As TechCrunch reports, following the $125 million dollar settlement with the American Authors Guild last October, the Google Book Settlement site is now live, enabling copyright holders to make claims for scanned books available online through Google Book Search. Authors, publishers, and other...

A number of blogs Live Blogged developments during US Election night, some using the Cover it Live application. One of the advantages of Cover it Live is that you can embed it anywhere - so I thought I'd put them all in one post for posterity. I have also listed traditional Live Blogs that I know of at the top. If you are aware of any more, please drop a note in the comments and I will add th...

Ahead of next week’s live spiked debate, Andrew Orlowski looks at how Google is securing profits and overriding copyright law.

Ahead of this week’s live spiked debate, David Crow of City AM offers his thoughts on Google’s current predicament.

Welcome to our live Q&A session with Steve Webb, the climate change and energy spokesperson. It’s dead easy. Click into the box below to get started with your questions, or just to read what others are asking. The chat will go live from 6.30pm. Note on how Cover It Live works: Once you’ve hit send, your

Ahead of a live spiked debate, Simon Davies of Privacy International says Google should stop treating privacy as a pain.

A handful of ex-Googlies have set up a new search engine which they reckon is going to beat Google. Hmmm.  Well, I saw this mentioned on BBC News earlier today but didn't bother checking it out.  Then I saw a thread about it on Telford Live so I thought I'd best give it a whirl seeing

We are live from Arundel talking about the local elections. Despite the bad news nationally, the programme is quite fun. You can listen to us live by clicking this link:

A change from the Coffee House norm for this last PMQs before the summer recess. Instead of the usual live-blog, we'll be live-tweeting the session, and our tweets will appear in the special window below (you may be familiar with it from Guido's PMQs coverage). Tweets from other political types may also appear. And you can add your own remarks to the live-stream not in the comments secti...

It's birthdays all around today as Google celebrates its 10th birthday and I celebrate my 28th. Google has come a long way since their famous search engine went live in September 1998. Back then ambitious young computer science postgrads Larry Paige and Sergey Brin were trying to establish their new business by working fifteen hours a day in a borrowed Menlo Park garage. Their early work paid...