These days, when you click to download a PDF file from the web or your e-mail, your computer may well ask, “Are you really sure??”…
OPLIN 4Cast #214: PDF malware
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These days, when you click to download a PDF file from the web or your e-mail, your computer may well ask, “Are you really sure??”…
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Perhaps you’ve seen some video of people waving their smartphone at a device to automatically pay a fee. Perhaps you’ve wondered if this is something…
There’s a battle shaping up over the business of selling digital newspapers and magazines to users of tablet devices, like the iPad. While Apple has…
Just at the end of the year, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report indicating that “65% of Internet users have paid for…
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For our last posting of 2010—and following on the heels of last week’s posting about content farms—we’re going to take a look at a variety…
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Ever visited a content farm? Chances are you have, at least online. “Content farm” is the slightly derisive term for a company that hires freelance…
Today we are going to ignore all the news items about WikiLeaks and Google eBooks and look instead at movies. It’s been a while (4cast…
We often may think of e-books as a variation of print books, only with the words delivered to an e-book reader rather than impressed on…
Information retrieval is basic to librarianship, of course, so now and then the OPLIN 4cast highlights recent developments in online information searching. Lately there have…
With the holiday shopping season upon us, many people will be buying e-book readers for themselves or as gifts. Some industry forecasts predict as many…