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Compiler (Free subscription) | yesterday
When we introduced Google’s Chrome browser, we mentioned how it’s composed of four rather ambitious open source projects: Google Chrome (the browser itself), Google V8 (the JavaScript engine), Webkit (the HTML rendering engine) and Gears (the web developing enhancer). But of course, there are more than just four open source projects contributing to Chrome’s success. Most [...]
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White Screen of Despair (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The Waterstones ebook site has been up for barely a day and yet it's already possible to feel concern that it's standing on wobbly foundations, ready to keel over the instant a sufficient number of the people buying the £199 Sony Reader from Waterstones do a quick google and suddenly find themselves on American sites like Fictionwise.com or BooksonBoard.com, with a far larger and very significantly...
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Hemmings Auto Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Things kind of come around again after a while, don’t they? From University of North Texas Digital Library. Where they should know a thing or two about gas.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Environment, science & technology: Sony's electronic book, the Reader, holds 160 titles and hopes to be a hit with travellers
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Sony's electronic book, the Reader, holds 160 titles and hopes to be a hit with travellers
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TinyScreenfuls.com (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
(Over on the Intel Software Network blog, software ninja Clay Breshears put up a post today about why he will “Never Own an Electronic Book”. Turns out his frustration stems from how hard it is to search for something, if you don’t know exactly what you’re searching for. This is a problem not just for [...]
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Clay Breshears, an Intel software network blogger offering his personal opinions, serves up a bunch of cons about e-books, but zeroes in on this: "What really burns my biscuits is the ’state-of-the-art’ in search capability that is so gosh darn literal. If you don’t know the exact term you want to find, you’re surely outta luck. [...]
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Times emit (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
It’s an exciting day - the release of the Sony Reader sees the first concerted, anticipated, co-ordinated foray into selling electronic books in the UK. Publishers have been rushing to negotiate deals with agents (and retailers) and prepare launch lists of titles. Digitisation has been advancing at pace. Great news! However, I am concerned that two [...]
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
For those who haven't seen Kete in action, Kete is open source software that enables communities, whether the community is a town or a company, to collaboratively build their own digital libraries, archives and repositories. Kete combines features from Knowledge and Content Management Systems as well as collaboration tools such as wikis, blogs, tags, and online forums to make it easy to add and relate...
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Celleden Bluetooth Speakerphone (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Traditional paperbacks are all set to be replaced by with electronic book readers as more and more people are craving for e-books and thousands of titles could be downloaded from Waterstone’s. Sony Reader will undoubtedly open another exciting chapter for the digital era. The electronic book reader will be launched in Britain this week by Sony and Waterstone’s with an affordable price tag of £199....
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LisNews (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
The traditional paper book is not in danger of being killed off by an electronic gadget, the British Library said. Sony will launch an electronic book in Waterstone's stores across the country on Thursday. The £199 slimline Sony Reader can hold up to 160 electronic books and the capacity can be increased using memory cards. But Stephen Bury, head of European and American collections at the British...
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Catalogablog (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Kete version 1.1, from the same folks who brought you Koha, has been released. Kete is software that combines aspects of Digital Libraries/Repositories, Knowledge and Content Management Systems, and collaboration tools such as Wikis to make it easy to add and relate content on a Kete site. It is also an open source web application written on top of the Ruby on Rails framework. Some improvements include:...
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Catalogablog (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has announced that it is participating in the Open Library Environment Project . With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Open Library Environment (OLE) Project will convene the academic library community in the design of an Open Library Management System built on Service Oriented Architecture. The project leaders are a multi-national group of libraries...
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PersonaNonData (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
The E-Book comes to England and Timesonline is there to mark the occasion: Electronic books have had a lot of false dawns. People have had the ability to download books to their computers, phones and other handheld devices for years but so far, in the West at least, few have chosen to do so. This week Waterstone’s will be hoping to usher in a new chapter in reading when it helps to bring the Sony Reader...
