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(AP) — Google is giving researchers nearly a half-million dollars to test the academic value of its rapidly growing online library.

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Google said Wednesday it is teaming up with the National Library of the Netherlands to scan more than 160,000 of the books in its collection.

Google said Wednesday it is teaming up with the National Library of the Netherlands to scan more than 160,000 of the books in its collection.

(c) 2010 AFP

Google’s AdMob business could not deliver advertising through iAd if Apple began enforcing a policy that restricts the involvement of companies that have their own mobile operating systems, said Omar Hamoui, vice president of mobile ads at Google.
Apple’s policy does not allow the collection of advertising analytics by companies whose primary business is not serving [...]

SAN FRANCISCO–Despite putting a scare into AdMob and its customers with its new policies on third-party ad networks, Apple has not yet enforced those policies, AdMob’s CEO confirmed Tuesday.
Omar Hamoui, founder and CEO of Google’s AdMob division, said it has been business as usual for AdMob’s ad network customers seeking to place ads in
iPhone [...]

Microsoft said it will deliver four security updates next week to patch five vulnerabilities in Windows and Office, including the bug that a Google researcher took public a month ago.
As expected, the slate for next Tuesday is relatively short: Microsoft has been shipping alternating large and small batches of fixes, with the larger updates landing [...]

Nearly a month after a Google engineer released details of a new Windows XP flaw, criminals have dramatically ramped up online attacks that leverage the bug.
Microsoft reported Wednesday that it has now logged more than 10,000 attacks. “At first, we only saw legitimate researchers testing innocuous proof-of-concepts. Then, early on June 15th, the first real [...]

(AP) — Google Inc. is giving its users the chance to tailor the news to fit their interests.

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(AP) — Furious over Internet insults of the country’s beloved founder, Turkey has gone on the offensive against Google, tightening a ban on YouTube and cutting public access to a host of Google-owned sites.

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Google said on Thursday that Internet use in Indonesia was expanding at a fast pace and was the leading emerging economy in terms of growth.

(c) 2010 AFP

YouTube users can now edit their own videos online. The Google-owned video-sharing site added an online editing tool this week that allows YouTube users to combine multiple videos, shorten a video or add soundtracks from songs in the AudioSwap library.

YouTube users can now edit their own videos online. The Google-owned video-sharing site added an online [...]