Sony has all but confirmed that it will announce a new version of its Reader in early October, though it won't share any details.

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"The informal care sector is essential, " says Dr Eva Lloyd, reader in early childhood at the University of East London and co-author of Childcare Markets: Can they deliver an equitable service?

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First he argued laches, the legal term meaning Lemelson had waited too long to press claims over his bar-code reader supposedly invented in the early 1950s.

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Last week, a reader in Germany got an early copy of "Dead Ever After" and leaked the ending, which angered a vocal faction of fans who wanted Sookie to end up with a different character.

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GoPayment for Canada and the new GoPayment card reader will both be available in early 2012.

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Chase Elementary School, is in a tough, almost entirely Spanish-speaking, Chicago neighborhood, yet 40 or so kids come to school an hour early each day just to take one of the company's Accelerated Reader computer quizzes.

FORBES: Instant feedback in the classroom

The UAE site has already acquired a sculpture of a Bactrian princess dating to 3000 BC, a fountain from the early Ottoman period, the paintings Breton Boys Wrestling by Paul Gauguin, and The Subjugated Reader by Rene Magritte, as well as a collection of French and American photography.

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