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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... [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]
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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [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... [21 Jul 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... [04 Mar 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)... [15 Jan 2009]
Microsoft trumps Apple in battle of the brands
News The report meanwhile attributed Google's success to "innovations like Google Mobile, Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Google Book Search"... [19 Sep 2008]
Yahoo! previews iPhone social-networking app
News It's a socially connected address book. The address book now comes to life. applications such as OneSearch and Go compete against Google applications including Gmail,... [11 Sep 2008]
iPhone nano: Fact or fiction?
Comment Earlier this year, Wired Magazine mocked the whole mock-up concept by coming up with a fantasy line-up of iPhone 2.0s - prior to the real device's launch - in this photo feature, including the now legendary iPhone Shuffle, which 'has... [05 Aug 2008]
Internet blacklisting tool unveiled
News Security researchers have taken a page out of Google's book in reinventing the blacklist, a tool for blocking internet attacks. PageRank is Google's technique for making... [28 Jul 2008]
Microsoft "hell-bent" on building ad business
News Headed by Harry Shum, the centre's research will focus on search relevance, spam prevention and searching scanned images, such as book pages. The company has been criticised by financial analysts for... [27 Jul 2007]
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