Web searchers could tune into relevant images, audio clips and video files more easily if they used radio buttons, claims a Penn State University(PSU) research team.
Problem is, consumers do not yet see navigating radio stations and Internet sites as an interchangeable activity.
Alfred A. Knopf, publishers of Mr Clinton’s best-selling My Life, say they have not yet sold the Chinese-language rights to China. So China’s copyright thieves have struck again, concocting their own versions.
Read about the new Clinton biography (pirated) and other pirating problems in China at The Straits Times.
The real literacy crisis has less to do with the number of people reading than with the narrowing range of books that Americans actually read. According to the report, all of “one in six people reads 12 or more books in a year.” Half the population never looks at any fiction, poetry or plays. This is, obviously, just pathetic. And what the NEA report fails to say is that most of those people have chosen the very same 12 books, starting with “The Da Vinci Code,” followed by a) the latest movie tie-in, and b) whatever Oprah Winfrey has recommended lately.
NCLIS has announced the NCLIS Blue Ribbon Consumer Health Information Recognition Award for Libraries, which will honor library programs that do the best job of offering health information to their users
New regulations have been issued to allow mobile phone service providers to police and filter messages for pornographic or fraudulent content.
According to a survey released by FIND/SVP, 84% of business executives feel that Web searches — using the generally consumer-centric search engines now available –take longer than they should due to poor results. It is estimated that the loss of productive time using search engines to conduct online research cost businesses $31 billion last year.
Mattie Stepanek, the child poet whose inspirational verse made him a best-selling writer and a prominent advocate for muscular dystrophy, died Tuesday from complications of the disease. He was 13.
Under the final rule, the nationwide CRAs must establish a “centralized source� for accepting consumer requests for free credit reports (called annual file disclosures in the final rule). This centralized source must include a dedicated Internet Web site, a toll-free telephone number, and a postal address.
A California company that specializes in encryption technology has obtained the latest court order barring a Missouri company’s sale of popular DVD-copying software.
Macrovision Corp. received the preliminary injunction in its patent-infringement lawsuit against 321 Studios Inc., already forbidden by federal judges in recent months from selling its DVD-cloning software.
Read more at Star-Telegram.
The federal agencies were tipped off by Fox Cable Networks, which discovered a server containing pirated copies of a number of movies, including “The Matrix Reloaded” and “Daddy Day Care,” software and games during an unrelated internal investigation.
Read more in Zap2It
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