The Google Legacy (ebook) by Stephen E Arnold has a sample chapter available which discusses the Google Technology.

http://www.infonortics.com/publications/google/google-legacy.html

And a couple of other recent stories …

Google is being sued by book publishers over their plans to index and scan millions of books as part of their Print Library project …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4358768.stm

Google will change the name of its e-mail service in the UK following a trademark dispute @gmail.com will become @googlemail.com …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4354954.stm

Following hot on the heels of their recent purchase of Alias Autodesk announce their intention to purchase Engineering Intent who supply “Engineer to Order” software and services.

http://www.engineeringintent.com/index.html

Apple announces updates to PowerBooks, Power Macs and introduces Aperture.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/

Enhanced PowerBook models - the 15 inch now supports a resolution of 1440 x 900 and 17 inch will now support a resolution of 1680 x 1050.

The new Power Mac G5 systems feature dual-core PowerPC processors and can support up to 16Gb Ram.

http://www.apple.com/powermac/dualcore.html

Aperture is a professional-level photography application. Is it more than yet another image manipulation program ?

http://www.apple.com/aperture/

The World’s first tablet-size flexible electronic paper display is announced today by E Ink Corporation.

LG.Philips and E Ink have constructed a 10.1″ flexible electronic paper display which at less than 300 microns thick, is as thin and flexible as paper.

It uses E Ink Imaging Film technology - a display material that looks like printed ink on paper.

Press Release at

http://www.eink.com/news/releases/pr87.html

Models created in SketchUp can be located at their exact position in the world and shared via Google Earth.

Try out some samples here

http://www.sketchup.com/index.php?id=408.