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Taiwan: How to Reboot the Dragon - TIME
Morris Chang is living proof of Taiwan's ability to transform its economy. In 1985, the China-born Chang, once a long-serving executive at Texas Instruments in the U.S., was lured to Taiwan by the government as part of its effort to develop a high-tech industry. He was hired to manage a state-funded research institute, but shortly after his arrival, an influential technocrat, Li Kuo-ting, called Chang to his office and told him: "Think about how you want to start a company."
Executive Yuan set to promote e-book industry The government is devising an action plan to promote the electronic book industry, which will begin with the digitalization of textbooks and library documents. Reports said relevant businesses in Taiwan intend to jointly set up a large company like Amazon as a digital publishing platform, and to seek funding from the National Development Fund to help expand the market.
Taiwan Today
Plastic Logic
Cambridge, UK – September 7, 2011 – Plastic Logic, the pioneer and global leader in the development of plastic electronics technology , today announced the appointment of Indro Mukerjee as CEO. Mr. Mukerjee brings extensive executive experience from leading global multinational, new venture and investment-backed fast moving technology and industrial companies. He will succeed Richard Archuleta, who is stepping down after leading the company for the past four years. ... more
eBooks: Bestsellers, free eBooks, eReader - Barnes & Noble
Part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry, private detective Izzy Spellman makes her debut in the first novel of Lutz's hip offbeat detective series.Video: Sony PRS-600 Touch is fast but too dim to satisfy PRS-505
Touch, it's the panacea of e-book readers, right? Sure, just so long as readability isn't sacrificed in the process. Flickr user Doodlydood uploaded some pics and video of Sony's new $300 PRS-600 (on the left above) reader and did a quick comparison with his legacy PRS-505. Unfortunately, the glare from the plastic resistive touchscreen is an issue and the weak contrast, like the touchscreen PRS-700 before it, pales by comparison to Sony's two year old PRS-505 with glass display. On the flip side, page turns on the new 600 were fast and "work extremely well" compared to the PRS-505. Unfortunately, that's a minor victory when the whole purpose of an e-reader it to well, you know... read.
Microsoft, its new pet dog Yahoo, and Amazon have decided to join together in the soon to be formed Open Book Alliance. You might expect this to be a revolutionary new collaborative effort at delivering the written word in a way that makes Google Books pale into insignificance, but you would, of course, be wrong. Far from trying to compete with Google, The OBA is set to act as the collective mouthpiece for all those opposed to Google's recent $125 million settlement deal with book publishers and authors. With the US Department of Justice already investigating antitrust concerns relating to the case, the other big dogs just couldn't restrain themselves from coming together for a united whinge. Should the settlement be cleared, it will permit Google non-exclusive rights to orphan works (those without an established writer) and will give it a 30 per cent cut of books sold via Google Books, both things that authors have agreed to.
Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo unite against Google Books
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Guerre des ebooks (2/7): Les catalogues | L'actu des ebooks
According to DigiTimes , ASUS president Jerry Shen says he plans to launch an Eee-branded ebook reader by the end of 2009 at the earliest. That's a tasty nugget of news all on its own. However, what would DigiTimes be without adding some good ol' Taiwanese rumor-mongering?
ASUS to launch Eee-book reader this year?
Video: Sony Reader Touch Edition gets touched, desktop software
Sony's Daily Edition may be taking a front row seat in everyone's hearts and minds right now, but let's not forget just three weeks prior the company revamped its other two, decidedly network connectivity-free e-book reader models. MobileTechReview got its hands on the PRS-600 "Touch Edition," which scores points for an easy-to-use dictionary and enhanced note-taking abilities that are purported to sync to the desktop, at least eventually. Turns out the screen isn't as sharp as the PRS-505 and there's a bit of glare, but there's certainly more contrast with the new device. Last we heard both readers were due for check out by the end of this month, although as of this writing only Pocket Edition seems to be available on Sony Style -- and if you're already enjoying a Sony reader, you'll be happy to know that 3.0 desktop software is now making the rounds for PC and Mac.
Yes, we offer three primary publications that summarize our research: (1) A Chronology of Annotated Research Study Summaries in the Field of Educational Kinesiology, on the braingym.org website, offers summaries of research studies done by a number of our instructors through the last twenty years. (2) The Brain Gym® Global Observer , formerly the Brain Gym® Journal, published three times yearly, offers in-depth articles as well as reports of an anecdotal, statistical, or theoretical nature, written by instructors about their use of the Brain Gym program in diverse settings. (3) The Research Packet offers expanded abstracts of some of the studies in the Research Chronology. The Dominance Factor: How Knowing Your Dominant Eye, Ear, Brain, Hand and Foot Can Improve Your Learning , by Carla Hannaford. Alexander, N.C.: Great Ocean Publishers, 1997. “Three Papers on New Discoveries in Brain Function,” by Susan Diamond.
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E-Readers More Eco-Friendly than Paper Books
A new study by The CleanTech Group reinforces the argument that e-readers are ultimately more eco-friendly than print. The production of one e-reader is the equivalent of the production of 22.5 paper books. CleanTech predicts that e-readers will save 9.9 billion kg of CO2 over the next 3 years, when e-reader sales are expected to reach 14.4. In 2012, CleanTech predicts, e-readers will save 5.3 billion kg of CO2. According to the report, it takes a year’s use for an e-reader to offset its carbon emissions. After that, they offset on average 168 kg of CO2 per year if they buy three e-books a month.7 Benefits of Reading Fiction
Books are not just an object, they are a pool of knowledge filled with content that takes us to a whole new world. This world has so much to discover, so much to know, so much to explore! Books are fun, serious, mysterious, religious, books are anything you can imagine and are the perfect medium that can take us everywhere we want to! "We Meet in Dreams" at the Printer's: A Mystic's Journal Laurie and her graphic designer work with their publishing team on the new book "We Meet in Dreams"; more supernatural fragrances. A Mystic's Journal Entries: February 6 - March 4, 2012.Kindle d'Amazon, iPhone, Shortcovers ou Stanza, ePub, PDF, Mobipocket, des DRM Adobe - de préférence non -, l'Opus et les Sony Reader et forcément, Amazon, Google, Barnes & Noble, donc Plastic Logic et son Reader et puis, forcément, le Readius ou le Txtr... et des ebooks. Des tas d'ebooks. Sur netbook, lecteur ou mobile, sur son poste fixe ou son portable, en impression à la demande, en location, par chapitre, extraits, sur BitTorrent, eMule et consorts... La liste est encore longue. Très longue.
La carte du Tendre, version univers du livre num
Yesterday, the cats over at Gizmodo got a look at what appeared to be a pretty groundbreaking product from Microsoft -- the Courier -- a dual-screen, multitouch tablet with an advanced UI the likes of which we've rarely seen. According to the site's report, the product was in "late prototype" stages, and judging from the video, it looked to be pretty far along (at least as far as software was concerned). Today, MobileTechWorld looks as though it might be shedding a little more light on the device and its software... but it might not be quite what you think.