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Scribd turns page from document sharing to selling

Technology / Internet

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- Hoping to do for the written word what iTunes did for music, the online document-sharing service Scribd is opening an Internet store that will offer new sales opportunities for authors and publishers, ...





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Study: Unlicensed spectrum space worth $100 billion for wireless use

Technology / Telecom

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study commissioned by Microsoft Corp. estimates that the unlicensed "white spaces" spectrum coveted by the software giant and other technology companies could be worth more than $100 billion over the next 15 years.


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New study looks at unauthorized use of US newspaper stories

Technology / Internet

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 2

A study of the use of US newspaper stories on the Web has found that more than 75,000 websites reused content from newspapers without authorization during a 30-day period.


Amazon's new Kindle DX 9.7" Wireless Reading Device is ready for shipment at the warehouse

Amazon sends Orwell to 'memory hole'

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 27

Amazon fended off Saturday accusations of Big Brother-like behavior after it quietly erased two George Orwell books from customers' electronic book readers this week.


China to appeal WTO ruling on book, movie imports (AP)

China to appeal WTO ruling on book, movie imports

Technology / Business

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- China will appeal a World Trade Organization ruling that ordered it to ease restrictions on imports of movies, music and books in a case brought by Washington, a Commerce Ministry spokesman said Monday.


Study: New treatment may combat drug-resistant flu

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A new and unlicensed treatment for swine flu could be used in patients who have Tamiflu-resistant viruses, doctors say. In an article published Friday in the medical journal Lancet, British doctors describe how they ...


Amount of gene surplus determines severity of mental retardation in males

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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

Researchers have discovered a new explanation for differences in the severity of mental illness in males. The more excess copies of a certain gene, the more serious the handicap. The genetic defect is situated on the X-chromosome; ...


Witty tweets captured in 'Twitter Wit' book

Witty tweets captured in 'Twitter Wit' book

Technology / Internet

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A freshly released book "Twitter Wit" is a hit at the hip micro-blogging service, which so loved the compendium of clever tweets that it bought copies for everyone in its San Francisco headquarters.


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.


Pirated copies of Orwell books pulled from Kindle

Technology / Internet

created Jul 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

(AP) -- A pirated e-book of "1984" led to an Orwellian moment for Kindle customers.


Counting duplicated genome segments now possible

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A newly designed computational method has proven its usefulness in counting copies of duplicated genome sequences and in doing initial assessments of their contents, according to a study to be published Aug. ...



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