Topic: GOOGLE - on September 1, 2009 at 5:04:00 PM CEST
Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect
Web users who choose to move to the desolate village are guaranteed an environment free from Google products and natural light from the sun.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 31, 2009 at 11:40:00 AM CEST
Gmail may hand over IP addresses of journalists
A California court has issued a subpoena demanding Google reveal the IP addresses of journalists writing for a corruption busting journal from the Caribbean.
The August 28 subpoena, issued by the Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, as part of a "libel tourism" action taken by non-US property developers, demands detailed information about the operators of "tcijournal@gmail.com". The account is the main email address of the TCI Journal, the most influential journal covering the Turks & Caicos Islands. The Islands are a tourist mecca and tax haven in the Caribbean sea, and until August 14 were an independent British protectorate.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 16, 2009 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Integrating 50 centimeter data from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
Today at the Camp Roberts exercise we integrated 50 centimeter data form the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) into our mapping stack, which is acting as a "incident" visualization dashboard. In short, Robert and Tom have built a lightweight Drupal aggregation hub sucking in Pakistan and Afghanistan incident reports coming in from both Relief Web and IRIN. The incidents are being geo-tagged thanks to Alex's (who is back in the DC office) work on a lightweight geo-coding tool that we have been investing in with the support of the Knight Foundation.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 7, 2009 at 12:42:00 PM CEST
Is Google spending $106.5m to open source a codec?
After acquiring On2's video compression codecs in a deal valued at approximately $106.5 million in stock, will Google simply turn around and open source them?
It certainly looks that way.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on July 24, 2009 at 4:14:00 PM CEST
Not All Of Google May Be Available In Your Country
The name is “world wide web”, but it’s not always. What are some of Google’s services that will only work in one country, or a limited set of countries? (Unless perhaps you route around the block – geolocation by IP, as it’s often implemented, is not an impossible hurdle.) Here are some examples
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Topic: GOOGLE - on July 9, 2009 at 12:10:00 PM CEST
Google Chrome OS mit Security-Snakeoil
Ich habe von der Ankündigung der Datenkrake Google , ein eigenes Betriebssystem zu entwickeln, nur die ersten drei Absätze gelesen. Da kommt dieser Satz:
[W]e are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on June 5, 2009 at 10:01:00 AM CEST
Google tracking cookie spans AdSense, DoubleClick
Yes, Google is using the same tracking cookie across both its AdSense and DoubleClick online ad contraptions. This allows the Mountain View ad giant to collect your surfing habits as you move from AdSense partner sites to sites using DoubleClick's ad management platform - although the company indicates that at least in some cases, the data is not combined.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on June 4, 2009 at 2:15:00 PM CEST
Google Joins Internet Identification Card Plot
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993--Information Card Foundation Notice is hereby given that, on April 17, 2009, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Information Card Foundation has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA has been added as a party to this venture.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 5, 2009 at 11:28:00 AM CEST
Google patent feeds ebook 'monopoly' infrared 3D - The world is flat. The page is not
If there were any doubt that Google is in a prime position to establish a legal monopoly in the world of digital books, the US patent office has snuffed it out.
Earlier this year, as spotted by The New Scientist and churned up late last week by National Public Radio, Google patented a book-scanning technology that can digitize the world's texts without subjecting them to the cruel treatment of a flatbed scanner.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 9, 2009 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
Google container data center tour
First presented at the Google Efficient Data Centers Summit, hosted at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA on April 1, 2009.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on February 20, 2009 at 10:51:00 AM CET
Single Google Query uses 1000 Machines in 0.2 seconds
Google is normally quite secretive about their search infrastructure but, in a break from tradition, they have revealed that a single search query on Google can consume the processing power of 1000 machines.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on February 1, 2009 at 2:02:00 PM CET
'Human error' hits Google search
Google's search service has been hit by technical problems, with users unable to access search results.
For a period on Saturday, all search results were flagged as potentially harmful, with users warned that the site "may harm your computer".
bbc.co.uktechcrunch.comtheregister.co.uk Google glitch causes confusion stopbadware.org Google PR Stunt "This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?!
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