Archive for March 2nd, 2009

Obama removes YouTube from YouTube-side chats (The Register)

Swallows Google spy cookie US President Barack Obama has removed the YouTube from his YouTube-side chats , after repeated complaints over the video sharer's use of long-term tracking cookies on his official White House blog.…

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Oxford brainbox team stripped of TV quiz title (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

A team from Oxford University which won a prestigious British TV quiz thanks to a contestant nicknamed the "Human Google" was stripped of its title Monday, the BBC said.

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

iPhone surfs to mobile web domination (The Register)

New love for open-source projects The iPhone dominated the market for mobile web surfing last month, and there were relatively healthy showings from Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows Mobile.…

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Structural shift shreds Finnish paper (Financial Times)

When Stora Enso , Europe’s biggest paper company, sold one of its mothballed Finnish mills to Google last month, it symbolised the industry’s problems.

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Cloud delivers silver lining for UK universities (ZDNet UK)

Two UK universities have each saved hundreds of thousands of pounds by opting for hosted Google applications instead of an in-house system.

Monday, March 2nd, 2009