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Derik Dupont

Google Opens App Store For Business Software - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Google unveiled a marketplace of business software to help to spur the adoption of its own suite of productivity applications.
Derik Dupont

Microsoft in Patent Deal With Amazon - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Software maker reached licensing agreement that covers open-source software used by Internet retailer. " />
Derik Dupont

Jobs Attacks Flash As Unfit for iPhone - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    Steve Jobs defended Apple's decision to exclude Adobe's Flash player from many of its mobile devices, refuting the software maker's claim it was a business decision to protect Apple's App Store" />
Ryan Holman

Faster Forward - A quick read on Amazon's Kindle for PC software - 0 views

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    Review of Kindle for PC software....
Derik Dupont

Amazon Releases Kindle App for Android Phones - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Amazon is offering a free Kindle reading application for phones running Google's Android software.
Amanda Straub

Gene Weingarten - Illiterature - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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    The ad on Craigslist was from an Oakton company called Zirdland.com. Zirdland claims it has developed a software system that can electronically analyze the quality and commercial viability of a work of fiction and prompt changes that will make it better.
Helen Nam

The Million Word March | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views

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    The English language is rapidly approaching a million words. However, experts disagree on what exactly constitutes a "word." The Global Language Monitor uses proprietary software to monitor word use and popularity.
Kori Kamradt

Lexcycle, Plastic Logic, iRex and Others to Integrate New Adobe eBook Technology - 2/16... - 0 views

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    Monday, February 16, Adobe unveiled its new Adobe Reader Mobile 9 SDK (Software Development Kit), which will enable companies to more easily distribute and display ebooks in PDF and EPUB formats on mobile phones, ereaders and other mobile devices.
Mike Kalyan

New Adobe software protects copyrights on eBooks - 0 views

  • "We know digital book customers want a broad selection of content, a choice of reading platforms and devices and the option to get their eBook from their favorite retailer, local public library or directly from the publisher," said Paul Weiskopf, senior vice president, Corporate Development at Adobe. "Adobe Content Server 4 enables the publishing industry to meet all these needs for eBook customers while, at the same time, protecting valuable copyrights."
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      Adobe does it again. Leveraging their technology with what their industry needs.
Derik Dupont

Macmillan?s DynamicBooks Lets Professors Rewrite E-Textbooks - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Macmillan is introducing software that will allow college instructors to edit digital editions of textbooks without consulting the original authors or publisher.
Kori Kamradt

Sony's New eBook Software Takes Aim at Kindle - 0 views

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    Earlier this week, Sony announced that it will be bringing out a new eBook Reader that will offer built in 3G wireless and the ability to buy books on-demand --
arnie Grossblatt

A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • aking a new hard line that news articles should not turn up on search engines and Web sites without permission, The Associated Press said Thursday that it would add software to each article that shows what limits apply to the rights to use it, and that notifies The A.P. about how the article is used.
  • the company’s position was that even minimal use of a news article online required a licensing agreement with the news organization that produced it.
  • Search engines and news aggregators contend that their brief article citations fall under the legal principle of fair use.
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  • Each article — and, in the future, each picture and video — would go out with what The A.P. called a digital “wrapper,” data invisible to the ordinary consumer that is intended, among other things, to maximize its ranking in Internet searches. The software would also send signals back to The A.P., letting it track use of the article across the Web.
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    AP gets ready to play rough with news aggregators and search engines - and with the notion of fair use.
arnie Grossblatt

Lost in the Cloud - 0 views

  • But the most difficult challenge — both to grasp and to solve — of the cloud is its effect on our freedom to innovate.
  • This freedom is at risk in the cloud, where the vendor of a platform has much more control over whether and how to let others write new software.
  • And many software developers who once would have been writing whatever they wanted for PCs are simply developing less adventurous, less subversive, less game-changing code under the watchful eyes of Facebook and Apple.
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    Insuring that cloud computing doesn' lead to a loss of privacy and the ability to innovate.
Derik Dupont

Amazon plans Kindle for PC - 0 views

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    News, profiles and commentary on Seattle technology startups, Microsoft, Amazon.com, gadgets, PCs, software, venture capital and Internet services.
Derik Dupont

Washington Post, Amazon.com link up for book sale experiment - 0 views

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    News, profiles and commentary on Seattle technology startups, Microsoft, Amazon.com, gadgets, PCs, software, venture capital and Internet services.
Mark Schreiber

Freeing the LMS - 0 views

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    Pearson offers free, cloud-based learning management software hoping it will eventually lead to increased e-textbook sales.
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