cashman73 writes “Most Slashdot readers are probably familiar with Google’s book scanning project, a collaboration with several major universities to digitize works of literature, art, and science. But Google may have been beat to the punch this time — about a decade ago, Carnegie Mellon University embarked on a project to scan books into digital […]
Placid writes to alert us to a new channel opening up between advertisers and our eyeballs: PDFs with context-sensitive text ads. The service is called “Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo” and it goes into public beta today. The “ad-enabled” PDFs are served off of Adobe’s servers. The article mentions viewing them in Acrobat […]
Bergkamp10 writes “A Computerworld article is reporting that IBM is suing Shentech for selling laptop batteries that catch on fire and sport allegedly fake IBM logos. IBM apparently followed up on a claim by a customer that an ‘IBM’ laptop battery bought at Shentech caught on fire and damaged his laptop. The customer reported the […]
A Sage Developer writes “During a recent conference, Sage Days 6, Dan Bernstein (who has recently come under attack for his licensing policy) was among the invited speakers. During a panel discussion on the future of open source mathematics software, Bernstein declared that all of his past and future code would be released to the […]
coondoggie passed us another Network World link, this one discussing the FBI’s newest offensive against botnets. They’re calling it Operation Bot Roast II. Apparently it’s already been quite successful, leading to indictments, search warrants, and the uncovering of some ‘$20 million in economic loss. writes “Today, botnets are the weapon of choice of cyber criminals. […]
Random BedHead Ed writes “Cory Doctorow writes about the downside of social networking on the Information Week site, with a focus on Facebook. While he starts with some minor but insightful quibbles, he quickly moves to a critique of the core of social networking: ‘Imagine how creepy it would be to wander into a co-worker’s […]
ninja_assault_kitten writes “There’s an interesting rant from Oliver Rist up on the PC Magazine site. He compares the catastrophe that is Vista to the recently released OS X Leopard. While clearly one is a lion and the other a cub, there do appear to be some frustrating similarities. From the article: ‘A month of using […]
rgiskard01 writes “Glenn Greenwald is reporting at Salon.com on a win for the EFF, in the battle for clarity regarding the telecom surveillance scandal. A federal judge ordered the Bush administration yesterday to accede to the EFF’s Freedom of Information Act request. Assuming the White House follows the court order, they would have to make […]
A New Zealand man was woken in the middle of the night when his cell phone battery exploded and burst into flames, the second exploding battery incident reported this week.
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AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced today a number of holiday offerings that wireless customers can take advantage of throughout the season, including free downloads of holiday ringtones, Answer Tones, a new mobile game and Tone E-Cards, a fun gift for friends and family that’s easy to purchase and send.
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