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Photo By analysing data from telescopes trained on one piece of sky for a long period of time, the supercomputer can spot the regular dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun. Google's Android open... [02 Jun 2009]
Newspapers failing web 2.0 challenge
Comment When a confused whale swam up the Thames in London, the first pictures on Sky News came from members of the public who captured the spectacle on their mobile phones. Interestingly, soon after that incident,... [12 May 2009]
Amazon gives iPhone the Kindle treatment
News Photos: Unmanned 'spy in the sky' takes off 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... [04 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 05.12.08
Round-Up while other gems in the top 10 questions asked included 'Why is the sky blue? has also revealed its top searches for 2008 and Britney Spears topped the list ahead of Obama, while Obama himself was the fastest rising... [05 Dec 2008]
Cheat Sheet: The semantic web
Cheat Sheet It still sounds a bit pie in the sky to me… Indeed at the launch of the WSRI, Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, said his company would be interested in employing people trained in semantic technology. I thought... [02 Oct 2008]
Firefox 3.1 to jump on privacy bandwagon?
News Photos: Unmanned 'spy in the sky' takes off Such functionality is already included in the beta of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and in Google Chrome, the most recent high-profile entrant into the browser wars. [16 Sep 2008]
IE8 unleashed as Microsoft plays Firefox catch-up
News Photos: Unmanned 'spy in the sky' takes off Earlier this year, Opera added Haute Secure malware protection, and Mozilla enhanced its Google and StopBadware malware protection in Firefox 3. Microsoft... [28 Aug 2008]
Berners-Lee and friends promote web science study
News Photos: The best of Google Sky Travel the galaxy without leaving your work station… click here for the best pics from Google Sky Eric Schmidt from... [14 Jul 2008]
Google gets map happy with Tele Atlas
News Photos: The best of Google Sky Travel the galaxy without leaving your work station… click here for the best pics from Google Sky Google and mapping... [30 Jun 2008]
Photos: The building of a data centre
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... [11 Jun 2008]
Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo To get started, you can click on thumbnail images of your choice - including planets, moons and galaxies - and your telescope will automatically search the sky on your screen to find their location. You can also zoom in... [19 May 2008]
Microsoft users surf the skies from the web
News The program is similar to Google Sky, a mode of Google Earth that offers views of the universe, including high-resolution photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope and background... [14 May 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more
News Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky… But, at the same time, he concedes that there aren't a whole lot of other options for the software maker to add scale in its battle against Google.... [02 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News Photos: The best of Google Sky Travel the galaxy without leaving your work station… click here for the best pics from Google Sky The British Standards Institution has... [02 May 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... [24 Apr 2008]
