its MIX event in Las Vegas this week.

Fandango Paperless Mobile Movie Ticket Service Available in 8 Cities

Here's an idea that sounds great. But, I wonder how well it will work in the real world:

Fandango Begins Rolling Out Mobile Tickets That Let Moviegoers Go Paperless (via TechCrunch)

Here's how Fandango's pre-paid movie ticket system worked the last time I used it back in January to go see Avatar 3D: I went online to Fandango and paid the ticket price plus a small fee for each ticket.

Skyhook SpotRank Ready to Provide Phone Movement Data to App Developers

If you've used both a conventional consumer-grade GPS and a GPS-enabled phone, you've probably noticed that the phone seems to be able to get a general idea of your location much faster than the conventional GPS.

Average Android User Spends 1/10th of What iPhones Users Spend on Apps

Frank McPherson noted a few weeks ago that:

Android Market Has The Most Free Apps

Here's the context: According to one estimate 25% of apps in the iTunes App Store are free while 53% of the apps in the Android Market are free.

AT&T & Sprint Both Partnered with ESPN to Bring Mobile Coverage of the NCAA Basketball Championship Games

If you live north of the equator, spring is just a few days away. And, with spring many peoples' thoughts will turn to .

One of the Founding Fathers of XML Heads to Google to Battle the iPhone

The tech geeks reading this know that XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a truly big deal. RSS feeds, XHTML, and even the various document file formats used by Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.