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If you're an avid Angry Birds player, who isn't, you may want to start reading up on some books. No, not books on Angry Birds, though there are probably several of those already, any old books, just as long as you do it in the Google Books Chrome app.
Google is continuing its Angry Birds - Google Chrome ti... |
15 December 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Six years ago, a coalition of publishers and author organizations sued Google over its Books program. The groups argued that Google was infringing on their copyright by scanning millions of copyrighted books, out-of-print or not.
Google on the other hand argued that what it was doing was fair use, since it was not m... |
14 December 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Although AT&T announced three days ago it will carry the Pantech Pocket starting November 20, the carrier did not disclosed any details regarding the smartphone's price.Today, the carrier went forward with an official announcement, confirming once more that the Pantech Pocket will be available for purchase on No... |
18 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Google is making it possible to keep track of the latest titles from your favorite authors and get notified as soon as new books from them become available in Google Books. In essence, Google is enabling you to "follow" your favorite authors so you don't miss out on their latest work. "You might not always fin... |
21 October 2011
06:51 GMT |
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Everyone is talking about WebGL these days and, while it's still mostly just talk, things are finally moving in the right direction. Google recently showcased the rather impressive WebGL-powered MapsGL, a hardware accelerated version of Google Maps.Now though, it's back with yet another experiment, albeit o... |
19 October 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Owners of handsets running under Google's Android operating system have now at their disposal newly updated Google Books and Videos applications.
Both apps are available for download via the Android Market, and both of them have been upgraded only a few days ago to be aligned with the newly announced enhanc... |
23 September 2011
07:16 GMT |
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Google has launched a small but interesting feature which highlights one way the company plans to integrate Google+ with all of its other services. In fact, it's the best example of what Google said it's aiming to do with Google+, add a social layer to its products.Users can now share a book they found in G... |
12 August 2011
10:15 GMT |
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While talks languish in the US, Google has managed to strike a first of its kind deal in France for its Google Books project. Google has managed to get publisher Hachette Livre to sign a deal with the company enabling it to offer out-of-print as well as in-print versions of the books owned by Hachette in Google'... |
8 August 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Delayed for several times, the Gingerbread update for Motorola DROID X2 is finally rolling out now. Initially slated for a May 13th release, the update's launch was pushed back for almost two weeks and then another two months.
While the reasons behind the delay are still unknown, it is certain that the update... |
2 August 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Google continues to steamroll over its own sites with its new, unified design, to increasingly doubtful effects. While Google's plan, to have all of its sites look and feel the same, sounds great on paper, it seems that the execution may leave some things to be desired.
The problem is that Google has a lot o... |
1 August 2011
05:31 GMT |
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The Google Books saga continues to this day. Google's ambitious effort of digitizing the world's books and making them available online have been met with resistance from copyright owners. Two authors and publishers organizations sued Google over the project over five years ago.
To this day, they haven&#... |
20 July 2011
08:47 GMT |
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The British Library has announced a new deal with Google to digitize and make available some 250,000 books and other printed items. Google will handle the technical part and bear the costs, in return it will be able to make available all of the books on its Google Books site. The same titles will also be available on... |
20 June 2011
08:17 GMT |
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The Internet Archive is well known for its effort to archive the web and maintain copies of all websites online, working snapshots taken at various points during their existence. But the organization has a wider reach, it archives music and video and more recently books as well.But, despite being a project linked to ... |
8 June 2011
08:32 GMT |
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Google Books isn't lacking in setbacks or detractors, but the company is pushing forward with it and its relatively new and related project, the eBookstore. Now, six months after launching the ebook store, Google is providing an update on how it's been doing."It’s been about six months since we launch... |
23 May 2011
09:40 GMT |
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Google has introduced several interesting and definitely useful new features to its eBooks Web Reader, the web-based tool for accessing the digital books Google offers in its relatively new ebook store. You can now find definitions for words you don't know, translate phrases that may be in another language, or a... |
20 May 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Google Books is a great product not only because of the convenience factor, being able to read books without leaving your house or your computer, but also because you get access to material it would be close to impossible to otherwise. The perfect example is the hundreds of thousands of centuries old books available ... |
18 May 2011
05:30 GMT |
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The Google Books iOS application, which reportedly offers access to over 3 million Google eBooks on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, has been updated to version 1.1.0.2247, which allows iPad users to read in Landscape mode, adds a new “Find” feature, and more.Google Books 1.1.0.2247 brings both new featu... |
5 April 2011
14:01 GMT |
