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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Google Books has also been subject to legal debate, starting in 2002 with Google's attempt to create the largest and most comprehensive digital library in history. Meanwhile, the European Commission is... [27 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet An interesting question - earlier this year, Amazon got itself into a bit of hot water after deleting copies of two George Orwell novels from users' Kindles, when it discovered that the books - 1984 and Animal Farm - had been added to... [07 Oct 2009]
Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance
News Google plans to display portions of those books (rights-holders can specify how much Google is allowed to show) as part of the Google Book Search product and will also provide access to the books through public library... [09 Sep 2009]
Google seeks to appease Europe with digital books copyright deal
News The challenge for EU policymakers is to ensure a regulatory framework which paves the way for a rapid roll-out of services, similar to those made possible in the US by the recent settlement, to European consumers and to the European... [08 Sep 2009]
Amazon steps up Google Books criticism with court filing
News And three library groups reiterated on Wednesday that while they do not oppose the settlement they wish to ensure "vigorous oversight" is enforced by the court. One of the largest sellers of regular books in the world,... [03 Sep 2009]
Innovation Network Lecture Series: The eXtensible Access Method (XAM) Standard and Its Role in Digital Curation
White Paper Kennedy Library and Museum. The Digital Curation Centre defines digital curation as "Maintaining and adding value to a trusted body of digital information for current... [29 Aug 2009]
Utilizing SIMD Instructions on the INtime RTOS With the Intel IPP Library
White Paper Applying DSPs (Digital Signal Processors) to real-time embedded systems can result in significant performance improvements, especially where complex mathematical algorithms are involved. Algorithms that perform... [05 Aug 2009]
Rural Britain needs faster, more reliable broadband
Comment They can be seen in the office space in market towns standing empty and children travelling miles to the nearest library to complete their homework. While universal broadband speeds of up to 2Mbps by 2012 might seem like... [04 Aug 2009]
Web Technologies Help MTV Networks Create Dynamic Website and Improve Global Workflow
White Paper In 2000, the company created ALIAS (Archive Library Information Access System), an enterprise asset management system used by MTVN personnel to search and request assets from the company's videotape archives. [30 May 2009]
Adobe's Flash turns into a telly addict
News This means that people could have full access to the entire YouTube library of video on their TVs instead of a subset that has been specially encoded for TV viewing. The company will on Monday announce its latest version... [20 Apr 2009]
The Thin Client Wireless Broadband Network Project in the Irish Primary School Sector - An Analysis of Baseline Data
White Paper The Thin Client wireless broadband project, is a pilot initiative involving a cluster of nine primary schools based in North County Dublin, Ireland. It is a four year project designed to investigate firstly, the extent to which a... [10 Feb 2009]
Have You Xiine It?: CoDe Magazine Rolls Out Xiine, a New .NET-Based Content Reader That Brings Online Content Closer to Print Quality
White Paper Xiine also provides the ability to manage the entire digital library, so, for example, programers can use Xiine to organize the issues of CoDe Magazine and CoDe Focus, as well as books and other content. [22 Dec 2008]
Object-Oriented Classification for Change Detection With Different Spatial Resolution Images
White Paper In Canada, for example, in federal case the National Airphoto Library (NAPL) by Natural Resources Canada archives over six million aerial photos covering all of Canada. In addition, diverse aerial photo products such as... [13 Dec 2008]
Data Integrity & Document-Centric XML a System for Managing Text Collections
White Paper The Digital Library Program (DLP) at Indiana University manages the production, maintenance, delivery, and preservation of a wide range of networked information resources for scholars and students at... [11 Dec 2008]
Context-Sensitive Keyword Search and Ranking for XML
White Paper As an illustration, consider a large and heterogeneous XML digital library that contains content ranging from Shakespeare's plays to scientific papers. Traditionally, keyword-search-based Information... [04 Dec 2008]
