Google's latest application Sidewiki is subverting the roles of users and allowing them to partake in the creative process by posting comments in the sidelines of webpages.

Dan Brown's latest selling novel "The Lost Symbol' has become available in its entirity online just days after it hits shelves in bookstores globally.

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."

Vogue model Liskula Cohen sought the identity of the blogger so she could sue her for defamation against claims that she was the 'skankiest in NYV.' Manhattan Supreme Court rules that Google who hosted the blogger, turn them over. Is this the demise of anonymous blogging?

Bing positions itself as a 'decision engine' with the launch of 'visual search in Bing.' Instead of providing a list of blue hyptertext links, now Bing will visualise their search results on a 3D grid including icons and photos.

Devices like iPhones and netbook PCs that can help the speech-impaired are not covered by Medicare or insurers.

THEY may look more like vacuum cleaners with eyes, but Matilda and Jackson are the next generation of nurses and "emotionally intelligent" babysitters.

The reputation of Germany's higher education system has been shaken by the revelation that investigators are looking into a PhD scam in which professors were paid to help students gain their doctorates.

The University acts as a renowned institution for disseminating information and knowledge. Should this role include an account for moral education?

Collaborative Encyplopedia Wikipedia is test-driving a new editing scheme to enahnce its credibility, making it subject to screeing and altering before it is published online. Doesn't this not defeat the purpose of it in the first place?

Rebecca Blood and John Quiggin readings

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