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Google grabs ReCaptcha for security and book-scanning
News Terms of the deal were not disclosed but Google plans to use ReCaptcha's technology both as a security measure within certain Google sites and to make its massive book-scanning project a little smarter,... [17 Sep 2009]
Amazon steps up Google Books criticism with court filing
News Back in 2004, when Google began scanning books from libraries, it believed it had the right to scan the entire text of a copyright-protected book under fair-use laws so long as it only displayed a... [03 Sep 2009]
EU: Authors - we need you. What do you think of Google books?
News European Union regulators want publishers and authors to weigh in on copyright issues with Google's book scanning and book search project, according to the Associated Press. European... [21 Jul 2009]
Confusion over Granger's NHS departure
News The rollout of the Pacs digital x-ray and scanning technology to health trusts across England was also completed in December. Granger has always been quick to head off any criticism of the NHS IT programme by reeling off... [15 Jan 2008]
Photos: Inside the world's best known RFID bookshop
Photo It's also the reason why the store reports problems scanning the Guinness World Records book, which has an aluminium cover. The historic town of Maastricht in the Netherlands is home to one branch of the... [16 Apr 2007]
Microsoft launches book search beta
News The book search engine performs keyword searches for books that have been scanned as part of Microsoft's book scanning project, in the same way that Windows Live Search searches the... [06 Dec 2006]
Microsoft worming into Google's territory
News Microsoft has announced a deal with a digital scanning company Kirtas Technologies to produce digital books, nudging its way further into Google's territory. Microsoft is planning to dodge the kind of copyright issues... [18 Oct 2006]
Google offers books for free
News While Google Book Search limits the amount of copyright text a person can view in one session, Google has been criticised for the project, which entails scanning entire works, many protected by... [31 Aug 2006]
Google book-scanning bid gets new buddy
News Google has added another partner to its controversial library-book scanning project - the University of California (UC), which is also working with a team led by the Internet Archive, Microsoft and Yahoo! [09 Aug 2006]
Google prevails in copyright suit
News The search engine also faces copyright lawsuits filed last year by authors and publishers groups over its controversial Library Project book-scanning scheme, and a lawsuit filed by Agence France Press... [17 Mar 2006]
Google to resume book scanning "soon"...
News Google plans to resume its library book scanning "soon," a spokesman for the company said Thursday. The search firm had halted the scanning in August to allow copyright holders time to... [04 Nov 2005]
Microsoft joins the book search bandwagon
News Google faces two lawsuits alleging it is violating copyright law by scanning and digitising all or parts of the collections at the libraries at universities such as Harvard, Michigan, Oxford and Stanford plus The New... [26 Oct 2005]
Google faces lawsuit for book scanning
News Last month, Google said it would temporarily halt its book scanning in the project in response to criticism from publishers and others. The Authors Guild on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against search engine... [21 Sep 2005]
Las Vegas cheat-busting: The truth about tech detection
Comment We don't do anything bizarre like iris scanning. The rendering of the digital images also allows more detailed analysis while the casino surveillance teams will also have a digital version of 'The Black... [19 Aug 2005]
Google halts library project - for now
News Google will temporarily stop scanning copyright-protected books from libraries into its database, the company said late on Thursday. The company's library project, launched in December, involves the... [15 Aug 2005]
