Before you authors get upset, never fear: Google is making 1.5 million books available,
it announced today, that are in the public domain. There’s a lot of good stuff, including everything by Charles Dickens and (pre-zombified) Jane Austen. Google Says: 
 
“We envision a future where people across the globe can search, discover and access the world’s books from any device,” Google spokeswoman Jennie Jarvis said in an e-mail.
For all the classics you’ll be able to find, there is also a very, very, very, very, very long tail of out-of-print books you’ve never even thought …

Google’s Latitude application brings the future of location-based services one step closer, but does Latitude pose a threat to social networking sites like Facebook or MySapce? One analyst says no, but that’s not really the point.
 

 
Imagine a world where you mobile phone not only connects you to social networks and recognizes your location, but also is able to provide you with suggestions for contextual, location-based commercial interests. While Google’s Latitude application, announced on Wednesday, is just a baby step in that direction, one Forrester Research analyst says that will …

Now keep in touch with your friends within your area through the new Latitude feature of Google Maps

The Google Maps team has rolled out the all new Latitude feature for sharing user location with friends and family. Apart for sharing location, users can keep in touch with their friends and family through SMS, Google Talk, Gmail, or updating status messages. One can go to www.google.com/latitude on the desktop or cell phone to download the application and start sharing his/her location.

 
Google Latitude is available on Symbian 60 based phones, iPhone-iPod Touch, colored Blackberry …