Nicole Wong and her colleagues decide what the world can see on YouTube. Are they also determining the limits of free speech?
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The already massive online archive of photo images is getting larger. Life’s Photo Archives are being made available to look at through Google.
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The Google brand is ubiquitous. You’d have to make a concerted effort to avoid all the Googley things that Google has Googled. But what if some of the most useful Google iPhone apps…weren’t made by Google at all? We think that might be the case: here we present some of our favorite non-Google ways to access Google services on the iPhone. How do you think these compare to Google’s own app? …
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Adobe Air: Sure you can export your RSS feeds from Google Reader and import the feed file into desktop RSS reader for offline browsing. Scoop takes offline browsing a step further by allowing you to…
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At Procter & Gamble Co., the corporate culture is so rigid that employees jokingly call themselves “Proctoids.” Google Inc. staffers wander the halls on company-provided scooters and brainstorm on public whiteboards.
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Media Monkey: Google seems to be on better terms with ITV a couple of months after being called ‘parasites’ by Michael Grade
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theodp writes “With control of 63% of the world’s Internet searches, as well as ownership of YouTube, the NY Times reports that Google is the most powerful and protean of the Internet gatekeepers, exerting enormous influence over who can find an audience on the Web around the world. Deciding what controversial material does and doesn’t appear on the local search engines Google maintains in many …
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While Apple’s iPhone App Store has clearly emerged as the Big Man on Campus when it comes to mobile downloads, the Android Market — the download center for the Google-backed smartphone operating system — is shaping up like an awkward, underweight freshman.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - The asset merger between Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. aimed at forming a cutting-edge new wireless Internet network was closed Friday, with help from a $3.2 billion investment by Google Inc., Intel Corp, Comcast Corp. and others.
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Suddenly one of the great photography troves in history is available online, free — and even ready for your download and manipulation. The Life magazine photos archive just went online, hosted by Google ( images.google.com/hosted/life ), chronicling the 20th Century in a breathtaking series of frozen moments.