Trademark and Fair-play

Filed As Science Fiction: Google Media, Inc.

In 20 years, we'll be telling our children, to their astonishment, that Google was once a text-only search engine that made a name for itself by being the best at finding stuff on the vast web of (mostly text) information that was the early Internet. "You had to read?" they'll ask. "Oh, yes. Incessantly," we'll answer. "Type, too."

Google Graphs World Development

Google has produced a very interesting tool that plots world development indicators on a graph to compare against each other. Part of Google's Co-op program, the tool is called the Gapminder, a "non-profit venture" that collects information and makes it viewable in visual and animated ways using Flash technology.

Google Builds AdSense API

An application programming interface for AdSense will permit site publishers to offer users the opportunity to perform a variety of AdSense functions without leaving the publisher's website.

Tablet PC Software

There are specific operating systems that can be run on a tablet PC. Even certain old programs can work on a new tablet PC.

The FSG Goes To Work In Asia

A nonprofit organization trying to prevent the fragmentation of Linux is picking up its activities in Asia. The Free Standards Group (FSG) is standardizing the handling of Chinese characters, and working with the Chinese government to establish the Chinese Linux certification laboratory.