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...Kindle has been getting the most attention among e-readers, but that's partly because it hasn't had much credible competition beyond the Sony Reader. Until now, that is: enter the Nook, from Barnes & Noble. Unlike the Sony Reader, the Nook arrives with a large bookselling infrastructure already in place around it. Like the Kindle, it costs...
...small color touchscreen for navigation, which brightens up the experience, and it's more responsive than the poky main screen. But it's a mixed blessing. The iPhone has trained us to expect high performance from touchscreens, and this is a decidedly pre-iPhone touchscreen. The interface hasn't been thoroughly play-tested either; there are a few rough edges and dead ends...
...offensive of exporting its universal values globally, and shrunk into a defensive position that views everything outside it as threatening and corrupting," Naulleau says. "That now even includes most foreign-born French people, though clearly not the big shots like [former president] Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who hasn't faced the same problems I have despite having been born in Germany...
...over the edge. Representatives of 192 nations gathered for two weeks with the goal of hammering out an international environmental accord, and instead parliamentary stasis reigned. Late-night negotiating sessions went nowhere, powerful developing nations like China seemed determined to block any progress, and the U.S. itself - which still hasn't passed a carbon cap of its own - lacked much diplomatic leverage. As late as the evening of Dec. 16 - just two days before the Copenhagen summit was due to close - "it looked as though we were headed to failure," said Todd Stern, America's top climate envoy...
...morals. Perhaps. But it is also yet another symbol of the shifting balance of economic power globally. Other countries censor content, and not just rogue regimes such as the Iranian mullocracy. Web sites are blocked throughout the Persian Gulf and North Africa based on objectionable content and this hasn't created much of a furor. Other countries also engage in cyber espionage, especially Israel and of course the United States Government itself with the largest group of hackers in the world employed by the National Security Agency...