Microsoft wanted to expand its Encarta brand of digital reference materials, which includes the world's bestselling electronic encyclopedia.

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The entire fruit fly genome is already available on digital disk for reference.

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SIM2 and its partner will demonstrate this impressive new Digital Entertainment Solution home theater reference at the 2008 CEDIA Show in Denver, CO.

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The cooperation agreement between ICAIC and INA aims at restoring 35mm prints of the Newsreel and also at making high definition digital copies of the collection, which constitutes an excellent reference material for Cuban and Latin American filmmakers.

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It rewards a 21st century audience accustomed to scanning mounds of digital information and quickly categorizing that information into familiar frames of reference.

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If you follow my section of the site here at all, you know that I constantly reference Steam as a model for what other media companies should be aiming for with digital distribution.

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