Internet users can now download the full-versions of books in PDF format through Google.
The classics and obscure titles are all out-of-copyright books in the public domain.
[Editor: Now all we need is a convenient and cheap (under US $10) eReader. Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, anyone?]
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The world’s largest music company, Universal Music, has agreed to support a new venture enabling consumers to download songs free of charge; the scheme will rely on advertising for its revenues.
The new venture known as Spiral Frog is set to begin in December.
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There is no doubt that the popularity of the PC is due primarily to its price competitiveness and its overwhelming marketshare.
At about two third the price of a Mac, it is possible to buy a PC with the same processing power as that of the Mac.
With the workplace market totally cornered by the PC, it [...]
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Reason has finally prevailed at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) being held in Prague, Czech Republic.
After floating the idea earlier that Pluto would retain its planetary status and add its own moon as a planet, with potentially hundreds of tiny “Plutons” floating around the Sun, Pluto has now been demoted to the status of a [...]
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It sounds like an awful cheap horror movie but it is happening every day. Body parts are being illegally harvested at funeral homes and legally sold for hundreds, and even thousands, of dollars, for use in transplant procedures.
Here is an article that exposes this unethical trade. Tally it all up, and, dead, you may be [...]
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