Editor: Do away with licences for media operations (The Sun Daily) PENANG: The government must do away with the requirement for media organisations to have licences to publish newspapers and annual licences to enable them to operate printing presses....more...PR Newswire Summary of Technology Copy, Aug. 29, 2006 (SYS-CON Media) Following is a summary of high technology news releases transmitted today by PR Newswire. The full text of these releases is available at the PR Newswire for Journalists, http://media.prnewswire.com/....more... Letters to the Editor: What Opinions Belong in an Open Press? (Berkeley Daily Planet) EDITOR?S NOTE: We got a lot of letters about our decision to print an anti-Jewish letter on our opinion pages, and about the letters we ran last Tuesday from some Jewish leaders and some politicians denouncing that decision....more... Designing a book with LyX (NewsForge) Self-publishing is becoming easier and cheaper, thanks in part to improved printing technologies and desktop publishing tools. If you've ever considered writing a book, you may have looked at the layout capabilities of OpenOffice.org Writer, AbiWord, KWrite, or other word processing programs. While these tools can produce adequate results for many types of documents, it's also worth considering ...more... Hollywood sets sights on popular Bratz dolls (Amusement Business) One never knows where the next good idea is going to come from. Isaac Larian was running a company that imported and distributed electronic gizmos six years ago when a buyer from Wal-Mart told him the retail chain was eager to find a fashion doll that could compete with Mattel's Barbie....more... Lulu aims to wag the internet ?long tail? (Financial Times) The Curta calculator, a mechanical adding machine shaped like a coffee grinder, was made redundant in the 1970s when its electronic successor was popularised by Texas Instruments. Bob Young, who collects the antiquated devices, wants to wreak similar havoc in the book publishing industry today....more... ARTS + FEATURES (St. Petersburg Times) The St. Petersburg Times was not the first English-language newspaper in St. Petersburg. Before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, when the city was a flourishing Imperial capital, a range of publications were printed in English....more... Download these IBM resources today! (Linux Today) Download: DB2 Express-C 9 This production-ready version of DB2, complete with pureXML technology, is free to develop, deploy, and distribute. No limits--just data. Download Now!...more... Beyond the printed page (Manila Bulletin) Reading never goes out of style, and with today?s sophisticated technology, millions of colors can be laid down in print, multiple copies of books can be produced in a matter of minutes, and the written word can go beyond the barriers of the printed page ? all for the love of reading....more... |