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Nooks Will Be Available at Barnes & Noble Stores Beginning Wednesday
Barnes & Noble, the country’s largest book-selling chain, said that its Nook electronic reading device would be available for purchase in its stores starting Wednesday, reports The New York Times....
February 9 2010 / Read More »Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked
Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist...
February 9 2010 / Read More »Apple iPad Price Cut: Blunder or Brilliance?
If Apple is really considering price cuts on its just-introduced iPad, the best advice is to make them before launch, not after, according to PC World....
February 9 2010 / Read More »Electronic books now come in snack sizes
Who has time to read a whole book anymore? That’s the thinking behind a new publishing venture by the FT Press, a unit of Pearson, which has introduced two series of short, digital-only titles for...
February 8 2010 / Read More »Web not yet the answer to college textbook costs
Most students still prefer print to digital textbooks, and even if they didn't, college campuses so far have made very few titles available online, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. ...
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Carnegie Mellon to offer online safety program »
Carnegie Mellon University will use a $20,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation to create and distribute web safety advice to faculty, teachers, and students...
Feb 9 2010 / No comment / Read More »Stanford affirms support for Google Book Search »
The U.S. Justice Department’s concerns about Google Book Search persist, but not everyone shares those concerns: Stanford University last week affirmed its support of...
Feb 8 2010 / No comment / Read More »Feds still troubled by Google Books deal »
The U.S. Justice Department still thinks a proposal to give Google the digital rights to millions of hard-to-find books threatens to stifle competition and...
Feb 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »Microsoft opens its cloud to researchers »
Researchers have until March 15 to submit proposals to the National Science Foundation that would grant access to Microsoft’s massive cloud-computing power for three...
Feb 5 2010 / No comment / Read More »Experts split: Are FY11 student aid increases enough? »
President Obama’s fiscal year 2011 budget includes $156 billion in student aid, a second consecutive increase in Pell Grant funds, and a lower cap...
Feb 5 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »Social media use on the rise, but fewer young people are blogging »
The use of social-networking web sites among young Americans continues to climb—but fewer teens and young adults are blogging now than four years ago,...
Feb 4 2010 / No comment / Read More »Students use iPods, iPhones to grade Obama’s address »
It's the stuff that makes political pollsters salivate: 30 Abilene Christian University students used iPhones and iPod Touches to respond to President Obama's Jan....
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