Posts Tagged ‘google’
Google finances projects to test digital library
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 20:03 No Comments(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 to scan Dutch library collection
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 20:02 No CommentsGoogle 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
Apple policy would kick AdMob off iAds
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 20:17 No CommentsGoogle’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 [...]
AdMob CEO: Apple not enforcing ad restrictions
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 14:47 No CommentsSAN 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 to patch Google engineer’s zero-day next week
Friday, July 9, 2010 8:16 No CommentsMicrosoft 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 [...]
Microsoft: 10,000 PCs hit with new XP zero-day attack
Thursday, July 1, 2010 8:19 No CommentsNearly 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 [...]
Google adds a personal touch to its news section
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 20:04 No Comments(AP) — Google Inc. is giving its users the chance to tailor the news to fit their interests.
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Turkey tightens Internet control in YouTube feud
Friday, June 25, 2010 14:03 No Comments(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 eyes Indonesia for expansion
Thursday, June 24, 2010 8:03 No CommentsGoogle 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 adds online video editing tool
Thursday, June 17, 2010 17:01 No CommentsYouTube 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 [...]