There’s an interesting tussle going on in New Zealand concerning public access to the Internet in libraries. Like a number of European countries, New Zealand…
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OPLIN 4Cast #233: E-book gender issues
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Guess what? Men and women are different. While that is obvious in many cases, it may be a little surprising to find that men and…
OPLIN 4Cast #232: The iPad at one
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It may be hard to believe, but the iPad is only just a little over one year old. During that brief time period, it has…
OPLIN 4Cast #231: Digital currency
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A couple of articles and some tweets about Bitcoin came to our attention recently, which led us to do some research into digital currency. Conventional…
At the end of the first week in May, three major publishers announced their intention to create a joint online venture called Bookish.com. This comes…
Last month, a couple of research studies of smartphone users were released, one from Arbitron/Edison Research and another from Google. The questions in each study…
OPLIN 4Cast #227: Lessons from Bobsled
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Last week, T-Mobile received quite a bit of attention in the technical media when they introduced “Bobsled,” an app for Facebook that allows Facebook friends…
We have certainly written a number of posts on this blog about e-books in the past, but this post is about a specific kind of…
OPLIN 4Cast #225: How to bury a cable
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This week’s 4cast diverges from our usual offerings, in that it does not concern any hot new tech news we’ve gathered from the media. Fiber…