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Google spending $7mn to fight child pornography

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:23:53 -0400

LONDON - Internet giant Google said it is spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacqueline Fuller, director of Google Giving, in a blog post. "We ...

Dads rely on Google to solve childrens problems Survey

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:40:01 -0400

What do dads do when their children approach them for help or for advice? They go to Google for answers to their kids' query or problems, reveals a new research. The survey conducted by Plusnet reveals that 67 percent of children said they go to their dads for help and advice and 63 percent of dads will then go to Google to find the answer for them, reports femalefirst.co.uk. Fathers mostly ...

Yahoo eyeing Qwiki for estimated 50 million dollars

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:00:02 -0400

Internet corporation Yahoo is reportedly eyeing Qwiki, maker of a popular iOS app for an estimated deal worth 50 million dollars. According to Mashable, Qwiki has developed an iOS app that turns photos, sound and video clips into short movies. Yahoo's CEO Marissa Mayer is believed to be on an 'acquisition spree' of startups, shutting their respective apps and diverting their engineering ...

Yahoo follows Facebook and Microsoft in publishing US govt sought snoop data

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:40:03 -0400

Internet corporation Yahoo has followed the league of technological companies in publishing reports about 'snoop data' requests made by the US government. According to the Guardian, Yahoo has revealed that it had received 12,000-13,000 requests, inclusive of criminal, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and other requests by the government between 1 December 2012 and 31 May 2013. ...

Google joins Amazon HP Rackspace in easing HDD data importing

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:50:00 -0400

Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery Google has followed in the footsteps of Amazon by making it easier for businesses to load in masses of data to the company's cloud platform. On Tuesday ...

Google Moves To Lift Gag Order On NSA Surveillance

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:33:26 -0400

Google has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to recognize the company’s First Amendment right to speak up about its role in the National Security Agency’s (NSA) online surveillance program, seeking to override the Justice Department’s order to keep data requests secret. In a ...

Cyber threats and leaks spur increased security focus

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:31:25 -0400

cyber security for aerospace and defense companies showing off their wares at this year's Paris Airshow. "We, like others, are constantly being bombarded by people who are trying to get into our systems," ...

Google Launches AdSense Publisher Scorecard

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:20:25 -0400

Google announced the launch of a new benchmarking feature for AdSense today called the Publisher Scorecard. This can be found in the Home tab of your AdWords account, and will provide you with a summary of how well your content, ad settings and pages are performing, compared to those of other AdSense publishers. ';It's organized into different categories, such as revenue optimization ...

Google Subpoenaed For ‘Aiding And Abetting’ Scam Pharmacies And Digital Piracy

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:38:20 -0400

Google partially responsible for directly or indirectly guiding users to online pharmacy scams and pirated digital content. AG Hood is joined by Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli II of Virginia and Attorney General David Louie of Hawaii in calling for Google to stop directing users to these sites and have issued subpoenas of their records as a part of a new investigation into their business ...

Google Wants Transparency In Data-Mining Request Release

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:38:19 -0400

Yahoo , have released the number of data requests they've received from the government as a part of investigations and PRISM, the data-mining program used by the National Security Agency ...

Google not in cahoots with NSA - live QA

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:31:44 -0400

David Drummond, senior vice president and chief legal officer of Google answers your questions on online security and the law Photograph: Mahesh Kumar ...

Googles chief legal officer live QA eight things we learned

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:31:40 -0400

We're not in the business of lying and we're absolutely telling the truth about all of this. Our business depends on the trust of our users. And I'm an executive officer of a large publicly traded company, so lying to the public wouldn't be the greatest career ...

Googles carousel view will help your roller coaster life

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:27:34 -0400

, especially when compared with its closest rival Bing. Likely recognizing that its presentation needs some pizzazz, Google announces that it has launched a new carousel view. This view shows local results for restaurants, bars and other similar establishments in a strip at the top of the results screen. The bar includes each place's overall review-based score, address and photos. While ...

What Google could learn from Yahoos acquisition strategy

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:22:22 -0400

Google wants to partner with private equity on complicated deals. But there may be a better way. FORTUNE -- Google Inc. may soon partner with private equity firms to acquire other companies, according to ...

With Google Reader Nearly Dead Feedly Launches Its Own Cloud Platform

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:16:49 -0400

Google Reader won’t be around for much longer — mark your calendars for July 1 if you haven’t already. To prevent us from going into RSS withdrawal, Feedly has been working to provide a seamless transition from Google Reader to its own service. Today, the company launched a standalone web version of Feedly and the Feedly Cloud, a backend platform that will support all of your ...

