Google: These books are free
Google Book Search now offers PDF files of scanned books that can be downloaded and printed for free, Google announced on Wednesday. — Readers can find the books by choosing the "Full view books" op...
Download Books For Free From Google Book Search
Google is now offering free, downloadable versions of public domain books that you can find in Google Book search. Unfortunately, there's no way to browse through a directory of books that are availa...
Creative Introduces the ZEN Vision W - Widescreen Portable Video, Photo and MP3 Player
Portable Entertainment Centre Plays up to 240 Hours of Video, Tens of Thousands of Photos or 15,000 Songs — Creative Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: CREAF), a worldwide leader in digital entertainment prod...
Comcast blacklists e-mail from online group
A decade before Microsoft released the first version of its Internet Explorer browser and nearly a generation before MySpace, The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, otherwise known as The WELL, was the plac...
Meet two upstanding enemies of all that is splogging.
First Ian Kallen, who knows more about splogging than anybody else I've met; and who has provided much useful guidance for me, as both as a writer and a reader in the blogosphere. Lately Ian and I ha...
Geotagging - one day later
The First Day — When we were doing our projections for how many photos Flickr members would geotag, we though that we'd hit a million in the first month, maybe even as fast as two weeks. Instead,...
Will All of Us Get Our 15 Minutes On a YouTube Video?
If the data from YouTube are to believed, the world has a lot of explaining to do. — The video-sharing site doesn't make public much of the information it has about itself, such as a breakdown of th...
How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog
One of the better posts I've seen recently is by Chris Pirillo writing about ways to eliminate the 'echo chamber'. It's a post that I'm sure many bloggers will find a challenge (I know I did).
AT&T aims to build network for Ill. city
NEW YORK - AT&T Inc. is the lead candidate to build a citywide wireless network for Springfield, Ill., marking the company's first success in the developing market to blanket municipalities with ubiqu...
Clip and Save Holds Its Own Against Point and Click
In an Internet age, it would seem to be a scene from the past. But for Kristine Davis, as for millions of shoppers across the country, it remains a Sunday morning ritual: retrieving the newspaper fro...
Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS: Widescreen With a FM Transmitter
What's the story with this leaked GPS? Well, I'll tell you. Garmin is trying to keep pace with TomTom's widescreen models by adding this 4.3-inch, 480 by 272 pixel touchscreen to their latest naviga...
AT&T hack exposes 19,000 identities
AT&T on Tuesday said hackers broke into one of its computer systems and accessed personal data on thousands of customers who used its online store. — The information that was illegally accessed incl...
An Odd Buy for New York Times
Headlines about the newspaper business have been nothing to cheer about lately, and the news at New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is no exception. Rising newsprint costs remain a drag on profitability, and ...
Microsoft Taiwan: Xbox 360 external HD-DVD drives will not be available in Asia
Yen-ting Chen, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DigiTimes.com [Tuesday 29 August 2006] — Microsoft plans to launch external HD-DVD drives for Xbox 360 consoles in North America, around the end of this year …