Hanover  - Whether you prefer novels, poetry, academia or non-fiction, it's now easier than ever with book-on-demand services to track down that long sought-after book and finally get a copy.

These services allow any author access to a market by printing only pre-ordered samples of books. But, while it helps bring authors and readers into contact with each other, it does not guarantee a bestseller.

"Thanks to affordable digital printing systems, it can be profitable to print just one copy," said Tim Gerber of c't, a German computer magazine.

Hamburg  - Some years bring clusters of wildly creative new titles to fans of PC gaming. The year 2009 is not shaping up to be one of them, though. Game publishers instead appear to have hunkered down and hammered out continuations of successful titles from the past. That means we can look forward to a new edition of the settle-and-develop series Anno and a third episode in the Sims life simulation series.

LG has come out with it two latest inventions, which includes KP500 or Cookie, a full touch screen GSM handset Cookie and a HT953TV high power (1,000W) output home theatre system, which can prove to be perfect gift for your love this Valentine season.

On Thursday, a new touch-screen smart phone and operating system was released by Palm Inc., which is being seen as the company’s latest effort to compete with from Research In Motion's BlackBerry and Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

The executives of Palm demonstrated their Pre at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Surprisingly, it looks quite similar to the iPhone, and has a 3.1-inch touch screen and single button on its face. The Pre that is supported with a full QWERTY keyboard that slides out from the bottom has a black body, which is slightly curved as well.

A new offer is in the offing from the world’s largest PC maker, Acer!

On its complete range of netbooks, Acer has announced its new limited period special offer from January 9 to January 20, 2009.

After this declaration, the world’s most-demanding netbook, Acer Aspire One will be available at just Rs 14,499.

For its Aspire One netbook Linux edition, the company has also announced a special price of just Rs 14,499, while the Windows XP Home version will be priced at Rs 16,499. Both these prices are excluding taxes.

With the aim to provide its customers with lot of entertainment, productivity and connectivity, Dell recently launched its novel Inspiron 15 multi-purpose and well-configured laptop.

The new and unique addition to the Inspiron family, which has smarter features and style, has got solid performance too. The users would be happy to know that the device that boasts a 15.6-inch LCD screen with 16:9 screen aspect ratio would let them enjoy a whole new experience of movie watching. This slim and smart notebook that would be available with 320 GB of storage also comes along with up to 4 GB of memory.