Driverless Cars Do You Bet On Google Or Mercedes-Benz

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:12:13 -0400

Sebastian Thrun director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View. Thrun’s team at Stanford created the robotic vehicle Stanley which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and its US$2 million prize from the United States Department of Defense. The team developing the system consisted of 15 Google engineers, has equipped a test fleet of at ...

Feedly upgrades site to prep for Google Readers demise

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:10:46 -0400

(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Feedly has completed the next wave of its Web site upgrades designed to ease the transition for Google Reader users. Existing Feedly users and those migrating ...

Google scholarships recognize 84 computer science scholars in Europe Middle East and Africa

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:10:29 -0400

We’d like to recognize and congratulate the 84 recipients and finalists of the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship and Google Scholarship for Students with Disabilities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The full list of the 2013 scholars and finalists and the universities they attend can be found in ...

Julian Assange Google’s just an arm of US government

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:25:37 -0400

The Register June 19, 2013 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed that Google is tied up in a conspiracy stretching up to the very highest levels of American government. Addressing the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art via live video link on Thursday, the pale blond hacker claimed that Google was a US government ';echo';. For the first time, he described ...

Google Russia denies giving Washington access to servers

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:18:32 -0400

Google did not give the US special services access to its servers, head of Google Russia said Wednesday."We didn't give the US government or the authorities of any other country direct access to our servers. All claims that we allegedly did it are false," Julia Solovyova told Moscow's business Kommersant daily.Such requests come regularly but the company only responded to them ...

Google Perches Above $900 Netflix Back To Almost 80 Of 2001 Peak

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:18:02 -0400

Image via CrunchBase On Tuesday, the S&P 500 was able to break higher out of a wedge pattern and break a downtrend that has been in place since May 22. The index broke above the 1642-1648 level and now the question is whether we will extend above it. The next resistance level to watch is 1658-1662 and then 1674, with the intraday high at 1687. Fed days are often tricky as you sometimes see ...

Google Battles Govt Secrecy

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:59:17 -0400

June 18, 2013: Google sharply challenged the federal government's gag order on its Internet surveillance program, citing what it described as a First Amendment right to divulge how many requests it receives from the government for data about its customers in the name of national ...

Google Fiber spawns startup renaissance in Kansas City

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:57:38 -0400

Google's super-fast Internet service launched a year ago in Kansas City. CNET's Marguerite Reardon takes a look at the impact it has on the local startup ...

Google pushes secret court to lift gag order on secret surveillance

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:49:11 -0400

Google Kills ‘Links’ In Its Ranking Message To Webmasters

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:48:57 -0400

As you can see, the wording use to be: ';In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages.'; Now, it says, ';In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by creating high-quality sites that users will want to use and share.'; Google has removed he word ';link,'; ...

Google Says It Has A First Amendment Right To Release NSA Data Request Numbers

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:48:56 -0400

allow it to publish the exact number of data requests it receives from the NSA. There’s not been a lot of progress made on that front, but now Google is pulling out the big guns in attempt to force ...

Siri speaks louder than Google to most voice-control users

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:47:16 -0400

Both Apple and Google's voice-control technologies get high satisfaction ratings from half or more users, but Siri has an adoption edge for many ...

Google We Have a Right to Publish Security Requests

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:45:17 -0400

Saying that its reputation and business has been harmed by false reports in the media that the government had direct access to its data, Google petitioned the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow it to report separately aggregate numbers of national security requests and FISA ...

Why Facebook Home Should Make Apple and Google Very Nervous

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:43:03 -0400

We thought that the winners and losers in mobile were already clear. The biggest winners were the hardware manufacturers, with Apple and Samsung raking in $53 billion in smartphone profits last year. Mobile operating systems, while not quite as profitable yet, are also a proven profit machine: Apple now reaps nearly $2 billion a year in commissions from its mobile-app store, while Google hopes to ...

Is Google Glass watching Officials from six nations worry

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:38:48 -0400

Privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass show little sign of easing with news that officials across six nations have contacted the company in a joint letter which sets down a series of questions they want answered about the head-based tech. The letter comes in the same month that Google CEO Larry Page - to whom the letter is addressed - told shareholders that privacy issues regarding the device ...

Privacy officials demand Google Glass details

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:52:26 -0400

A group of ten government privacy and data protection authorities from seven countries have urged Google to find solutions to privacy concerns related with its Glass device. Authorities from the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Israel and ...

NSA fears spark traffic surge on DuckDuckGo search engine

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:47:57 -0400

DuckDuckGo .The site, which promises not to send users' searches to other sites or store any personal information, generated just under 3.1m direct queries on Monday (17 June), compared to its daily average of 1.8m direct queries in the month of May.The growth is revealed ...