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US District Judge Denny Chin came to a decision in the long running and controversial Google Books lawsuit. Unfortunately for both parties involved, the judge rejected the settlement between Google and the Authors Guild which would enable Google to scan and sell any book as long as the copyright holders didn't s... |
23 March 2011
05:40 GMT |
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They say that the Internet and the digital world are slowly killing books. But services such as Google Books and the plethora of book repositories available on the web tend to contradict this belief. For those unwilling or unable to give up book reading there are plenty of alternatives to keep on going with this habi... |
28 February 2011
09:32 GMT |
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Google has marked a rather important milestone in its quest to digitize the world's books and make them available to everyone. The company announced that it had finished scanning one million books from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) university libraries. CIC is an organization made up of severa... |
5 February 2011
05:56 GMT |
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It's not much of a secret that the geeks at Google love data and the more the better. Now, Google is making available some of the data it has gathered with its Books project and it's quite a treasure trove of information. A team of researches analyzed some 5.2 million books and 5 billion words looking at ho... |
17 December 2010
15:46 GMT |
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Google has just unveiled its eBookstore. One of the most touted features of the online ebook store is the fact that all the books you buy can be read in any web browser via Google's eBooks Web Reader app. The web reader was the one big thing that competitors, notably Amazon's Kindle Store, didn't have.... |
8 December 2010
11:38 GMT |
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If you want a more open reading experience on your iOS device, according to Google, now you can. Minutes ago, the Mountain View, California-based company released its all-new Google Books application for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, hoping to convert some of Apple’s iBooks fans over to the search giant’s ... |
6 December 2010
14:09 GMT |
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Google's long delayed ebook store has finally become available, in the US at least, with the official launch of Google eBookstore. The new store will enable users to buy and read ebooks on any device with a browser and through mobile apps for Android and the iPhone. Pricing should be in line with the other ebook... |
6 December 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Google's long-planned e-book store is finally becoming a reality and will launch by the end of the year. Google Editions was supposed to launch in 2009, but has seen several delays. All the deals are now ready and Editions will be available with several hundreds of thousands of titles for sale and offer millions... |
1 December 2010
07:27 GMT |
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Google and the French publisher Hachette Livre have reached a deal pertaining to out-of-print books from the publisher. The deal will enable Google to scan and sell the books the publisher agrees to with a revenue split. The deal is non-exclusive, but is a welcomed relief for Google in a country which hasn't tak... |
18 November 2010
09:33 GMT |
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The Google Books project faces a lot of hurdles. Some are technical, some are legal, but cataloguing, scanning and making all of the world’s books searchable is a daunting task to say the least. While the legal issues are still being resolved, Google has given us an insight in its attempt to actually count the ... |
6 August 2010
04:43 GMT |
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Everywhere you look now, all you hear is 3D this and 3D that. Hollywood blockbuster Avatar broke through all existing ticket sales records thanks to its stunning use of 3D technology. The TV screen seems to be the next place where 3D is heading, but Google is now thinking at even smaller screens. After years of resea... |
1 April 2010
12:40 GMT |
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Google and Italy haven't been seeing eye to eye lately, but perhaps there's hope yet with the announcement of a partnership between the company and Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage to scan and add historical books from the National Libraries of Florence and Rome to the Google Books project. Google... |
10 March 2010
11:16 GMT |
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All the tension built up in the Google Books case over the years is not going to be dispelled as the judge presiding has delayed a ruling claiming that the matter is too complex and he wanted to hear the opinions and complaints of all the parties involved in the issue. As such, the settlement deal between Google and ... |
19 February 2010
12:20 GMT |
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The whole Google Books legal affair doesn't sound that glamorous and certainly not that important, but the outcome of the lawsuit and the fundamental changes it is likely to set in motion make it one of the most important issues involving the web today. The settlement between Google, authors and publishers crit... |
12 February 2010
10:32 GMT |
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There's been a lot of debate over the ongoing Google Books litigation and the proposed settlement currently under review. Google made itself heard, detractors made themselves heard, even the US Department of Justice made its point across. One party deeply involved in the process had stayed quite for the most pa... |
6 February 2010
06:59 GMT |
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Google Books has been the target of a lot of complaints over the years, but it looked like the project was close to getting rid of its legal troubles, at least in the US. This may not be the case though, as the US Department of Justice has filed its objections to the latest iteration of the settlement between Google... |
5 February 2010
09:29 GMT |
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Google Books has some serious opposers, some motivated by their beliefs, misguided or not, and others by their wallets. Still, even as the project is attacked by many, it's good to know that at least some organizations understand its importance and the value it can bring. Thankfully, one of those organizations,... |
