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RSS free booksiPhone, Google battle - another element in the struggle for web power
News It's working to disrupt every industry from books and news to word processing and telecommunications by rebuilding them on top of the internet. But in the bigger picture, it's a fight that was destined to happen as the... [27 Aug 2009]
'Ditch Windows, free software is the answer'
News Brown points to Amazon.com's recent deletion of e-books from the Kindle as an example of the kinds of action that could become commonplace if the world becomes filled with more digital rights management technologies. [26 Aug 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Who accepts my social networking invites?
Comment I think there's at least one PhD and several books in here somewhere! Compiled at my home early one morning when I just couldn't sleep, and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service in London a... [05 Aug 2009]
Amazon says no to Phorm tracking
News We think it's right because what books you read is potentially sensitive [information]. Any owner of a website is free to opt out of having that site tracked by Phorm, and Amazon is the most prominent... [15 Apr 2009]
Is SharePoint right for your enterprise? Get a free report sample to find out
White Paper You've likely seen dozens of books and blogs about SharePoint. Get your free report sample now to learn more. Find out how Microsoft SharePoint really works. SharePoint is very good at certain things,... [18 Mar 2009]
Amazon gives iPhone the Kindle treatment
News Amazon is expected to unveil a free application on Wednesday that will allow the same electronic books available on the e-tailer 's Kindle to be read on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch. The program will be... [04 Mar 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Science friction
Comment But I can remember my earliest comic books, which included The Eagle and Superman. Conceived in a traffic jam on Interstate 80, written the next day in a coffee shop at Lake Tahoe CA and sent via a free... [28 Aug 2008]
Kids flocking to Blyk to bag free calls and texts
News But many individual campaigns have had significantly higher response rates than that, according to Blyk, which cites a Penguin Books promotion for Nick Hornby's novel Slam which it said gained "an unprecedented 67 per... [25 Apr 2008]
Indigo Books & Music Boosts Store Uptime and Improves Customer Experience With Cisco's Intelligent Retail Network Solution
White Paper Indigo is a Canadian company committed to providing a service-driven, stress-free approach to satisfying the booklover. Frequent network outages at small format stores impacted customer service and ability to process sales. [19 Dec 2007]
Photos: 10 gadgets to wish for this Xmas
Photo It uses an EVDO wireless network for downloading blogs, e-books, newspapers and RSS feeds - and offers access to online encyclopedia Wikipedia. It has integrated Bluetooth, meaning it can be used as a... [03 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.11.07
Round-Up Alternatively you can brush up on your Dickens for free - since the Kindle supports plain text format and the Gutenberg Project has thousands of books available gratis. New books and... [23 Nov 2007]
Bruce Perens
AS Profile There are now 24 books in the Perens Open Source series and Perens is vice president of developer relations and policy at open-source company SourceLabs, which provides services to Wall Street and is also busy... [12 Oct 2007]
Google: Personalisation is the future
News Mayer said one of the most important data points for improving search relevance based on personalisation is the previous query, although web history and address books could also be helpful "signals" to the search engine. [23 Aug 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.05.07
Round-Up It will be very interesting to see which decision the history books choose to remember. Marks & Sparks duly responded by informing all staff and offering free credit checks for those employees worried... [11 May 2007]
India diary, day 1: Cyberbad on Sunday
Comment The bookshops are crammed with management books, which tells you lots about the types of passengers that pass through here - executives on their way to the IT hubs or exploring the booming Indian market. [04 Mar 2007]
