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Education that includes at least some online work is more effective than classroom-only teaching, according to a major research review done for the Department of Education.

Vowing to fight unauthorized reproduction of news reports online, The Associated Press said Thursday that it will add software to each article showing who created it and what limits apply to the rights to use it. The software will also notify the A.P. about how the article is used across the Web.

Two Vermont statisticians are analyzing Twitter's river of messages to monitor the public's changing moods and what affects them.

A proposal from the Democratic Leadership Council calls for investigating ways to give electronic reading devices to every student in the United States.

Facebook is amending its business model and software to enhance the regulatory framework for its users, as the debate regarding privacy is central to the companies brand image.

Twitter has grown exponentially in the last 3.5 years. The company is trying to raise capital for growth, stimulating debate regarding the companies fundamental value beyond hype.

Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook predicts that people will share more information naturally in the future.

An invitation to a New York event suggests Barnes & Noble may introduce its e-reading device on Oct. 20 with a feature other devices don't have.

There are various ebook reader devices on sale and there are plenty of books in electronic format available, but we have not reached the tipping point where cheap ebook devices are available and enough ebook content is available at an attractive price.

Andrew Keen writes about whether to buy the Kindle now or wait for the appearance of the Apple touchtablet device rumored to be released early next year

Writing and reading - from newspapers to novels, academic reports to gossip magazines - are migrating ever faster to digital screens, like laptops, Kindles and cellphones.

You can watch the below video for explaination http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Q9MJdT5Ds

The blows being traded over Google's $125m deal to digitise books are getting fiercer by the day

Sony released a 7-inch, $399, touchscreen, 3G and Wi-Fi e-book reader this morning, and it's never more obvious that Amazon is up against a wall in the market segment it helped create.

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Recently I was on an airplane reading an article in the New York Times when the woman in the seat next to me leaned over and asked what I was holding. I told her it was a Kindle, Amazon's new ebook reader. I showed her how it worked, explained e-ink, walked her through my collection of titles and subscriptions, and showed how I could look up words in the built in Oxford dictionary. Her response; "That is really cool, but I prefer the feel and smell of a real book."

Part Four: Modern (Didone) In the previous installment of this series, we took a closer look at Transitional style typefaces, so-called because they mark a