Posts Tagged ‘google’

Exposed: Why tv-links was really shut down

By DavidReece • Nov 21st, 2007 • Category: Business & Technology, News, Technology

For those who’s been under a rock for the past few months, the internet was recently awash with angry bloggers and confused web users over the scandalous arrest of tv-links founder, and the closing of the site for “providing links to copyrighted material”.
Many hundreds of comments included “If linking is illegal, why don’t they shut [...]



Google offers $10M in prizes to Android Developers

By DavidReece • Nov 13th, 2007 • Category: Business & Technology, News, Software, Technology

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) have high hopes for their new cellphone operating system, which will use an open-source friendly development framework called ‘android‘ to develop mobile applications.
The search giant is offering prizes worth $10m to software developers who embrace the technology and create apps that enhance the OS both aesthetically and functionally.
From CNN Money…
As part [...]



AjaxWindows tries to take on.. windows?

By DavidReece • Oct 15th, 2007 • Category: Internet, News, Software, Technology

As google try to move applications over to the web, it was probably just a matter of time before someone tried to go one further. AjaxWindows (www.ajaxwindows.com) does just that, by offering a full-featured web-based operating system that sits in your browser, and needs no installation (just a plug-in for IE users).
An interesting idea, but [...]



Google introduces interactive ad format

By DavidReece • Sep 19th, 2007 • Category: Business & Technology, News

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the introduction of Google Gadget Ads™, a new interactive ad format that is currently in an expanded beta with a select group of AdWords™ advertisers worldwide. Gadget ads – non-traditional ad units with interactive, rich media capabilities – not only enable advertisers to target audiences in a flexible and [...]



Google to Present at Citigroup Technology Conference

By DavidReece • Aug 27th, 2007 • Category: News

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Sundar Pichai, Director of Product Management, and Nicholas Fox, Group Business Product Manager, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York. The session is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. Eastern Time / 1:10 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, September 6, 2007.
An audio webcast is [...]