We’ve known for a while that Google is busy scanning and digitizing millions of books from throughout human history. They’ve even enlisted idle human brainpower to decipher unknown words with a high degree of certainty. But until recently, Google hasn’t had much to show for its efforts other than the Google Books website and a [...]
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Tags: books, Google, Google Books, Google Labs, Ngram Viewer, reCAPTCHA 
2 Comments »There’s a war brewing. Not involving tanks and planes, but rather a fight for online users. The participants include Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. The winners will dictate the future of how we communicate with each other, store and access data, and generally live our increasingly online lives. It’s extremely interesting to watch the lines being drawn [...]
Posted in Google, Internet, Social Networking, Websites Tags: Facebook, Google, Mark Zuckerberg, Web 2.0 Summit 1 Comment »For any Google watchers out there, Eric Schmidt did a great interview at the Web 2.0 Summit yesterday covering a wide gamut of topics. Besides an “unofficial” preview of the Google Nexus S smartphone, he offers intriguing insights into mobile commerce and payment systems, the mass adoption of Google’s Android OS as a viable and open platform [...]
2010 sure went fast. It seems like just a few months ago we were waiting patiently to board a flight home from CES in Las Vegas – basking in the ubiquitous free WiFi gifted to travelers across the country from Google in a gesture of holiday cheer. What more could a tired tech team want? How about [...]
Posted in Content Delivery, Google, Internet, PCs and Laptops, Software, Technology, Web Browsers Tags: Airtran, Chrome, Delta, Gogo In Flight Internet, Google, Google Chrome, Virgin America, WiFi No Comments »
