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Internet search giant Google has hit a roadblock in France that could halt its book-scanning project. Google Books wants to scan more than 50 million books into digital versions. Google partnered with libraries around the world to include their collections in its Book Search. The company’s search results will act like a card catalog, offering snippets of text from books that remain in copyright. Searchers can read and download entire books from the Google Books Library Project that are out of copyright. A French court on Friday convicted Google of copyright infringement and ordered the company to pay $430,000 to French publisher La Martiniere Group. The publisher, the owner of U.S. publishing house Abrams, …

Call us crazy, but we never had much faith in the power of The Impossible Project to bring back the legendary Polaroid instant-print film camera . Despite our doubts (and those of the world), that very group has evidently caused quite a stir in the offices of Summit Global, which has today announced that the film-based One Step Camera is on track for a mid-2010 release. The Impossible Project will be in charge of producing a limited number of Polaroid-branded color and B&W Instant Films along the way, and just in case film isn’t really your bag, Summit is planning to issue a Polaroid TWO — described as the “digital version of the traditional…

Palm indicated last week that is working to make its Mojo software development kit for the new Palm Pre available to all developers before the end of the summer. Though Palm initially restricted SDK access to a limited number of partners, the company now says it is ready to take a limited number of applications from developers. But Palm said not everyone will receive the new SDK right away because it wants a small group of developers to kick the tires on its APIs, tools and docs before releasing them to the rest of the world. “Our goal is to make the…

I was about to ignore this email from Microsoft but it seems there is a nugget of wonderful info in there. Remember when we said you could share your apps with four friends - behavior that essentially works on an iPhone and the App Store when you sync to the same iTunes instance? Well you can’t. OK? You can’t. Be quiet. “Microsoft knows the frustration of losing favorite apps and personal information when you lose, upgrade, or add a phone. For this reason, if you buy an application on Windows Marketplace for Mobile, you’ll be able to reinstall the application on a limited number of additional phones simply and free of charge. As outlined in the terms of use for Windows …

We just caught our first glimpse of the SmartQ 7 Internet Tablet a few days ago, and now it’s already showing up out and about on display. A few more of the tablet’s specs have emerged since our initial gander, including the fact that it’ll house a 667MHz Samsung ARM S3C6410 CPU, 128MB of RAM, and 1GB of flash memory. Apparently, a limited number of these bad boys will be available in China in the next two months, and it’s expected to run CNY1,289 (about $190). [Via Pocketables ] Filed under: Handhelds , Portable Audio , Portable Video SmartQ 7 Internet Tablet spotted in the wild, priced originally appeared on Engadget