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Open Book Alliance to oppose Google Books deal
News With less than two weeks remaining until a key deadline in the Google Books settlement, Google's opposition is circling the wagons. Google's proposed settlement with book rights holders last October gave it the sole legal authority to scan and...
[August 27, 2009, 11:51]
Court orders ICANN to open books
News A US judge has ordered the Internet's governing body to open its books for inspection. Janavs pointed to California law, which says that board members at non-profit groups such as ICANN have "the absolute right at any reasonable time to inspect and...
[July 30, 2002, 9:40]
Google to digitise books from University of California
News UC officials are already having books digitised as part of the Open Content Alliance (OCA), which is led by the non-profit Internet Archive, Yahoo and Microsoft. Google will be scanning and digitising millions of books from the University of...
[August 9, 2006, 10:05]
Online library offers 1.5m books for free
News Because it was such a widespread project — books were scanned by several different groups in multiple countries — many open formats were used instead of one. Books from UDL are available in the open formats HTML, TIFF and DjVu, an alternative to PDF.
[November 28, 2007, 11:13]
Yahoo opens up address-book interface
News Yahoo users have stored more than 500 million address books and the service is used by more than 150 million unique users each month, Yeh said. A lot of our address books [are] constantly being updated.
[June 5, 2008, 8:32]
Google Books opposition stacks up on deadline
News Google is trying to get final approval of its settlement with book publishers and authors granting it the right to digitise certain out-of-print books. Microsoft, now finding itself on the same side of the issue as Reback, argued in a brief that...
[September 9, 2009, 9:06]
Photos: Old PCs help Africa's blind
News In the past, most of the access to information has been through Braille books and paper, according to Martin Kieti. The charity is now in discussion with publishers about getting access to raw texts of books, including government textbooks, for...
[February 13, 2007, 15:47]
Net traffic dips on first day of Swedish antipiracy law
News The Swedish Publishers' Association, which supports the audio book publishers' action, claims the alleged file sharer had up to 2,000 audio books stored on a server. The illegal file sharing of audio books has increased over the past year...
[April 2, 2009, 9:17]
Open source: 'it's all about collaboration'
News We spend a lot of time thinking this is all about licensing," said moderator Tim O'Reilly, chief executive of O'Reilly Publishing, a leading publisher of programming guides and other technical books. Open-source software is about more than free...
[November 21, 2003, 9:35]
Open source gains ground in Brazil
News It offers e-mail, calendaring, an infolog for tracking customer calls and setting up to-do lists, a trouble ticket system, forums, personal and corporate address books and a knowledge base. The Brazilian state of Parana has become the latest public...
[June 28, 2004, 17:30]
Open Source is the freedom of Choice, not necessarily the cheaper option.
Blog You can choose to look at the online documentation and the wealth of technical books out there to implement what you need, you can also choose to support the Open Source Product. Admittedly Open Source can be cheaper if you think of the code...
[September 21, 2009, 10:06]
Open source fans to emulate .Net
News With .Net, Microsoft plans to sell its services -- such as address books or e-commerce, as well as the software plumbing that powers those services -- over the Internet. Open source fans announced on Monday the first steps in an effort to reproduce...
[July 10, 2001, 12:06]
Open source plan could aid torture victims
News Already, the engineer and entrepreneur has invented a reading machine for the blind that's used by thousands of people, and he's sewing up plans for a peer-to-peer site that will allow disabled people access to e-books.
[April 10, 2001, 8:31]
Open source is 'below the radar' of local government
Talkback However, the skills needed to set up a Linux system are well provided by excellent books and by a huge free resource pool on the World Wide Web. Microsoft has, for some time, argues that the Total Cost of Ownership of Open Source software includes...
[October 13, 2004, 19:07]
Open source fans try to outflank .Net
News Microsoft.Net is a broad strategy to offer services such as e-commerce and address books online, converting Microsoft's dominance in desktop computer software into dominance on the Internet as well. Even as Microsoft touts the open availability of...
[July 5, 2001, 12:29]
Open-source guru backs off DVD hack speech
News Last summer, Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov was arrested after giving a speech on how to crack Adobe Systems' e-books. Like other researchers who've backed down for fears of Hollywood reprisals, open-source guru Bruce Perens said he would not...
[July 29, 2002, 9:41]
Book publisher adopts open-source idea
News Prentice Hall, a technical and academic book publisher, has embraced the open-source philosophy for a new series of books, the content of which may be freely distributed. Six books will be released this year with the Bruce Perens Open Source Series...
[January 17, 2003, 8:57]
French music store claims iPod 'anticompetitive'
Talkback to virgin: it's called 'capitalism', quit whining and stop being an asshole because apple won't share what they made themselves.why would they open their books to you if it would potentially hurt their profits.thats what companies _do_, they make...
[August 6, 2004, 17:03]
Well, not every ISO standard is a success
Talkback Still there on the books, including a host of protocols, some of which were never implemented. Anyone remember Open Systems Interconnection?
[March 28, 2008, 7:57]
Dell to blog in English
Blog Dell almost made it into the good books of Linux users this week, when it acknowledged the contribution the open source community has made to its new Idea Storm user forum.users had, at the time of writing my article, 'promoted a suggestion' on...
[March 1, 2007, 17:23]
