In the footsteps of the music industry, comes Del Ray, which in an effort to promote the latest book in the Star Wars Legacy of the Force series, is giving away book one, Betrayal, for free download. It is available at Legacyoftheforce.com as a PDF download, an audio book, and ebook formats suitable for the […]
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This volume brings together scholars, practitioners, regulators and policy makers to address the problem of expanding information and communication technology (ICT) connectivity in emerging Asia. It centrally engages the widespread claim that technology by itself—independent of policy and regulatory reform—can improve access to ICTs. In doing so, it shows that complex workarounds are possible, but […]
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How do people have relationships when they are apart, or develop themwhen they’ve never even met? From MySpace and weblogs to romance and sexuality, this book draws together a range of studies on <remote relationships>, investigating the intricate, intimate ways that people forge connections online.
The term ‘remote’ refers to the technologies that facilitate forms of […]
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Architects of the Universal Library project, have completed scanning more than 1.5 million books - a number that increases by the thousands everyday, and beats their original target of 1 million books in this time frame.
This is a project that was started nearly a decade ago by computer scientists at the Carnegie Mellon University in […]
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See Spiderman swinging the World Wide Web too, with the Marvel Comics Digital Comics Unlimited website giving access to thousands of its comic books and the famous action heroes from Spider-Man and the X-Men to the Fantastic Four and The Avengers.
Marvel plans to offer access to 2,500 comics to start with, with a subscriptions model […]
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Eric von Hippel is a Professor and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He specializes in research related to the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation.
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Eric von Hippel is a Professor and Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He specializes in research related to the nature and economics of distributed and open innovation.
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