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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
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What's New With the Top 3 Ebook Vendors
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by Brandi Scardilli
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On the surface, reports show that readers are buying less and borrowing more--and yet Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo (now Rakuten Kobo, Inc.) continue to release new e-readers and put effort into selling ebooks. Let's look at the press releases each company has provided this past year to take the temperature of their ebook programs.
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Updates to CC Search
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by Corilee Christou
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Creative Commons plans to continue improving and enhancing its new search functionality, CC Search, by adding content and features over the next year.
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W3C Plans to Standardize the Web of Things
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) started a working group for the creation of initial standards for the Web of Things, as well as cross-domain linked data vocabularies, serialization formats, and APIs.
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Springer Nature Rolls Out Research Paper Recommendation Service
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Springer Nature introduced Recommended, a service connecting researchers to the most relevant content amid the increase in published research so they can keep up-to-date in their fields.
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Amazon Says Alexa Is Protected by the First Amendment
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According to Forbes, "Amazon is sticking to its guns in the fight to protect customer data. The tech titan has filed a motion to quash the search warrant for recordings from an Amazon Echo. ..."
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Yahoo Partners With U.K. Publishers
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Yahoo entered into content distribution deals with U.K. publishing partners such as The Telegraph, The Guardian, and the Independent to enrich its news, sports, finance, and lifestyle coverage.
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New Open Source Software Helps Analyze Big Data
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A research team from the University at Buffalo is developing Vizier, a software tool that is designed to get out ahead of malfunctioning computers, data entry errors, and other problems that can skew data.
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Pai's Appointment Signals Change at the FCC
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by George H. Pike
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The selection of Ajit Pai to serve as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may spell major changes in, or perhaps the end of, Net Neutrality, broadband consumer privacy rights, and other recent measures that have added new and controversial regulations to telecommunications and internet infrastructure.
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