The tech giants are at it again, in a brand-new arena. This time, the competition isn’t websites, tablets or phones; it’s personal assistants. With the success…
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For the last couple of years, Google has been encouraging websites to use the HTTPS protocol to secure the traffic between the website and the…
OPLIN 4cast #492: Oracle v. Google
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This blog tends to shy away from the “big” tech stories that have been covered in numerous other blogs and news feeds. In the case…
A couple of weeks ago, we got a glimpse inside the anti-malware/antivirus (AV) industry, when Google announced a change to the user policies for VirusTotal,…
OPLIN 4cast #489: AI is getting warmer
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OK, all you librarians, it’s time to be brutally honest: You don’t really have a very high opinion of romance novels, do you? At best,…
At the Code/Mobile conference this month, Amit Singhal, Google’s search chief, announced that for the first time more Google searches were done this summer on…
As we all know, the Internet contains a lot of bleak and nasty stuff, and some of the bleakest and nastiest is child pornography. For…
OPLIN 4cast #442: Beam it up
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Facebook and Google are both involved in ambitious and interesting projects to economically expand Internet access to some of the most remote areas on earth…
OPLIN 4cast #417: Battling giants
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Here’s something a little different for you. We’ve noticed quite a few stories lately about big tech companies getting into disputes with big countries and…
OPLIN 4cast #398: Google and HTTPS
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Google made an interesting announcement last week. Because they want to promote the use of secure, encoded HTTPS for website connections, they are going to…