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Bruce County Public Library begins lending Sony eReaders Shoreline Beacon An eReader is a handheld device that can hold hundreds of titles and allows the user to read books on its display screen. EReaders are growing in popularity thanks to their ability to hold a huge library of books on a single device, their light weight … and more »

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Publisher puts new limits on public libraries' e-books Nashua Telegraph The added expenditures on e-books, they said, will make it more difficult to compete in an industry that is quickly becoming dominated by electronic readers such as the iPad, the Nook and the Kindle. “This strikes at the heart of what we do,” said … and more »

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Learn about eBooks at the Macedon Public Library Wayne Post The news media is buzzing about eBooks (electronic books displayed on a screen) and eReaders (the portable devices used to read them). Amazon KindleTM, the Barnes&Noble nookTM and the iPad TM are household names. Libraries are finding ways to keep up … and more »

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Learn about eBooks at the Williamson Free Public Library Wayne Post By Anonymous The news media is buzzing about eBooks, electronic books displayed on a screen, and eReaders, the portable devices used to read them. Amazon Kindle(TM), the Barnes & Noble NOOK(TM) and the iPad (TM) are household names. … and more »

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If you haven’t heard, the first Public Draft of the EPUB 3 was released, which significantly enhances support for math and science content in ebooks. The new specification gives you the ability to create math in enhanced ebooks that can …

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The EPUB Working Group has now released the EPUB 3 Specification: First Public Draft, for review. New features include; HTML5, Video, Audio, MathML and more.

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B2B Soft Expands into the Carrier Market as Public Mobile Signs on for Wireless Standard

New York, NY (PRWEB) November 17, 2010

B2B Soft, a leader in business-to-business software solutions specializing in retail management for the wireless/cellular retail industry, announced that Public Mobile has selected Wireless Standard as its retail management platform. Public Mobile, one of Canada’s newest wireless carriers, targets the under served phone market in Ontario and Quebec. Public Mobile is the first wireless carrier to implement Wireless Standard, B2B Soft’s Retail Management Platform across its corporate enterprise. Public Mobile launched network service in Toronto in May 2010 and in Montreal in June 2010. It currently has 86 stores and offers its phones and plans in approximately 200 other locations throughout Greater Toronto and Montreal.

Wireless Standard has long been one of the first choices in POS software for North American wireless dealers and agents for their retail operations. More recently, Master Agents, like Celluphone, Verizon’s largest, have turned to it as a way to help standardize sales transactions, track inventory, plans, and commissions across all store locations, as well as improve the customer shopping experience at point of sale.

“Using Wireless Standard makes the particulars of doing business simpler, faster, better, and easier for wireless retailers,” says Don Rossi, B2B Soft’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “B2B Soft has spent a lot of time listening to channel partners in order to create the right kind of solutions that precisely fit their specific needs. We’re now expanding on our expertise to include working with carriers, so that they can have a standardized and seamless solution that works across their entire network.”

“We’re pleased that Public Mobile sees the value in the benefits that Wireless Standard provides,” says Gary Khabinski, CEO of B2B Soft. “For wireless carriers, integrating Wireless Standard across all of their enterprise applications provides true automation, along with real time control of their indirect retail channel, nationwide. Increased productivity, better inventory control, and improved customer service at each retail location all add up to better business practices and greater success.”

About B2B Soft

B2B Soft is an innovative software solutions company providing clients in a wide range of industries with business management, business automation, point-of-sale solutions and consulting services. Located in New York City, B2B Soft continues to innovate with its wide range of products such as Wireless Standard and Retail Time.

http://www.btbsoft.com.

About Wireless Standard

B2B Soft’s base product, Wireless Standard, is built on a commercially secure and stable client-server model and created on the most advanced and reliable platform available—Microsoft’s .NET™ enterprise-level technology. Wireless Standard was designed to address the needs of the world’s largest enterprises in wireless retail but is scalable so small and mid-size companies can also benefit as well from an enterprise class solution. Wireless Standard capabilities include Inventory Control, POS Transaction Processing, CRM (Marketing & Customer Service), Employee Management, Real-time Web Reporting, and Activation and Commission Reconciliation, to name a few. Today, over 4,000 wireless retailers deploy Wireless Standard at the point-of-sale for better business management and customer relations.

http://www.wirelessstandard.com.

About Public Mobile

Formed in 2008, Public Mobile provides unlimited talk and text services to value conscious customers in Ontario and Quebec. There are no contracts, no credit checks and no surprises. Public Mobile launched its network service in May 2010 in Toronto and in June 2010 in Montreal. Public Mobile is building its network from Windsor to Quebec City. The company purchased its spectrum licence for $ 52M in July 2008. The licence covers an area reaching 19 million Canadians. More information about Public Mobile can be found at http://www.publicmobile.ca.

