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Google launches Shakespeare site |
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "How beauteous mankind is!" For lovers of William Shakespeare, memorising one of Hamlet's soliloquies or recalling whether "The Tempest" is a romance or a tragedy just got easier.
Web search leader Google on Wednesday launched a site devoted entirely to the Bard, http://www.google.com/shakespeare, that allows U.S. users to browse through the full texts of his 37 plays. Readers can even plug in words, such as "to be or not to be" from "Hamlet," and immediately be taken to that part of the play.
The site, which was introduced in conjunction with Google's sponsorship of New York's "Shakespeare in the Park," also provides links to related scholarly research, Internet groups, and even videos of theatre performances of Shakespeare plays.
It also encourages users to "take a literary field trip" by searching for London's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on Google Earth, which combines satellite imagery, maps and a search engine to find historic locations around the world.
Google Book Search, the Google product which houses the Shakespeare site, allows users to view books or parts of books through their Web browsers if the copyright has expired or a publisher has given permission to do so.
The Shakespeare site provides links to available editions of each play, many of which users can then preview or buy, Google said.
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SonicWall Plans Cellular Capabilities for Its Portfolio |
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SMB security and storage appliance developer SonicWall Inc plans to integrate support for 3G and other emerging wireless standards into its portfolio over the next year, according to its VP of worldwide sales, John DiLullo. DiLullo said the Sunnyvale, California-based company sees a need to address such connectivity options for scenarios such as POS devices where there is no DSL connection, kiosks, and public safety environments. He declined to go into greater detail on the product roadmap, but such connectivity, and the ability to carry out deep packet inspection on traffic over such unwired links, would be relevant not only in its flagship firewall/VPN line, but also on the backup and recovery appliance portfolio it acquired at the end of last year when it bought Lasso Logic. |
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Scandent Buys SAP Consultancy |
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Offshore IT services and BPO provider Scandent Solutions Corp has acquired Nexplicit, a vendor of SAP (Xetra: 716460 - news) services focused on the entertainment and high-tech sectors. Terms of the deal were undisclosed. Nexplicit is an Orange, California-based SAP partner that offers staff augmentation, development, implementation, and support services. The company has an Indian support center in Pune. Nexplicit's annual revenue is more than $13m. The deal was carried out through Scandent Group Inc USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scandent Solutions. Scandent Solutions has recently merged with fellow services firm Cambridge Service Holdings, and the combined entity will be known as Cambridge Solutions Ltd. |
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