Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Monday, October 21, 2002

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Nokia triumphs in Europe's mobile device market with 7650: "Nokia has scored a massive triumph in the European mobile device market in Q3, according to research outfit Canalys. Largely on the back of the 7650, the company doubled its market share to 56 per cent, while the segment overall grew 23 per cent. As you're already suspecting, you would do well not to believe these numbers - but despite this they may provide the odd important signpost." [The Register]


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Mac Net Journal writes: "Why hasn't Instant Outlining caught on? One of the interesting and unique features in Radio 8 is the ability to share and have people subscribe to real-time Instant Outlines. Apparently the idea hasn't caught on though, because this page shows just four recently changed IO files in the Radio community."


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Mac Net Journal points to Glenn Fleishman on Convergence: Mac, Unix, Linux: "I wrote my regular biweekly column yesterday for The Seattle Times about encountering the growing convergence of Mac OS X and Unix/Linux uses. At the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference back at the beginning of the month, it was pretty extraordinary to see Titanium after Titanium running mostly OS X, but quite a few with single or multiple boots into flavors of Linux and (mostly) BSD Unix." [GlennLog]


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To Be Powerpoint, Or Not To Be Powerpoint?: "Welcome to the PowerPoint Anthology of Literature: Great books distilled to their essence and presented in the most efficient form of communication ever devised." [via MetaFilter ] [The Shifted Librarian]


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Suing Google over page ranking: "SearchKing, Oklahoma's premiere parasitic link-farm, is suing Google for tweaking its PageRank algorithm to lower SearchKing's scores." [kasia in a nutshell]


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Adobe releases Acrobat Reader 5.1: "Adobe today released Acrobat Reader 5.1, the latest version of its application to view, navigate, browse, and print PDF files. The update adds new capabilities for e-government initiatives, digital signature validating, and the ability to open file attachments from directly within Acrobat Reader. Version 5.1 also allows users to send emails that attach the open Adobe PDF file without switching to your email application. Acrobat Reader is available for Mac OS 8.6 or later and Mac OS X." [MacMinute.com: Up-to-the-Minute Apple Mac News]


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I have been using Adobe's PDF format and Acrobat software quite lot. Thus it is interesting to see the new developments in Adobe's Dynamic Documents: "Adobe Systems (Quote, Company Info, News) officials say they have closed the loop in e-documentation with three server products announced Monday." See also Entrust digital signature technology supports new Adobe server-based forms capabilities and Adobe launches new direction for Acrobat. [Google Technology News]