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ECTACO Info | E-readers grow; libraries can't get many titles

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James Temple , Chronicle Columnist http://www.sfgate.com The popularity of e-readers is soaring, but good luck finding that hot new title at your local library. Most large publishers refuse to sell critical portions of their digital catalogs for library lending, and those that do are imposing stiff fees and onerous rules. It's one more point of contention over the behavior of these companies, as the Justice Department reportedly threatens to file a lawsuit accusing them of collusion in the consumer e-book market. The worry in this case is that as more and more reading occurs on digital devices, these sorts of restrictions could chip away at the value of libraries - and the societal good they promote in providing equal access to information. "If we're not allowed to have access to or even allowed the ability to purchase that broad array of titles, what does that mean for the longevity of the library?" asked Trent Garcia, electronic resou

ECTACO Info | 599ドルのためにJetbookカラーデラックス

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ECTACO Jetbook カラー は現在、 月 の周り のために 市場に出て 、市場 で最高の 9.7インチ の電子 インク 電子書籍リーダー の その一 。 た 今日 ECTACO は、 599.99ドル のために C- Penで デバイス の デラックス バージョン をリリースし た と発表 C- Penは どのようなものですか? それは Jetbook K12 に同梱 されたのと同じ 小さな ガジェットです。 それはあなたの 電子書籍リーダー のUSBポート に差し込む と、 あなたの 教科書や その他の有形 のものに テキスト をスキャンし、 デジタル あなたの Jetbook カラー にそれを 書き起こし する機能を提供します。 それは 教室 でそれを使用する 学生への より適切 である ユニークな 小さな アクセサリーです。 することができます がそれ に直面して 、 デジタル 教室 はかなり 新しいもの であり、ほとんどの 学校で は、電子 書籍や hardcovers の組み合わせを 使用して終了 。 C- ペン の主な利点は、 代わりに 本の中身 の一部または 注目すべき 材料 を強調する から 、それを スキャンして、 専用のファイル に置く ことができるということです。 その後、 テキストファイル にこのファイルを エクスポート し、後でそれを 使用することができます。 499ドル 前後 Jetbook 色の コストと 新しい デラックス· モデルのベース モデルは 599ドル です。 だから、 基本的に C- ペン のための追加 100ドル を支払っている 。 それを 価値がある ? まあ、我々は 一週間 前後 に広く それをテストし、それ が実際に 非常によく動作し ました。 それは確かに 非常に ニッチ で、主に このデバイスが とにかく を目指している 学生 への アピール です。 私は 多くの人々 C- Penで 彼らの ノート をスキャンする 代わりに 、学校 発行 の教科書 を いじくる を見ることができます。 ECTACO Info

ECTACO Info | Ectaco lança jetBook Color Deluxe com C-Pen Scanner

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A Ectaco lançou o jetBook Color Deluxe com uma tela touch capacitiva Triton color E-Ink de 9,68 polegadas (1600 x 1200 pixels) com 32 GB de memória interna e CPU ARM Cortex A8 de 800 MHz. O eReader possui uma bateria de polímero de lítio recarregável com a capacidade de 2350 mAh que dura por 10 mil páginas, segundo o fabricante. O menu do jetBook Color Deluxe está disponível em russo, ucraniano, alemão, inglês, japonês, espanhol e português. O eReader pode ler arquivos em formatos PDF e DJVU, além de incorporar a tecnologia TTS (Text to Speech) que permite ler o texto com voz sintética digital. O jetBook Color Deluxe vem com uma caneta para escanear textos (C-pen Text Scanner) linha a linha. Com a caneta scanner, o usuário pode escanear o texto em um livro físico e incorporá-lo ao jetBook eReader , funcionando como um marcador ou "highlighter" de textos. O jetBook Deluxe está disponível no mercado dos EUA pelo preço de US$ 599,99 dólares. www.ectaco.c

ECTACO Info | Jetbook Color Deluxe for $599

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We teach people - Dictionaries ECTACO The Ectaco Jetbook Color has been on the market for around a month now and its one of the best 9.7 inch e-ink e-readers on the market. Today Ectaco announced they were releasing a Deluxe version of the device with a C-Pen for $599.99 What exactly is a C-Pen? It is the same little gadget that was bundled with the Jetbook K12. It plugs into the USB port of your e-reader and gives you the ability to scan text in textbooks or other tangible things and digitally transcibe it into your Jetbook Color. It is a unique little accessory that is more applicable to students who use it in the classroom. Lets face it, the digital classroom is a fairly new thing and most schools end up using a combination of electronic books and the hardcovers. The main benefit of the C-Pen is that instead of highlighting passages or noteworthy material inside the book you can scan it and put it in a dedicated file. You can then export this file into a text file and

