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Childhood obesity best tackled via social strategies, claims new book
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new book by the University of Sydney's Associate Professor Jennifer O'Dea puts forward the case to tackle and treat childhood obesity by targeting socially disadvantaged children, long before ...
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Amazon says e-book sales of best-sellers double print
Amazon customers are buying Kindle digital versions of the top 10 best-selling books more than twice as often as print copies, the online retail giant said Monday.
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Amazon's Kindle sleeker, faster, but not perfectly user-friendly
E-books have come a long way since the debut of the Kindle just three years ago. According to Amazon, e-books are now outselling hardcover books in its Web store, and company CEO Jeff Bezos has predicted that ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 21, 2010 |
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Apple seeks approval to sell iPad in S.Korea: regulator
US technology giant Apple is seeking approval to sell its iPad in South Korea, the telecommunications regulator said Tuesday, after the iPhone's local popularity fanned interest in the tablet computer.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 12, 2010 |
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'Enhanced ebooks' take giant book fair by storm
Is it a book? Is it a film? Is it a game? Or all three? Publishers and authors at the world's biggest book fair are battling to entice a new generation of readers with the latest multimedia products.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 06, 2010 |
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Multimedia creates the buzz at Frankfurt book fair
The world's biggest book fair was inaugurated on Tuesday, with an increased number of exhibitors expected to focus on the digital and multimedia sectors that are rapidly transforming the industry.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Oct 05, 2010 |
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High-tech, low-price toys top toy list
(AP) -- This year's hot holiday toys are high-tech - and low-price.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Survey: Children like e-books, parents not so much
(AP) -- Children are ready to try e-books, with some thinking that a bigger selection of electronic texts would make reading for fun even more fun, according to a new study. But a solid majority of parents aren't planning ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 29, 2010 |
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New book examines how ordinary women revolutionized health care in America
As 40th anniversary celebrations get underway surrounding the book, 'Our Bodies Ourselves,' a new history examines the battles of ordinary women in demanding equality, choice and respect in medical treatment and education ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Learning curve goes digital
Oklahoma State University professor Bill Handy has big plans for the Apple iPad this fall. If the text messages he has received since the school announced he would test the tablet-style e-reader in some courses are any indication, ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Japan's Sharp to start e-book business in December
Japan's Sharp Corp. said Monday it will launch an e-bookstore service in December with two new "Galapagos" tablet readers, with the service set to expand to movies, games and music early next year.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 27, 2010 |
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E-readers mishandle some book formats
Some new e-readers for electronic books create an interesting problem: It's now possible to own a book you can't read.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 24, 2010 |
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Apple's iPad to go on sale in China on Friday
Apple said Monday that its iPad tablet computer will go on sale in China on Friday and will become available in "many more countries" later this year.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Google to launch e-book service in Japan in 2011
US Internet giant Google said Monday it would launch an electronic books service in Japan next year despite a chilly reception from major Japanese publishers.
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Appeals court ruling threatens used software sales
(AP) -- A federal appeals court has sided with the computer software industry in its effort to squelch sales of second-hand programs covered by widely used licensing agreements.
Sep 11, 2010 |
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