Penguin Books Australia

The Rough Guide to Cloud Computing is your essential 'how to' guide for taking your life online, sharing 100 websites that will change your life forever. This guide takes a practical view at the phenomena of 'cloud computing' – in simple terms, computing that takes the focus away from applications that live on home PCs and instead puts it all online. This guide will teach you how to use these...

When Douglas Edwards was interviewed for a marketing job at Google in 1999, by a young man bouncing on a large ball while dressed in roller hockey gear, he suspected he might be working somewhere unconventional.  He had no idea.  He didn't know he was about to have his work/life balance knocked on its inner ear.  He didn't know that data was next to divinity.  He didn't know how...

For the first time in history, we are interacting with computer programmes so sophisticated that we think they're human beings . . .

At forty-one, Doug Edwards was ready to sit back, put his marketing career on autopilot, spend more time with his wife and kids and generally chill out. Instead, he decided to join a cocky internet startup called Google.

Suddenly his life was no longer his own.  

How can you protect your kids if you don't know where they are?

Few parents would let their children wander the streets at all hours or meet with strangers, but kids do that and more on the internet without even leaving their bedrooms.