Google Book Search Gets Text Layer
Google Book Search has, up until now, provided images of text; these were fine for reading, but not so great…
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Election Attention Goes To Romney, Obama
Candidates for the 2008 Presidential election have been vying for the attention of Internet users, with Barack Obama and Mitt…
Google’s DoubleClick Buy Draws EU Criticism
The latest concerns come from the European Consumers' Organization (BEUC), which found plenty of reason to worry about DoubleClick and…
eBay’s Kijiji US Debut Competes With…eBay
If opening the Kijiji classifieds site to American users draws business away from Craigslist, eBay stands to lose a little…
Corporate Study Shows You Should Pay More
More bandwidth, not bandwidth manipulation, has been one of the technical solutions offered as an answer to the growing capacity…
Google Takes Another Shot At Transliteration
Translating something from Spanish to English is a neat trick, but both languages use the same alphabet. Google’s looking at…
Online Reviews Earn Raised Eyebrows
On Edmunds.com, the 1999 Daewoo Leganza received a “Consumer Rating” of 8.4 (out of a possible 10 points). The 2002…
Update to LighthousePro/JSON/Spry Post
Yesterday I blogged about how I moved Lighthouse Pro over to JSON using CFJSON and Spry. In general it worked…
YouTube Becomes Free For Helio Users
This won’t change the world, but it’s a nice gesture: Helio (“don’t call us a phone company”) has stopped charging…
Autonomy Acquires Zantaz
$375 million will buy a lot of things, and one of them appears to be Zantaz, “a global leader in…
