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The popular Google Earth application has drawn scrutiny in India due to the striking accuracy of the satellite footage provided to its…
The United Nations World Tourism Organization and WISekey have joined together to expand the use of traveler identification and authentication technologies. The collaboration builds on the Public Private Partnership agreement signed by UNWTO and Microsoft in 2006.
There's no denying that Google is far and away the most visited search engine on the Internet, eclipsing Yahoo in terms of user base by quite a significant margin. Is it possible that Yahoo could make up some of that ground by leveraging itself as a niche search portal, specializing in social search?
The list of libraries, foreign and domestic, that have agreed to take part in Google's Library Project is slowly but surely continuing to grow. Book searching with Google will now carry a touch of Ivy League sophistication as Princeton has agreed to take part in the efforts of the search company to digitize book content.
The presentation software used by millions of project managers and consultants, Microsoft's PowerPoint, will have a competitor from Google called "Presently" as the company builds yet another piece of the office suite everyone expects will challenge Office, once it actually has enough features.
Philipp Lenssen, the resident guru at Google Blogoscoped and a frequent Webproworld contributor, has looked far, far into the future, and he's sharing his predictions with the rest of us. They cover the next two technological "levels" of search, and even delve into the intriguing years "beyond."
