Blackfriar: A little less hooray for Hollywood as Zoo sees magic fade
… but life has been far from A-list for Zoo Digital over the past two years. The Sheffield-based company has felt the pain of customers freezing spending at a time when pirate copies and cheap downloads have made DVDs and Blu-Ray look like yesterday …
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US antitrust regulators bid to rein in iTunes
NEW YORK CITY (AFP) – The US Department of Justice on Friday launched a bid to more tightly regulate Apple's wildly lucrative iTunes storefront, after the tech giant lost a price-fixing case. DOJ officials urged a court to order Apple to cut ties with …
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Roanoke County church goes high-tech to spread the gospel
Church of the Holy Spirit is among a growing trend of churches using mobile technology. MICHAEL SHROYER | Special …. The church even took the prayer books out of the pews and stopped printing a newsletter in favor of a blog. "When we started doing …
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Box's Aaron Levie: 5 books you must read to understand Silicon Valley
And in case you're wondering if you should bother to read five books about the technology industry of yesteryear, you should know that Levie considers it a big part of his competitive advantage. Understanding the history of the technology is crucial to …
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Amadeus, Vayama, and applying lessons from jam tastings to airfare search
The story goes that an Amadeus executive was inspired to lead the invention of Featured Results after reading one of the most influential psychological books of the past 20 years: Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, published in …
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Rip-Off Alert: Church volunteer cooks books to help herself
"She's extremely intelligent, extremely personable, very knowledgeable with technology. Most importantly, her ability to help others." McFann, the president of the church council, says Loprest used those traits to gain people's trust – then began …
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Books as Blogs, Blogs as Books
Image by Ron Hogan
Michelle Leder (footnoted.org), Amy Cohen (The Late Bloomer’s Revolution), and Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine.com) speak at a Tools of Change panel on how authors can incorporate blogging into their book-writing career.
