Academic library groups ask Justice Department to regulate how Google prices access to its scanned books database.
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Academic library groups ask Justice Department to regulate how Google prices access to its scanned books database.
[...]If you are building and/or maintaining a website with Google Sites, your creation just acquired new powers. Google announced today it has integrated language translation functionality directly into Google Sites. When you visit a Google sites website in a different language, you should be presented with an optional [...]
I knew it! Multitasking is for sucks. Focusing on one project at a time and asking one’s brain to dig deep, ponder and problem-solve like the higher-thinking Homo sapiens that you are is smarter, faster, better. I hate the spinning in circles aspect of juggling one’s [...]
France will spend $1.1-billion on digitizing its archives, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Monday, in an effort to maintain control over its literary history. But the investment doesn't mean France is dismissing collaborating with Google, The New York Times reported.
An announcement earlier this year that the French government was' [...]
In the age of Google and Wikipedia, can higher education create online reference works that are free, scholarly, and economically viable?
[...]I have an Anthropology final tomorrow. Here's what I'm doing, when I should be studying (other than writing this article): I'm on Twitter. I'm reading feeds in Google Reader. I'm answering email. I'm watching episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I' [...]
Media Guardian reports on a service due for launch in Spring 2010 from British Telecom (BT) and Google, allowing Internet Service Providers to host and stream video from their own networks, rather than using the network which is increasingly over-burdened by [...]
I read 99% of my news these days from my subscriptions in Google Reader. For me, the printed newspaper primarily has value in helping get fires going in our living room fireplace. (I actually have to get them from my in-laws, incidentally, who are still devoted newspaper subscribers.) [...]
I’ve been watching reports about Google’s new Android operating system for mobile phones carefully the last couple of weeks. Developers are reportedly having some bigger problems developing for Android than the iPhone, because of big differences in the mobile phone hardware and settings used to run Android. The [...]
The physical and virtual worlds are blurring. The internet of things (physical networks objects) moves in this direction. However, Google’s announcement today of Goggles – the worst-named product in their arsenal – is quite interesting. Basically: take a picture and Google returns search results. Soon we’ll search the physical [...]
Microsoft and Google are giving technology to schools and colleges in hopes of winning students’ minds, reports the San Jose Mercury News.
With the recession taking a bite out of university endowments and public school budgets alike, the competition between Google and Microsoft to convert the nation’s colleges, universities and [...]
With so much archaeological history there, any discussion of possible borders between Israel and Palestine would have to consider excavation sites. And now, for the first time, a searchable map of all archaeological activity since Israel took over the West Bank in 1967 has been created by the University of [...]
Have you ever noticed that the constant stream of articles about the teacher retention crisis in America's schools never really ends?
Poke through Google and you'll find bits on attrition in math and science, where candidates can easily move into the private sector and earn significantly more over a' [...]
Two weeks ago in Oklahoma City at the “Oral History for the 21st Century” symposium, I mentioned in my presentation that the transcription power of Google Voice suggested that exciting new transcription possibilities are on the horizon for oral historians. On November 19th, Google announced new functionality [...]
