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Google Books

Type: Product

Name: Google Books

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

High-Speed Camera Scans Books in Seconds

Professor Ishikawa Komuro’s Tokyo lab is better known for robot hands which can dribble and catch balls and spin pencils between their fingers. Now, two researchers have taken this speedy sensing tech and applied it to the ripping of paper books. ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by Wired: Gadget Lab]

Entities: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Piracy, E-book

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Bruce Sterling

Swift, canny book scanner bodes publishing mischief a-plenty

“Book flipping scanning system developed at University of Tokyo by Takashi Nakashima, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Takashi Komuro, and Masatoshi Ishikawa. For more tech news go to http://www.spectrum.ieee.org ” *Well, so much for the barriers to entry ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Wired: Beyond the Beyond]

Entities: Sandeep Gupta, Bruce Sterling, The Hacker

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Every issue of Spin at Google Books

Google Books has scans of every issue of Spin, the music magazine Bob Guccione Jr. founded in 1985 with a loan from his father, Bob Guccione Sr., the publisher of Penthouse. It's interesting to see how awfully dated the design of the magazine is. ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Boing Boing]

Entities: Bob Guccione, Jr., Bob Guccione

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 2 Documents

Google Inc

Google's Riskier Than You Think

There's been plenty of controversy over the years about the insistence of Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) execs on splitting the company's shares into two voting classes, with the Class B shares of co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and CEO Eric Schmidt, ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Motley Fool via MSN Money]

Entities: Google Inc, Motley Fool, Larry Page, Sergey Brin

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Alex e-reader going up for pre-order today

After clocking in almost a month of delay Spring Design's Alex eboox reader is today ready to become available for pre-order in the US. Seen below, Alex is under half an inch thick and weights 312 grams, has a 6-inch electronic paper display for displaying ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by TechConnect Magazine]

Entities: E-Reader, E-book, Priscilla Lu

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Ursula K. Le Guin

Conversation: Perspective on Google Books from Authors Guild Member James Gleick

In 2005, the Authors Guild brought a lawsuit against Google for digitally scanning books without permission of the books' authors. In November 2009, a court approved an amended settlement between the Guild and Google . James Gleick, a writer and member ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by PBS]

Entities: James Gleick, Authors Guild, Ursula K. Le Guin, JEFFREY BROWN, Google Inc

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

The Enduring Mystery of Thalidomide

In tomorrow?s New York Times I write about . Thalidomide, a drug women took for morning sickness in the late 1950s, caused thousands of devastating birth defects, such as the failure of limbs to develop. Even after the drug was banned, scientists had ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Discover Magazine]

Entities: Thalidomide, Leprosy, Protein

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Why Suspect When You Can Find Out?

A commenter on an earlier thread, which touched on why police departments are seen as “paramilitary organizations,” writes: Also relevant regarding the perceived more military nature of the police is the use now of the word “officer” to refer to what ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by The Volokh Conspiracy]

Entities: Infringement, Google Inc, Organic

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Samsung preps four ebook readers for Aussie release, starting at $299

Samsung plans to enter the Australian ebook market later this year with readers with screens from 5 inches to 10 inches, e-ink note-taking, Wi-Fi and support for Google Books.It looks like 2010 will be remembered as the year that ebooks made it into the ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by APC Magazine]

Entities: Samsung Corp, E-book, QWERTY, Wi-Fi

First Reported Mar 14 2010 - Updated Mar 14 2010 - 1 Documents

Disquiet in Google's online library: Worries surround pending deal for access to millions of books.

(The Philadelphia Inquirer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Google has been busy. The Internet giant has been copying and storing millions of the world's out-of-print and out-of-copyright books in a vast online archive. It could ... [Published Mar 14 2010 by TMC Net]

Entities: Google Inc, Denny Chin, Jacob Epstein

First Reported Mar 13 2010 - Updated Mar 13 2010 - 1 Documents

Google To Digitise Historic Books

In order to preserve old historic books, Google will scan up to 1 million old books in national libraries in the cities of Rome and Florence, reports The Economic Times. The Italian culture ministry has partnered with Google Books for this project. A ... [Published Mar 13 2010 by EFYTimes.com]

Entities: Google Inc, Florence, Rome

First Reported Mar 12 2010 - Updated Mar 12 2010 - 1 Documents

An alternative to the atomic bomb?

