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Canadian DMCA (Bill C-32) is an improvement
If it makes Access Copyright unhappy, and the Canadian Library Association happy(ish), Canada's newly-proposed Copyright Modernization Act must be doing something right. It's still got a major flaw in that it's always illegal to crack a digital lock, which effectively removes many of the rights the Bill introduces. As always, Michael Geist has all the
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Serials Solutions to compete with EZProxy
Serials Solutions has a press release today to announce the development of a product called Access Control Service, which is a hosted authentication and proxy service. Last year OCLC announced they were going to offer a hosted version of EZProxy, to go into production sometime this year, but I haven't heard anything more about it
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Holy inkstains, Batman! Another Library Comic?!?
Actually I suspect (hope?) there are even more out there, but after Rex Libris, now comes Library Wars! Very interesting couple of comments down at the bottom you should check out. "In the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their
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Oooh, shiny! Google background images
If you use the Google.com (not a country-specific) page to search, you can now customize a background image if you're logged in. As you hover over the page you'll see a new link in the lower left, which will allow you pick from some standard pix, or upload one of your own: I think I'm
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Evidence of price gouging in the Canadian mobile market?
AdMob (recently acquired by Google) has an interesting report out this month in which they compare iPhone and Android unique devices across the world for the month of April, 2010. What *I* found very interesting is that Canada is the only country in the world where there are more iPod Touch users than iPhone users!