items tagged with Books
Kindle e-book goes international
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-10-06 23:54:53
Amazon is expanding the availability of its Kindle e-book device to more than 100 countries, including Australia. Hundreds of thousands of titles are offered, mostly at prices below the print editions.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-10-06 23:54:53
Amazon is expanding the availability of its Kindle e-book device to more than 100 countries, including Australia. Hundreds of thousands of titles are offered, mostly at prices below the print editions.
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Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol out of print and doing well
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-09-18 06:49:58
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-09-18 06:49:58
Everyone expected the new Dan Brown book to smash sales records, but who knew it would do so well 'out of print' in the online world?
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Sara Ford – the Microsoft open source leader who gives and gives
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Education and Training
2009-09-10 09:32:19
Meet Sara Ford. She’s the program manager in charge of Microsoft’s answer to SourceForge, CodePlex. She’s also responsible for donating some $29,000 to families affected by Hurricane Katrina.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Education and Training
2009-09-10 09:32:19
Meet Sara Ford. She’s the program manager in charge of Microsoft’s answer to SourceForge, CodePlex. She’s also responsible for donating some $29,000 to families affected by Hurricane Katrina.
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Book review: Building web applications with SharePoint Designer 2007
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Reviews
2009-08-31 06:26:38
Microsoft SharePoint has become the ubiquitous intranet solution for many a corporation, ousting former mainstays like Lotus Domino. Yet, leveraging its capabilities to full potential remains outside the hands of many an administrator or user. Here’s where SharePoint Designer comes in, and consequently this handy Microsoft Press tutorial and guide.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Reviews
2009-08-31 06:26:38
Microsoft SharePoint has become the ubiquitous intranet solution for many a corporation, ousting former mainstays like Lotus Domino. Yet, leveraging its capabilities to full potential remains outside the hands of many an administrator or user. Here’s where SharePoint Designer comes in, and consequently this handy Microsoft Press tutorial and guide.
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Internet bookseller diversifies into vending machines
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-06 22:49:52
Online bookseller Booktopia is set to introduce book vending machines.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-06 22:49:52
Online bookseller Booktopia is set to introduce book vending machines.
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Software engineering is dead, long live engineering of software
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-19 09:03:45
Tom DeMarco is co-author of one of the most timeless and seminal works on creating software, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Yet, this month DeMarco suggested to the IEEE Computer Society that maybe software engineering has had its day.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-07-19 09:03:45
Tom DeMarco is co-author of one of the most timeless and seminal works on creating software, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Yet, this month DeMarco suggested to the IEEE Computer Society that maybe software engineering has had its day.
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Ancient Bible available online
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-07-07 21:05:16
An ancient Bible containing the earliest complete copy of the New Testament has been reassembled online.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-07-07 21:05:16
An ancient Bible containing the earliest complete copy of the New Testament has been reassembled online.
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Google preparing to become an e-book seller
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-06-02 00:37:19
Having agreed a settlement of its book digitising dispute, Google has revealed it plans to enter the e-book market before the year is out.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-06-02 00:37:19
Having agreed a settlement of its book digitising dispute, Google has revealed it plans to enter the e-book market before the year is out.
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Book review: How we test software at Microsoft
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Reviews
2009-05-10 18:48:41
How many testers work at Microsoft? About half! Ok, joking aside, the real answer is surprisingly similar, according to this engrossing tome "How we test software at Microsoft" from Microsoft Press.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: Reviews
2009-05-10 18:48:41
How many testers work at Microsoft? About half! Ok, joking aside, the real answer is surprisingly similar, according to this engrossing tome "How we test software at Microsoft" from Microsoft Press.
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Scribd secures online deal with major publishing houses
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-03-19 07:26:07
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-03-19 07:26:07
Scribd, the world’s largest social publishing website, has secured agreements with major publishers to bring books and other professional works to its community of more than 50 million readers.
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Book review: Programming Microsoft LINQ
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-03-01 00:06:58
LINQ promises programmers the ability to query data from any source within Visual Basic or C#. "Programming Microsoft LINQ," from Microsoft Press, is a tremendously detailed and helpful guide to the .NET Framework 3.5's LINQ implementation, within Visual Studio 2008.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-03-01 00:06:58
LINQ promises programmers the ability to query data from any source within Visual Basic or C#. "Programming Microsoft LINQ," from Microsoft Press, is a tremendously detailed and helpful guide to the .NET Framework 3.5's LINQ implementation, within Visual Studio 2008.
