holy_calamity writes “New Scientist reports on the latest idea from researchers trying to make microcomputers use photons in place of electrons — to make optical interconnects from strands of DNA. Mixing DNA strands with the right dye molecule upgrades them into wires for light, like microscopic optical fibers, able to absorb photons at one end and transmit them to the other. One of the neat things about using DNA is it is the right scale to play nicely with existing and future chip lithography. Quoting: ‘The result is similar to natural photonic wires found inside organisms like algae, where they’re used to transport photons to parts of a cell where their energy can be tapped. In these wires, chromophores are lined up in chains to channel photons.’”
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Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) can finally put a goofy litigious chapter behind it. It can now get back to the business of scanning books in its effort to make anything ever printed available digitally. Google’s book scanning project is intended for one thing, and one thing only: profit-generation while enabling readers to have access to any book from almost any web browser anywhere on earth.
Google will settle two copyright lawsuits for $125 million and then will continue to scan in books and make them available for purchase electronically. Book publishers and authors will, of course, receive advertising revenue and other revenue as a result of Google’s efforts. Google will, of course, get a cut of the action as well. I’m not sure of the scale here, but if Google reached just a small portion of readers across the globe and eeked out a buck or two from each one, there’s some massive revenue generation for you. Nice business if you can get it.
In addition, Google certainly hopes to convert authors still demanding the physical printing of authored works to the digital side, where even more revenue can be generated. The generation who reads newspapers, carry books with them and does calculations by hand is being replaced by the generation who has everything online from anywhere they go and run a completely digital life. The distribution method is the web for these folks, and the content must be there as well. There’s something nostalgic about taking a nice book with you to read in a quiet place (that is, if you can find a quiet place). But, for those multitasking Gen-Yers, information flows only digitally — and Google wants to make sure you find what you need through it.
Google finally settles lawsuit brought over book scanning efforts originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Toren Altair writes with this excerpt from a story at The Space Fellowship: “NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of ‘She’s speaking!’ among the rover team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. ‘This means Spirit has not gone into a fault condition and is still being controlled by sequences we send from the ground,’ stated John Callas of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., project manager for Spirit and its twin, Opportunity.”
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Filed under: Deals, Press releases, Products and services, Launches, Viacom (VIA), Activision Inc (ATVI)
 Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA)’s MTV Games and The Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd. announced during a conference call this morning that a new interactive music game based on The Beatles catalog is in development for a late 2009 release. The untitled game will be based on the career of The Beatles and the platform for MTV’s Rock Band, but will not be a spin-off of the popular series as rumored previously. According to Billboard, “the game is designed to take users on an ‘experiential journey’ through the Beatles’ career, music and vision. It will also include new types of interactive gameplay associated with the Beatles’ imagery in addition to its music.”
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MTV grabs The Beatles catalog for music-based game originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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