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"The internet regulator approves plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move set to transform the online world."
Read the whole thing here from BBC News | Technology
Filed Under: [The Web]
Posted on 30 Oct 2009 around 10pm
"The BBC Trust increases the budget for online services while signing off cuts in TV, radio and salaries."
Read the whole thing here from BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
Posted on 20 Mar 2009 around 2pm
"The World Wide Web turned 20 on Friday, March 13. What began as a system for exchanging research information is now a part of daily life for millions. Peter Philipp explores the Web's impact on society."
Read the whole thing here from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - Culture & Lifestyle
Filed Under: [The Web]
Posted on 18 Mar 2009 around 9am
"Following protests from the Authors Guild, Amazon has decided to allow rightsholders to decided for themselves whether or not to enable the text-to-speech function on the new Kindle 2. The Authors Guild said the feature was an unauthorized use of an audio right."
Read the whole thing here from Publisher's Weekly Latest News
Filed Under: [Publishing • eBooks • The Web]
Posted on 02 Mar 2009 around 4pm
Read the whole thing here from The Blog Herald
Filed Under: [The Web]
Posted on 20 Feb 2009 around 11pm
"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Toys 'R' Us Inc, a privately held toy and baby products retailer, said on Thursday it bought websites eToys.com, BabyUniverse.com and ePregnancy.com from media firm, The Parent Company, which filed for bankruptcy protection late last year.
Read the whole thing here from Reuters: Internet News
Filed Under: [Media • The Web]
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Posted on 13 Feb 2009 around 9am
An e-book of Best of TOC is available at no charge from O’Reilly Press. at this link. The assemblage of tech writing by TOC speakers and others was put together as a showpiece for the second-generation Espresso Book Machine shown at the conference, with p-books printed and bound in seven minutes (on the low-end device; shorter times for more expensive equipment are promised).
Read the whole thing here from TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
Filed Under: [Publishing • eBooks • Technology • The Web]
Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 10pm
"The Queen's website has been relaunched at Buckingham Palace, in the company of world-wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee."
Read the whole thing here from BBC News | Technology
Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 9pm
"The announcement that Stanza will support Adobe’s ACS4 DRM is good news for the wider book industry. It enables PDF Adobe eBooks and epub files to be read on the iPhone platform through Stanza’s market leading free book reader ..."
(Via Booksellers Association.)
Filed Under: [eBooks • The Web]
Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 2pm
Consider it a sign of the times when internet company Google acquires the buildings and premises of a mill site from a paper, packaging and forest products company that caters to the print industry.
(Via TechCrunch.)
Filed Under: [Global • Technology • The Web]
Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 2pm
This morning Amazon officially announced its second-generation ebook, the Kindle 2...
(Via TechCrunch.)
Filed Under: [eBooks • News • The Web]
Posted on 06 Feb 2009 around 9am
Publishers Weekly today announced that Amazon.com has notified its publisher and author clients that it plans to cease offering e-books in the Microsoft Reader and Adobe e-book formats.
Sourced at Booksellers Association
Filed Under: [The Web]
Posted on 01 Feb 2009 around 5pm
