Okay first, let’s establish two things as public service announcements: Don’t pay $200 for a PlayStation 2; if you stumble over almost 100 grand, don’t tell anybody about it, especially not the government.
British Man Pushes Google On Defamation
Brian Retkin of domain registrar Dotworlds had been criticized for offering .USA domains for sale and spamming people with sales pitches after September 11, 2001. He has claimed Google’s links to this criticism amounts to defamation.
Google: The British Are Coming For GMail!
The company that recently won the rights to the GMail trademark in the UK has taken its case Stateside. And if Independent International Investment Research (IIIR) is successful claiming its stake to GMail in the US as well, your @gmail.com address could change to @googlemail.com instead.
Insurgents Use Google Earth To Target British
During a raid on Iraqi insurgents, British Army intelligence made a chilling discovery. Insurgents were using Google Earth to locate soft targets at British bases in Basra.
British Search Less But Find More?
Recent numbers are showing that Google is an even heavier hitter in the United Kingdom than in the United States.
Have You Read A British Blog Today?
There are plenty of readable choices in the blogosphere created by our compatriots across the Atlantic. Crafting a top ten list of them, as with most subjective ideas, yielded a couple of different approaches.
The British Cabinet Minister Who Blogs
Looking for something on one of the British government websites, I came across this – the blog being written by David Miliband, Minister of Communities and Local Government.
Google Cerf-ing For British Engineers
Google evangelist Vint Cerf, father of the Internet, will canvas several universities in the UK to help recruit graduates to work for his company’s new research and development center in London.
Microsoft Scanning British Library
The competition with Google Print begins in the UK as Microsoft and the British Library have reached an agreement that will see 100,000 books digitized.
Yahoo’s Semel Wants British TV
‘Be indexed or be forgotten’ seems to have been part of the message delivered by Terry Semel at the UK’s Royal Television Society 2005 convention.