Interview: Marion Deuchars
The author of Let's Make Some Great Art tells us why creating art should be part of every adult and child's lives.
Laurence King articles
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Google closes On2 acquisition for $124.6 million
Google has finished its acquisition of video-compression-technology vendor On2 Technologies, boosting its efforts in online video.
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Google readies Flash for Android devices
Google will soon add the capability to play Flash videos to its Android mobile phone OS, Google product manager Eric Tseng announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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New book charts illustrators who create for love and money
For Love & Money: New Illustration is a new book by that collects the work of more than 80 leading illustrators, focussing on new talent and current trends.
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Google Chrome for Mac gets Extension support
Mac users who browse the web with Google Chrome for Mac to browse the Web, but still pine for the add-ons available for browsers like Firefox are in for a treat -- that is, if you're willing to install the latest, possibly not-so-stable developer-channel build.
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Google ends Gears project, goes with HTML5 Web specification
Google will end Gears, an open-source plug-in project it launched two years ago to allow Web applications to function even when a computer isn't connected to the Internet, according to a statement from the company.
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Google nears Chrome Mac beta release
Google is closing in on a beta for the Mac version of its Chrome browser, according to a list of still-to-be-addressed issues.
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Google Chrome 3.0 gains zip, style
Google has launched Version 3 of its Chrome Web browser, which keeps the pressure on competing tools by boosting JavaScript performance by 25 per cent versus the latest stable release.
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Google announces its own operating system, Chrome OS
Google is developing an open-source operating system called Chrome OS targeted at Internet-centric computers such as netbooks and will release it later this year, the company said Wednesday.
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Google Apps emerge from beta
Google will drop the 'beta' label from Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Talk in one fell swoop today to rid its Apps communication and collaboration suite of this problematic tag that spooks many IT managers and CIOs.
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Google's Android mobile phone OS gets updated to version 1.5
The long-expected update to the Android operating system, version 1.5, has arrived. T-Mobile in the US will be rolling out the new OS to existing G1 phones starting sometime next week. While you wait for your share of the software upgrade, take heart: There's plenty to be excited about in the 1.5 release.
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Google boosts speed in Chrome browser
Google unveiled on Tuesday a new beta release of its Chrome browser, offering improvements in speed and capabilities, such as full page zoom.
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Google: Chrome in 'never-ending' beta
Google has announced that its Chrome browser would be in a 'never-ending' beta test, and gave users three options to update their copies at varying intervals.
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Google releases Picasa for Mac beta
Google has released a public beta of its Picasa for Mac desktop software for organizing, editing, and uploading photos. The software, which runs on Intel Macs with OS X 10.4 or later, marks the first time that Picasa has been offered for the Mac (it joins the Windows and Linux versions already available).
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IE lost share to Firefox, Safari and Chrome in December
Web sites saw visitors deserting Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser in favor of Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome in December, according to Web analytics company Net Applications.
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Google Chrome ditches beta label
Google dropped the beta label from its three-month-old browser today, saying that Chrome is ready for prime time.
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Google to shut down Lively virtual world
Google will shut down Lively, its browser-based virtual world environment, by the end of December.
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Google Earth adds 3D layer for Ancient Rome
Google has just announced a new layer for its Google Earth application: Ancient Rome 3D. The layer allows users to move through a virtual rendering of Ancient Rome as it looked in 320 AD. The new historical layer sports information about locations of historical significance and even full interiors of some buildings.
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Google, Microsoft, Facebook and MySpace talk platforms
As Web application platforms rise in importance and popularity, Google, Microsoft, MySpace and Facebook executives shared tips for keeping developers happy, disagreed on philosophical issues like standards and articulated wish lists of applications they'd like to see created.
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Google calls off search advertising deal with Yahoo
Google Wednesday announced that it is ending its effort to forge a search advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc.