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		<title>Kno reports 95% of students enjoyed using its e-textbooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-textbook company Kno has popped out a press release saying that it found 95% of college students who used its e-textbook application “found it very useful and plan to use it again”. The company conducted a study with four California community colleges, on 400 students and faculty in 27 classes using an open-source statistics textbook. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google open-sources Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google today released the complete source code to Android version 4.0.1 (Ice Cream Sandwich), the version that will ship with the Galaxy Nexus. The code includes a build target for compiling the OS for the Galaxy Nexus, and other device configurations will be added later. The code tree includes the source code for Honeycomb, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HP tries to figure out why some TouchPads shipped with Android</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often, a story comes along that makes you go, “…what? No, really…what?” In the wake of the HP TouchPad fire sale, some mysterious TouchPad units appeared that were running a version of Android 2.2, with a splash screen bearing the logo QuIC, referring to the Qualcomm Innovation Center, a subsidiary of Qualcomm that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magazine design icon Roger Black adapts to the digital age</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/magazine-design-icon-roger-black-adapts-to-the-digital-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betabeat has interviewed magazine design icon Roger Black, who over the last few decades has been responsible for redesigns of a number of well-known magazines (including Rolling Stone, New York, the New York Times Magazine, and Newsweek. To say that Black is “famous” in the magazine design scene would be like calling Michael Jackson “well-known”. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open vs Proprietary: That&#8217;s not the question</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lyle Jordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Pogue, in an article in Scientific American looks at comparisons between open source and proprietary technology over the years, trying to determine which is better.  It doesn&#8217;t actually include ebook devices in its examination, but it easily could have. As it is, it compares the Apple vs Microsoft early days, the early music player [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Overbite Project: Bringing back Gopher?</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/the-overbite-project-bringing-back-gopher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I saw the article in Google Reader, I had already clicked “mark as read” before going, “…what?” and hastily going back to see if I’d read what I thought I’d read. Ars Technica has a piece on the Overbite Project, an open-source effort to bring the Gopher format to modern computers which already has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple and Microsoft to challenge open-source video codec</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/apple-and-microsoft-to-challenge-open-source-video-codec/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 02:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNet reports that Apple and Microsoft are assembling a patent portfolio to challenge the legality of open-source video codec Ogg Theora. Theora competes against the h.264 video codec that Microsoft and Apple are supporting as part of their HTML5 strategy. &#34;A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other &#8216;open source&#8217; codecs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the iPad&#8217;s locked-down nature &#8216;progress&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/is-the-ipads-locked-down-nature-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we covered Cory Doctorow’s rant against the closed nature of the iPad. Lately, a number of responses have emerged to Doctorow and others who hold similar opinions: “You may not like it, but it’s progress.” Steven Johnson, author of a forthcoming book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation, has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Notes: Amazon, Kindle, LiquaVista</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/quick-notes-amazon-kindle-liquavista/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNet reports that a Millward Brown study shows that Amazon ranks as the most trusted and recommended brand in the United States. It’s not terribly surprising; When you have a company that operates smoothly enough that most people not directly affected by them are willing to overlook those times when it accidentally or intentionally delists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google vs. China: The e-book angle</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/google-vs-china-the-e-book-angle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/google-vs-china-the-e-book-angle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese snooped on Google and certain Gmail users, along with a number of other U.S. companies, including Adobe. Now the “Do no evil” boys will no longer censor search engine results&#8212;something that, as a very small Google shareholder, I think they should have stopped doing long before this. Google may even end up leaving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has open source helped or hindered the e-book industry?</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/drm/has-open-source-helped-or-hindered-the-e-book-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/drm/has-open-source-helped-or-hindered-the-e-book-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Lyle Jordan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DRM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent law journal essay referenced on this site examined Digital Rights Management and its impact on the e-book industry. DRM, the essay said, is counter to the precepts of open-source development in computer hardware and software, thereby hindering innovation and slowing technological progress in the e-book industry. The implicit assumption is that open-source is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle source code release widely misunderstood</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/kindle-source-code-release-widely-misunderstood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Meadows</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported here a few days ago, Amazon recently released a bundle of source code for the Kindle DX. This has led to some confusion in the blogging community (including, perhaps, here) about what the source code release means. Ars Technica clears up the confusion in its usual informative way. The source code released is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flatworld gains investment &#8211; open source, print on demand textbooks</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/flatworld-gains-investment-open-source-print-on-demand-textbooks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/flatworld-gains-investment-open-source-print-on-demand-textbooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve previously reported on Flatworld, and it looks as if they are doing well.&#160; This is from a just-released press bulletin: Greenhill SAVP announced today it has invested in Flat World Knowledge (“Flat World”).&#160; Greenhill SAVP partnered with Valhalla Partners and High Peaks Venture Partners on an $8m Series A financing. Based in Nyack, New [...]]]></description>
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