Apple's free iBooks Author is an easy way to get started in electronic textbook publishing. Just know there's a middleman standing between you and your adoring public: Apple. Read more about Apple's tricky software license agreement, which as InformationWeek's Thomas Claburn points out, puts severe restrictions on authors' rights. BYTE's Chris Spera has his own opinion about Apple's moves in the textbook market. Read More >>

It does seem as if the SOPA and PIPA bills will facilitate abuse of innocent Internet users. So what do we do about the abuse of IP holders? Read More >>

A simple lens attachment that snaps on to your iPhone 4/4S allows it to take 360 degree panoramic movies. Read More >>

Swivl is a robotic device which holds your camera phone and turns it to face whoever is holding its remote device. It can rotate 360 degrees and up and down +5-/20 degrees. Read More >>

The team at BYTE had the unique challenge of finding the top business-worthy consumer tech gifts for the holidays. There are lots of top 10 lists out there, but our challenge was finding cool consumer stuff that will also work well in the enterprise. Of course, many consumer products can be brought into the enterprise--that's the raison d'etre for BYTE--but there aren't a lot of them that also make great gifts. We skipped the obvious--the iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire--because we bet whoever wants those gadgets has them already. Our goal: gifts that would surprise, yet also function at work. Read More >>

The businessy social network takes business cards to the next level. Instead of sitting in a drawer, you can easily tie those cards to your contacts and the context in which you met them. Read More >>

The Rhyme, HTC's newest Android Gingerbread phone, has color-coordinated accessories aimed at consumers. The phone is available on Verizon Wireless and has excellent battery life, but it's priced a little high for the features it offers. Read More >>

iOS 5 might be the most popular version of Apple's mobile OS yet. When Apple released it as a digital download through iTunes on Oct. 12 the heavy demand almost crashed Apple's servers. Available for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and all iPads, this update includes more than 200 enhancements for a reasonable price--it's free. This visual tour focuses on 11 major enhancements and four new apps introduced with iOS 5. Read More >>

The next version of the industry-standard photo editing package might attain the holy grail of photo processing: Instantly turning bad pictures into good ones. Read More >>

Research In Motion's 3-day BlackBerry service outage has many customers wondering whether it's time to switch to another mobile device. Read More >>

Here's how to batch delete BlackBerry photos. Read More >>

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Here's how to use GIMP in OS X to resize images. Read More >>

Download public domain movies and other videos in Apples Safari web browser. Read More >>