Dora gets a makeover

Yup, here she is. After all the “teasing” that the new, hot, femme Dora wouldn’t be revealed until Fall, she’s here before Spring. The new Dora is taller, slimmer and little older and has long, flowing hair. Gone are the bowl cut, bermuda shorts and chubby cheeks.
Nickelodeon and Mattel, who own Dora, are attempting to assure concerned parents and teachers that, while Dora may appear to be all glammed up, she hasn’t lost her sense of wonder, adventure or ability to sell products. In fact, they say she “will expand into the world of solving mysteries that have overt and relatable pro-social themes — like volunteerism, water conservation, or planting trees to help the environment.”

Will Tablet PCs replace textbooks in schools?

Bill gates once predicted that Tablet PCs or a tablet mac will replace textbooks in schools. These graphic tablets obviously have a better edge over the drab textbooks.
· When the textbooks are available in electronic form, students can “carry” all of their books with them on a single Tablet PC/ mac tablet.
· Interactive textbook content management systems are being developed that make it easier to have physical access to the texts and allow students to create, organize, share, and archive personalized markups, and to review sheets and notes. One example is the e-Text project, an electronic textbook used in the Introductory Computer Science class at Hope College (Ryan McFall, Hope College).
· In addition, transforming physical textbooks into electronic resources—with highlighted sections, sticky notes, Web pages, and hyperlinks—will enable more efficient sharing of resources. The Adaptive Book Project is one example of this (Ananda Gunawardena, CMU). It may become feasible for a student to use the Tablet PC to drag text and images from a book, annotate, save, and then share them with other students. Furthermore, handwritten annotations could be tied to specific markups in the text.
Isn’t this exciting!

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Language translation is important for customer care

Customer care has evolved dramatically from the days of the printed user manual and telephone support. Most of the customer care today, is through company’s digital database. With companies going global, so is their customer care service, which has to cater to the global customers from varied background, languages and culture.
From the customer’s point of view, customer care can mean a lot of different things, from getting an answer to a question, to requesting information about a product, to conducting research about new products, to getting help with a bug fix or product update.
For global companies with global customers, language could become a barrier in addressing customer queries, especially while your precious customer is using your digital database for trouble shooting.
However, many translation software today help in tackling language issues. Such software provides a three-dimensional advantage to customer care services.
1) Efficient language translation for customer care content
2) Successful, proven technology that saves time and money while keeping the customers informed.
3) Customized, updated and reliable terminologies for translation, guaranteeing that product/service content is translated with online language translation.
Language translation is the key to good customer care globally.

Major concerns about E books

Many publishers are resisting to the e book format with all their might. It’s very evident that eBooks are definitely the way to go these days. They are sure to benefit people all around.
Books are at that metamorphosis stage today, where music was a few years back. Many producers thought that opening up digital versions for sale would lead to more piracy. But look at the success of iTunes. Digital publishing solutions are all set to herald such a revolution for the publishing industry.
E books surely make a lot of business sense, probably more research is needed to dwell into this. Going digital, rendering editorial services might look risky, but its worth taking that risk.
The fact that these books are electronically delivered is icing on the cake as their are no further production costs. Publishers often find themselves between a rock and a hard place because they need to keep up with the cost of production, but sell as many copies as possible at the same time. Hardcover books are reaching the point of being priced out of reach for many people. Not everyone has $25-$30 to spend on every new release that comes out
People are busier than ever these days and often read on the go. What better way to read several books and have access to them at any time than with an ebook reader! Appealing to these 'on the go' people should be a major goal of publishers who want to make sure their books fly off the shelves. Publishers should take all these facts into consideration.

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Marg Helgenberger, CSI Star Files for Divorce

Four months after separating from her husband of nearly two decades, TV series CSI actress Marg Helgenberger has filed for divorce, documents filed Tuesday in Los Angeles court show.
Helgenberger cited irreconcilable differences as the reason behind her split from actor Alan Rosenberg, and is seeking spousal support while asking the court to deny him any.
“After 19 years of marriage, Marg and Alan have decided to take some time apart,” the actress’s rep told People last October. “They love and respect each other and remain committed to their family.” Helgenberger, 50, and Rosenberg, 58, have an adult son together. Watch Mafg Helgenberger TV episodes online.