Topic: GOOGLE - on October 2, 2007 at 1:42:00 PM CEST
Search giants offer new features
Yahoo and Microsoft have announced upgrades to their search engines in efforts to gain ground on rival Google.
Yahoo's makeover will include features that allow users to refine searches as well as offering links to photos, music and video on the results page.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 26, 2007 at 10:31:00 AM CEST
New cracks in Google mail
Yesterday, we reported on an unholy trinity of Google vulnerabilities that put emails, private photos and website security at risk. Today came word of a new weakness that makes it easy for bad guys to silently put a backdoor in Gmail accounts.
The technique comes courtesy of Petko D. Petkov, a researcher at GNU Citizen, who writes in a blog post that the backdoor is installed simply by luring a victim to a specially crafted website while logged in to Gmail. The naughty site uses a slight of hand known as a multipart/form-data POST, which writes a filter to Gmail that causes all email with attachments to be forwarded to collect@evil.com.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 15, 2007 at 7:12:00 PM CEST
The Google Private Jet Gets to Park on NASA's Runway
Google is getting more and more famous for spoiling and splurging on its employees every day it seems. A couple of years ago the two founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, made headlines when they purchased a used Boeing 767 which they converted to a large customized private jet. Now they're making headlines again as they have negotiated a $1.3 million deal to with NASA to both use the Moffett Field runway and to have parking spaces for Google's over-sized private Boeing jet and 2 other smaller jets.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 15, 2007 at 7:09:00 PM CEST
Happy 10th Birthday Google! Well, Almost.
Back on September 15th, 1997, who would have thought a new search engine started by two 24-year old Stanford students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, would not only become a global powerhouse, but also a verb? However you slice it, Google is the victor in the search engine war, and shows no signs of slowing down.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 14, 2007 at 2:31:00 PM CEST
Google Moon Upgrades with “Street” Views
Google has launched an updated version of their Google Moon maps. You’ll note that there are new astronaut icons that offer information bubbles for landing sites. There’s also a new offering of panoramas of the moon’s surface, which have been taken by the Apollo astronauts. For those of you that knew about the “cheese surface” easter egg found in the previous version of Google Moon maps, you’ll see that this is now gone, and has been replaced with the new “Street View” panoramas of the moon’s surface.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 14, 2007 at 2:29:00 PM CEST
Google backs private Moon landing
Search giant Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a robot rover on the Moon.
The competition to send a robot craft to the Moon is being run with the X-Prize Foundation.
To claim the cash, any craft reaching the lunar surface must perform a series of tasks such as shoot video and roam for specific distances.
Firms interested in trying for the prize have until the end of 2012 to mount their Moonshot.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 6, 2007 at 10:55:00 AM CEST
Google Search Tricks
A few months back, I wrote an article on how to find files such as pdf, mp3 etc by using Google search engine but I now realized the article barely touched the surface. After rummaging through the Youtube, I found a nice tutorial that shows in detail on how to specifically find a particular file.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 30, 2007 at 5:54:00 PM CEST
Google Phone (G-Phone) for all Google Online Services
So the iPhone has finally been unlocked and now its time to prepare yourself to unlock the Google Phone. The Google Phone is yet to come out in the market but one thing that gives us the satisfaction is that Google Phone would probably not come with any restrictions like the iPhone and will be able to run with any GSM network out of the box. It will also feature 3rd Generation Mobile Technology and many features which the iPhone lacks.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 23, 2007 at 1:07:00 PM CEST
Erforschen Sie den Himmel mit Google Earth
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 23, 2007 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
Google Earth’s New Virtual Telescope
You need to download the newest version of Google Earth to use the Sky feature.
An internet mapping service used by millions every day has been launched into space.
Using free software from Google Earth, amateur stargazers can now bring an astronaut's view of galaxies and planets to their computer screens.
At the click of a button, they will be able to zoom millions of miles into space to scan through 100million stars and 200million galaxies as seen from the Earth.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 22, 2007 at 1:55:00 PM CEST
In Google Earth, a Service for Scanning the Heavens
After turning millions of Internet users into virtual explorers of the world with Google Earth, the Internet search giant is now hoping to turn many of them into virtual stargazers.
Google is unveiling within Google Earth today a new service called Sky that will allow users to view the skies as seen from Earth. Like Google Earth, Sky will let users fly around and zoom in, exposing increasingly detailed imagery of some 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 22, 2007 at 1:53:00 PM CEST
Solar Panel Project
In October 2006, Google announced a commitment to solar energy production and launched the largest solar panel installation to date on a corporate campus in the United States. Google has installed over 90% of the 9,212 solar panels that comprise the 1,600 kilowatt project. Panels cover the rooftops of eight buildings and two newly constructed solar carports at the Googleplex.
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