Revue de Presse / Press Review (2010/10/09)

Personal update: I worked another 6-day week and this time it was more tiring because I had to get up earlier several days in a row (therefore sleeping less). No time to do anything but read the news... And for that it was a good week:

Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Kodansha to Shift U.S. Titles (ICv2)
• The 100 Most Important Japanese Words You Should Know (Tofugu)
• The Bright Side of Fantastic Fest: Animated Features Reviews! (Cinematical)
• North American Manga Market to Drop 20% in 2010 (ANN)
• Review of 'Valerian and Laureline Vol. 1- The City of Shifting Waters' GN (ICv2)
• ICv2's Digital Comics Market Size Estimate (ICv2)
• Dark Horse to Price Digital Comics at $1.49 (ICv2)

Apple & iPad news

• Bell: was it all a lie? (Gazette)
• Une application iPhone pour éviter les gaffes à l'étranger (Cyberpresse)
• Apple Making Verizon-Ready iPhone by Year End (WSJ)
• Quatre suites bureautiques pour iPad (Cyberpresse)
• Tou.tv bientôt sur Apple TV et iPad? (Cyberpresse)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• ‘Enhanced ebooks’ take world’s biggest book fair by storm (Gazette)
• A la recherche d’un nouveau modèle de bibliothèque publique (RFI)
• L’e-veille en 6 liens et c’est tout (Espace B)
• Nobel laureate worries for literature in digital age (Gazette)

Economy, Environment & International Politics/News

• Des panneaux solaires sur la Maison-Blanche (Cyberpresse)
• En Hongrie, les boues toxiques atteignent le Danube (Le Monde)
• Retraites: les syndicats entre radicalisation et exaspération (Le Monde)
• Chilean miners could emerge from 'hell' on Wednesday (Gazette)

Media, Culture & Society

• Family, friends say farewell to Tony Curtis (MSNBC)
• Le prix Nobel de littérature décerné à Mario Vargas Llosa (Le Monde)
• As Japan Ages, Pop 'Idols' Aren't as Spry as They Used to Be (NYT)
• Canada could easily pass for Middle Earth (Gazette)

Montreal & Local/National Politics/News

• SAQ to operate outside Quebec (Gazette)
• Quebec law to award métro car contract to Bombardier-Alstom (Gazette)
• Montréal et ses cols bleus enterrent la hache de guerre (Cyberpresse)
• City, blue-collars reach new deal (Gazette)
• Montreal has one of the best transit systems in North America (Gazette)
• Montréal et ses cols bleus s’entendent (Métro Montréal)
• À l’ère de l’autobus 2.0 (Métro Montréal)
• What's open, what's closed on Thanksgiving (Gazette)

Sciences & History

• Solar system’s shield may be leaking (Gazette)
• Découverte d'une langue inconnue en Inde (Cyberpresse)
• Honeybee Killer Found by Army and Entomologists (NYT)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Google Latine addidit cultum “translation” [Google adds Latin to translation service] (Gazette)
• TV’s Future Is (Almost) Here (NYT)
• Les grandes tendances 2010 (Canoe)
• Les Canadiens adopteront-ils Netflix? (Canoe)

See also the “Suggested Links (Shared Items)” in the column on the right side