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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Compare that to Google Book Search, with more than 25,000 publishers signed up for their commercial program in a similar time period. Google, who has been sued by the same publishers for alleged copyright violations.

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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China. Google Docs , Google Groups , and Google Maps are also very well-known and widely used. It's the largest country in South America and it has the fastest growing economy in the region.

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Data for Global Health, Part II

Forum One

how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). But we talked about solutions as well: Jason Parker of the Gates Foundation told us about techniques Google is using to overcome issues of accuracy by dramatically increasing the quantity of data being analyzed. (We

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What the Potential Tiktok Ban Means for Your Digital Marketing Strategy

Media Cause

Most recently, their CEO went before Congress to answer questions about data collection and the platform’s ties to China. Protecting Consumer Data is Important Luke Dringoli, VP of Tech This talk about the TikTok ban is just the tip of a bigger conversation—what we need is a comprehensive, national online privacy law.

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Campaigning #4Change Recap

Amy Sample Ward

creativegreeniu : Direct contact from national 350 organizers incredibly effective in motivating me. zerostrategist : Google / China comes to mind! [link] was abt ppl, not an org. rootwork : Creating a sustainable org # 4change is good, but not at the expense of cultivating leadership among activists IMO.

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Tech for Good at Mobile World Congress

Tech Soup

If you decide you like it, you can pay to have it published in either the Google Play app store (for Android) or in Apple's App Store. A China-based company, Beijing Bing Ben Technology, is making SIM cards from recyclable materials. You can build and test an app for free. Accessibility. SmartVision. Mobile Green Tech.

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Best Internet Marketing for a Cause 2006

Have Fun - Do Good

View the National Memorial for the Mountains on Google Earth. Among the videos up right now is footage of police dispersing student protestors in China, UCLA police using a taser gun on a student in a library, and video shot by journalist Brad Will during the protests in Oaxaca, right before he was killed. For more info.