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Engineers create system for combating manipulation of online product ratings

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

As online shopping continues to grow in popularity around the globe, shoppers increasingly depend upon consumer-based rating systems that vendors like Amazon.com and eBay use to rate products and sellers. But those rating ...





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Verizon Wireless to support e-book reader

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Verizon will be providing wireless book downloads for an electronic reading device, joining AT&T and Sprint in supporting electronic books.


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.


Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf (AP)

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

Biology / Other

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(AP) -- An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.


Book by UC Riverside biologist explains Darwin's 'Origin of Species'

Book by UC Riverside biologist explains Darwin's 'Origin of Species'

Biology / Evolution

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Many people have tried to read Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species," whose publication celebrates its 150th anniversary this month, but gave up.


Two workers make their final preparations for the Taipei Book Fair

Taiwan to invest 65 million dollars in e-book industry

Technology / Business

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Taiwan plans to invest more than 65 million US dollars in its competitive electronic-book sector over the next five years, the economic ministry's Industrial Development Bureau said.


Apple's iLife takes home photo albums to a new level

Technology / Software

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

It's the amateur photographer's management tool for digital pictures. But Apple's iLife multimedia software suite has some A-list users as well.


Formula to detect an author's literary 'fingerprint'

Formula to detect an author's literary 'fingerprint'

Physics / General Physics

created 21 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Using literature written by Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence and Herman Melville, physicists in Sweden have developed a formula to detect different authors' literary 'fingerprints'.


Booksellers call for probe of online book-price wars

Technology / Internet

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The American Booksellers Association on Thursday asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate online book-price wars underway by Amazon.com, Wal-Mart and Target.


Finding God with biocomplexity

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 25, 2008 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (36) | comments 6

After centuries of trying to uncover the fundamental laws of the universe, science is still no closer to answering some of humanity’s biggest questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God and the evolution of ...


UAB professor's book promises solution for teaching evolution without conflict

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Associate Professor Lee Meadows, Ph.D., is author of a new book that claims it's possible to teach evolution without offending students who have strong religious convictions against ...



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