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Photos: Google takes the wrapping off Chrome OS
Photo That means address books are accessible from any Chrome OS machine, from any web browser, and from higher-end mobile phones. Google released the source code for Chrome OS on Thursday, beginning the... [23 Nov 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. Google Books has also been subject to legal debate, starting in 2002 with... [27 Oct 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 Google is trying to get final approval of its settlement with book publishers and authors granting it the right to digitise certain out-of-print books. Microsoft, now finding itself on the same side of... [09 Sep 2009]
Douglas Coupland: "To say the machines have won over people, is like saying people won over people..."
Comment In an exclusive interview with silicon.com, Canadian author Douglas Coupland reveals his attitudes towards technology and its influence on his zeitgeist-defining books. Yet for an author of books where... [08 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 has released a more detailed privacy policy for its Google Books product, a move demanded in recent weeks by several critics of its settlement with publishers and authors.... [04 Sep 2009]
Amazon steps up Google Books criticism with court filing
News In its filing, Amazon notes it has also scanned books, but has not taken the controversial step that Google took in scanning out-of-print but copyright-protected books without explicit... [03 Sep 2009]
Windows, Linux and Mac can now tune into Opera 10
News You'll see that spell check will be applicable to any text field (for 51 languages), and that Opera's incorporated email client takes a page from Google's books by threading email conversations. Other... [01 Sep 2009]
iPhone, Google battle - another element in the struggle for web power
News It's working to disrupt every industry from books and news to word processing and telecommunications by rebuilding them on top of the internet. One can imagine, though, that Google isn't happy with the... [27 Aug 2009]
Facebook adds open source guru to its books
News But speaking to a few of his soon-to-be Facebook colleagues, and they sound excited: the five-year-old company has never had an already-prominent open-source advocate on staff, like Google's Chris DiBona. [26 Aug 2009]
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! join fight against Google Books
News Under the proposed $125m settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, announced in October 2008, Google would have the right to show content from books online that are... [21 Aug 2009]
EU: Authors - we need you. What do you think of Google books?
News European Commission officials will meet with copyright holders on 7 September to discuss the search giant's $125m proposed settlement with US publishers and authors granting Google the right to digitise and publish... [21 Jul 2009]
'Europe needs its own clouds to fight US domination'
News This would also help to end the present, rather ideological debate about 'Google books'," Reding said. She repeated her call for pan-European intellectual property rights licensing, and also called for... [09 Jul 2009]
Google to launch netbook operating system next year
News Google Books aims to digitise the publishing industry. Google has announced it is developing an operating system based on its browser, Chrome. The company announced... [08 Jul 2009]
