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Protect your e-book reader 18 February, 2010 07:09

As more people turn to e-readers, which are particularly handy for travel, a variety of screen guards and cases have hit the market, as have accessories such as clip-on lights and decorative decals. We looked at a variety of them this month.
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Barnes & Noble Nook demo units arrive, but sales of e-reader delayed 08 December, 2009 05:31

Barnes & Noble today put its Nook e-readers on display at its retail stores, but acknowledged that it won't be selling any of the $259 device at the stores until after the holidays. The latest plan contradicts earlier in-store signs announcing that the product would go on sale this week.
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7 reasons e-book readers make lousy gifts this year 28 November, 2009 05:59

Two years ago, the best holiday gift was an Amazon Kindle -- if you could get your hands on one. They were hot, new and sold out hours after going on sale. Last year, the Kindle made an awesome gift as well.
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Some Nook e-readers won't make it for the holidays either 21 November, 2009 06:37

Just two days after Sony said that its wireless e-reader, the Daily Edition, might not make it to buyers before the end of the year, Barnes & Noble said its Nook e-reader is sold out.
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Microsoft gets its groove on with new patent 08 July, 2005 07:56

A patent granted to Microsoft this week hints at the invention of new technology for personalizing searches for online media, particularly music titles.
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Tim O'Reilly: Software licenses don't work 07 July, 2003 10:18

PeopleSoft may be spending its nights tossing and turning about a hostile takeover by Oracle, but maybe Oracle should be the one losing sleep. At least that's what O'Reilly & Associates Chief Executive Officer Tim O'Reilly believes.
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Open source lobby struggles in EU patent debate 09 May, 2003 10:21

Supporters of open source and free software saw an extravagant lobbying exercise against a planned European Union law on software patents backfire on them Thursday.
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Bertelsmann moves away from Internet 04 September, 2002 22:42

Bertelsmann AG is reassessing its e-commerce businesses across Europe. The company will withdraw from stand-alone e-commerce sites and concentrate on its offline book and music club businesses, and Web-based book and music clubs such as it runs in the U.K., it announced Tuesday.
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Web data: Cached or current? 04 July, 2001 16:41

For all of its virtual connotations, the Internet depends entirely upon its physical infrastructure to move information around. And the physical distance from server to end user leaves plenty of time for information, in the form of packets, to get lost, resulting in e-mails that never arrive, Web pages that load incompletely and streaming audio or video that pops, flickers or just dies. So getting files closer to end users can improve performance.
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Business intelligence ASP adds personalisation services 17 April, 2001 07:15

Seattle-based Digimine Inc., A BI (business intelligence) ASP (application service provider), on Monday acquired CoRelation Inc., an ASP focusing on personalisation services.
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Amazon.com heads for the Borders 12 April, 2001 08:28

In its second alliance with an offline chain, Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday that it would run the online operations for rival Borders Group Inc.