Jason Hanley, strategic partner development manager at Google, said: "We’ve been working with publishers for some time to build new online revenue sources for writers and publishers, and this is the next step in that direction
Needless to say, it’s been a big week for Google’s mobile interests. However, this time the news doesn’t include Motorola Mobility — at least not directly. The Goog is reaffirming its “long-standing relationship” with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by collaborating on the new MIT Center for Mobile Learning. Hal Abelson, a professor of computer [...]
The latest Android tablets and Chromebooks suggest different “post-PC” worlds, both more complicated than the one Apple is going for. Two gadgets that began shipping last week represent assaults from Google on the dominant model of computing, in which we use a cursor and a keyboard to manipulate boxes and windows on a virtual desktop. [...]
On the Android developers’ blog, Google has announced the availability of the full SDK for Android 3.0, “Honeycomb”. The APIs are said to be final, and so developers can now create applications for the new tablet computer platform and make them available through the Android Market. Together with this, Google is also releasing new versions [...]
If Google Trends are anything to go by, a fair number of you were fortunate enough to unwrap a Kindle 3 this period(currently, “free kindle books” is trending at number 9). As such, we thought we’d alert you to some of the following resources for getting free Kindle books on your new device (as well [...]
Google Editions, the Internet giant’s book store business promised for last summer, is set to launch before the end of 2010, the Wall Street Journal reports. Google Editions will have a significantly different sales model from most competitors, such as Amazon’s Kindle store or Apple’s iBookStore. Instead of purchasing books through a single online store, [...]
Scholarship program for international students in Europe in the field of Computer Science. Study Subject: Computer science. Employer: Google. Level: Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctoral. Scholarship Description: Access to knowledge is our passion. When it comes to higher education for promising scholars, we do not want anything to stand in the way. That is why we [...]
Knol is a web site, hosting full of knols defined as “units of knowledge”, which allows people to share information on line. In fact, every one can write any article, suggest improvements to an existing one or simply discover what other people have written. No doubt, a huge amount of people know so many things [...]
Google’s plans to help prop up the flagging newspaper publishing industry include building paywall and subscription management tools, co-founder Larry Page has explained. Speaking at Zeitgeist Europe, Page said that the newspaper and magazine industries have struggled to transfer the three revenue streams – advertising, subscription and transaction – into the online space. “There is [...]
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