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After college students compile a list of textbooks theyll need for the coming semester, they head to the campus bookstore. Web-only retailer AbeBooks Inc. carries a wide range of textbooks and wanted to step into that mass migration to convince students it had better prices and persuade them to buy at AbeBooks.com. AbeBooks decided to reach this youth market where it lives and breathestext messaging. Late last summer it launched a test program that enabled college students browsing in bookstores to text message the e-retailer with a textbooks International Standard Book Number. Students received a reply text message containing AbeBooks lowest price for new copies of their textbooks. If a student decided to buy the book, he replied by typing fwd and his e-mail address.
Hillary Clinton talks tech
Do you still support the legislation that was re-introduced in 2007 (S 215), which gives the FCC the power to punish "discriminatory" conduct by broadband providers? Yes. I am an original co-sponsor of the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, and I supported its reintroduction. No other communications medium in recent history has had such a profound impact as the internet on free expression, education, the proliferation of commerce and the exchange of political ideas. And it is the basic principles of neutrality and non-discrimination that have allowed the internet to flourish. Thanks to these principles, a small business has been able to market to the same customers as the biggest corporation. The average citizen has been able to voice grievances in the same forum as the editors of the largest newspaper.
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Shanghai subway construction hits "extreme level"
BEIJING, Jan. 28 -- Shanghai mayor Han Zheng has expressed concern over the safety of expanding the city's subway, amid calls for a larger network and following the latest snag on one of its lines. Han said over the weekend that the construction and operation of Shanghai's subway system are reaching "an extreme level", with seven lines, either being started or extended, scheduled to take place this year. A total of 116 subway stations along these lines are also being built, which will affect transportation on more than 1,000 roads, "As a result, the city's traffic will face tough times," Han said. The mayor said he has received numerous requests for a larger subway network, from delegates at the ongoing meetings of the Shanghai municipal people's congress and the Shanghai municipal committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
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