Archive for May, 2009

Google all set to sell kilts to the Japanese (Daily Telegraph)

The search engine behemoth will this week launch a new service to help thousands of small British companies export their wares to countries which have yet to experience some of Britain's best - and wackiest - products.

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Amateurs use Google Earth to uncover Kim’s sinister secrets (Times Online)

FOR all the billions of dollars worth of surveillance technology directed at North Korea as it breathes fire this weekend, its closed society is so impervious to spying that diplomats in Asia are forced to admit that they might as well rely on Google Earth.

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Google’s next mission: helping British exporters sell kilts to the Japanese (Daily Telegraph)

The search engine behemoth will this week launch a new service to help thousands of small British companies export their wares to countries which have yet to experience some of Britain's best - and wackiest - products.

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Google Wave - interwebs idealism in real-time (The Register)

It's not a product. It's a user happiness pill Google I/O When Lars Rasmussen first floated the idea, Google co-founder Sergey Brin wasn't impressed. "He came to me and he said 'This may sound kinda crazy, but we're going to reinvent communication and we just need a bunch of engineers to go of to Australia for a while and we'll get back to you after a couple of years,'" Brin remembers. "It was ...

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Developers embrace Google Wave (ZDNet UK)

The search giant's ambitious Google Wave project has developers at Google I/O mulling the possibilities, and even comparing it to the iPhone

Friday, May 29th, 2009