(Official Google Blog)
The poorly-capitalized iriver Story HD e-reader will go on sale on July 17 at Target stores. The device will be the first e-reader to integrate with I'm most excited about the "high definition" claim regarding the reader's e-ink screen: If it's anything like high-def television, I expect to see camping out on each (text) character's face.
(AppleInsider)
A federal jury concluded that Apple violated two patents held by Personal Audio, and that Apple must pony up $8 million because of it. Now, Apple has $60 billion in the bank; that means Apple's fine accounts for about 0.013 percent of its savings account. To put an $8 million fine in perspective, Apple only needs to sell 472 custom 12-core 2.93GHz Mac Pros with 64GB of RAM, a Mac Pro RAID card, 4 512GB solid state drives, two 18x SuperDrives, and a quad-channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express card to score that much cash. Apple could well pay Personal Audio with a $10 million bill and then tell the patent-holding company to keep the change.
(Mac Rumors)