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Google's EPUB Embrace Challenges Kindle
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| "Google's support of this format lends even more credibility to EPUB as the
| industry standard for e-books. Book publishers are going to celebrate the
| emergence of one industry standard, because it means that they don't need to
| incur the cost of converting their content to multiple proprietary formats in
| order to work with partners like Sony and Google," Epps told
| InternetNews.com.
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3836656
FOSS Smart Cards and Free Hardware
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| This little scenario also highlights the weakness of Free Software-- Free
| hardware. Not free of cost, but open, hackable, and unencumbered by junk
| patents, silly licenses, and sneaky stuff. Yesterday I wrote about the new
| official exFAT filesystem for SDXC storage media. To the SD Card Association
| exFAT, which is FAT64, probably seemed like a natural evolution from FAT32
| and FAT16. To me it looks like a chummy industry consortium all propping each
| other up and helping each other extract excess money for the privilege of
| using their products.
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| It takes a lot more money to launch and maintain hardware, so there are few
| Free Hardware projects. Next week I'm going to follow up with a roundup of
| Free Hardware projects, and naturally you are invited to chime in with your
| own suggestions.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-08-29-001-35-OP-HW-SW
Recent:
Kindle 2 hacks: bypassing Whispernet
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| Vincent has also achieved a root shell with telnet access on his Kindle but
| for the time being has declined to share step-by-step details on how to
| achieve this for yourself. He writes, "If you're interested in voiding the
| warranty on your Kindle 2, my writeup about USB Networking, igorsk's posts
| from 2007, the Kindle 2.0.1 update, a copy of the right build of busybox and
| a little bit of hackery will get you your very own login on a cute little ARM
| Linux box with 128 megs of RAM."
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http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2009/03/kindle-2-hacks-bypassing-whispernet.ars
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