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Whether it's recipes, driving directions, or complex mechanic's work, Tildee's free tutorial creator can help make laying out all the steps easy. Tutorials on the site can be searched, browsed, and viewed as well. More » Use of multimedia is beginning to take storytelling in radical new directions The simple truth about the book in the 21st century is that this is a golden age of reading and writing. As Umberto Eco puts it in his latest publication, _This is Not the End of the Book_ (Secker Harvill), "the computer returns us to Gutenberg's galaxy; from now on, everyone has to read". The figures support this. Despite a dire economy, there's a boom in progress. In 2009, in the US, during the worst recession for 100 years, American readers bought more than 800m new books. Here in the UK, the number of published new titles per annum has risen from 65,000 in 1990 to a staggering 177,000 in 2010, far greater – pro rata – than France, or Germany. Our literary microclimate is flourishing, too. Book festivals up and down the country are heaving with record attendances. Book clubs and reading groups have become middle England's bingo. Every publisher has a reader's group website to promote new books. Then there are the prizes: Smarties, Orange, Whitbread, Aventis, Booker, Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper, and this week, the Encore prize. The buzz of ... HP and AT&T on Wednesday announced that the latest webOS smartphone, the HP Veer 4G, will become available later this month as an AT&T exclusive. HP unveiled the bite-sized Veer webOS phone at a press event back in February, and at that time we thought the device was a tad too small for our liking. The Veer features solid specs, a crisp, bright touchscreen and a solid build, however, so petite AT&T subscribers seeking a sleek new smartphone should definitely check it out. The HP Veer 4G will cost $99.99 on contract in either black or white when it launches from AT&T on May 15th. Hit the break for the full press release. AT&T Goes Small With HP Veer 4G Google has begun testing an integration of voice search with the Google.com search engine. Helpful tipster Matt Schlicht first spotted the featu… ******A few days ago**, I met Ben, a first-time founder who's been working on his business idea for 10 months. I asked him to give me the two minute overview of his business idea (or the "elevator pitch" in investor speak). Instead, Ben spent the next ten minutes telling me all about his product, with great passion. So I asked him a few questions about his business model, competitors, unmet customer needs, and marketing plans. But he couldn't answer any of those questions and just talked more about his product . Then I asked him if he had a business plan. He said no, he'd do that when he was getting ready to raise money. I asked how he was deciding what to do in the meantime. He lit up and told me all the things he was going to add to his product next. Ben finally asked me what I thought of his plans. As nicely as possible, I replied that I thought he was planning his company using the stereotypical male approach to driving: Never stopping for directions or checking to see if he was going in the right direction. I ... share: digg facebook twitter The nation's four largest wireless carriers say they obtain customer permission before using a subscriber's physical location to provide driving directions, family-finder applications and other location- based services, and before sharing a subscriber's location with any outside mobile apps that provide such services. [...] in letters to Congress, AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA also say they have no power to require independent developers of location-based apps to get similar user consent if these apps don't rely on the carriers themselves to track a user's whereabouts. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's four largest wireless carriers say they obtain customer permission before using a subscriber's physical location to provide driving directions, family-locator applications and other location-based services, and before sharing a subscriber's location with any outside mobile apps that provide such services.... Like Apple and Google, Microsoft collects records of the physical locations of customers who use its mobile operating system. There's an old Stephen Wright joke that goes something like, "I have a map of the U.S. Scale 1:1. I spent all last summer folding it." Now Google Maps is seeking to make its map approach that scale by launching a tool called Map Maker in the U.S. that lets users correct and add to Google's [...] Are grains killing us--or at least, killing our New Years Resolution to lose some weight?… There's no shortage of ways to find flights online, but what if you're traveling somewhere that's best reached by train? Or ferry? Well, there's a new travel search engine launching today called Rome2Rio that aims to get travelers anywhere by any means of transportation. The site was created by a two-person team of former Microsoft employees, Michael Cameron and Bernard Tschirren. They noted that a lot of the information they want to feature on the site is already available in travel books, which may instruct readers to fly into a specific airport and take a specific train to reach a remote location. With Rome2Rio, Cameron and Tschirren want to make those kind of tips available online for free in a way that helps travelers compare different options. To do that, Rome2Rio includes flight data from 670 airlines; train information in Europe, India, and China; driving directions; and ferry information. The data is drawn from a number of different sources (for example, the flights come from an international flight registry; the driving directions come from Google Maps), but from what I've seen, the experience is pretty seamless. You just type in the places you're traveling to and ... The proliferation of gadgetry that stores and organizes our personal data - phone numbers, to-do lists, driving directions - has made the need to actually memorize anything all but obsolete. Why bother committing a... Karyn Hunt Ellis was puzzled when her 2-year-old, Evyn Ellis , started giving her driving directions: "Turn left here"; "Turn right now." And then she realized "she's learning to speak sentences by parroting my in-car... Google can give you free long-distance calling and provide driving, walking, transit or bicycling directions to almost anywhere in the world. But can it find information on the Web when you ask? 'Texting Can Wait' campaign hopes to send a strong message to teens
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