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Jay Currie, like, I am sure, many others, is happy to see Google seemingly stand up for freedom of speech in China. I’m not so sure. Don’t get me wrong - I think it’s great to see a company like Google move in the direction of free (...)
14 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | Walker Morrow
Giant online advertising outfit Google has generously apologised to Chinese writers such as Mian Mian (right). She sued the company for copyright violation after more than 80,000 Chinese books had their copyrights violated by Gargle, said China Daily (...)
11 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Jon Newton
Some time ago, Google announced a new product called the Google Goggles. Note that this is not the same as Gmail’s Goggles feature. Google Goggles allows you to search the internet simply by taking pictures using your mobile phone. Unfortunately, (...)
14 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Michael R. Aulia
After a year long wait, Google has officially made more than 300 extensions available for Google Chrome users to plug them on. There are already lots of great extensions available such as: Google Mail Checker (displays the number of unread messages) (...)
9 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Michael R. Aulia
Has Google, with its Street View ’service’, inadvertently created a racial profiling system ? Vehicles equipped with panoramic cameras tour the streets and byways of the world taking pictures of everything they come across. The results are (...)
16 nov. 2009 | | Jon Newton
News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has proved, yet again, that he is a dinosaur who does not fit in with today’s world in the 21st century. Miffed by aggregators, like Google News, Murdoch has sworn to fight Google and other online aggregators (...)
13 nov. 2009 | | Werner Patels
Google opened my clotted mind with its logo that paid tribute to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on the 140th anniversary of his birth. Google replaced its first ‘G’ with his picture. I have already written on my Farsi blog and ask my Farsi (...)
6 oct. 2009 | | Nasim Fekrat
The battle between Microsoft and Google intensifies. The search engine will soon inaugurate its own operating system. It plans to directly compete with Microsoft, the giant of this sector. The operating system will be named Google Chrome OS. It will be (...)
9 Jul. 2009 | | NYFP
Do Evil advertising company Google is censoring Korean blogging platform Textcube (www.textcube.org). Textcube, created by Tatter and Company (TNC), was bought by Google in September last year. Now Gargle has barred subscribers from uploading songs onto (...)
28 mai. 2009 | | Jon Newton
As many people probably know by now, Google came out with another of its Google Labs features on Monday : a Google News timeline view, which gives users the ability to see and scroll through headlines, photos and news excerpts by day/week/month/year. The (...)
22 avr. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram
After seeing recommendations on Twitter from Clay Shirky and others, I was expecting a tour de force from author and former Harvard Business Review editor Nick Carr, but I confess that I found his post on Google as middleman - and its effect on newspapers (...)
14 avr. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram
Do you want to become a Super Tweeter that everyone is dying to follow ? Who doesn’t ? The good news is that it’s really easy. Here’s the formula : find stuff that people don’t have time to on their own, link to it, talk about it (...)
10 avr. 2009 | | Steve Rubel
Jeff Jarvis’ new book, What Would Google Do ?, is a must-read and a real eye opener. Here is a Q&A that Jeff graciously participated in for my column in Advertising Age... How Google is Changing Advertising Agencies Jeff Jarvis Suggests Asking (...)
3 avr. 2009 | | Steve Rubel
The advertising system that is Google just got a whole lot stronger with word today that the company is entering the behavioral targeting world in a big way. There are two reasons this is extremely significant for local media companies. One, (...)
12 mar. 2009 | | Terry Heaton
Google CEO Eric Schmidt may have told Charlie Rose that a deal for Twitter is unlikely because “prices are still high” but if Google did buy Twitter, here’s what it would mean : 1. Twitter would finally have a business plan. Google would (...)
9 mar. 2009 | | Mark Evans
As reported on CNET, Google is now allowing its users of its online health record service, Google Health, to share their health records with each other. Google has said, according to CNET, this sharing function was created in response to the need of (...)
6 mar. 2009 | 1 comment | Bioethics.net
There’s an interesting battle shaping up in the “hyper-local” online journalism market, at least in the New York and New Jersey area. The New York Times confirmed on Monday that it is launching a new project called The Local, in (...)
4 mar. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram
Variations on the “Google should pay me for X” theme have been around for some time now, and the precipitous decline of content-related industries - among them book publishing, newspaper printing and music distribution, to name just a few - (...)
5 fév. 2009 | | Mathew Ingram
Google is among web sites blacklisted by China because they, “provide and spread pornographic or obscene contents”. Baidu, China’s ‘Google,’ is also named, as are major local portals such as Sina, Sohu and Netease. (...)
6 Jan. 2009 | | Jon Newton
So Microsoft seems to have finally woken up and decided to get serious about the Web - or at least semi-serious - by rolling out a cloud-computing platform called Azure and announcing the imminent arrival of Web-ized versions of its Office applications (...)
29 oct. 2008 | | Mathew Ingram
Cuil may not be cool - or that stable - but it has certainly caught the attention of the blogosphere. Who knows if Cuil will become a viable and popular alternative to Google but there’s no doubt people are fascinated with a well-financed search (...)
29 jui. 2008 | | Mark Evans
As companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft seek to force advertising down the throats of global citizens “in anticipation of the next billion people coming online,” American companies which, “merely translate their U.S.-focused (...)
29 jui. 2008 | | Jon Newton
The inescapable reality of doing business online as a local media company is that Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and a host of other pureplay internet companies are our competition. With six of every ten local online ad dollars going to these pureplays, (...)
27 jui. 2008 | | Terry Heaton
A few weeks ago it was a guy in Chicago waiving a gun. Now it’s possible Hookers in California. It’s turning into a Where’s Waldo game - except it’s "Who’s on Street View" ? I wonder how many hours it takes to scan (...)
20 jui. 2008 | 1 comment | Geek News Central
"We’re trying to develop tools, software tools...that allow people to detect what’s happening with their broadband connections, so they can let [ISPs] know that they’re not happy with what they’re getting — that they (...)
16 jui. 2008 | | Geek News Central
Once again a blogger who had not updated his wordpress blog, which subsequently got hacked was removed from the Google index because the blogger was not aware of the data that had been placed on his website because of the Wordpress vulnerability. I keep (...)
26 mai. 2008 | | Geek News Central
I’m sure most readers remember the furore that erupted when Google agreed to the censorship demands of the Chinese government when it launched its chinese portal. Their reasoning for doing so was that it was the only way they could get into China (...)
21 mai. 2008 | | Geek News Central
Carl Icahn has done his hostile deed in an attempt to take over Yahoo at its annual meeting next month, offering up a slate of directors for shareholder consideration. Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has the details, including the letter from Icahn to (...)
16 mai. 2008 | | Terry Heaton
As I listened to Udi Manber, the head of core search team at Google, I was impressed by something that most of us understand in a different sense : engineering matters at Google. Most of us think about this in terms of the other things we know about (...)
22 fév. 2008 | | Phil Windley
"Google, after being publicly questioned at the UN about not signing on to the human rights and anti-censorship principles of the Global Compact, responded not by joining the Compact and foreswearing from censorship but by moving to de-list from its (...)
20 fév. 2008 | 1 comment | Jon Newton
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