A geologist proposing bombing Japan's volcanoes to win the war in a January 1944 issue of Popular Science. [via Google Books via Pink Tentacle ] ... [Published Mar 12 2010 by Boing Boing]

Entities: Japan

Quotes

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Google: an anti-capitalist scapegoat? [Spiked Online - 11 hours ago]

Taiwanese handset giant HTC has reportedly begun shipping Google ’s ( GOOG ) Nexus One (a k a “Google phone ") Android phone to US wireless kingpin Verizon ( VZ ). According to the Chinese newspaper Economic Daily, the carrier is likely to begin offering the device in late March or April 2010. Moreover, HTC will also ship the phone to Vodafone ( VOD ) in the near future."

Verizon awaits "Nexus One" - Analyst Blog [Benzinga.com - Mar 16 2010]

More Content

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Google: an anti-capitalist scapegoat? [Spiked Online - 11 hours ago]
Samsung E-book E60 [ZDNet Australia - 16 hours ago]
Nexus One Heading to Sprint [Zacks.com - 18 hours ago]
E-Publish or Perish [Walrus Magazine - 19 hours ago]
TimeWise: The Magic Time-Saving Box [Insurance Journal - Mar 18 2010]
Mobile Movie Tickets and Sony's Version of Wii [FOXBusiness.com - Mar 17 2010]
Spring Alex eReader braves threat of iPad-infli... [Tech Herald - Mar 17 2010]
Verizon awaits "Nexus One" - Analyst ... [Benzinga.com - Mar 16 2010]
Spring Design Says Alex E-Reader With Android W... [mocoNews.net - Mar 16 2010]
Google's Riskier Than You Think [Motley Fool via MSN Money - Mar 16 2010]
Google's Riskier Than You Think [Motley Fool - Mar 16 2010]
Alex e-reader going up for pre-order today [TechConnect Magazine - Mar 16 2010]
Conversation: Perspective on Google Books from ... [PBS - Mar 16 2010]
The Enduring Mystery of Thalidomide [Discover Magazine - Mar 16 2010]
Samsung preps four ebook readers for Aussie rel... [APC Magazine - Mar 15 2010]
Disquiet in Google's online library: Worries su... [TMC Net - Mar 14 2010]
Netflix Cancels Second Contest Over Privacy Con... [Consumer Affairs - Mar 14 2010]
Barnes & Noble, Samsung Announce eReader Pa... [About - Mar 13 2010]
Google To Digitise Historic Books [EFYTimes.com - Mar 13 2010]
We are all in Googles crossfire [Spiked Online - Mar 13 2010]
Google Chrome OS: We look at Google's vision fo... [PC Authority - Mar 12 2010]
Google to digitalize 1 million old books from R... [Keral.com - Mar 11 2010]
Why it's perfect for Perlow [ZDNet - Mar 11 2010]
Google to digitise Dante, Machiavelli [P2P Net - Mar 11 2010]
Google Books sign landmark deal with Italy [IOL - Mar 11 2010]
11 March: US Vice-President Biden denounces Isr... [Daily Maverick - Mar 11 2010]
Google To Scan Millions Of Italian Books [ITProPortal.com - Mar 11 2010]
Google Scores Major Italian Book Deal [WebProNews - Mar 11 2010]
Google to digitise ancient books [Sky News Australia - Mar 11 2010]
Samsung in a bid to launch its e-reader [Topnews.in - Mar 11 2010]

Blogs

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High-Speed Camera Scans Books in Seconds [Wired: Gadget Lab - Mar 18 2010] Professor Ishikawa Komuro’s Tokyo lab is better known for robot hands which can dribble and catch balls and spin pencils between their fingers. Now, two researchers ...
Swift, canny book scanner bodes publishing misc... [Wired: Beyond the Beyond - Mar 17 2010] “Book flipping scanning system developed at University of Tokyo by Takashi Nakashima, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Takashi Komuro, and Masatoshi Ishikawa. For more tech ...
Every issue of Spin at Google Books [Boing Boing - Mar 17 2010] Google Books has scans of every issue of Spin, the music magazine Bob Guccione Jr. founded in 1985 with a loan from his father, Bob Guccione Sr., the publisher ...
Alex e-reader set to ship two weeks after iPad [CNET News.com - Mar 16 2010] Spring Design's $399 Android-powered Alex eReader is available for pre-order now. (Credit: Spring Design) Spring Design's Alex eReader is one of those products that ...
ScienceOnline2010 - interview with John McKay [... [ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - Mar 16 2010] Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was ...

Audio/Video

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Google Book Search and the Future of Access to ... [UC Berkeley Events - YouTube - Feb 11 2010]
WSJ Tech Briefing Late Edition, February 5, 2010 [Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing - Feb 05 2010]
DOJ Opposes Google Books; Hachette Challenges A... [Bloomberg - YouTube - Feb 05 2010]
Privacy and the Google Books Settlement [UC Berkeley Events - YouTube - Sep 24 2009]