Digital Pen Maker Livescribe Lands New Funding, Taps Ex-HP Exec as New CEO

The maker of the Echo and Pulse smartpens says Gilles Bouchard has replaced founder Jim Marggraff as chief. The company has also lined up $10 million in new funding.
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Beyond Tablets: The Next Five Computing Form Factors

With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 a few short weeks away, it’s a good time to look ahead at what’s next for consumer technology.

Larry Ellison Has One, and Now 11 More Entrepreneurs Do, Too

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award has developed the reputation of finding its way to CEOs who go on to become big names. Larry Eliison has one. So does Carol Bartz. And on Saturday night, the business service firm handed out another 11 of the awards.
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Livescribe Connects Its Digital Pen With Google Docs, Evernote

Starting Monday, the digital notes taken with Livescribe pens will be able to be easily transferred to other programs, posted to Facebook or sent via e-mail. The company also says it is on pace to sell its millionth smart pen this year.

LiveScribe Smartpen: The Entire D5 Demo With Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher

Would you like a pen that remembers everything you write? This is the premise of LiveScribe, a computer device that records words and also finds those words in the recording by only tapping the handwritten version on a sheet of paper. There have been a lot of bites at this particular apple, but LiveScribe is [...]

Last Bits of D-etritus

The interview Walt and I did with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs last week at D5 is now the No. 1 podcast on Apple’s iTunes, beating out National Public Radio’s “Car Talk,” “This American Life” and the Best of YouTube. The link to the joint interview on iTunes is here, in video and [...]

LiveScribe Smartpen

In a demo this afternoon, Walt and Kara got a tour of a hand-held microcomputer, the LiveScribe Smartpen. This is another in a string of attempts, Walt notes, to add a simple computer to a penlike device that records words and can pinpoint their location in the recording when the user taps the handwritten version on a sheet of paper.