Google is making its vast online library of books available for mobile phones.
“We are excited to announce the launch of a mobile version of Google Book Search, opening up over 1.5 million mobile public domain books in the US (and over half a million outside the US) for you to browse”, the company said.
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Traditional e-mail access over dial-up connections (on your cellphone) was pull based (and it is still for some cell phones): at login, e-mail reader polls the mail server to see if there is new mail, if so downloads it to mailbox in the user’s home directory. However, mail has always been pushed from the origin [...]