Google and Italy haven't been seeing eye to eye lately, but perhaps there's hope yet with the announcement of a partnership between the company and Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage to scan and add historical books from the National Libraries of Florence and Rome to the Google Books project. Google has signed with several other big libr... (read more)

While we normally don't comment on market share fluctuations that occur in places other than America, some recent changes in the UK may bear mentioning. According to the AT Internet Institute, Google's share of the search market slipped by 1.6 percent between January and February. That's a significant amount. Indeed, as the slightly upsized figure below shows (sorry for any blurriness), if Ask...

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has lifted some limitations it imposed on US-based software makers and web service providers regarding three countries: Cuba, Iran and Sudan. The bans applied to North Korea and Syria still remain in place, and apply to any software transaction or electronic Inte... (read more)

The mobile web is quickly becoming less of a niche, like just a few years ago, and a very important and potentially lucrative market. Plenty of companies are interested in the space, Google is betting heavily on the mobile web, and Yahoo seems to be doing the same. The company, which has been undergoing a big restructuring for a year now, is now disbanding its dedic... (read more)

Organizing the world's information, Google's long-time company mantra, can be an arduous task and sometimes even the most advanced computer systems aren't enough. This is when Google falls back to the oldest computing resource known, actual people. The company recently started creating dedicated pages for, in theory, every place on Ear... (read more)

Dailymotion continues to solidify its position in the online video market with a new partnership with Warner Music Group, one of the four major music labels. This comes less than a month after the site announced a very similar deal with EMI, the smallest of the four. Under the new deal, WMG music videos will be available, ad-... (read more)

Google Buzz's launch is mostly viewed as a failure, despite the service apparently having several million users, largely due to the Gmail integration. But Google is putting it behind and is still working on fixing the flaws the rushed launch exposed. At the same time, it's also working on expanding the service and possibly offering some inte... (read more)

Google may be looking to take another shot at conquering the TV, after its previous attempts have proven less than successful, with a new TV programming search feature embedded in set-top boxes from Dish Network, the satellite TV company with which Google already has a partnership. According to the Wall Street Journal, the search giant is currently runn... (read more)

Google sure likes data and numbers and, to share the love with everyone, it launched a brand-new tool in Labs, Google Public Data Explorer, which provides a way of visualizing the various data sets the search engine has been incorporating. The tool adds even more data sources to the ones Google had already been using, like the World Bank.
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"The service runs on set-top boxes "using elements of Google's Android operating system..."

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