Innovative uses of wireless technology abound in developing world
Keep your eye on emerging markets like these – they're showing us how fast technology can evolve to support micro-business models that can, in turn, bolster local economies. Paul A. Gilster is the author of several books on technology. Reach him at …
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Down With Lifehacking!
Coined by the technology journalist Danny O'Brien in 2004, the term life hack quickly became staple of techspeak. In 2011 life hack—defined as "a strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one's time … As "lifehacking" becomes an industry with …
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Digital publishing offers plenty of advantages for local literary presses
No one needs reminding of the seismic shift we're seeing in how we consume our media as once-analogue technologies make way for digital platforms and the gizmos we buy to host them. Ryan Christianson certainly doesn't, and in relation to book …
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LumeJet wins funding for photonic technology
LumeBar uses LumeJet's photonic printhead technology, created for high-speed industrial printing of high-quality documents such as photo books, inline labelling and packaging and plastic electronics. Rather than a moving print head, as in the current …
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BookVibe Turns Twitter Data into Book Discovery Tool
BookVibe is a three-year old Big Data venture that has developed a natural language search technology that allows users to search their tweets and extract the books that are being discussed by the people they follow on Twitter. The service is free to …
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Apple TV, Google Chromecast And Aereo Put Broadcast Television On Death …
Over the last few years, there has been a significant shift in how we consume digital content from music and movies to books and television (TV). The intersection of new technologies, devices and high speed networks has served to accelerate that change …
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Textbook publishers revamp e-books to fight used market
(Reuters) – A booming market in recent years for selling and renting used college textbooks has saved students across the United States a ton of cash. But it has put textbook publishers in a bind. They don't make a cent unless students buy their books new.
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