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RSS earth in newsSAP users air support gripes
News The best of Google Earth The UK and Ireland SAP User Group has expressed dissatisfaction with the changes SAP has made to its software support programme. The German software giant announced on 16 July that it plans to move all customers onto its... [25 Jul 2008]
Google Docs: Now more than just spreadsheets
News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. Users of Google Docs, the online applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, now have a... [18 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
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 released as open source a web application assessment tool, Ratproxy, that is designed to root out... [14 Jul 2008]
Google open sources data-moving tool
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 open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language... [11 Jul 2008]
Yahoo! 'Boss' offers up search to build on
News The best of Google Earth has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the internet company's technology. The service, which entered public beta testing last night, is called Boss (Build Your Own Search Service). [10 Jul 2008]
EU law to end file-sharers time online?
News The best of Google Earth A set of telecommunications laws has been given the green light by a European parliamentary committee, which includes amendments that some argue could lead to file-sharers being disconnected by their internet service... [09 Jul 2008]
Data centre costs top reason for virtualisation
News The best of Google Earth Nine out of 10 organisations that have adopted virtualisation technologies have done so to reduce data centre costs, according to research from IDC. Of those organisations surveyed, almost half said they see virtualisation... [08 Jul 2008]
Happy 10th birthday, silicon.com
News The best of Google Earth Happy birthday, silicon.com - your favourite business and technology publication is 10 years old. Launched back on 6 July 1998 with a party at London's Natural History Museum - a dig at the print dinosaurs it has now... [07 Jul 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! chatting up old flames?
News The best of Google Earth Microsoft and Yahoo! have been holding separate talks with other potential media partners after their negotiations with each other broke down, sources familiar with the companies' thinking said on Wednesday. [03 Jul 2008]
Museum of computing looks for new home
News Photos: The enchanting Google Earth A museum dedicated to the history of computing is looking for a new home and its collection has gone into storage. Staff at The Museum of Computing in Swindon are hopeful of finding a new site after being given... [02 Jul 2008]
silicon.com Classics: The 10 craziest uses of RFID
News The Best of Google Earth The latest in our weekly look back through some of the classic stories in the silicon.com archive from the last decade is a look at the 10 best, worst and just plain crazy uses of radio frequency ID (RFID) tags. [02 Jul 2008]
Google gets map happy with Tele Atlas
News These applications include Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Maps for Mobile. John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Google Maps added the geospatial data Tele Atlas can supply should significantly boost Google's global search capabilities. [30 Jun 2008]
Holograms on handsets by 2010
News Photos: The enchanting Google Earth Holographic mobile handsets capable of projecting, capturing and sending 3D images have been developed by an Indian tech company. By 2010 the devices will routinely beam 3D films, games and virtual goods into our... [19 Jun 2008]
Nasa Mars probe safely touches down
News Smith noted that the ground looks like the "active surface of the Arctic regions of Earth". The first images from the Phoenix Mars Lander have confirmed that the solar panels needed for its energy supply unfolded as planned and that masts for its... [27 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 information on discoveries and constellations. [14 May 2008]
