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TexTbook Rental

August 8, 2012 by · Comments Off on TexTbook Rental 

TexTbook Rental, Amazon has launched a textbook rental service for students on a semester basis. Amazon says students will be able to choose from thousands of textbooks to rent with savings up to 70%. Students are able to then return to the books to Amazon free of shipping costs, but must pay for the initial shipping costs. Students, however, can choose to wave initial shipping fees by renting more than $25 worth of textbooks.

“College is expensive, and students are always looking for ways to save money on textbooks, which is why we’ve long offered great prices on both new and used textbooks,” said Ripley MacDonald, Director of Textbooks at Amazon.com. “With Textbook Rental, Amazon gives students yet another great option for saving money – it’s now easier than ever for students to get the books they need, in the format they want, at affordable prices. So no matter if a student wants to buy or rent their textbooks, Amazon can be their one-stop shop.”

Students who want to rent a textbook can search Amazon.com, select “Rent Now” then choose the payment and shipment options and check out. “With our flexible rental program, you can keep your textbooks for a semester. And when it comes time to send your books back, we’ll pay for return shipping. All this means more money in your pocket for the things in life that can’t be learned from a book.” Amazon began offering rental digital books on Kindles last year for students who prefer not to bring hardcover books to their classes.

Where To Watch Mars Landing

August 6, 2012 by · Comments Off on Where To Watch Mars Landing 

Where To Watch Mars Landing, If you were packing for Mars, what would you bring? NASA’s latest tourist, the roving robot named Curiosity, due to land on Mars early Monday, will lug around a suite of gadgets to snap pictures, sniff, taste and even drill. It will study the environment to figure out whether the giant crater where it lands ever possessed a habitable environment for microbial life.

The six-wheel, nuclear-powered rover is far more tech-savvy than anything that has landed before on the red planet. Here’s a glimpse of some of the cool things Curiosity can do:

It carries a laser that can zap a hole in rocks up to about 25 feet away and identify the chemical elements inside. This point-and-shoot strategy saves time because if a rock looks boring, Curiosity can roll on.

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Its 7-foot-long robotic arm has a power drill at the end that can bore into rocks and soil. Like a scientist in a laboratory, it can transfer the ground-up powder to its onboard workbench to tease out minerals and sniff for organics, considered the chemical building blocks of life.

What’s the point of an extraterrestrial trip if you can’t sight-see? Curiosity promises to be a shutterbug, toting around a set of 2-megapixel color cameras that can beam panoramas back to Earth. With YouTube fans in mind, it also packed a video camera that will record the last few minutes of its hairy descent to Mars.

Curiosity Mars Rover

August 5, 2012 by · Comments Off on Curiosity Mars Rover 

Curiosity Mars Rover, Mars Rover Curiosity: The Red Planet’s Next Explorer, After traveling 8 and a half months and 352 million miles, NASA’s most technically advanced rover ever lands on the Red Planet early overnight Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012.

Next stop, Mars. NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory and the Curiosity rover are preparing to enter the Martian atmosphere, following an 8 ½ month race to the Red Planet at 8,000 mph. By the time it arrives at Mars, gravity will have accelerated the spacecraft to a whopping 13,200 mph.

NASA must then slow it down.

Following “seven minutes of terror” beginning at 1:31a.m. EST early Monday morning – a reference to the nerve-racking landing NASA has planned, which involves Curiosity’s screaming race to the surface and a dangle off a rocket-powered sky crane – the rover will be set to begin its mission: the study of our planetary neighbor, and the quest for signs of life there.

“Curiosity is the culmination of a decade of exploration. We can now begin to move toward finding the fingerprints of life on Mars,” said Scott Hubbard, a Stanford University consulting professor of aeronautics and astronautics.

The space agency said Curiosity remains in good health, and was steering so smoothly between planets that a planned minor course correction Saturday wasn’t necessary. And with the gravitational pull of Mars already tugging on the spaceship, arrival is being closely monitored by the watchful eyes of mission control.

“After flying more than eight months and 350 million miles since launch, the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is now right on target to fly through the eye of the needle that is our target at the top of the Mars atmosphere,” said Mission Manager Arthur Amador of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

Apple-Samsung Trial

August 1, 2012 by · Comments Off on Apple-Samsung Trial 

Apple-Samsung Trial, Apple (AAPL) and Samsung delivered one common message to a federal court jury here on Tuesday — when it comes to their competing claims of patent rights in the world of smartphones and tablets, they agree on absolutely nothing.

During nearly a day of opening statements, lawyers for the two warring tech titans offered their conflicting views of what will unfold for the seven-man, two woman jury over the next four weeks.

To Apple’s lawyer, the case is about Samsung’s rampant copying of the iPhone and iPad, which he told jurors has cost the Silicon Valley icon billions of dollars that it will seek in damages.

“At its highest corporate levels, Samsung decided to simply copy every element of the iPhone,” Apple attorney Harold McElhinny said at one point. “Samsung had two choices — accept the challenge of the iPhone … and beat Apple fairly in the marketplace, or it could copy Apple. It is easier to copy than innovate.”

To Samsung’s lawyer, the trial will expose how Apple has overstated its innovation in the hotly competitive smartphone and tablet market. Samsung flatly denies copying Apple, insisting it has merely done what scores of companies have done — evolve with its own products.

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Rumors

July 29, 2012 by · Comments Off on Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Rumors 

Samsung Galaxy Note, There’s a formidable chance Samsung’s next phablet, the Galaxy Note 2 will be out in stores as early as August or probably the month after. This is something Samsung will neither confirm nor deny, as they remain as secretive as ever, even when sending out invitations for their August 15 press event.

Since the Galaxy Note 2 launch shouldn’t be too far away, what can consumers expect from the new phablet?

Prior to these invites being sent out, it was almost good as confirmed that Samsung would release the Galaxy Note 2 by August 30, a few days before the IFA expo. If the Galaxy Note 2 will be unveiled on August 15 as some believe it would, then we can expect the device to be available by September.

Now we have yet another speculation on the launch plans for the Galaxy Note 2 – Netzwelt.de, a German site, claims that Samsung will be holding two separate press events, one on August 15 for American buyers and the second on August 30 for the European market.

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