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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Amazon's Kindle e-book and Google's Book Search will change the way we read books forever. They are capable of storing thousands of books in digital form; users can download these direct to the devices... [27 Oct 2009]
Photos: Amazon's Kindle comes to the UK
Photo Users can download books, magazines, newspapers and personal documents for reading on the go, and can choose from six different text sizes. Amazon claims that individual books can be downloaded to the... [08 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet However, the reality is a little less high flying: there are just 350,000 books available for download - although more are promised in the future - and the device itself can store around 1,500. That's exactly what it... [07 Oct 2009]
Amazon's Kindle e-book reader arriving in UK this month
News The new global version, which is expected to ship on 19 October, is similar to the previous Kindle with a six-inch display, yet allows users to download books wirelessly in less than a minute. Amazon's Kindle is coming... [07 Oct 2009]
Bank Al-Maghrib Enhances Procurement and Financial Management Processes, Improving Productivity
White Paper Bank Al-Maghrib worked with Oracle Partner STERIA Medshore to replace aging in-house applications with integrated Oracle E-Business Suite applications for financial management, purchasing, stocks, and fixed assets management and reduced... [02 Oct 2009]
Worst Practices in Forecasting: The Mechanics of Forecasting
White Paper There is certainly no shortage of articles, books, consultants and even software vendors willing to tell their version of forecasting best practices. This white paper, however, is going to take a different angle. [02 Oct 2009]
How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
News The loss of a major customer is often a significant indicator of trouble, particularly if the vendor does not have many other deals on its books. Want to avoid getting burned when signing a BPO deal? There's a set of... [30 Sep 2009]
Michael A Cusumano
AS Profile It's an influence he's exerted through wearing a number of different hats including the one he's perhaps best known for - writing a series of books on technology companies including The Business of Software: What Every... [30 Sep 2009]
Duncan Watts
AS Profile Watts has published a raft of papers and books on collective dynamics including Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age which sets out the theory of the science of networks. Columbia University sociology professor... [29 Sep 2009]
Ray Kurzweil
AS Profile Kurzweil's not just a thinker, he's a doer - a writer of many books and an inventor of several technologies including flatbed scanners, music synthesizers and text-to-speech reading machines. Ray Kurzweil is a futurist... [29 Sep 2009]
Toptable books in new CTO
News Online restaurant booking company Toptable has appointed a new chief technology officer to develop technology to support the company's expansion. Paul Broome has joined the company from digital display maker, Litelogic.com, where he was... [23 Sep 2009]
A world where your every moment is recorded is coming
News Or in a more sci-fi scenario, your logs of movies and books read, cross-referenced with your heart rate and blood pressure measurements, could help you decide what sorts of movie to watch. History by some definitions... [21 Sep 2009]
SAS Responds to the Challenge of the Fast Close
White Paper The Fast Close process, that is the ability to rapidly close the books, collect, consolidate and publish the results of a group globally, is widely seen as a proxy for good corporate governance and a management team that... [16 Sep 2009]
Google steps up efforts to liberate user data
News One of the most heated topics of criticism concerning Google's Book Search settlement with authors and publishers has been concerns about privacy, such as how Google will treat records of which users are reading which... [15 Sep 2009]
Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance
News Google is trying to get final approval of its settlement with book publishers and authors granting it the right to digitise certain out-of-print books. Microsoft, now finding itself on the same side of the issue as... [09 Sep 2009]
