As frankps sees the world!

From the Tech Online Edition: Faculty voted unanimously this week to approve a resolution that allows MIT to freely and publicly distribute research articles they write. MIT plans to create a repository to make these articles available online. The resolution, effective immediately after it was passed on Wednesday, makes MIT the first university to commit to making its faculty’s research papers publicly available. Though the School of Education at Stanford and several departments at […] Continue reading →

I am for now a happy Spotify user.  Thuesday 24 March Last.fm announced that listening to Last.fm Radio will require a subscription of €3.00 per month. My first thought was fair enough, they have to earn money to pay the license fee. But then hang on a minute, what else did they write in this blog entry?  In the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, nothing will change. Yes, that means that the service stays for free for users from these three countries. That is not something I […] Continue reading →

I haven’t written about eBooks for a while, but I am still just as enthustiastic about it! Today I read on one of my favorite technews sites, Gizmodo, that an ebook management software was released. I have just had a quick look at it, and I must admit that I am impressed! calibre is a ebook library management application, and can of course also be used as an ebook viewer. That means that it keeps track of all the ebooks you have bought or other wise downloaded for free. More […] Continue reading →

Amazon released Kindle 2 yesterday. I must say that it is a bit to expensive, US $ 359. The price makes it compete with small laptops, like the popular “netbooks”. But having said that, you have free wireless with Verzion. Yepp, you read correctly, Amazon pays the bill. Reviews seem to conclude with it is close to perfect! Funnily enough, more or less at the same time as Kindle 2 gets released, one of my professors, Karen O’Brien, publishes a book that it is also available […] Continue reading →

Bookeen today announced that they have signed an agreement with Adobe to license the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK for its products. The new software engine delivers support for reflowable PDF technology, Adobe’s content protection technology, as well as the EPUB file format. The Bookeen products will be compatible with Adobe Digital Edition Desktop application (compatible both on PCs and Macs) enabling users to acquire and download their content from a variety of sources. Both the PDF and […] Continue reading →