Results tagged “google”

Google's pending settlement with authors and publishers groups will make more books from University of Texas libraries available online.

• Family, friends, and fans say goodbye to Michael Jackson at memorial service
• Obama meets with G-8 leaders in Italian town still recovering from April earthquake
• Government websites hacked on July 4: Could North Korea be behind it?

Monkey pees on a President. (No, really. We can't make this up.) Access to The Google in China is sketchy. This is what happens when you censor. No snarky headline for this "gay exorcism" story; it's disgusting. Two bodies of Flight 447's crew found. So much for voter values, GOP. REALLY, Citibank?! Keepin' it classy, Hal.

• A shocking error in cancer care.
• After seven months, reporter kidnapped by the Taliban manages to escape.
• Supreme Court sides with Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 (sort of) in their voting rights case.

• Mousavi calls for massive rally in Iran to protest "shameful fraud"
• FDA says some Zicam nasal products can cause permanent loss of smell
• Obama to extend federal employee benefits to same-sex partners

• Osama bin Laden threatens Americans in new audio tape
• In Air France crash, deep seas stand between experts and answers
• Hiring practices of Google, Yahoo, Apple and other tech companies under federal scrutiny

Many folks on Twitter are reporting that Gmail and assorted Google services are currently down for them. We're pulling up ours ok, but an informal survey shows that many around downtown (@bnl771), on UT campus (@anorwood), or just around town (@mavsmom) are experiencing errors. The problem seems to be hit or miss, as @recoveringlazy and @mavsmom aren't seeing any issues. In other internet news, there's a Woot-Off going on right now.

Reporter Saberi freed from Iranian jail Obama tells Google and Apple to stop playing footsie Some banks feeling much better, thanks Back to the moon, NASA? Really? Churches getting religion on marketing That's "Dr. Dolly" to all y'all Opinion: Don't just legalize it, tax the hell out of it

• Pirates seize ship with U.S. crew off the coast of Somalia
• Earthquake in Italy kills 260 people, leaves 28,000 homeless
• Cyberspies have penetrated the country's electrical grid

• Nearly 700,000 private-sector jobs were lost in February
• 1 in 5 U.S. homeowners owe more than their property is worth
• War crimes warrant issued for the president of Sudan

Iraq launches study abroad initiative. Hamas proposes yearlong truce. MLK, Ghandi, Mandela ... and Blago? Portland Mayor to keep on keepin' on. British man kills wife over Facebook status. Cuts at Starbucks? Google to kill PCs?

Three months after showing off their new digs in the historic Scarbrough Building downtown, Google announced Wednesday that they were closing their Austin office and offering the 20 engineers employed there jobs at other locations.

South Carolina Mayor wonders: Could Obama be the Antichrist? Bailout agreement tentative. Google feels good about gay marriage, bad about Prop 8. Martial law in the US? Huh. Some conservatives not backing Palin. Wall Street not wicked popular. Chavez wants the bomb.

• DEADLINE FOR VOTER REGISTRATION IS OCTOBER 4TH! If you aren't registered, unsure if you are registered or you think there is even a remote chance that your registration is not current, GET ON IT NOW.
• John McCain hires reality TV make-up artist. We thought he was leaving the "celebrity" status to Obama...
• Speaking of McCain - he now wants to postpone the Vice Presidential debate too!?!

• FBI investigating four firms at the heart of this financial meltdown
• Warren Buffett in a buying mood; pours $5 billion into Goldman Sachs
• McCain aide’s firm was paid by Freddie Mac up through last month

• The Federal Reserve lends insurer AIG $85 billion to stay afloat
• Howard Stern pranksters make out behind live news report from Wall Street
• 16 die in attack on U.S. Embassy in Yemen

• Palin takes the stage tonight to speak to Republican convention
• Google releases a new web browser, called Chrome, to take on Microsoft
• Following up on Gustav, Tropical Storm Hanna expected to hit Friday

As Austin Metblogs posted on Friday, Google recently expanded their nifty Street View application to include Austin.

Green Drinks gets computer savvy this month with a focus on greening computer usage and IT. Rebecca Thorburn, a member of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, will be on hand to discuss the non-profit organization's dedication to promoting climate conservation through the widespread deployment of energy efficient hardware and power management software.

The Daily Texan has announced its list of endorsed candidates, with one glaring omission.

Bust out your day planner, or your spreadsheet, or your Google Calendar, or whatever the hell you use to organize your life--the full schedule for the SXSW Film Festival has been released, including all features, docs, shorts and panels.

When I graduated from college, there's weren't a lot of gay characters in movies and TV. This was the mid-90's so when there was a gay character, he was usually dying of AIDS. I saw every one of these movies, but I was desperate to see characters more like myself.

This might not technically be theatre, but it made for some great comedy. On Saturday's show [listen], the Car Talk guys repeated the name of Austinite and Puzzler-winner Quentin Fennessy eight times in a row....

Presidential Primaries: Hillary and Mitt Romney take Nevada, McCain takes South Carolina.

Are you familiar with micro-blogging? We weren't, until we took the time to Google "Twitter," the word that seems to be on everyone's busy lips. Twitter is a social networking site that enables users to quickly (and briefly) update their blog and subscribers via SMS, IM or third party application. Updates are 140 characters or less, and while many Twitterers utilize the service for relaying meaningless information regarding their day to day life, a few of them have found that passing along information in the form of short link-based posts, event notifications or emergency situation news items. The Los Angeles Fire Dept. uses Twitter as a means of communication - a lesson they learned after the 2007 wildfires. Democratic presidential candidates John Edwards and Barack Obama both use Twitter, too.

Google MapsGeorgetown Village, a new master planned community 35 miles north of downtown Austin, is hoping to become the first green subdivision in Georgetown. According to the Statesman: Green Builders Inc. is creating an 800-acre master-planned community with 2,000 houses that will be environmentally friendly and feature rain harvesting and energy-saving heating and cooling systems. Georgetown Village will offer 15 floor plans, from 1,800 square feet to 2,400 square feet. Several models are near completion....

Photo by Will Pate on flickrInteractive + ScreenBurn The preliminary list of Interactive panels has been released, and includes topics like "The Great Debate: Is Web 2.0 Bulls#!t?", "The Porn Police: Know the Rules," and "The Suxorz: The Worst Ten Social Media Ad Campaigns of 2007." [Preliminary List] Additional, several panels for the gaming-centric ScreenBurn fest have been revealed. These include "The Future Virtual World Game Development: Rise of the Indies," "You Are Here: Gaming...

Louisiana elects the first Indian-American to ever serve as governor of a U.S. state. Is nuclear power (excuse us, we meant "nuke-ular") in the cards for America's post-petroleum energy future? Greenpeace takes issue with the environmental friendliness of the iPhone. Bill that seeks to increase court control over government surveillance passes through the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee. The ISP war against file sharers intensifies; BitTorrent comes under heavy fire. Prediction: Apple + Google =...

According to Bizjournals, Google is expected to close on a lease at the Scarbrough Building on Sixth and Congress Ave. They'll be taking over the entire second floor of the Chicago-style building, which has the distinction of being Austin's first steel and concrete structure (built just shy of a century ago) and, more interestingly, housing the first dry goods store that tacked on price tags to its wares—before that, stores in Austin worked largely on...