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Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Protesters Turn To Web 2.0 To Effect Summer Of Rage

Protesters Turn To Web 2.0 To Effect Summer Of Rage

We saw recently how students are getting all riled up like never before by tuition fees and non-specific warring, but activism is also…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | April 16, 2009 12:04PM | 1 Comment »


Yahoo and Microsoft Potentially Forming Adorable Little Search Alliance Against Google

Yahoo and Microsoft Potentially Forming Adorable Little Search Alliance Against Google

Although Bill Gates failed at his attempts to buy Yahoo in 2008 with a £21.3bn bid, the two could be putting the past behind them…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | April 14, 2009 3:43PM | No Comments »


Is There A Future For Paid Online Newspaper Content?

Is There A Future For Paid Online Newspaper Content?

The newspaper business in the US continues to flounder and gasp for revenue, with the news last week that the venerable Boston Globe

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 6, 2009 3:17PM | 3 Comments »


Google Street View Launches In UK, Creates Privacy Storm In A Teacup

Google Street View Launches In UK, Creates Privacy Storm In A Teacup

Google can’t stop creating these Will-Smith-in-Enemy-of-the-State-type paranoia situations. Fresh from social awkwardness nexus Google Latitude, yesterday they launched their UK version of Google’s Street View,…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 20, 2009 2:39PM | 4 Comments »


Google Docs Privacy Infringement Continues Their Run Of Dropping The Ball

Google holds our lives in its primary-coloured hands, but it’s not until they do things like accidentally letting loose a few personal documents to people…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | March 10, 2009 2:45PM | 4 Comments »


Google Ends Radio-Ad Venture, Layoffs to Follow

Google’s torrid affair with radio advertising ended in tears and broken promises yesterday when they broke off their rocky three-year engagement. This loss follows last…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | February 13, 2009 4:58PM | 1 Comment »


Jeff Bezos and Amazon Launch Kindle 2.0, Try to Ignore Google Punch to the Solar Plexus

BRING ON THE DIGITAL BOOK REVOLUTION’, we say. The convergence of the book publishing world is picking up pace with the news that 

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Posted by Richard Leicester in Creative Economy | February 9, 2009 3:12PM | 7 Comments »


Is Ray Kurzweil The L Ron Hubbard Of Silicon Valley?

Is Ray Kurzweil The L Ron Hubbard Of Silicon Valley?

Nasa and Google are backing a college in Silicon Valley along with maverick/eccentric  Ray Kurzweil, it’s been announced this week. Not one that…

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Posted by Jennifer Allan in Sci-tech | February 4, 2009 10:58AM | 12 Comments »


Google Expected to Launch Invasive “Gdrive”

The Kingdom of Google is working to expand its empire from the realms of the Internet by waging a siege upon our desktop regions, with…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Sci-tech | January 26, 2009 6:00PM | 2 Comments »


Google, YouTube And Vatican Unite To Create PopeTube

Google, YouTube and Vatican Unite to Create PopeTube

The Pope is entering the digital age with Google at his right hand side, creating the Vatican’s own Youtube channel. Christianity was last…

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Posted by Trista Orchard in Creative Economy | January 21, 2009 1:35PM | 4 Comments »


Could the New York Times Fold This Summer?

In a seminal piece in this month’s Atlantic Monthly (which is looking rather spiffy after a jazzy rebrand), Michael Hirschorn

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Creative Economy | January 12, 2009 2:55PM | 4 Comments »


Venture Capitalists Shark for the New Google/Apple of 2009

The crystal ball gazing in most newspapers at this time of year is amusing enough, but the smart media predictions follow where the money’s

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Posted by Jack Roberts in Sci-tech | January 6, 2009 12:11PM | 2 Comments »