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Amazon's Kindle ignites legal upheaval
Comment Google Books has also been subject to legal debate, starting in 2002 with Google's attempt to create the largest and most comprehensive digital library in history. Amazon discovered that... [27 Oct 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 seeks to appease Europe with digital books copyright deal
News The challenge for EU policymakers is to ensure a regulatory framework which paves the way for a rapid roll-out of services, similar to those made possible in the US by the recent settlement, to European consumers and to the European... [08 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 subscription to the... [04 Sep 2009]
Amazon steps up Google Books criticism with court filing
News And three library groups reiterated on Wednesday that while they do not oppose the settlement they wish to ensure "vigorous oversight" is enforced by the court. Amazon came out swinging on Tuesday against... [03 Sep 2009]
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! join fight against Google Books
News Google is digitizing the works from many major libraries, including the New York Public Library and the libraries at Stanford and Harvard universities, and is making those texts searchable on pages with... [21 Aug 2009]
Microsoft releases emergency patch to plug critical ActiveX hole
News A library can get used in a lot of places, and vulnerabilities in libraries are challenging," Reavey said. The company released two security updates that deal with a vulnerability in Microsoft's Active Template... [29 Jul 2009]
EU: Authors - we need you. What do you think of Google books?
News Google argues that the agreement will make millions of books hidden on library shelves more accessible and give publishers and authors a new opportunity to profit from them. European Union regulators... [21 Jul 2009]
Geospatial Analysis Using SAS and the Google Map API
White Paper RTI International researchers have taken this a step further by integrating the Google API into a library that can be used not only by Web developers but by SAS programmers and other developers as well. [30 May 2009]
Building Executive Dashboards With Google Chart
White Paper This paper presents an approach for building dynamic, entirely browser-based interfaces for executive dashboards using a freely available Google Chart API graphing library. With the advent of truly... [24 Dec 2008]
The Google Web Toolkit's AJAX Recipe: Less JavaScript, More Speed
White Paper GWT is composed of two components: an AJAX widget library and a cross-browser compiler that converts Java code into AJAX. How popular is the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)? Google claims their... [24 Dec 2008]
Google, Salesforce.com put heads together in the cloud
News Force.com for Google App Engine is a Python library and test harness that lets you access the Force.com web services API from within Google App Engine applications. Salesforce.com and... [09 Dec 2008]
RIM chasing Apple with "lifestyle" features?
News But now RIM has upped the ante adding a slew of new customised applications for its smart phones including: a deal with Microsoft to integrate search, MySpace to provide quick access to another social-networking site, TiVo to offer... [12 Sep 2008]
Kangaroo web TV faces competition scrutiny
News The rights library will be the largest source of UK TV content which users will be able to access for free or on a download to rent or own basis. He added in a statement: "This venture has been delayed by a reference to... [30 Jun 2008]
Anti-plagiarism tech traps cheating students
News The Ucas spokesman said: "The system will flag up when a personal statement has more than 10 per cent similarity to another statement or the material from our library. For example, a search on Google for... [01 Oct 2007]
