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E-reader trend needs common standards
News More players eye piece of e-reader market, but consumers benefit only if readers are built to support one common standard, say industry players.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets, Standards, E-book, Spokesperson, Standards, Korea, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., digital-rights management, public domain, Notebooks and tablets
Preventing data loss--what's needed
Insight perspective Though there are plenty of tools to help businesses shore up data, the lack of policy standards makes the task more difficult than it should be, says analyst.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Security applications/tools, Security Management, Security implementation/standards, IBM Corp., Security, Policy, LDAP, Server
Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox
Reviews If data security is paramount, the DataTraveler BlackBox is the USB flash drive of choice, despite its relatively high cost.
Tags: NIST, Security, Kingston Technology Corp., USB Flash Drive, USB, Password, Notebook, Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox, FIPS, handheld
In remembrance: DRMs
Blogs Last week, I was at a WIPO-organized forum on copyright and related rights in Singapore. Several persons spoke about...
How confidential is confidential?
Blogs Although this post is about the Aware's instructor guide, I would like to state from the outset that I am not going to c...
Internet Archive's BookServer could 'dominate' Amazon
News A new initiative from the nonprofit Internet Archive aims to make all books, commercial or public domain, available for digital distribution. If it works, Amazon could be in serious trouble.
Tags: Handhelds, Publisher, Google Inc., Barnes & Noble Inc., search engine, e-reader, Amazon.com Inc., BookServer, public domain, Amazon Kindle
Sony officially unveils new Readers
News Vendor also drops price of e-books, matching Amazon's US$9.99 price tag on new releases and best sellers.
Tags: Handhelds, Battery, Sony Reader, E-book, Wireless, USB cable, font size, Touch Screen, public domain, Adobe PDF
Google image search gets usage rights filtering
News Google updates its image search to let users filter by images they can reuse and repurpose, which may keep the search giant from getting into hot water with content creators.
Tags: Copyright, Spam filtering, Regulations, Data Management, Creative Commons, Google Inc., Tool, Wikipedia, photograph, image search
A new skin for 'unkind' blogosphere
Blogs Remember that episode of Seinfeld where the four friends were sent to jail for not being good Samaritans? In the fin...
Microsoft shows off 3D video-editing tool
News A research project called Unwrap Mosaic paves the way for adding features such as facial hair to the subject of a video that has already been filmed.
Tags: Software, Video, Personal applications, Microsoft Corp., Technology, Tool, 3D, Environment, trade show, photograph
Closing chapter of Google Books saga near
News Monday's deadline to submit a revised settlement could mark the beginning of the end for the Google Books legal process, after a year of rancorous debate.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Web 2.0, U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, New York, copyright law
Amazon: Google Books deal an 'unprecedented' copyright hack
News Perhaps the most strident criticism from a competitor of Google's digital book settlement with publishers and authors was released Wednesday by Amazon.
Tags: E-commerce, Web sites, Content management, Settlement, Class Action, copyright law, Judge, U.S. District Court, U.S. Congress, Sony Corp.
Sony's e-reader goes wireless
News With the new 3G-equipped Reader Daily Edition joining two other models, Sony reinforces the message that it's not ceding the market to Amazon.
Tags: Consumer Technology, GPS, Sony Reader, E-book Reader, E-book, Wireless, Touch Screen, Sony Corp., GPS, Consumer Technology
Library groups gripe about Google Book Search
News Google's book-search program has allies and enemies among librarians. Now three library groups have filed complaints, but not an objection, to a book-search legal settlement.
Tags: Copyright, Antitrust, Google Inc., Search Result, pricing strategy, Antitrust, Copyright, Google Book Search
Google: These books are free
News Search giant makes PDFs of entire public-domain works available for download and print.
Tags: Search, Digital media, Copyright
