Twitter may be ready to introduce its own photo-sharing service as early as this week, say multiple reports.
The service will be announced tomorrow at the D9 Conference in California, with CEO Dick Costolo as keynote speaker.
Currently, there are a number of competing photo services for Twitter, with the most popular being TwitPic, Lockerz and Yfrog.
The new service shouldn’t be anything too mind blowing, but will be likely integrated into Twitter’s official Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Web apps/sites.
Twitter recently acquired popular client TweetDeck for $40 million.
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Cory Doctorow, the keynote speaker at the O’Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair, had a few choice words for publishers who continue to use DRM on their e-books, calling them “the real pirates,” and “bent on the destruction of publishing.”
Doctorow is the author of the Boing-Boing blog and long time activist in the industry.
Says Doctorow, via BookSeller.com: “Digital licensing systems currently employed destroy the bond between the readers and the book.”
He continued that DRM was a “farcical” way to exploit consumers, adding that “there is no mechanism whereby a retailer of a [print] book can take it away from you,” and that a system wherein that exists is “insane.”
Doctorow concluded that the “most valuable asset that publishers have” is the knowledge that a book “is passed to kids or has come from your parents”.
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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has announced during his GDC keynote address that a new Wii firmware update will allow gamers to run Virtual Console games straight from their SD cards, sidestepping the need for the company to release an external hard drive.
The new Wii System Menu 4.0 will allow gamers to save and load games directly from SD cards, which at 32GB can hold up to 240 games.
During the same speech, Iwata noted that the Wii had finally passes the 50 million units sold mark, making it the fastest console to hit the milestone.
Additionally, Iwata added that the DSi has sold over 2 million units since its release last year in Japan.
