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Dell, HP, Lenovo openly pledge Linux driver support

News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open-source drivers for Linux.

Tags: lenovo, linux, dell, open source

[02 May 2008]

Are we losing the security war?

Comment Meanwhile, the burgeoning information security business soldiers on and threatens to overtake the Chinese army as the largest employer on earth. G is for Google Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in...

Tags: security, e-crime, cyber crime

[29 Apr 2008]

Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth

Photo ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google Earth

Tags: mountain, volcano, earth, nasa

[24 Apr 2008]

silicon.com Classics: The best of Google Earth

News The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive from the last decade is a photo tour of the best of Google Earth - from burning oil fields, to topless sunbathers and Area 51.

Tags: google earth

[22 Apr 2008]

Google reports sterling quarter

News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Internet leader Google said yesterday it saw no impact from a weakening US economy as it posted a better-than...

Tags: profits, google

[18 Apr 2008]

Google bots are crawling in a new way

News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Google's search bots, which scour the web constantly for new pages, have begun a new, more active phase of...

Tags: search, google

[16 Apr 2008]

Google invites developers to play on the Bigtable

News Free to the first 10,000 developers to sign up, this new web-hosting platform will share resources in the same way as Google Analytics, Google Earth and social-networking platform Orkut. Google is offering web developers a slice of its own...

Tags: bigtable, google

[09 Apr 2008]

Google defends privacy policy against EU report

News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Google has defended its policy of retaining data on web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve...

Tags: cookies, eu, search, google

[08 Apr 2008]

Google Docs get an offline edit

News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Google has announced it is taking the next step to make its web-based software useful in the real world of...

Tags: offline, docs, google

[01 Apr 2008]

Google voices Yahoo! bid concerns

News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Google, the world's leading search engine, has said it is concerned about the free flow of information on the...

Tags: google, yahoo, microsoft, executive

[17 Mar 2008]

<strong>Google</strong> Sky gets browser app

Google Sky gets browser app

News Google has unveiled a browser version of its Google Sky application for people who don't want to download the Google Earth software. Click here for the best photos from Google Sky or here for the best photos from Google Earth.

Tags: google, photos, earth, sky

[14 Mar 2008]

Google to store patient records online

News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Google is testing an online storage bank in the US where individuals can store and access their medical records...

Tags: google, medical, us, records

[29 Feb 2008]

Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall

News The satellite-based moon mobile network would give lunar dwellers a full four-bar signal - and even enable them to phone home (aka Earth), though presumably the roaming costs would be astronomical. Photos: Google Android comes out to play silicon...

Tags: mwc, facebook, 419 scam, moon

[28 Feb 2008]

Google takes aim at Microsoft's SharePoint

News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Google has said it is offering a simple website-publishing tool for office workers to set up and run their team...

Tags: google, sharepoint, jotspot, microsoft

[28 Feb 2008]

Office updates for Mac? There's good news and bad

News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Microsoft offered Mac fans both good news and bad news yesterday, and it all depends on which version of Office...

Tags: office, microsoft, mac, file

[22 Feb 2008]

Mobiles on the moon? Nasa prepares trial for takeoff

News During the MoonLite mission a lunar orbiter would use the technology to transmit information about the structure of the moon back to earth from scientific instruments buried in the lunar soil. Phone calls and other information would be bounced off...

Tags: moon, space, nasa, message

[19 Feb 2008]

Nokia to buy Trolltech and keep it on the Qt

News Qt forms the basis of many well-known desktop applications, such as Google Earth, Opera and Skype. Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… A is for Antivirus B is for Bluetooth

Tags: nokia, linux, trolltech, handsets

[28 Jan 2008]

.uk branches out to fund "worthwhile" web

News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. The organisation that runs the .uk domain is to set up a foundation devoted to research and educational...

Tags: .uk, charity, foundation, google

[18 Jan 2008]

Google invests in web to fight disaster

News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. One such application will be the so-called Twitter bot framework, which bridges the web service and phones with...

Tags: aid, facebook, google

[17 Jan 2008]

iPhone gets location savvy

News The app also offers a hybrid map view - enabling street maps to be overlaid on satellite imagery in the style of Google Earth. Apple has released a software update for the iPhone which puts fresh focus on location-based services.

Tags: iphone, maps, location-based services, location

[16 Jan 2008]

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