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• Flat World Knowledge adds funding, launches open-source textbooks for the blind

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Bookmark this categoryFlat World Knowledge, provider of free, open-source textbooks intended to lower mounting book prices for college students, has come out with two pieces of news. First, it added about $2.5 million in funding last month, bringing its total raised to $10.5 million. And second, it just forged a ...
  16 hours ago

• Flat World Knowledge adds funding, launches open-source textbooks for disabled

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Flat World Knowledge, provider of free, open-source textbooks intended to lower mounting book prices for college students, has come out with two pieces of news. First, it added about $2.5 million in funding last month, bringing its total raised to $10.5 million. And second, it just forged a partnership with Bookshare, ...
  18 hours ago

• .406 Ventures Backs WellAware

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 667
  IT , startups , deals Ryan McBride wrote: Boston-based .406 Ventures is investing in WellAware Systems’ new $7.5 million round of financing, the Charlottesville, VA, startup reports . The company has developed integrated sensors and software designed to help healthcare providers monitor senior patients. ...
  6 days ago

• ever held a guy hostage for a coupon?

  
  Stoney Roads - Dance Music and News — Authority: 426
  Coupons are Sydney pair who recently were the Aussie winners of the Royksopp ‘Tricky Tricky’ Remix competition a couple of weeks back and are set to have there first track released with that big sexy label EMI. Enough official talk more shenanigans. These guys have been surfing across genres of dance with some ...
  1 week ago

• Swiss Au Pair Marks Miserable Milestone

  
  trainjotting.com — Authority: 126
  As our 3-year-olds frolicked about recently, a local cop friend started bending my ear about the book Circle of Fire , which tells the tragic tale of a Swiss nanny in Mount Pleasant and the gruesome death by fire of the newborn, Kristie Fischer, she was tasked with minding. Not my thing, I thought. But being a ...
  1 week ago

• Records show feds used ultra-right radio host for years

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 502
  "For more than five years, Hal Turner of North Bergen lived a double life. The public knew him as an ultra-right-wing radio talk show host and Internet blogger with an audience of neo-Nazis and white supremacists attracted to his scorched-earth racism and bare-knuckles bashing of public figures. But to the FBI, and ...
  1 week ago

• Tech Start-Up Envy: Why Does the Capital Region Come Up Short?

  
  Strategic Guy — Authority: 112
  Driptech, Scribd, SolarCity, Zynga, Fitbit…they are all interesting technology start-ups recently included on BusinessWeek’s list of the “Most Intriguing New Businesses.” There’s a problem with the list though: not a single company based in the Washington, DC region made the cut. How can that be? Where ...
  1 week ago

• FBI viewed intel provided by ultra-right radio host Hal Turner as ‘irreplaceable’: report

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 142
  Stephen C. Webster/RawstoryUltra right-wing radio talk show host Hal Turner provided intelligence to the FBI that agents considered “irreplaceable,” according to emails reviewed for a lengthy investigative report published Sunday.Writing for NorthJersey.com, reporters Mike Kelly and Peter J. Sampson reveal that ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nina Maria’s in Valhalla Gets Its Liquor License

  
  Small Bites — Authority: 127
  Nina Marie’s Italian Restaurant, which took over the spot that was once the famed Franzl’s, a former (and very popular) German restaurant from yesteryear, recently got its liquor license. The bar area, painted a dark maroon and black, includes a comfortable mahonay bar and space for live entertainment. Thee wine ...
  2 weeks ago

• Flat World Lets Students Access Books Online

  
  NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news — Authority: 568
  Like its competitors, Nyack, N.Y.-based Flat World Knowledge recruits authors and produces titles on major academic subjects.  But, students can access digital versions of Flat Worlds books for free, or pay between $30 and $60 for a printed one.  Books, even specific chapters, are available in PDF and audio form ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mandelbulbous!

  
  Falling Sky — Authority: 112
  Things That Should Not Be - Elf Power Four years ago I posted this story about the Octacube, an attempt at producing a four-dimensional object in three dimensions. Now its got some similarly freaky company in the form of a 3D CG rendering of the Mandelbrot set - the Mandelbulb .      It may look like a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Foster Hinshaw Back in Command at Dataupia; News of Company’s Death Greatly Exaggerated, He Says

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 667
  IT , startups , data warehousing Wade Roush wrote: From all outward appearances, Cambridge, MA-based data warehousing appliance maker Dataupia and its founder Foster Hinshaw have both been through near-death experiences this year. Heart problems forced to Hinshaw to step down as CEO in January. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do you have ‘paraskavedekatriaphobia’ (just like Henry Ford, Napoleon, and Franklin D. Roosevelt)?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 594
  Henry Ford, the father of the modern automobile industry, ‘refused to do business on Friday the 13th.’ Ford shared the same fear and caution with other stalwarts as Napoleon and President Franklin Roosevelt. FDR was such a day 13th phobic that he altered his ‘own travel plans on any day of the week that landed ...
  4 weeks ago

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