Yahoo Commences Pinoy Connect

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.

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.

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…