As you\’re packing your car to go to the beach, or loading up the fridge for the start of the NFL football season, take a couple of minutes to check out these news highlights, courtesy of Studio B Buzz.
As you\’re packing your car to go to the beach, or loading up the fridge for the start of the NFL football season, take a couple of minutes to check out these news highlights, courtesy of Studio B Buzz.* Amazon will share privacy policy with customers
CNET News.com: August 31, 2000. Amazon.com plans to contact its millions of customers with email messages pertaining to its revised privacy policy. Customers will be informed which information is gathered, why and how it is gathered. The revised policy will also include an explanation of \”cookies.\” Possibly, the policy is being revised as Amazon prepares for class-action lawsuits over electronic privacy invasion to began October 26, 2001 in Seattle.
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* Ink that writes itself, and paper that rewrites itself
PC World.com: August 28, 2000. The general manager of E Ink explains electronic ink as being able to spread its white chips and blue dye on any surface. Xerox has created a flexible reading matter that contains plastic beads, each with a black and white side, that act as pixels when displaying images.
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* For whom the e-book tolls
USA Today: August 30, 2000. Publishers are scrambling to have an array of e-books available for the reading masses, but they are focusing on the twenty-something and younger reader. \”Rather than make kids leave the computer for the book, we find it\’s easier to bring the book to the computer,\” said one publisher while another stressed the groups most likely to read e-books are the young, the technically inclined, and the highly-motivated. And they conclude the older reader to be \”drowning in technology.\”
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