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

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

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 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.


First high-resolution images of bone, tooth and shell formation

First high-resolution images of bone, tooth and shell formation

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) have for the first time made high-resolution images of the earliest stages of bone formation. They used the world's most advanced electron ...


Disruption-free videos

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 05, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Standardized video coding techniques still have their snags -- digitally transmitted images are not always disruption-free. An extension of the H.264/AVC coding format allows to protect the most important data packets to ...


Why pay when you can copy for free?

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New empirical research identifies successful strategies for the exploitation of television formats. Television formats such as X-Factor or Britain's Got Talent are extremely popular with audiences. Over the last decade, the ...


Card downloads your memories before you forget

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If you tend to forget or neglect to move photo treasures from your digital camera to your computer, an Eye-Fi card should interest you. This clever photo memory card handles that meddlesome task for you -- and now it does ...


Music service Lala heralds MP3-killing iPhone app

Technology / Internet

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Online music retailer Lala is preparing to launch an iPhone application that its co-founder says paves the way for the end of downloading songs in the MP3 format.


Motorola Launches Advanced Multi-Format Encoding Platform for 1080P Content

Technology / Other

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Motorola today revealed its next generation encoding platform. This high-performance video processing platform supports both MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) encoding and transcoding and ...


New Sony Blu-Ray Player Integrates Streaming Internet Video

New Sony Blu-Ray Player Integrates Streaming Internet Video

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Offering the best of full HD 1080p and streaming Internet video, Sony today introduced the BDP-N460 networked Blu-ray Disc player.


The day the music died: New research into the UK recording studio sector

Other Sciences / Economics

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

A severe crisis in the music industry is seriously depleting the UK's recording studio sector, according to new research from The University of Nottingham.


AT&T files program complaint against Cablevision

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- AT&T Inc. has filed a complaint with federal regulators charging that Cablevision Systems Corp. is violating federal law by denying AT&T's video customers in Connecticut access to Cablevision's New York area sports ...


Sensoring the World Wide Web

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

CSIRO scientists will lead an international initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by sensors and sensor networks over the Internet.