AltWeeklies Wire
Google's New Server Farm Comes to Oregonnew
A quiet Oregon town will host the servers crucial to Google's physical network.
Willamette Week |
Byron Beck |
06-04-2008 |
Tech
Alternative Mapmakers Seek to Revolutionize Our Understanding of the Worldnew
What they share is a desire not only to learn more about how to get around, but also to figure out how things works. And not only do they want to learn, they want to show how communities are connected by things other than roads, bridges and waterways.
Pittsburgh Couple Sues Google Over Street View Functionnew
In the suit, Christine and Aaron Boring contend that their privacy has been invaded and that the Google vehicle trespassed on their street. The suit says that "revealing this information has caused Plaintiffs mental suffering and diminished the value of their property."
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Melissa Meinzer |
04-21-2008 |
Tech
No Room for the Little Guy in Big Web?new
If Microsoft buys Yahoo to create what we'll call Microhoo, it means we'll have fewer options when it comes to online searches, using web mail, and just plain goofing around online.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
04-16-2008 |
Tech
Russian Sergey Brin and Googlenew
A KGB-style propaganda and spying machine?
Tags: Google, computers & technology
Bringing the Earth's Soundtrack to Your Computernew
Bio-acoustician Bernie Krause is working with Google Maps and Google Earth to allow people to hear field sounds from anywhere in the world.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Joy Lanzendorfer |
09-06-2007 |
Tech
Tags: Google, computers & technology
GooTube is Deadnew
When Google turns YouTube into one of its searchable data troves, you may lose the ability to find a video of a beautiful thing you never knew existed.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
10-18-2006 |
Tech
France's Way or the Highwaynew
The French dream up tech strategies to fight their cultural war with the U.S.
NOW Magazine |
Joseph Wilson |
06-15-2006 |
Tech
To Catch a Killernew
With the click of a button, Kurt Mausert located the man indicted in the stabbing death of his brother, something prosecutors failed to do for 27 years.
Metroland |
David King |
02-16-2006 |
Crime & Justice
