In a presentation at the Boston Book Festival last weekend, Jon Orwant, a Google engineer involved in the company’s Book Search project, made a memorable and, I thought, quite perceptive remark about the e-book business.
“Think about the books you have at home and how you organize them,” Orwant said. “Some of you may not organize [...]
Got an unexpected scoop today while attending a session on the future of reading at the inaugural Boston Book Festival. Turns out that the Internet Archive and the One Laptop Per Child Foundation have been working behind the scenes for the last year to convert the 1.6 million public-domain books scanned by the Archive for [...]
Robonica, a startup in Beverly, MA, is rolling out a new robot toy this week, via the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog. My story about the debut is up at Xconomy this morning. I had a chance to play with one of the Roboni-i devices at MassTLC’s Tech Tuesday event a couple of weeks ago, and I [...]
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