Can Amazon.com’s Kindle save America’s floundering education system? That’s the idea floated in a new report from Democratic Leadership Council, a Washington, D.C. think tank which touts a plan to bring electronic book readers like the Kindle to millions of K-12 students throughout the country.
The report — titled "A Kindle in Every Backpack: A Proposal for [...]

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Microsoft this morning released the first detailed pricing information about its upcoming Windows Azure cloud-computing system, laying out its standard prices for startups, developers and others to use computing, storage and bandwidth in its data centers. The figures will be closely scrutinized and compared to similar offerings from Amazon.com and others. Via Microsoft, here’s the [...]

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Jott Chief Executive John Pollard said he will be staying on board at Nuance Communications as general manager of voice-to-text at the Burlington, Mass.-based company, and most of the Seattle startup’s employees will make the transition as well. 
The Jott unit will remain in the Seattle area, though the company is expected to combine offices with [...]

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As Microsoft’s technological leader, Bill Gates famously went on periodic "Think Weeks" — retreating to a rural locale to drink Diet Orange Crush and read dozens upon dozens of papers prepared and carefully selected by Microsoft researchers and engineers. The process informed his thinking about the future of technology and shaped the company’s strategic direction.
Now [...]

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It seems that when it comes to applications for the Palm Pre, one group of users has one hand clapping while the other is outstretched like Oliver Twist saying, ‘Please, sir, I want some more.’, more  and Tweeting recipes not always easy  Hyper-short text eliminates complicated steps but can be confusing, more 

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, more  and Intel Aided by Consumer PC Buying  , more 
and Dell: Scant Signs of Recovery  , more 

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