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The launch of Apps.gov, the U.S. Government's attempt to Go Google by offering cloud-based web apps to its various agencies.

European publishers join the rush to blame Google for the publishing industry's problems, but Google Europe Chief Philipp Schindler suggests that the industry needs to look at themselves.

Google has tried to made a deal with those opposing it's Google Books deal (such as Amazon and Microsoft) by offering to allow them to resell books from it's site. Amazon has rejected the idea.

Sony and Amazon are poised to take opposite sides on the Google books settlement.

Two million out-of-copyright books that have been scanned by Google could come back into limited printed form after the search giant signed a deal with On Demand Books, the company that makes the Espresso…

Google Book Search is offering a new service that lets customers print new physical copies of rare and out-of-print books from its ebook library. The books will be printed-to-order at local bookstores and sold for under $10.

It is a good news for Internet users, especially google users to see the google books under cc licenses. The more rights of viewers to see the books, the more criticize and ideas come out. then more crticize, the more critics criticize, the better the information is shared by authors and readers. The better the information is about how to improve the books, the more improvement of content is made.

GOOGLE has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that produces the squiggly words used by websites to guard against spam and fraud. reCAPTCHA's technology would be used to increase fraud and spam protection for Google products "but also to improve books and newspaper scanning process."

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After finally reaching a formal agreement with authors and publishers, a host of other heavyweights including Microsoft and Yahoo came forward to challenge the settlement of Google books. Google co-founder Sergey Brin addressed criticisms of the settlement in a lengthy editorial.

Google Wave, Google's new real-time collaboration platform currently in private beta, is claimed to be more secure than traditional email because Google has focused on addressing privacy and security issues as the product was built from the ground up instead of waiting to deal with them later.

News Analysis: Microsoft's recently launched Bing Twitter site is indexing tweets in real time. Not to be outdone, Google promises that Twitter content will be integrated into Google's search results page in a few months. Yahoo is allegedly working on real-time search with startup OneRiot. What are the implications?

AT&T dispute with Google regarding legal frameworks for communications, specifically Google's movements into telecommunications, which AT&T argue violates net neutrality principles.

Google is fighting for its Adwords services which some brand owners claim that it might amount to trademark infringement.

If Google is going to do this, how about other web search engines? Will they follow Google?

Google Books launched an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to...

Increasingly these days you hear the words Google and monopoly in the same sentence. There is no shortage of fears that the search ...

China approved of Google's efforts to filter porn from search results on its China portal following state-led criticism of the links, the former head of Google China said Sunday.

On October 7 in a New York courtroom he will preside over a "fairness hearing" for a deal between Google and US publishers and authors to put millions of books online.

A proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors will give huge new advantages to students, minorities and disabled people, supporters said Thursday.