ECTACO Info | ECTACO jetBook Colour 9" ebook Reader full review

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We teach people - Dictionaries ECTACO jetBook Colour 9" ebook Reader full review by geektrailers1 ECTACO Info www.ectaco.cz , www.ectaco.es , www.ectaco.fr  

ECTACO Info | Dual-language school programs growing in popularity

We teach people - Dictionaries ECTACO March 22, 2012 | Eleanor Yang Su , California Watch http://californiawatch.org At Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School, students are taught lessons every week in a combination of Spanish, English and Mandarin. The public school, which has more than 400 students on its wait list, is hoping to eventually add a fourth language, the principal says, to better prepare pupils for the global economy. “I think as we become more and more globally aware, we’re realizing that kids need to be prepared to be competitive in world markets,” said Principal Jorge Ramirez. “Kids need to be multilingual and multiliterate.” From Chula Vista to Laguna Niguel and Sacramento, public schools are creating dual-language immersion programs at a fast pace. The California Department of Education estimates there are 318 bilingual immersion programs in the state, up from 201 in 2006. “We have more research now that shows students who develop t

ECTACO Info | C. Newton Weaver Jr.: English program helped wife achieve U.S. citizenship

We teach people - Dictionaries ECTACO by C. Newton Weaver Jr. www.delmarvanow.com Imagine coming to America to live and work, knowing little about the language or how laws and regulations are made, much less the importance of certain events in its cultural history -- formidable roadblocks until one achieves skill in both written and spoken English. Fortunately, there is an affordable program that helps ease those obstacles. One such program, English as a Second Language, allows participant to gain exposure to the spoken word as well as briefings in civics and American history. This knowledge will help to open doors of opportunity for a more fulfilling life. This course may also lead to naturalization and eventual admittance to higher educational institutions. According to Mark Ferraro, director of Worcester County's EASL program in Snow Hill, this platform has been offered to area residents for many years. Night classes for the beginner or advanced are offered at Stephe

ECTACO.CZ | English <-> Portuguese Talking Electronic Dictionary Partner EPg900 Deluxe

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www.ectaco.cz , www.ectaco.es , www.ectaco.fr Category: Talking bilingual dictionary expandable to include over 50 language combinations Language pair: English <-> Portuguese; Portuguese <-> English Speech: English and Portuguese for the Dictionary; English and Portuguese for the PhraseBook Number of words: 570,000 Battery Type: Li-Polymer rechargeable battery (3.7V, 1700mAh), included Unsurpassed Translation With a massive 570,000 entry English <-> Portuguese Translating Dictionary, an easy to use bilingual translating Picture Dictionary, a complete English explanatory dictionary and Full Text Translation, the remarkable new EPg900 Deluxe contains everything you need for superior translation and accurate communication. Exclusive User Dictionaries allow you to store your own personalized lists of frequently used words and a history function remembers your most recent translations to provide instant access to the i

ECTACO Info | Brooklyn Technical High School: Using jetBook Color

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www.ectaco.cz , www.ectaco.es , www.ectaco.fr March 21, 2012 - New York, NY Ectaco jetBook Color gets deployed to Brooklyn Technical High School ECTACO, Inc. and E Ink Holdings partner to finally bridge the gap between students and eTextbooks with the jetBook Color, the only color E Ink educational eBook system developed specifically for schools. This new device is now being implemented into New York City’s largest high school - Brooklyn Technical High School. ECTACO, the preeminent handheld language translation company, has developed and distributed devices and linguistic software in over 200 languages since 1990. E Ink Holdings is the world's largest supplier of displays to the eBook industry. A natural union of both companies occurred when ECTACO developed a dedicated eBook reader - ECTACO jetBook Color – which carries the highly regarded concept of “healthy reading” and included the first ever Triton Color E Ink display. The jetBook Color was conceived by ECT

ECTACO Info | Why learn a foreign language?

By May Lundy www.deseretnews.com "Hello, hello, hello, how are you?” are words to the first song I learned in English. The teacher sang along while we covered our hands in glue from pasting paper drawings on our workbooks. I was 3 years old and attending a bilingual kindergarten in Veracruz, Mexico. I was blessed to have parents who were quite involved in my education, especially in learning a second language at a very young age. They always looked for schools that not only had an hour of English immersion, but the entire day if possible. As I enrolled in elementary school, it took some experimenting to find the right institution. At first I attended schools that only imparted two hours of English. I remember how much I liked to learn new vocabulary and read from colorful storybooks. I always took my new discoveries very seriously, so much that I began teaching my grandmother English lessons out of my first-grade books. By the time I was in third grade, we were l

ECTACO Info | Why do we continue to isolate ourselves by only speaking English?