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Review: 100 Classic Book Collection
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-01-16 05:15:53
Turn your Nintendo DS into a bookshelf with a collection of classic e-books. Time for some Moby Dick, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or Little Women during the morning commute.
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Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Radioactive IT
Category: Gaming and Entertainment tech blog
2009-01-16 05:15:53
Turn your Nintendo DS into a bookshelf with a collection of classic e-books. Time for some Moby Dick, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or Little Women during the morning commute.
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IT's a good read! — Part 2: Art & Science of CSS (free until 02 December 2008)
Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2008-11-20 18:08:35
Continuing an occasional series recommending some excellent, serious IT publications that are available for the asking via the Web. This article is tells you how you can learn the Art and Science of CSS.
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Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2008-11-20 18:08:35
Continuing an occasional series recommending some excellent, serious IT publications that are available for the asking via the Web. This article is tells you how you can learn the Art and Science of CSS.
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The complete book on pee and poo
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-11-08 10:31:03
The Big Necessity is a new book written by British author Rose George that delves into the “now-mentionable” world of human waste. The author states that the toilet adds twenty years to the life of an average human but that about one in three persons in the world do not have access to one.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2008-11-08 10:31:03
The Big Necessity is a new book written by British author Rose George that delves into the “now-mentionable” world of human waste. The author states that the toilet adds twenty years to the life of an average human but that about one in three persons in the world do not have access to one.
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Google settlement could herald an iTunes for books
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-10-29 18:38:20
Google has settled the ongoing lawsuits brought by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers which claimed copyright violation through the process of scanning and indexing out of print title content. Is this the biggest book deal in US publishing history?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Search engines
2008-10-29 18:38:20
Google has settled the ongoing lawsuits brought by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers which claimed copyright violation through the process of scanning and indexing out of print title content. Is this the biggest book deal in US publishing history?
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Euro carriers put kibosh on Kindle for Christmas
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-10-21 07:22:55
Europeans wanting a mobile device for reading texts this Christmas might have to stick to a good old fashioned paperback. Certainly, the chances of Santa stuffing an Amazon Kindle in their stocking are slim to say the least.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2008-10-21 07:22:55
Europeans wanting a mobile device for reading texts this Christmas might have to stick to a good old fashioned paperback. Certainly, the chances of Santa stuffing an Amazon Kindle in their stocking are slim to say the least.
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IT's a good read! — Part 1: Microsoft Architecture Journal
Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2008-10-21 02:02:07
The first of an occasional series recommending some excellent, serious IT publications that are available for the asking via the Web, and nearly all of them are free.
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Written By: Tony Austin
Section: A Meaningful Look
Category: Personal and Enterprise Computing
2008-10-21 02:02:07
The first of an occasional series recommending some excellent, serious IT publications that are available for the asking via the Web, and nearly all of them are free.
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Dying to get a digital copy of Nitschke’s suicide e-book?
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-10-13 02:22:33
Banned from being imported or printed in Australia, the “Peaceful Pill eHandbook” Digital Edition from Australia’s own “Dr Death”, aka Dr Philip Nitschke, is being launched today in London – to get around those import laws.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-10-13 02:22:33
Banned from being imported or printed in Australia, the “Peaceful Pill eHandbook” Digital Edition from Australia’s own “Dr Death”, aka Dr Philip Nitschke, is being launched today in London – to get around those import laws.
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Midnight Sun extinguished by Internet Vampire Queen
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-08-31 06:19:30
It was to be the final installment of the internationally bestselling Twilight Saga series of vampire books, so beloved by teenage girls the world over. But author Stephanie Meyer has thrown a hissy fit and put the project "on hold indefinitely" after a partial draft of the book was leaked onto the Internet...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2008-08-31 06:19:30
It was to be the final installment of the internationally bestselling Twilight Saga series of vampire books, so beloved by teenage girls the world over. But author Stephanie Meyer has thrown a hissy fit and put the project "on hold indefinitely" after a partial draft of the book was leaked onto the Internet...
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Call for content ratings on Apple's App Store
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-08-26 18:26:08
Apple already tags tracks in the iTunes Store that are unsuitable for children and it sells R rated movies, so why isn't there something similar for content such as books and comics in the App Store?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2008-08-26 18:26:08
Apple already tags tracks in the iTunes Store that are unsuitable for children and it sells R rated movies, so why isn't there something similar for content such as books and comics in the App Store?
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