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HP donated a $10k server to the WebOS hacking community

February 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

On Thursday of last week, the WebOS Internals homebrew group announced that HP would be giving them a brand new  $10,000 web server. A few weeks ago they realized that the growth of the WebOS community would soon outpace the server infrastructure that WebOS Internals currently has in place. They were going to need some [...]

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Kindle users already forming community lending libraries

December 30th, 2010 · 5 Comments · ebookstore news

by Chris Walters There are days when I love the Internet. It’s been less than 24 hours since Amazon rolled out ebook lending, and already there are at least four places online where you can lend and borrow Kindle titles with complete strangers.

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Gateway Community College expands library to more than 6k ebook titles

May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · digital library

The Hartford Courant is reporting: The Gateway Community College library’s collection of books has expanded more than 50 percent with the recent addition of more than 22,000 eBooks to its online catalog, bringing the total collection available to students to more than 60,000 books. The full texts of the new titles, which were added from [...]

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