JMW Turner Painting of Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard to go on View in Leeds
Last Updated on Monday, 28 November 2011 03:05 Written by External Post Monday, 28 November 2011 03:05
Ruskin Described Lancashire View as the Finest in Europe
A beautiful painting of Kirkby Lonsdale Churchyard by Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775-1851) will be on view at Bonhams Leeds office, on Friday 2nd, Monday 5th and Tuesday 6th December prior to its sale as part of the 19th Century Paintings sale on <a…
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Google Street View Moves Indoors
Last Updated on Sunday, 30 October 2011 10:24 Written by External Post Sunday, 30 October 2011 10:24
Hugh Pickens writes “Google is taking its Street View mapping service indoors with plans moving ahead for 360-degree Business Photos, a program that would send Google photographers to various businesses to snap professional photos for their Places Page.
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FTC Closes Investigation Into Google’s Wi-Fi Snooping
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 09:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 27 October 2010 09:40
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has closed an investigation into Google Street View cars snooping into open Wi-Fi networks, with the agency declining to take action. Google’s announcement in May that its Street View cars mistakenly collected data from
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Germany steels itself for Google Street View
Last Updated on Friday, 22 October 2010 08:20 Written by External Post Friday, 22 October 2010 08:20
Google is preparing to set Street View live in Germany, after getting opt-out requests from almost a quarter of a million households. Promising a “couple of nice surprises” in the launch, which does not yet have a date, Andreas Türk, the product manager
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Canada rules Google Street View intercepts broke law
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 06:02 Written by External Post Wednesday, 20 October 2010 06:02
The Canadian government concluded on Tuesday that the collection of fragments of Wi-Fi transmissions by Google Street View cars violated the law, but also said that the recording was the “result of a careless error” and was not intentional. Jennifer
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What works and what doesn’t inside Google’s labs (photos)
Last Updated on Friday, 15 October 2010 08:20 Written by External Post Friday, 15 October 2010 08:20
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–For a familiar Internet property like Google, where billions of queries are made each day, tweaking a well-known system too dramatically can frustrate users, complicate once simple tasks, and have dramatic impacts on ad revenue and
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Hiberno-mooner stalks Google Street View
Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 October 2010 02:00 Written by External Post Tuesday, 5 October 2010 02:00
Has pale rider ender gone beyond the pale? Google is struggling to keep up with the Hibernian moons plaguing its Street View Ireland service. Last Friday we reported how the Irish Times had uncovered a brace of of buttock jiggling jackeens in Dublin,
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Where Are Facebook?s Employees? At the Movies
Last Updated on Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:41 Written by External Post Saturday, 2 October 2010 03:41
If you are trying to reach anyone at Facebook in the next couple of hours, good luck. Various employees say that much of the staff from Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto is at the Century 16 in nearby Mountain View for a screening of, you guessed it,
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Google menaces penguins with Street View Antarctica
Last Updated on Friday, 1 October 2010 07:20 Written by External Post Friday, 1 October 2010 07:20
Google has trained its all-seeing Street View eye on the penguins of Antarctica. The web giant has been known to kill penguins [1]. And now it’s invading their privacy. In announcing [2] Street View Antartica, Google boasted that its
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Czech Republic halts Googleâs Street View cameras
Last Updated on Thursday, 23 September 2010 06:00 Written by External Post Thursday, 23 September 2010 06:00
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