Flat Classroom Project

This article give some background on Google but also advertises a book entitled 'Planet Google' by Randall Stross

By 1998, the Web was getting big enough that it was hard for human editors to keep up. That's when Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google and built a search engine that, by using a computer algorithm, could in theory scale to include an infinite number of Web sites. Google sent a spider into the Web that would index every page it crawled past.

T-Mobile USA will become the first company in the world to announce a mobile phone based on Google's Android OS at a New York press conference Sept. 23, the New York Times reports, citing T-Mobile.

A new CareerBuilder.com survey found that 22% of all hiring managers have combed through social media profiles to help evaluate potential hires, up from just 11% two years ago.

A sprawling consortium of Hollywood content providers, consumer electronics companies, and Internet players said on Sept. 12 that its members are planning to develop a standard that will let consumers buy movies and other digital content once and play them almost anywhere, on any type of device

Advertisers and tech companies are slowly honing in on the possibilities of localized, mobile advertising. Yesterday on the GoogleMobile blog, the search giant announced a big step in that direction with Search with My Location