Archive for May 26th, 2009

Using Google Maps in Modern Languagues (Times Education Supplement)

A short tutorial on how to liven up the topic of directions in town using Google Maps. Students are to produce a Powerpoint presentation or Word document as homework.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

French directions Google Maps street view (Times Education Supplement)

An example of a Powerpoint presentation a student might produce about a journey using Google Maps' new Street View facility. There was a narration with this too but the file was too big - I will try to add it by other means!

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Minority Report: Apple, Google closer than ever? (Silicon.com)

Will regulators come between lovebirds Apple and Google? Seb Janacek examines the couple's fate. The Federal Trade Commission's decision to investigate the relationship between Apple and Google highlights the closeness between the two - but is unlikely to separate them in any meaningful way.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Case study: Valeo makes switch to Google Apps (vnunet.com)

Rosalie Marshall, vnunet.com , Tuesday 26 May 2009 at 18:12:00 The automotive group discusses its move away from Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office, and the cost-saving and collaboration benefits of its new hosted system Google has said that over a million businesses now use its on-demand Google Apps suite, which includes email, calendar and word processing applications, while up to 3,000 new ...

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Google ‘threatened by Facebook’ (Shropshire Star)

Google has admitted it increasingly sees the social-networking website Facebook as a challenger to its search engine.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009