Eric Schmidt, the political donation, and the attempt to censor Google search results – what really happened
For those of you whose interest was piqued by the throwaway line in the New York Times report on the new Google biography by Steven Levy, and who can’t wait to buy the book on 12 April, more info on that allegation against chief executive Eric Schmidt.
By Stephen Foley | The Foreign Desk | Friday, 1 April 2011 at 9:38 pm
Google produces personalised ad blocker
Internet users tired of being pestered by personalised adverts will be able to avoid them in future after Google launched an extension to stop their browser cookies being tracked by online companies.
By Kevin Rawlinson | Notebook | Tuesday, 25 January 2011 at 7:01 pm
Google Tehran: downloads from internet giant available in Iran for the first time
Google has begun offering downloads of its Chrome, Picassa and Earth programmes in Iran for the first time after a US embargo banning their transfer was relaxed.
By Kevin Rawlinson | Notebook | Wednesday, 19 January 2011 at 8:40 pm
Walk the Talk
The catch-up service:
Charles Arthur, on a device (right) to charge your phone while you walk. Not sure it’ll catch on: it’s one minute walk time for one minute talk time.
Ed Yong, on analysis of language change using Google’s astonishing database of 12 per cent of all books ever published.
David Aaronovitch, in tomorrow’s Times (pay wall), [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 5 January 2011 at 11:15 pm
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By Gillian Orr | Notebook | Tuesday, 23 November 2010 at 12:13 pm
How Elmo and Katy Perry may have fooled us all
You know, I really think we might all have been had over this Sesame Street, Katy Perry story. Surely the whole thing a stunt dreamed up in unholy alliance between the show’s producer and Google’s YouTube.
Consider the evidence:
- Elmo is waving at us from the YouTube logo today, to drive traffic to the site’s Sesame [...]
By Stephen Foley | Arts, The Foreign Desk | Friday, 24 September 2010 at 8:53 pm
Froyo arrives on HTC Desire
The fact that T Mobile are now pushing the Android Froyo update to the HTC Desire in the UK will mean absolutely nothing to the majority of people, and rightly so.
By Jack Riley | Notebook | Wednesday, 22 September 2010 at 2:34 pm
The mysterious origins of the Google phone box
The clamour of enthusiasm for the new Google Voice phone boxes set to appear in colleges and airports across the US calls to mind a story I heard from one Google employee when visiting their London base last year with Simon Usborne, who was writing his own adulatory take on the web giant.
As the piece mentions, [...]
By Jack Riley | Notebook | Thursday, 26 August 2010 at 12:29 pm
Don’t throw the book at Google
Is Google creating the world's biggest library, or the world's biggest bookstore?
Its plan to make digital copies of all the world's books, and to make them available to search online, has been characterised as both in a Manhattan courtroom. The trouble is, Google Books is a [...]
By Stephen Foley | The Foreign Desk | Monday, 22 February 2010 at 10:18 am
Pandora boss: “We’re gonna buy Google some day.”
Particularly nice these days to hear from an upbeat boss of a booming company with a sunny outlook. Tim Westergren, founder of the online radio station Pandora, held a town hall meeting at the Housing Works Bookstore Café in Soho this evening, and was refreshingly ambitious for the company.
After four years, there are now [...]
By Stephen Foley | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 28 January 2009 at 9:25 pm
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