News tagged with electronic publication

Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google

Mar 19, 2009 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.'s electronic book-reading device, the companies were set to announce Thursday.

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A new generation of computer tablets is on its way

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

5 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

I may have caught a glimpse of the future last week. In San Francisco, a startup company called Fusion Garage showed off the JooJoo, a touch-screen device that looks like the iPhone's big brother. The JooJoo ...

Final Blu-ray 3D Specification Announced

Technology / Hi Tech

6 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) today announced the finalization and release of the "Blu-ray 3DTM" specification. The specification, which represents the work of the leading Hollywood studios and consumer electronic and ...

French technology upstart challenges Google

Technology / Internet

6 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to rely on help from American ...

IBM Reveals Five Innovations that Will Change Cities in the Next Five Years (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

7 hours ago | 2.5 / 5 (2) | 1

Today, IBM unveiled a list of innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities around the globe over the next five to ten years.

Researcher studies the universe through quantum electrodynamics

Physics / Quantum Physics

9 hours ago | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental constants, such as the standards for length and mass, are a given in our society. However, research has shown that these constants might be changing slightly with the expansion of the universe.

Science's breakthrough of the year: Uncovering 'Ardi'

Other Sciences / Other

11 hours ago | 2.3 / 5 (3) | 3

The research that brought to light the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia, has topped Science's list of this year's most significant s ...

Privacy watchdog files complaint against Facebook

Technology / Internet

12 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- A Washington-based privacy advocacy group has filed a complaint against Facebook over the social network's latest privacy changes.

Gadgets: Great gadgets, as a gift or not

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

12 hours ago | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

Officially this is not another gift guide. Instead I'd rather consider it the first of two roundups either of products I just haven't gotten to this year or some I have just couldn't find a home for.

Within a cell, actin keeps things moving

Chemistry / Biochemistry

12 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new technology developed in his University of Oregon lab, chemist Andrew H. Marcus and his doctoral student Eric N. Senning have captured what they describe as well-orchestrated, actin-driven, ...