Britain's future economic and political wellbeing is being hamstrung by our reluctance to learn foreign languages. autor Will Hutton Will Hutton is principal of Hertford College, Oxford www.guardian.co.uk It is a baleful sign of our times that one of Newt Gingrich's most effective attacks on Mitt Romney is that he is so un-American he dares to speak French. Ever since the Iraq war, France and the French are synonymous with European lack of martial spirit and solidarity with the US, but more is at work than that. Command of a foreign language shows the wrong priorities, according to this line: it shows a willingness to work hard at understanding another culture, its language and mores. Real Americans don't do that. The British are infected by the same culture, but we don't have the excuse of being the globe's dominant power and of occupying a continent. We live on a large island in the North Sea whose economic power is rapidly waning; any conce

ECTACO.CZ | ECTACO Partner EK900C Deluxe English-Korean Talking Electronic Dictionary and Audio PhraseBook with Handheld Scanner

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Special Prices: check special prices now ! ECTACO Partner EK900C Deluxe English-Korean Talking Electronic Dictionary and Audio PhraseBook with Handheld Scanner Overview With a massive 455,000 entry English-Korean Translating Dictionary, an easy to use 39 language translating Picture Dictionary and a complete English explanatory dictionary, the remarkable new EK900 Deluxe contains everything you need for superior translation and accurate communication. Exclusive User Dictionaries allow you to store your own personalized lists of frequently used words and a history function remembers your most recent translations to provide instant access to the information you need to understand and be understood. Using the included Ectaco/C-pen Handheld Scanner you can now translate things you never dreamed possible as easy as grabbing an entire text wherever you find it. Simply scan a word or a phrase from any surface - a book, newspaper, doctor's prescriptions or a poster on the wall - upl

ECTACO Info | Why Bilinguals Are Smarter

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By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE Published: March 18, 2012 NY Times SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age. This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child's academic and intellectual development. They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual's brain both language systems are activ

ECTACO Info | Ectaco Jetbook Color Full Hands on Review

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by ADMIN http://gadget1.9square.net/ The Ectaco Jetbook Color is the first e-Reader in the world to use color e-Ink! This gives you a full color display to view a wide array of content and experience e-paper like you never have before. How does this new technology developed by e-Ink Holdings stack up in a battery of real world tests? Is it truly the next step in evolution of e-Readers? We dive into the issue and find out all of the answers. Hardware The Ectaco Jetbook Color is a 9.7 inch e-ink Triton Display with a resolution of 1600×1200 Pixels. It truly gives you a vivid color e-paper that mimics real paper and really is a paradigm shift in the way people will experience reading on an e-Reader. If you have had the Amazon Kindle Touch, Kobo Touch or Nook Simple Touch you know from experience that it really doe not strain your eyes during long reading sessions. The problem with devices such as the Apple iPad and other LCD based tablets is because of the bright back

ECTACO Info | Post: Healthier immigrants keep native tongue

written by Amy Hodges-Rice http://www.futurity.org RICE (US) — Immigrants who are proficient in both English and their native language are physically and mentally healthier than unilingual immigrants, new research shows. “Our research suggests that English proficiency gained at the expense of native-language fluency may not be beneficial for overall health status,” says Ariela Schachter, an alumna of Rice University who is now a graduate student at Stanford University. “It’s very important for the immigrants to hold on to their native language in addition to learning English.” Schachter is a co-author with Rice sociology professors Bridget Gorman and Rachel Tolbert Kimbro.on a paper published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. The study examined associations between English and native-language proficiency and usage and self-rated health for more than 4,649 U.S. immigrants from China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. The re

ECTACO Info | Language jokes....

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How do you say "POPCORN"  in Spanish? Let us count the ways... ECTACO Info www.ectaco.es

ECTACO Info | Infographic Of The Day: America’s Problem With Second Languages

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written by Cliff Kuang  , http://www.fastcodesign.com A surprising chart suggests that Americans see second languages as a cultural luxury rather than a competitive advantage. You know and I know that other countries make fun of the fact that most Americans only rarely speak another language. But behind that truism, there’s plenty of subtle forces that influence the attitude that Americans have towards learning another language. And attitude, I’d argue, is everything. You can discern a few peaks into that attitude in this interactive chart by Pimsleur Approach , a rapid language-learning course. Pimsleur simply took its own data on the languages that people are interested in learning, and broke it down by state. Almost without exception, people want to learn Spanish , trailed almost always by French : There are some exceptions to that rule: Wisconsin, which has a large population of people descended from German immigrants, for example. And New Jersey, which has a la