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HP, Amazon to sell paperback versions of e-books

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Some of technology's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books.


Anyone can now download files relating to the EU dating back to 1952

EU launches digital library at Frankfut Book Fair

Technology / Internet

created Oct 18, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The European Union used the world's biggest book fair to launch the EU Bookshop's digital library, making more than 50 years of documents in about 50 languages available for free on the Internet.


Deadline arrives in Google book-scan deal (AP)

Deadline in Google book deal extended to Friday

Technology / Internet

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google says it needs until Friday to come up with a new proposal that would give it the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.


Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera

Polaroid PoGo brings instant printing to the digital age

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Polaroid, founded in 1937 by American physicist Edwin H. Land, invented instant photographic printing. Its first instant film camera went on sale in November 1948, but in February 2008 the ...


Best Buy embraces digital delivery of home video

Technology / Internet

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Best Buy Co. is trying to nudge consumers away from its stores' DVD aisles by making it easier for them to rent and buy movies over high-speed Internet connections.


Philips announces breakthrough in fully digital light detection technology

Philips announces breakthrough in fully digital light detection technology

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Royal Philips Electronics today announced that its scientists have developed a highly innovative digital silicon photomultiplier technology that will allow faster and more accurate photon (the basic quantum ...


UB Education Expert Says Longer School Hours Alone Will Not Solve Educational Crisis

Education Expert Says Longer School Hours Alone Will Not Solve Educational Crisis

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- President Barack Obama's plan to extend the school year to increase achievement among American students would only help bridge the gap between American students and those in other countries ...


Ants vs. worms:  New computer security mimics nature

Ants vs. worms: New computer security mimics nature

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (13) | comments 2

In the never-ending battle to protect computer networks from intruders, security experts are deploying a new defense modeled after one of nature's hardiest creatures -- the ant.


Toshiba launches portable fuel-cell for mobiles

Toshiba launches portable fuel-cell for mobiles

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- For people fed up with their mobile telephone or iPod batteries running out, Japan's Toshiba Corp. announced Thursday the launch of a portable fuel-cell that can power up digital gadgets on ...


Space Radar Reveals Topography of Tsunami Site

Space Radar Reveals Topography of Tsunami Site

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two color-coded perspective views of the Independent State of Samoa (left) and American Samoa (right), generated with digital elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, illustrate ...


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Google's desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliath

Technology / Internet

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history.


Leading Companies Form Mobile HD Interface Working Group to Drive Industry Standard

Technology / Other

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba today announced the formation of a Mobile High-Definition Interface Working Group that intends to create an industry standard for an audio/video interface to connect ...


ComScore, Omniture join up to measure audiences

Technology / Internet

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two of the largest companies involved in tracking and analyzing Web traffic are joining forces to measure digital audiences more comprehensively.


Dartmouth professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked

Professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 69

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth Computer Scientist Hany Farid has new evidence regarding a photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, digitally ...


BSkyB will launch its Sky Songs service on October 19

BSkyB says to launch online music service

Technology / Internet

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British pay-TV giant BSkyB said Monday it will launch an online music service next week which offers consumers access to more than four million tracks, rivalling Apple's iTunes.