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UN to launch new iniative to enable the blind to access published works

October 29th, 2010 · No Comments · press release

From the press release: In an unprecedented United Nations-supported initiative, people who cannot see and those who have other forms of visual disability will have access to published works through publisher intermediaries who will create accessible formats of publications and share them with specialized libraries.The new arrangement was announced today at the of the UN [...]

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How Google Translate works

August 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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Financial Times have a paywall that works

July 28th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion

Pearson (they own the Financial Times) recently released their financial statements and an interesting detail popped up. The Financial Times now have 149k digital subscribers with a registered user base of 2.5m. They also reported that they had doubled their operting profit for the first half of 2010. The reason I’m bringing this up is [...]

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