New Google Maps imagery of Bozeman
Google Maps has updated the satellite photos of Bozeman that appear on the website.
Montana not ‘going Google’ anytime soon
Following up on the announcement that Wyoming has adopted Google Apps for Government, I called the IT people in Helena to find out what Montana’s… Read More »Montana not ‘going Google’ anytime soon
Wyoming ‘goes Google’
A friend passed this on to me. Wyoming has switched all of its state employees over to using Google Apps for Government, making it the… Read More »Wyoming ‘goes Google’
Data: Montana has slowest Internet speed in the country
According to data from the last two years, collected by M-Lab, a joint effort of Google and the New America Foundation, Montana has the slowest average download speeds in the country — a measly 2.57 Mbps.
Judge rules against Google settlement with publishers over book scanning
A New York judge has denied final approval for a proposed settlement between Google and book publishers, saying that the agreement is not fair, adequate and reasonable.
The settlement, referred to in the decision as the “Amended Settlement Agreement,” would have given money to rights-holders whose works Google has already digitized while allowing Google to continue its work scanning books.
In his decision, Judge Denny Chin said the ASA would give Google an unfair advantage over its competition, “rewarding it for engaging in wholesale copying of copyrighted works without permission.”Read More »Judge rules against Google settlement with publishers over book scanning
Make phone calls from inside Gmail
The wizards at Google have made it possible to place phone calls from inside Gmail.
Should Bozeman require fiber to laid during road construction?
Should the city of Bozeman require that projects lay groundwork for future broadband access?
Virology via video game and Pac-Man the time waster
A UK virology network has put out a video game to help people understand why flu pandemics are so rare, and Google Pac-Man wasted nearly 4.82 million hours of productivity.
Google will start selling e-books this summer
Google has said it will start selling digital books this summer, putting itself in competition with Amazon and Apple for a share of the e-book market.
Google and HP looking to print from anywhere and from any device
One of the biggest wrinkles in plans to move computing “into the cloud” has been how to get computer files back down to earth by… Read More »Google and HP looking to print from anywhere and from any device