Tag Archives: Google

Commission and ECJ: please intervene. Italy has flipped.

Posted on 24th February 2010 by G W

– UPDATE Thursday 25th November, 23:25UTC: Lilian Edwards has put together a really comprehensive analysis of the verdict on her blog. See also her prior post about it back in December. Original post follows. Wow. Gosh, this is bad news. … Continue reading →

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Phone lust

Posted on 13th December 2006 by G W

I am very happy with my current mobile phone (the Nokia E61, a.k.a. the BlackBerry killer). It does everying, and very well. It does all my email; I can blog from it; it’s a great calendar/to-do system; it has a … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with today’s web media

Posted on 6th December 2006 by G W

Have a look at this article at InformIT. Useful, well-written content – but it’s laid out so badly that you’re put off reading the whole thing by the ad-ridden multi-page badness that is their site design. On the linked article’s … Continue reading →

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The Google Skynet awakens

Posted on 1st December 2006 by G W

I picked up an interesting tidbit about one of the new features Google has added to Google Documents: How can I use spreadsheets to answer some of my many questions about the world? The GoogleLookup function attempts to answer your … Continue reading →

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Publishers Thank Google for Book Sales

Posted on 8th October 2006 by G W

The latest chapter in Google’s continuing world-domination book-scanning operations, this is a defence of the programme – a rare publisher’s voice speaking out in favour of it, at a time when the nebulous and highly-successful company is being sued by … Continue reading →

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