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Photos: Top iPhone apps for business
Photo Users can also use the app to click through to ba.com, where they can book flights, manage bookings and check in online. Users can send and receive invitations and messages, post status updates and... [27 Oct 2009]
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... [27 Oct 2009]
Stephen Wolfram
AS Profile His "computational knowledge engine" builds upon his earlier work, which includes writing the powerful computational software program Mathematica and building a company around it called Wolfram Research, and writing the... [30 Sep 2009]
A world where your every moment is recorded is coming
News In Total Recall, the new book from Microsoft researchers Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell, they obsessively record emails, photos, videos, phone calls, health records, financial transactions, website visits, and everything... [21 Sep 2009]
Google steps up efforts to liberate user data
News One of the most heated topics of criticism concerning Google's Book Search settlement with authors and publishers has been concerns about privacy, such as how Google will treat records of which users are... [15 Sep 2009]
Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance
News Several groups opposed to Google's Book Search settlement filed court briefs outlining their concerns on Tuesday, the last day such briefs would be accepted. The Open Book Alliance's... [09 Sep 2009]
Google seeks to appease Europe with digital books copyright deal
News In a move to assuage European publishers' concerns over book digitisation, Google on Monday said European books still listed as commercially available will not be included in its online registry of orphaned and... [08 Sep 2009]
Google Books beefs up privacy policy after criticism
News Google had previously said it was unable to release a detailed policy because the Google Books product was incomplete because the settlement allowing its Book Search project to display certain types of... [04 Sep 2009]
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! join fight against Google Books
News Google has book-search agreements in place with numerous publishers but the company hopes that the settlement will permit it to bring many more books into its service. Currently, users of Google... [21 Aug 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]
Photos: Bing! Microsoft revamps its search
Photo You can use Bing to book flights and hotels, find deals, or just to learn about travel destinations. Microsoft is publicly detailing its upcoming search engine, now known officially as Bing. The revamped... [29 May 2009]
Photos: How to book your hotel room by iPhone
Photo The Travelodge hotel chain has launched an iPhone app called Travelodge iBooker (pictured above), which lets travellers locate their nearest Travelodge and book a room. Search criteria include room... [26 Mar 2009]
Amazon gives iPhone the Kindle treatment
News In launching the new app, Amazon is taking on Google, which last month launched a mobile version of its Google Book Search, giving Android and iPhone users instant access to more than 1.5 million public... [04 Mar 2009]
Ask the Experts: How do I ace that job interview?
Comment Be prepared to give evidence (save the theory for your book) of key competencies which all senior IT roles require (commercial acuity, stakeholder management, influencing, leadership, governance, and inevitably now,... [26 Jan 2009]
Google slimming down six projects
News Google Catalog Search is getting the ax, says the Inside Google Book Search blog. Launched as a "demonstration" of optical character recognition (OCR) technology that eventually made it... [15 Jan 2009]
