Monday, July 26, 2004

IBM Partners with Pearson for Book Publishing. NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. said it formed a joint venture with Pearson Education as its global publisher and distributor for the books on technology and business IBM Press puts out every year. [Reuters: Technology] - the big get bigger -- BL 2:09:34 PM      Google It!.

GPL valid under German law. A German court has ruled that the GNU General Public License is valid and encorceable under German law. For details and links, see the Slashdot discussion. [Open Access News] 11:47:32 AM      Google It!.

"A double coup for the open-access movement". Andrea Foster and Lila Guterman, American and British Lawmakers Endorse Open-Access Publishing, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 30, 2004 (accessible only to subscribers). Excerpt: "In a double coup for the open-access movement this month, committees of the U.S. Congress and British Parliament recommended that papers resulting from government-financed research be made available free. The committees recommended that the U.S. and British governments require researchers to deposit in free, online archives any articles that arise from research sponsored, respectively, by the National Institutes of Health and any British agency. The British committee further recommended that journal publishers adopt an open-access model in which authors would pay to publish and subscription fees would be eliminated. Both governments are expected to act on the committees' recommendations this year." [Open Access News] 10:44:37 AM      Google It!.

T-Mobile USA to Sell HP Handheld Phone with Wi-Fi. NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile USA and Hewlett-Packard Co. next month will introduce the first-ever handheld computer that also works as a cell phone and can tap into the Internet using high-speed wireless hotspots, the companies said on Monday. [Reuters: Technology] "The device will also let users view the Web on T-Mobile USA's network based on GPRS, a cellular standard that delivers data faster than traditional mobile technologies but at much slower rates than Wi-Fi." this is the type of technology that will relagate telcos to be a backup communications alternative -- BL 9:30:55 AM      Google It!.

Adam Curry: "If Dave had been working for a radio broadcast organization, and filed this report he would've been looking for a new job within 5 minutes." [Scripting News] -- time shifting with audio newscast from weblog to ipod to listerner driving to work -- there is some impressive efficiency in the use of time going on here that could be emulated by academic organizations -- BL 9:28:55 AM      Google It!.

The state of play in repository management. Lorna Campbell, Kerry Blinco, and Jon Mason, Repository Management and Implementation, DEST and JISC-CETIS, 2004. A white paper for alt-i-lab 2004. Acknowledging that preservation and open access are two incentives for using repositories, this paper focuses more on the former than the latter. Also see the related Digital Repository Checklist. (Thanks to the CNI-Announce list.) [Open Access News] 8:52:40 AM      Google It!.

Google Hopes to Raise $2 Billion in Initial Public Offering. The Web search giant will sell shares for between $108 and $135 and be listed on the Nasdaq under the symbol "GOOG." By By REUTERS. [The New York Times > Technology] 8:46:44 AM      Google It!.