Many libraries use SMS (Short Message Service), usually known as “text messaging,” instead of email or a phone call to notify patrons when their books…
OPLIN 4Cast #316: Texting is old school
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Many libraries use SMS (Short Message Service), usually known as “text messaging,” instead of email or a phone call to notify patrons when their books…
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Christmas 2012 saw very heavy sales of tablet computers, which some say is bad news for e-readers. Why buy a device that is designed for nothing…
Despite what you see on TV and in the movies, libraries do not just hand over people’s reading records to any guy who walks in…
Come this time next week, thousands of people will be sitting at home playing with new video games. Some people, however, will be playing a…
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’Tis the season for predictions, and technology journalists are among the most prolific predictors of all. You can hardly open a technology news website without…
We’ve noted before in this blog that the BitTorrent protocol in itself is not evil, despite its reputation. The problem is the way people use what…
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As more and more people carry the Internet in their pocket everywhere they go – in the form of a smartphone – retailers in brick-and-mortar…
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One of the big news items this week was the resignation of CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus after the FBI monitored his emails and found…
A couple of recent news items about publishing caught our attention and got us thinking. Bowker reported that “the number of print and ebooks self-published annually…