For the past few months, Sony has been marketing the PRS-500 Portable Reader, a new generation of ebook device using new eink screen technology.  (The CIT and Perkins Library did a small trial of the Sony Reader in Spring 2007.)  Now Amazon and Google are releasing products for the ebook market.

Amazon is coming to market with its own ebook reader called the “Kindle”.  Priced at around $400, the portable reader will use wireless networking to allow users to purchase books directly from the retailer’s online store.  Also, Google is planning to offer for-fee access to the full content of some books in its database in cooperation with book publishers.

article at the NY Times

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DabbleDB is a free online database tool that allows you to easily create a simple relational database and share it with others on the web.  If you wish to share the data publicly, an account is free; a subscription fee is required for sharing and collaborating on private databases in small groups.

The site also includes a seven minute video showing features of the software:
http://www.dabbledb.com/explore/7minutedemo/

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This article at MIT’s Technology Review suggests that there may be gender differences in the way technology is used. This has potential implications about the way we look at academic technology tools or the way we talk about them, train users, and write supplemental documentation.

In general, we don’t have control over how software is designed by others. We do have control over how we deliver training and the documentation that we offer on our CIT and Blackboard web sites.

Click http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/19424/ for Technology Review article.

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