Turning Search Into a Science
...ts owner, Elsevier, a giant in science publishing, doesn't benefit from operating the science search tool. Elsevier publishes 20,000 journals, books, electronic products, services, databases and Web portals.
Scirus includes Elsevier publications, like BioMedNet and ScienceDirect, in its results. Tho......more...A Bot That Knows Where It's Going
...s bot-autonomy. Brad King reports from Los Angeles.
By Brad King
10:55 a.m. May 23, 2002 PDT
LOS ANGELES -- Looking for the latest video games at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, a handful of people here have instead come across a two-foot-tall robot retrieving Heineken beer, reading children's bo......more... Radio ID Tags: Beyond Bar Codes
...s production tag that would cost about 5 cents.
Auto-ID researchers recommend placing a 64-bit (or 96-bit, depending on the version) number called an electronic product code (EPC) on an RFID tag. The EPC identifies every inventoried item with a unique serial number.
Approximately 20 companies are pa......more... Reading on the Net With Boys
... by Handheld Computing
magazine.
Palm Digital Media won top honors in its category for what the editors call the amazing quality and selection of its electronic books. Palm Digital Media offers more than 4,000 e-books from most major U.S. publishing
houses.
M.J. Rose is the author of two novels and ......more... Medical Records Made Easy
...that have gotten shorter and shorter over the original estimates -- down to just a handful of years versus originally 25 -- we may as well design our electronic health care systems now to take account of that.
But, he added, the biggest surprise is how much is available now. There is no quantum leap......more... Hawking Mucus On the Net
... caused by parasites. Hulda Clark, who was arrested for practicing medicine in Indiana without a license, invented an herbal parasite cleanser and an electronic device that selectively electrocutes pathogens. Dozens of Internet sites hawk her products and books, including one titled: The Cure For Al......more... New York Stories Go Electronic
New York Stories Go Electronic
The New Yorker is publishing a series of e-books in a format that will mirror their recent anthologies. Also: Dot-authors get their names back ... Frankfurt e-book awards to recognize innovation as well as writing quality ... and engineers get into digital rights manag...more... The Future: Read All About It
... leave their island homes.
Kendra Mayfield, Wired News reporter, on book publishing: E-publishing will continue to grow, with a bevy of new dedicated
electronic reading devices that are cheaper and more dynamic than ever
before. Graphics, animations, audio and visual enhancements will transform sing......more... Stanford Joins Startup Fray
...e Web, can do good while creating a very good business, said Lippe, a former senior vice president of business and market development at Synopsys, an electronic design automation company.
E-SKOLAR marks the first direct Internet play for Stanford, which boasts former professors and alumni who starte......more... |