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I wrote a week or so ago about the Author’s guild’s completely insensitive and ethically questionable move to fight Amazon about the Kindle 2′s text to speech feature. Even though many computer systems have for years had the ability to read most text aloud in an awkward robotic voice, suddenly the Kindle 2 had become [...]

I like secret compartments. I like secret drawers and passageways and false bottoms. I’ve always been a sucker for these types of crannies and hideaways. I think a secret space in your laptop to stash away bills is about as dumb as you can get. The only thing dumber would be to tape the bills [...]

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon just finished his interview with Jon Stewart on the Daily Show. In his interview (which was filled with some really creepy laughing on Bezos part) the Amazon CEO was trying to explain some of the benefits of the Kindle 2 over the old fashioned paper bound book. Turns out [...]

I was very excited this morning to discover the service wowbrary.com. The service sends subscribers an rss feed or an email alerting them to all the new books that have come into their local library. Not only that, but from right in the email, you can reserve the book to borrow when you come in [...]

U.S. Senator from Texas, John Cornyn(R) introduced two identical bills this week that would put you in jail if you run a WIFI network in your house and don’t keep all of your IP logs for 2 years because “Keeping our children safe requires cooperation on the local, state, federal, and family level.” The 2 [...]

The Wall Street Journal this morning reported that the Author’s Guild is strongly objecting to Amazon’s Kindle 2, because it includes a text-reading feature. “They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.” The [...]

I haven’t scene the new Kindle yet. It’s not for sale yet and obviously I don’t have the connections to get a preview From looking at Amazon’s marketing specs though, it doesn’t look like it really improves in many of the the areas that matter (at least to me). 1. It is still locked in [...]

I was shocked the other day when I mosied (is that how you spell mosied?) on over to one of my favorite technology news sites and everything was different. I’ve been a huge fan of Ars for years and have been with them through several design changes, the last one had indeed been my favorite. [...]

For years it has been a common practice by bloggers and others who link to other sites and articles to take a title and a short blurb (usually the first one or two sentences) of the article being linked to and post it. This allowed the site viewer to have an idea of what was [...]

The Zune has long been held up as one more utter Microsoft failure in the last few years. The failures are finally taking their toll on the big M with the companies first significant layoffs in its history. Rumor has it that it’s not only staff that will be getting the ol’ heave ho though. [...]