ostatic.com - 2/25/2009
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Recently, e-book readers have become substantially more popular than they every were before. Amazon's new version of its Kindle reader is getting good reviews, and many people like the Sony Reader. You don't necessarily have to buy a piece of expensive hardware and pay for books to enjoy ...
googlenewsblog.blogspot.com - 2/25/2009
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:58 AM Posted by
Josh Cohen, Business Product Manager If you're in the...
US, starting today you may notice something a bit different when you search Google News. Last November, we announced plans to begin experimenting ...
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Ads in Google News search results
googleenterprise.blogspot.com - 2/26/2009
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googleenterprise.blogspot.com —
We made a commitment last year to increase
transparency and communication with Google Apps customers in several...
ways. We heard your feedback around the need for better communication when issues like yesterday's Gmail outage occur. As part of that ...
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New Status Dashboard for Google Apps
googlesystem.blogspot.com - 2/25/2009
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googlesystem.blogspot.com —
Google Shared Stuff , the social bookmarking service
that has never been officially launched, will no longer...
be available after the end of March. As usually, Google's suggestions for replacing the discontinued services are hilarious: " If you want ...
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Google Shared Stuff to Be Discontinued
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Free E-Books and E-Book Resources [OStatic]
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Calibre: A Good, Free Open Source eBook App [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... We recently looked into several other open source ebook resources, and you can find them here. There, you'll find a number of ways to get free ebooks themselves for reading with Calibre. ...
In Embracing an Open eBook Standard, Sony Could Pick Up Market Share [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... Tech News World points out, one benefit that Sony could get from going to the ePub standard is that it could catch e-book business from users of many other eBook devices. I would add to that that Sony might pick up customers who simply read ePub-formatted books on their computers. You can read ePub books on many free, open source eBook software platforms, including Calibre, and FBReader. (See our coverage of open source eBook resources here, and here.
It will be interesting to watch the competition in eBooks play ...
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