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Google Announces One Pass Subscription Service

At Humboldt University in Berlin today, Eric Schmidt announced Google One Pass, a service that lets publishers set their own prices and terms for their digital content. With Google One Pass, publishers can maintain direct relationships with their customers and give readers access to digital content across websites and mobile […]

Google Announces Contracts for Java

Google has announced Contracts for Java, aimed at saving time debugging Java code. Contracts for Java is a new open source tool. Preconditions, postconditions, and invariants are added as Java boolean expressions inside annotations. By default these do nothing, but enabled via a JVM argument, they’re checked at runtime. The […]

200 BBC Websites Saved for $3.99!

On Monday 24th January 2011 the BBC announced that it would be restructuring its online department – with 360 job losses and the deletion of 200 of its top level directories (including the websites that live under them – eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast). 172 of of those top level directories are due […]

FaceBook Updates Pages and Adds New Features

Facebook pages are getting an updated layout and several new features. New Features: Notifications when fans interact with your page or posts A place to showcase photos along the top of your page A news feed for your page The ability to Like and post on other pages as your […]

UK File Sharing Lawyers ACS Law Closes Down

ACS Law closed down on 31 January, along with its sole piracy client, Media CAT according to PC Pro, just days before a key court decision. ACS Law solicitor Andrew Crossley confirmed to the BBC that both firms have ceased trading, and ACS Law’s phone number is now disconnected. Crossley […]

Fragmentation of Android Platform

Google’s Android platform definition is being stretched to include Chinese rivals, including China Mobile’s Ophone and Tapas OS, a project run by the former president of Google China, reports Appleinsider. “A report by Canalys yesterday claimed that Google Android platform had taken the top spot in global smartphone platforms worldwide, […]

Really Strategies Announces RSuite Cloud™

Really Strategies announced the availability of RSuite Cloud™, a web-based editorial and production system for automated multilingual publishing to print, web, and eBook formats. RSuite Cloud is a hosted end-to-end content management and publishing system for book publishers to create, manage, and distribute single-source content to multiple channels. The system […]

Google Tackles Content Copying

Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team has written a post announcing a specific change to Google’s search algorithm to reduce content copying and spam in search engine results. “we recently launched a redesigned document-level classifier that makes it harder for spammy on-page content to rank highly. The new classifier […]

Android 3.0 Preview and SDK Tools

Xavier Ducrohet writes on the Android Developers Blog about highlights of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) a new version of the Android platform that is designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. Highlights: UI framework for creating great apps for larger screen devices: Developers can use […]

Gmail Timesavers

Kristin Burnham, writing on Macworld has posted an interesting article, “Five great Gmail timesavers Tap into advanced features in Google’s e-mail service” Tips are: Granting access to your Gmail account allowing someone to read and respond to your e-mail on your behalf. Toggling between two Gmail accounts in one browser, […]