Amazon’s new $199 “Kindle Fire” may surpass the phenomenal sales of Apple’s iPad. In the first five days it has been available for… Read more
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From the mid 19th through the 20 century, America was the world leader in technology. Perhaps the most important driver of those advances was kids… Read more
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“Using LinkedIn” by Patrice-Anne Rutledge, $20 from quepublishing.com, has some great tips. For example, to find old friends from college, click… Read more
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A storehouse of three million free titles from the Google digital library may tempt us to get the new iRiver EBook reader. Target is selling it… Read more
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If you don’t want to carry your textbooks around, or scan them into digital files yourself, Kno.com is a good way to go. They’ve digitized… Read more
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Shmoop.com offers 600 learning guides, some free, some not, for high school students, preparing them for advanced placement tests. They are hip,… Read more
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Making the World Work Better: Ideas that Shaped a Century and a Company,” by Maney, Hamm, and O’Brien; $30 from IBMPressBooks.com. It’s… Read more
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“Outsmarting Google,” by Evan and Bradley Bailyn, $25 from quepublishing.com. Evan Bailyn’s websites have been visited by more than 50… Read more
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“My iPad 2,” by Wallace Wang, $25 from nostarch.com. Wang is the author of several best-selling computer books and he makes this stuff easy to… Read more
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