"The book-selling battle on the iPhone is heating up as Barnes & Noble Monday announced the launch of the B&N Bookstore application for the popular Apple device. The free app, developed with Evryx Technologies and Spotlight Mobile, promises easy access to millions of titles, recommendations, events calendars and a store locator. It also allows users to snap a photo of a book, DVD or CD cover to get product details, reviews, and customer ratings as well as the ability to reserve a copy in the closest B&N store. An account with BN.com is not required to make a purchase via the app."
"To promote Zack Snyder’s director’s cut on DVD, out July 21, the 25-minute longer edit will also be showing July 17 in venues in New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis."
"The most complete terrain map of the Earth’s surface has been published. The data, comprising 1.3 million images, come from a collaboration between the US space agency Nasa and the Japanese trade ministry."
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