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Put an iPad in Your Cupholder
KickingTiresWho says a cupholder has to hold only cups? We use them to hold smartphones, change, gas receipts, sunglasses and just about anything else there isn't a cubby for. But car-accessory maker Bracketron sells the Universal Tablet Cupholder Mount for......Tags: Automotive Equipment, Volkswagen, Manufacturing and Engineering, Mini, Apple iPhone
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Daum: Amazon's algorithm of love
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Amazon, the behemoth online retailer and knower of all habits and tastes, has released a list of America's 20 most romantic cities. It's high time. Gandhi might have said the best measure of a society is how it treats...Tags: Dean Martin, Arts and Culture, DVDs, Holidays, Barry White
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And the 2012 Silver medal for prophecy goes to ...
One year ago, I didn't predict that a book about predictions, "The Signal and the Noise," would be one of the top-selling nonfiction titles of 2012 or that its author, former Chicagoan Nate Silver, would become a cultural icon whose name is synonymous...Tags: Joe Biden, Democratic Party, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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E-book restrictions leave 'buyers' with few rights
There's a crass old joke about how you can never buy beer, just rent it. Who would think that the same joke applies to book buying in the digital age? But that's the case. Many people who'll be unwrapping iPads, Amazon Kindles or Barnes & Noble Nooks on...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Consumers, Libraries, Media Industry, Authors
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Patt Morrison Asks: The Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle has the gleeful air of a man who has just found something wonderful and wants to tell his friends all about it. And his friends are the 2 billion people, and counting, who are on the Internet every day.
What he has found -- or more...Tags: Arts and Culture, Google Inc., Online Media Industry, Euclid, Amazon.com Inc.
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Social media helping authors sell their books
For those of you doomsayers who declared the death of books in the Internet age, I have news for you. Web-savvy authors are actually tapping social media to boost the sale of their books. Some writers are scoring book deals after growing an audience...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Science and Technology, New York, Twitter, Inc., Entertainment
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Report: Amazon is planning to sell its own smartphone
Amazon may be coming out with its own smartphone, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The company reportedly is working with Foxconn to develop the hardware, which will likely run the Android operating system. A phone isn't as far-fetched of an...
Tags: Amazon Kindle Fire, News Agency, Amazon.com Inc., Computer Hardware, Economy, Business and Finance
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Amazon donates 75 Kindles to The Hutson School
A special gift was delivered to Central Indiana students with learning disabilities Wednesday. Amazon presented 75 Kindle e-readers to The Hutson School which an Indianapolis-based school specializing in the education of children with dyslexia and other...
Tags: Learning Disability, Dyslexia, Education
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Rutten: Amazon's shameful California tax dodge
At the turn of the last century, as the robber barons' first gilded age lingered on, many Californians came to regard one powerful enterprise as the symbol of oppressive avarice and of big money's corrupt appropriation of the political process. That...Tags: Upton Sinclair, Computer Networking and Internet, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Amazon.com Inc., U.S. Supreme Court
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Senior Travel:: Your holiday gift list for travelers
If you're still looking at gifts for your holiday list, travelers are both easy and hard to please: easy, because you know one of their main interests; hard because they usually have pretty fixed ideas about what they want and don't want. Nevertheless, I'...Tags: Online Media Industry, Travel, Best Buy Co., Inc., Transportation, Walmart
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Not ready to turn the page
It seemed a sad sight to me — that empty bookcase. I couldn’t help but think of all the homeless paperbacks that could live there. It was placed against a wall near the front entrance of a meeting hall where I and a few others were waiting...Tags: Arts and Culture, John Steinbeck, Electronics
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Book review: 'Common as Air' by Lewis Hyde
Common as Air
Revolution, Art and Ownership
Lewis Hyde
Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 306 pp., $26
The late Jack Valenti, who was Hollywood's ubiquitous lobbyist for four decades, fully agreed that copyright terms should be limited. The proper term, he...Tags: Online Media Industry, Martin Luther King Jr., Trials, Real Estate, Ohio
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