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Entries for November 24th, 2008

Random House to Digitize More Books

While e-book sales have been growing, Random House has announced it will be making thousands of books available in digital format. The effort is meant to extend the company’s reach to readers beyond the printed version.
Random House already has 8000 books in a digital and is planning to have almost 15000 books in the near [...]

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US Army Trains with Video Games

The US Army has established a unit to gather and develop video games and systems for use in training soldiers.
Starting in 2010, The unit will have a budget of $50 million to spend over 5 years, for watching gaming trends and identify technologies for training soldiers.
Games that are already in use include the commercial first-person [...]

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Google Isn’t In a Holiday Mood Either

Google is normally known for partying it up during the holidays, with celebrations often involving 10,000 people. However, this year, Google decided to reduce the celebration due to the economic crisis and its growing workforce, now at 20,000.
Silicon valley companies such as Yahoo, HP, Sun and others have reduced their workforce by 140,000 jobs during [...]

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Microsoft Kumo On The Way?

Word around the blogosphere is that Microsoft is set to make some superficial changes to its web-search engine feature. Microsoft has bought the domain kumo.com, and it’s being reported that they’re keeping it in the same area as their Live search is held.
So what are they up to? Speculation over a rebrand is what seems [...]

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