News tagged with digital
Google's desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliath
Nov 06, 2009 |
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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.
Google wants businesses to ride Wave
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Google pitched its fledgling Wave communications platform as a way for businesses to turn routine email into collaborative exchanges that ramp up productivity.
Box office boost shows 3D is here to stay
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Once regarded as a quirky fad for nerds wearing cardboard spectacles, 3D films are enjoying a mainstream renaissance and this time the medium is here to stay, entertainment industry experts say.
Modified Bluetooth speeds up telemedicine
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A telemedicine system based on a modified version of the Bluetooth wireless protocol can transfer patient data, such as medical images from patient to the healthcare provider's mobile device for patient assessment almost ...
Gadgets: Picks from the PhotoPlus Expo
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 28, 2009 |
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This past weekend at the 2009 PDN PhotoPlus Expo, companies from all over showed off the latest and greatest in digital photography gear. Here is a sampling of items that caught my attention while walking the floor at the ...
Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at ...
Gadgets: WD media player makes watching your own HD video easier
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Producing your own high-definition video has become increasingly easier with today's line of HD video cameras. But transferring the content from your computer to a TV can be a challenge.
Chinese group says Google violating copyrights
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Chinese group is accusing search engine powerhouse Google of illegally copying Chinese-language works for its digital library, adding to disquiet about a project to scan millions of books.
PayPal opening doors to outside developers
Oct 21, 2009 |
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PayPal plans to throw open the doors of its software platform to enable outside developers to build innovative tools using the online financial transaction service.
HP, Amazon to sell paperback versions of e-books
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Some of technology's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books.
Seismic noise unearths lost hurricanes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Seismologists have found a new way to piece together the history of hurricanes in the North Atlantic—by looking back through records of the planet's seismic noise. It's an entirely new way to tap into the ...
Book scanning prompts review of EU copyright laws
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The European Commission said Monday it may revise copyright law to make it easier for companies like Google Inc. to scan printed books and distribute digital copies over the Internet.
EU launches digital library at Frankfut Book Fair
Oct 18, 2009 |
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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.
HP's new touch Tablet: Windows 7 ultimate remote?
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Hewlett-Packard recently announced a new wireless, touchscreen tablet that's a cross between a wireless photo frame and a super duper remote control.
Identifying ID theft and fraud
Oct 14, 2009 |
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If the wife of FBI boss Robert Mueller has warned him not to use internet banking because of the threat of online fraud, then what hope is there for the average Jo? The results of research published in a forthcoming issue ...
