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US book publishers smiling again as Kindle rivals emerge New York (AFP) Feb 7, 2010 
US book publishers are smiling again, after years of watching digital versions of their titles sell for below what they thought they were worth.
A host of rivals to the market-dominating Kindle electronic reader has given newfound hope to publishers that they will finally be able to dictate their own terms after being at the mercy of Amazon.
Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp. stable includ ... read moreGOES-P Spacecraft Being Processed In Florida 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 18, 2010During the first three weeks in January, the latest in the series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites also known as GOES-P is being processed and prepped for launch. Meanwhile, the first and second stages of the Delta IV rocket that will carry it into orbit, are being assembled on the launch pad. The GOES-P spacecraft is currently being processed at Astrotech Space Operat ... more
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Vietnam says parched Red River at record low
China to be world's third biggest wind power producer: media Cost-cutting NASA eyes three cheap space missions Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax French carbon tax ruled illegal Brazil's Lula signs law cutting CO2 emissions 2009 a 'benign' year of natural disasters: German re-insurer Greenpeace Spain demands Denmark release its director 
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Apple iPad to ignite tablet computer market: ABI
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 2, 2010ABI Research said Tuesday that Apple's iPad highlights the "real start" of a tablet computer market that should grow more than tenfold to reach about 57 million devices sold annually by 2015. "Apple's iPad is not the first media tablet," said ABI senior analyst Jeff Orr. "But it does help define this new device category." The main focus of a media tablet is entertainment, according to th ... more Google tailoring tablet computer software 
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 2, 2010As iPad commanded the technology world's attention, Google continued working quietly on tablet computer software that could run rivals to Apple's latest creation. Pictures of what a Google tablet might look like were featured at a Chromium developers web page on Tuesday along with talk of how touchscreen controls could work based on the Internet titan's Chrome computer operating system. ... more New Simulation Tool Could Shorten Manufacturing Design Process 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Feb 03, 2010Novel research on improving the simulation performance of hardware models created in a language called SystemC, often used to shorten manufacturing design cycles to improve the time it takes to bring a product to the marketplace, has garnered a best paper award at the 15th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC) for a team led by Sandeep Shukla, Virginia Tech associate prof ... more Amazon, Macmillan in public tussle over e-book prices 
Washington (AFP) Feb 1, 2010Kindle maker Amazon and US book publisher Macmillan are battling over electronic book prices in an unusually public spat with high stakes for the fledgling e-book industry. Amazon temporarily pulled Macmillan titles - both print and digital - from its online bookstore over the weekend after the publisher told the Seattle-based online retail giant that it wanted to raise the prices charged ... more |
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Critics, fans weigh in on Apple's iPad
San Francisco (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 Heady from the success of the iPhone and iPod, Apple is getting spanked with criticism, even mockery, by pundits who expected the company to change the world anew with its iPad tablet computer. Critics and fans were rushing Thursday to fill the 60-day void between the unveiling of what Apple chief executive Steve Jobs hailed as a "revolutionary" device and the time the first models will begi ... more CU-Boulder Student Satellite Selected For Launch By NASA 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 29, 2010A tiny communications satellite designed and built by University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates has been selected as one of three university research satellites to be launched into orbit in November as part of a NASA space education initiative. The three satellites, dubbed "CubeSats" because of their shape, were built by CU-Boulder, Montana State University and Kentucky Space, which ... more MSU Satellite To Accompany NASA Mission Into Space 
Bozeman MT (SPX) Jan 29, 2010It's official. A small research satellite that Montana State University students built to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful U.S. satellite will ride into space this fall on a NASA launch. Calling it "a historically huge moment," David Klumpar, director of MSU's Space Science and Engineering Laboratory, said this will be the first time that an MSU satellite will be la ... more Newspaper industry sizes up iPad's potential 
Brussels (AFP) Jan 28, 2010European newspaper publishers gave a cautious welcome on Thursday the much-hyped iPad and its potential to allow traditional media to capture a new paying, digital audience. But doubts remained as to whether Apple's latest gadget would mark a watershed and accelerate the take-up of paid-for multimedia content. "It's still a niche product, not mass market," said Philippe Gendret, head of ... more |
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