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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Amazon's Kindle e-book and Google's Book Search will change the way we read books forever. Now with Amazon's Kindle e-book reader available internationally - in the UK and some 100 other countries - and all the... [27 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The Cliq, the first Google Android handset produced by Motorola, was unveiled in September. This prototype medical device was developed by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, part of the University of Pisa in... [02 Oct 2009]
Google grabs ReCaptcha for security and book-scanning
News Google has acquired ReCaptcha, one company behind the distorted text boxes found at the bottom of many website sign-in pages. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but Google plans to use ReCaptcha's... [17 Sep 2009]
Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance
News Google plans to display portions of those books (rights-holders can specify how much Google is allowed to show) as part of the Google Book Search product and will also provide access to... [09 Sep 2009]
Google Apps: Five million students getting a cloud education
News As students get ready to head back to university this autumn, five million of them will be using Google Apps. In the UK, educational institutions using Apps include Leeds Metropolitan... [09 Sep 2009]
Ad-free Google Apps for 30,000 uni students
News Portsmouth University has started offering its 30,000 students ad-free access to Google Apps. Portsmouth students are to get Google Apps ad-free (screenshot: Bethan Jones/silicon.com)... [04 Sep 2009]
Google Books beefs up privacy policy after criticism
News Under the new policy Google will not require book searchers to create a Google account if they are viewing pages of books online, browsing books through a university's institution... [04 Sep 2009]
Singularity University: Where today's tech titans teach the next generation
News After all, they have regular access to superstar teachers like George Smoot, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics; Dan Kammen, co-director of the Berkeley... [21 Aug 2009]
Microsoft 'White-Fi' to solve interference worries in white space
News Technology companies, such as Google, Motorola, Microsoft and Dell, have been lobbying the FCC for years to open this spectrum for unlicensed use. Researchers from the software giant, along with academics from Harvard... [20 Aug 2009]
Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?
News Researchers have come up with a new way to route internet traffic that could save big internet companies like Google millions on their electricity bills, according to an article published by MIT's Technology Review. [19 Aug 2009]
Apple still satisfaction king despite budget PC makers' gains
News Google has a similar lead. In a poor economy, some budget PC brands are finding its customers are happier than ever, according to this year's instalment of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), an annual study... [18 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo Last month marked the 40th anniversary of the first moon walk, an event Google celebrated by launching Moon in Google Earth, an addition to its Google Earth mapping software that lets... [04 Aug 2009]
Bill Gates: 'We're going to make the cows that don't fart'
Comment In a wide-ranging interview, Gates also reflected on the changes at Microsoft, spilled the beans on the expansive vision for Product Natal and shared his thoughts on Google's just-introduced Chrome OS. [16 Jul 2009]
The Security Architecture of the Chromium Browser
White Paper This paper presents the security architecture of Chromium, the open-source browser upon which Google Chrome is built. Most current web browsers employ a monolithic architecture that combines "The User" and "The Web" into... [29 Jun 2009]
The University of Florida and the Google Search Appliance
White Paper UF deployed Google's GB-1001 to simplify search for students, faculty, and staff. The Google Search Appliance crawls the entire UF network seamlessly, no matter what platform a particular server is running. [22 Jun 2009]
