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Retail in the Smarter City
Retail could be so much smarter, imagine getting the deals you want, when and where you want them. Check out this video, Retail in the Smarter City, to learn how retail can do more.
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U.S. authors: Kindle lending library is 'contract breach'
Amazon is in hot water with publishers, after accusations that the online giant "boldly breached contracts" with its new Kindle lending library service.
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Tech geeks: 2011 directory of who to follow on Twitter
If you're interested in technology and you want to know who to follow on Twitter, here is a directory of leading tech journalists, commentators, and personalities, divided by categories and...
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Spelling out the essence of emerging 'renaissance' organizations and professionals
More details on the components of Vinnie Mirchandani's RENAISSANCE Framework, which describe how information technology is reshaping business and society.
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Podcast with sexologist Violet Blue on e-books, explicit content and iPad
Jason Perlow interviews sexologist Violet Blue and discusses self-publishing on Amazon's Kindle and the implications of Apple's iPad Regional Content Review policies.
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140 tech experts to follow on Twitter, updated for 2010
Twitter can be a valuable tool for techies - if you know who to follow. Here's a list of 140 of the leading tech experts on Twitter, updated for 2010.
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Frugal Friday: David Gewirtz, author of How to Save Jobs
In this special episode of Frugal Friday, Ken Hess and I interview David Gewirtz, author of How To Save Jobs.
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EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech
Google's ability to track users' browsing and book reading habits creates a dangerous temptation to government and private litigants, which will result in a chilling effect on free speech and...
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Europeans vote to give Google Book deal a hard time
More trouble (read: good news) in the Google Books settlement. EurActiv reports that EU ministers will recommend the European Commission investigate the implications of the settlement on...
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Authors get extension in Google Books Settlement
A victory for authors in the Google Book Deal: Judge Denny Chin has extended the deadline (
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It's a Flat World after all
Hooks Johnston, General Partner at Valhalla Partners, compared Flat World's potential to that of the MP3, but its real innovation is the same one powering this blog, a business model that works...
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Countdown to Philly ETE 2009
The Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2009 conference starts Thursday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I'll be attending the conference this year, and speaking at a session on Android...
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Kindlenomics: Keep publishers and authors happy (cave once in a while)
Amazon has backtracked a bit on the Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature, which riled up the Author's Guild. Amazon's most recent move (statement, Techmeme) is designed to appease the Author's...
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Authors: Kindle 2 text-to-speech undermines audio books
The guild that represents authors is urging writers to be wary of the text-to-speech feature of Amazon's second-generation Kindle e-reader. In a memo sent to members Thursday, the guild says the...
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Thanks to Google, writers' lives may be even more thankless, unless....
The announcement that Google has settled its book scanning lawsuit with The Author's Guild raises all sorts of hopes for digital use of new and previously published books. But without some radical...
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eBooks get social, pose further threat to traditional publishers
When most industry observers examine the impact of social media on traditional media industries, the focus inevitability turns to easily digitized media such as newspapers, magazines, radio,...
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Nanodisks used to encrypt information
PhysOrg.com reports that U.S. researchers have used nanotechnology to develop nanodisks which could be useful to create codes to encrypt information. This method, which conceptually is similar to...
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New IT project failure metrics: is Standish wrong?
The Standish Group's Chaos Report describes two-thirds of IT projects as being "challenged." Now, three academics have published a report suggesting these numbers are flawed, and that only...
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Biofuel, more questions than answers
There's an interesting commentary from AlwaysOn concerning biofuels. The author posits three waves of the biofuel business and tech development. The third and latest wave depends on much of the...
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Green sport? Maybe sitting on a rock in the wilderness?
There's an interesting column about the greenness, or perhaps brownness, of big-time sports over on Slate. The author admits he didn't even bother to tote up the carbon costs of NASCAR racing....
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The paradox of choice
At Release 1.0's PC Forum 2006 in Carlsbad, Calif., Barry Schwartz, the author of "The Paradox of Choice," talks about why greater freedom and more choices often make us feel worse.
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