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 for anything else. So the service is taking a step forward and offering true “text layers” of many of its out-of-copyright books.
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 Romney gaining the most.
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 Google merging their consumer databases and mining them.
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 bit too.
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 demands of services like VoIP and video. It’s also been used as a rebuttal to telecom industry arguments against Net Neutrality, a rebuttal, um, rebutted in a new study sponsored by…
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 something tougher – transliteration – to bridge the gaps between America and several different markets.
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 Aston Martin DB7 only got an 8.2. So please, please, please be careful when reading user reviews.
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 nice and gave me some size savings on the data, but I had run into one problem.
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 its users for access to YouTube. The “mobile brand” is even refunding customers who already sent over some cash.
Autonomy Acquires Zantaz
$375 million will buy a lot of things, and one of them appears to be Zantaz, “a global leader in content archiving, electronic discovery solutions and software as a service.” Autonomy, “a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise,” is behind the purchase.