Inside Google Book Search: If I handed you a book and asked whether it was in copyright or in the public domain, you'd probably turn to the copyright page first. Unfortunately, a copyright page can't answer that question definitively --...
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Sebastian Mary is saving me a lot of work here....
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Dial-a-Phone: Nokia has today announced two strategic acquisitions that will help it fend off the challenge from the Apple iPhone and Google’s upcoming Android operating system. The major acquisition is of the final 52 percent of Symbian Ltd for £209m....
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Times Online: Microsoft has said that paying people to use its search engine when shopping for goods online will give it the best chance of unseating Google in the market for internet services. Offering a cash rebate of about 10...
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Times Online: June 24, 2008 Google to give advertisers web-tracking data The search giant hopes to lure in more advertisers by providing detailed information about how particular sites are used Jonathan Richards Google will today expand its offering to advertisers...
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Google, of course. ... Ken Powell, Chairman and CEO of General Mills notes, "Reputation can be measured in recognition, employee recruitment and retention, even stock price multiple. But in the end, we believe the most important measure is trust. General...
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NYTimes.com: ... Still, while news organizations continue to worry about what Google is doing to their business, the company is far from achieving the kind of dominant position in news that it has in other areas. Six years after its...
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Is this really the way to go?...
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WSJ.com: Google's Mobile-Handset Plans Are Slowed 'Android' Launch Is Being Delayed As Carriers Struggle By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO and AMOL SHARMA June 23, 2008; Page B8 Google Inc. is learning that changing the cellphone industry isn't easy. The Internet giant...
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Advertisers Give Thumbs-Down to Google-Yahoo Deal - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog: Advertisers Give Thumbs-Down to Google-Yahoo Deal By Stephanie Clifford Thumbs Down Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, said Thursday that his company’s search deal with...
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Declan has the scoop. Apparently, fake corn-growers (really telecoms) are part of the astroturfing of Google....
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Leslie Johnston has pointed me to Sara Lloyd's "Book Publisher's Manifesto for the 21st Century." It's an interesting read. Check it out. We will need to think much less about products and much more about content; we will need to...
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A couple of weeks ago (I am still behind in my reading), Neil Netanel wrote this on Balkinization: Joe Lieberman, Islamist Terrorism, and YouTube Neil Netanel I thank Joe Lieberman for highlighting a point I made in an earlier post:...
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Ok. So one mark of Google's cultural power is the proliferation of the verb "to Google." But now John McCain is using Google as a noun again. Republican presidential candidate John McCain joked on Monday that Google, the popular Internet...
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Scan and Release: Digitizing the Boston Public Library | Everything is Miscellaneous ... Of this abundance, the digital group has so far scanned about 24,000 objects. When I point out to Maura Marx, the group’s head, that, given the library’s...
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Microsoft, Google Fighting for Unused Spectrum between TV Channels: Scientific American Scientific American Magazine - June 4, 2008 Microsoft, Google Fighting for Unused Spectrum between TV Channels Could future wireless devices destroy HDTV broadcasts? By Larry Greenemeier Microsoft, Google and...
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What Google Earth doesn't show you: A small movement of alternative mapmakers seek to revolutionize our understanding of the Triangle and the world: ... Wood, a longtime Heights resident and internationally renowned author of The Power of Maps, produced this...
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OStatic: Google Now Hosts Open Source Libraries Written by Reuven Lerner - May. 27, 2008 Ajax, a programming/design technique that combines JavaScript, asynchronous HTTP connections, XHTML, and CSS, has turned the Web into a true application platform. Before Ajax, submitting...
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Wow. this is tremendously useful. Introduction This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on the evolution of Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues...
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Karen Coyle wants to know: OK, maybe I'm just in a particularly bad mood, but I guess I've just about had it with libraries shooting themselves in the foot. Then letting gangrene set in and going for amputation. I'm talking...
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