3 February 2010
09:48 GMT |
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Google has sure managed to stir up a diverse group of people with Google Books. They come from all over the world and from various backgrounds, but these individuals, organizations and companies have one thing in common, they really don't like what Google is doing with the Books project and they're making ... |
1 February 2010
10:05 GMT |
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The Google Books controversy is stirring up again as the deadline for submitting objections to the revised settlement proposed by Google and the book author and publisher groups passed yesterday. While people had been critical of the updated version of the settlement, its fiercest opponent, at least judging by the b... |
29 January 2010
06:14 GMT |
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Google has unveiled a redesigned Google Books homepage and also introduced a couple of new features to its rather controversial product. The feature themselves are a welcome addition, but the timing of the update is interesting for a couple of reasons. On the one hand, Apple has just unveiled its iPad tablet which ha... |
28 January 2010
11:22 GMT |
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France seems rather confused about the whole Internet thing and it doesn't look like it has any idea of how to handle all the changes and new challenges it brings. On the one hand, it seems determined to put a stop to the horrible file-sharing plague that has taken over the country's Internet users much lik... |
16 January 2010
07:38 GMT |
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Google may be acting tough in the US and other places where it can get away with it, but in China it's as docile as a puppy, or at least that is the impression it gave when it rushed to apologize to Chinese authors for copyright infringement no less. At the heart of the issue is, yet again, Google Books which s... |
11 January 2010
06:51 GMT |
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The e-book space is becoming increasingly disputed and there a number of players, of various backgrounds, contending for a piece of the potentially lucrative market. The clear leader at the moment is Amazon with its Kindle device and e-book store. But Google is taking another approach, more in line with the Google o... |
5 January 2010
10:08 GMT |
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With the latest iteration of the Google Books settlement, it looked like the company was finally in the clear and able to focus on the product instead of lawsuits but this, unfortunately, isn't the case. While it may have quieted critics in the US, elsewhere, especially in Europe, there are plenty of people mor... |
18 December 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Most of the controversy surrounding Google Books has been quieting down lately, but it's not all smooth sailing now that a revised settlement has been agreed upon. While the copyright issues regarding orphan books have been addressed, European countries are still very much against the idea that the task of pres... |
30 November 2009
10:25 GMT |
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Google Books has been the source of much controversy for Google over the years and the problems aren't gone just yet, despite the company having reached an agreement more than a year ago with the author and publisher groups with which it was in litigation over the service. After delays and concerns from governme... |
14 November 2009
04:10 GMT |
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The Google Books saga is getting dragged on for a few more days as the deadline for presenting a revised settlement deal was pushed back until Friday. Google and the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, the two parties involved in the five-year-old lawsuit, said they would have a new settlement i... |
10 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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Google Books may be getting all of the attention because of the high-profile lawsuit and the subsequent settlement involving it, but, in the meantime, the service is continuing to evolve and it's important to remember that it's not just about the books. Google has been focusing on magazines more lately and ... |
6 November 2009
06:52 GMT |
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Google has been getting a lot of heat with its Books project but it hasn't stopped it from going ahead with another book-related project, this time a lot less controversial. Originally announced earlier this year, Google has now revealed more details about the upcoming Editions service, which will allow users to... |
15 October 2009
11:28 GMT |
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Google held a press conference in New York, with CEO Eric Schmidt and cofounder Sergey Brin covering most of the big issues affecting the company right now, namely its cloud strategy with Chrome and Chrome OS and other aspects regarding its products but also broader subjects concerning the search giant and the market... |
8 October 2009
03:16 GMT |
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The controversial Google Books settlement is officially dead, at least in its current form. Heavily criticized by a number of organizations and competing companies, the deal that would have given Google carte blanche to scan and sell out-of-print books without the explicit consent of their authors has now been delaye... |
25 September 2009
06:18 GMT |
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Google Books manages to stay in the news for two very different reasons. One is that it's one of the search giant's most controversial products, stirring up a lot of attention from government officials, competitors and all manner of organizations. The other reason is that Google is always adding new feature... |
24 September 2009
08:52 GMT |
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Despite some glaring, legal issues surrounding its Google Books project, the company is as determined as ever and keeps on pushing the product with new features and better exposure. The latest move in this direction is the new “books” filter in the Search Options panel Google introduced earlier this year.... |
21 September 2009
11:22 GMT |
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