Spam stinks. But books are good. That’s the idea behind reCAPTCHA, an anti-spam tool that, in addition to preventing the Internet from being overloaded with inappropriate content, is helping accurately digitize vast quantities of printed media. In fact, the technology is so integral to Google’s Books project, Google announced that it is acquiring the small [...]
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Tags: CAPTCHA, eBook, Internet, reCAPTCHA, security, spam 
5 Comments »Well it looks like Asus has decided to up the ante in the ongoing game of eBook reader development. Trying to compete with Amazon’s market leading Kindle and Sony’s highly anticipated Reader series, Asus is planning on a dual screen eBook reader to better simulate the two sidedness of reading an actual paper based book. [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, Cool or Annoying?, eBooks Tags: Asus, eBook, Eee, reader, Sony 2 Comments »Printing companies must love this trend. Coupled with the continued decline of traditional print media at the hands of online sources, the increase in popularity of eBook readers may very well deal a final blow to that industry’s lasting reign. To compete with Amazon’s Kindle and a handful of other 3G enabled eBook readers currently [...]