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Question by <3Jenny: 3 websites dealing w/ prompt: “Smoking should be outlawed b/c it poses a risk to the public health.”?
I need 3 websites dealing w/ prompt: “Smoking should be outlawed b/c it poses a risk to the public health.” This is for a persuasive/argumentative essay. Please and thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by haileyy(:
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/aug/02/local/me-smoking2

http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/Smokersrights

http://no-smoking.org/august99/08-10-99-2.html

What do you think? Answer below!

Question by <3Jenny: I need 3 websites dealing w/ prompt: “TV should be outlawed b/c it poses a risk to the public health.”?
I need 3 websites dealing w/ prompt: “TV should be outlawed b/c it poses a risk to the public health.” This is for a persuasive/argumentative essay. Please and thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by linz
I found these websites. I don’t know if these are what you are looking for or not.

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=84900

http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=4820

http://www.echoworld.com/B05/B0510/B0510TVBad.htm

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Shmoop Introduces Site Licenses for Schools, Districts, and Public Libraries

Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) October 20, 2010

Shmoop (http://www.shmoop.com), a digital curriculum company that makes fun, rigorous learning and teaching materials, now offers awesome, affordable group rates on its subscription products: Test Prep (for SAT, PSAT, AP Exams) and Teacher’s Editions. Shmoop Site Licenses are available to schools, districts, and public libraries of all shapes and sizes. Shmoop will also give a group (rate) hug to homeschooling collectives.

Shmoop Site Licenses allow schools and libraries to give all of their students, teachers, and patrons complimentary access to Shmoop’s subscription products anywhere they have Web access – at the library, at home, or on a smart phone while camped out in line for the next Harry Potter movie. Every user chooses his or her own username and password, so there is no hassle for the school or library offering Shmoop services.

For more information and to request a price quote, visit:

http://www.shmoop.com/school-district/

Online Test Prep: Deep Prep with a Fresh Voice. Tackle the SAT Like a Video Game.

Shmoop now offers Site Licenses for its online PSAT Prep, SAT Prep, and AP Exam Prep. Each online prep course includes deep content reviews, hundreds of drill questions and 2-3 full-length interactive Practice Exams. Shmoop uses classic video games like Oregon Trail, Tetris, and Mario Brothers as metaphors for the challenges, pitfalls, and question types that students will face in the exam.

“Shmoop AP Exam Prep is a scholarly study guide, which at the same time conveys an edgy, contemporary attitude that appeals to today’s level of student sophistication,” said Gail Ferguson, 11th grade English teacher at New York City Department of Education’s Aviation High School. “My students who use Shmoop take their studies seriously, but they want to have fun in their own style. Shmoop has a voice that strikes a chord with students, and their overall performance on the AP examination certainly showed this.”

Teacher’s Editions: Teachers’ New BFF. Make Lessons Fun, Current, Hip.

Shmoop now offers more than 80 Teacher’s Editions in Literature, US History, and Civics. Shmoop Teacher’s Editions include

    Free: hundreds of standards-aligned classroom activities and assignments, a primer for teachers who haven’t taught the topic previously, and interdisciplinary readings in English and Social Studies
    Premium Content Available via Site Licenses or Sold Individually: quizzes with answer keys, discussion and essay questions, current events and pop culture articles, and multimedia

Shmoop Continues to Offer More than 600 Free Online Learning Guides

Shmoop provides more than 600 free Learning Guides in ten subjects: Literature, Poetry, Shakespeare, Bestsellers, U.S. History, Civics, Economics, Biography, Music, and Pre-Algebra. Shmoop Learning Guides contain analysis, questions, quotes, and multimedia for each topic. Shmoop uses a conversational tone in combination with pop culture, trivia and humor to help make topics approachable and relevant to students.

“Shmoop Learning Guides are a great tool for students,” said Camela Giraud, 10th grade English teacher at the Out-of-Door Academy in Sarasota, Florida. “And from a teaching standpoint, I couldn’t be more thrilled to have access to Shmoop Teacher’s Editions, which connect literature to relevant and reliable web resources and related contemporary issues. I think websites like Shmoop are the wave of the future in educational resources.”

About Shmoop

Shmoop is a digital curriculum company that makes fun, rigorous learning, teaching, and test prep materials. Shmoop content is written by master teachers and Ph.D. students from Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and other top universities. Shmoop Learning Guides, Test Prep, and Teacher’s Editions help students understand how classroom topics relate to their daily lives. Shmoop offers more than 4,000 titles across the Web, iPhone, Android devices, iPad, Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader. The company was an Official Honoree in the 2010 and 2009 Webby Awards, was named one of the best educational products of 2010 by the Association of Educational Publishers, and was named “Best of the Internet” by PC Magazine. Launched in 2008, Shmoop is headquartered in a Labradoodle-patrolled office in Mountain View, California.

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