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ARE PENS ELECTRIC?
Gilad Lederer, CEO of OTM Technologies who are developing the v-Pen, believes the new generation of wireless digital pens will overcome the skepticism engendered by earlier attempts to capture writing digitally. "It might take ten years," he says. "But speech and handwriting are the most natural ways for people to interact."
ENRON CAN'T SHRED
ELECTRONS THE DESTRUCTION of Enron documents, that may confirm or deny wrong doing at the company, raises the issue of the pervasiveness of electronic data. The media, however, has focused on the shredding of paper documents. But shredding is irrelevant in the current networked world where it is easy to make multiple copies, and then make back-ups of those copies... Commenting on this issue, DCL President Mark Gross said: "The positive twist to all this is that it might make people, not just be more careful, but conceivably more honest..."
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LIBRARY IS A BIG HIT DCLAB.COM got a record number of hits when we announced our new library resource last month. It's a quick and easy way to reference what you need to know about IETMs, e-books, data conversion, and tech documentation.
THIS
MONTH'S FEATURED FAQ PDF is
a print format intended to electronically reproduce the look
of a page. But there are three different types of PDF
which, while looking similar, have very different characteristics.
Find out what they are at:
OTHER NEWS:
ACADEMIC
E-BOOK CONSORTIUM Academic libraries and university presses at 12 top U.S. universities join forces to publish hundreds of scholarly books in electronic form. Last month, leaders from the 12 universities committed from $50,000 to $100,000 to develop a prototype for the e-publishing venture. The hope is that university presses in the consortium might one day offer all of their books in electronic form in a version that could be linked to a joint online catalog that the group already operates. It could quickly become a sizable collection as the university presses' publish around 1,000 new books each year -- which, in contrast to the doom and gloom surrounding the e-book industry, would be a minor e-book revolution...
WHO
WROTE THAT?
Italian researchers say the program's compression process is the key that helps identify files of unknown data because when a program like Gzip shrinks, or "zips", a file, it learns something about that file...
EUROS
PENNY-PINCH ON WEB CONTENT According to a new study of Internet payment habits by Internet research company, Jupiter Media Metrix, 47 percent of European web users would not even consider paying for online content. But they are willing to pay for content and services, such as e-greetings and SMS (short-message service), on their cell phones -- to the tune of 590 million euros. The reason for this, according to Jupiter Media Metrix, is that, unlike in the U.S., where Internet service providers typically charge a flat monthly rate for unlimited use, in Europe, high Internet-connection costs have kept web usage down and, as a result, helped accelerate the huge uptake of wireless communications services.
LETHAL WEAPON FROM DOWN UNDER
In an interview with Tech TV, Mike O’Dwyer, inventor of the new weapon, said this is a first step to a new kind of armory and that he can see us “firing weapons at a rate of 13 million rounds a minute.” Reassuringly, the company says that its deadly invention will be protected with safety features so that it cannot be fired if it falls into the wrong hands.
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TREK-STYLE EYE-IN-THE-SKY A new spyplane, the disc-shaped SiMiCon Rotor Craft (SRC), that looks very much like Star Trek's USS Enterprise, passed its first wind tunnel test in Norway last month. If further tests prove successful, the unmanned aircraft could eventually be deployed in the hunt for terrorist fugitives like Osama bin Laden. Unlike today's uninhabited aerial vehicles, or UAVs, the new spyplane will be able to take off vertically, fly at high speeds, and even hover.
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PROFESSIONAL PIGS Gluttony is not just a growing health problem. Now, it's a sport, complete with an official body, and championship matches all over the world, where fans watch their champions devour hot dogs, pizza, and chicken wings in massive quantities. Top eaters from around the world will meet on Feb 21 at The Glutton Bowl, a two-hour event to be televised by Fox Television....
POSTCARD-SENDING
PIT BULL An Australian man is getting postcards from his dog, which is on the run from police. Chucky the pit bull terrier was shot twice in the head by police after attacking officers during a raid. The dog survived and was taken to an animal hospital, only to be stolen by a mystery person. Now Chucky's owner has started getting postcards from the fugitive dog...
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PLANS ARE AFOOT to overhaul the
humble pen
and turn it into a wireless
digital device that converts
the written word, from ink on paper, to digits that can be transmitted
by a mobile phone or stored on a personal computer or network.
Read more, go to: 
"To
be or not to be" is immediately recognizable to people
as a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
But soon, computers may also be able to match unidentified sections
of text to their authors -- and by using a free compression
program, called 
Existing guns are pretty scary -- especially if you’re standing at the wrong end of one. But now Australian researchers have developed a weapon capable of firing a million rounds a minute. The incredible firing rate was achieved by replacing most of the mechanics of a gun with electronic parts.
Army
experts say Third World Cities will almost certainly
be the main battlescapes of the near future. But as the recent
movie, Black Hawk Down, graphically illustrates, cities
make war even more hellish. The challenges and special frustrations
of urban combat are analyzed in Soldiers in Cities, a
collection of essays posted on the Web by the Army War College.
The collection is also a prime example of the strengths of electronic
publishing...
Read through a selection of the best articles from previous
issues of DCLnews. You'll find articles on
e-books, technology, Internet, data conversion, and digital
publishing, as well as humorous looks at the news.