Making peril permanent Googles Gmail app redesign

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:44:00 -0400

Computerworld - Google's recent update of its Gmail app made archive the default setting, encouraging its users to save their email, literally, forever. This may mean a doctor's message about a medical condition, a love note, a conversation about an employer, a neighbor, or with a therapist, may be preserved for decades and, consequently, is left forever at risk. Gmail app users ...

Google+ may top 10 million users report

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:08 -0400

Google+, the social networking service Google unveiled only two weeks ago, is estimated to surpass 10 million users on Tuesday, possibly becoming the fastest growing product in the history of the Internet.According to Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen (not the co- founder of Microsoft), after passing 10 million users, Google+ " could reach 20 million users by this coming weekend if they keep ...

Microsoft office goes cloud to join cloud war with Google Docs

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:07 -0400

The war on cloud intensified as Microsoft Office announced its decision on Tuesday to go cloud in an attempt to compete with its immediate but not last competitor, Google Docs.Microsoft holds a virtual monopoly on office productivity software. Most computer users in the world use the Office software for word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and other purposes. However, Microsoft Office faces ...

Internet balloons to benefit small business—Google

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:35:41 -0400

In this March 1, 2013 photo released by Google, a fully inflated test balloon sits in a hangar at Moffett Field airfield, Calif. Google is testing the balloons which sail in the stratosphere and beam the Internet to Earth. AP/Google, Andrea ...

Google putting consumers at risk state AGs say

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:33:43 -0400

Google is being accused of "assisting in the sale of prescription drugs without a prescription and intentionally ignoring reports of rogue pirate sites selling stolen music, movies, software and video ...

The truth about Googles stock split

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:32:40 -0400

a letter to prospective investors the many ways in which Google would be unconventional. It would focus on users and on long-term results; it would have an unusual management structure; it would abide by a wacky "don't be evil" motto – or at least, by how Page & Co. interpreted it; and it would aspire to make the world better. Oh, and if shareholders didn't like any ...

Blogger sparks hunt for fake Apple stores

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:07:07 -0400

An American blogger who stumbled upon a near flawless fake Apple Store in China has become an Internet sensation after her post went viral and triggered a feisty debate about piracy.The 27-year-old, who goes by the name "BirdAbroad", said her blog had attracted nearly 1 million hits over the past three days after it caught the imagination of the world's media.A search on Google ...

Google Glass privacy questioned by six countries and the EU

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:36:51 -0400

Google Won't Approve Facial Recognition for Glass No facial recognition for Google Glass yet - at least not through the front door - "without having strong privacy protections in place" confirmed Google in a brief Google+ statement ...

International group of Privacy Commissioners challenge Google over Glass

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:24:23 -0400

Ten privacy authorities from six countries have written to Google CEO Larry Page with questions addressing privacy concerns over Google ...

Hey mobile firms About that Android thing... Did Google add a lockout clause

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:40:42 -0400

Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery The European Commission has asked mobile telecoms firms and manufacturers of devices to provide details of any agreements they have with Google regarding the use of the technology giant's Android operating system. A number of Google's rivals have recently complained about agreements between Google and mobile ...

Google Russia CEO Says US Has No Direct Access to Servers

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:22:15 -0400

MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) – Google has not provided the US authorities with direct assess to its servers, the head of Google Russia said on Wednesday, while acknowledging that the Internet giant regularly receives requests for user data from government agencies. "Yes, we receive government requests to provide data, but this is strictly in line with the law. It is important to ...

China executes official for child rapes after online uproar

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:11:54 -0400

BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in central China executed a former Communist Party official for raping 11 underage girls, state media said on Wednesday, following an online uproar about the latest case of abuse of ...

Google claims balloons to link small business

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:12:37 -0400

(1 hr ago) Google's plans to beam the internet from giant balloons sent to the stratosphere could boost small businesses in rural parts of Asia by connecting them online, the company said today. Karim Temsamani, Google's head of Asia Pacific, said in a speech at the Communicasia conference in Singapore, the balloons might also facilitate communication during disasters. Google last ...

Yahoo Inc. says it had as many as 13000 government data requests

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:18:56 -0400

Yahoo Inc. said U.S. law enforcement agencies made between 12,000 and 13,000 requests for data in the last six months, the latest in a series of disclosures by technology companies since intelligence leaks showed the extent of government data gathering ...

Google erases G8 venue from Earth Microsoft doesnt

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:24:18 -0400

Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery As all the world that cares knows, the leaders of the eight most powerful nations in the world have just been holding a summit meeting at the Lough Erne Resort in Northern Ireland. Most accounts suggest that this is a 5-star golfing hotel complex, but according to Google Maps and Google Earth it is just a muddy ...

Google chief slams Gulf Twitter-related detentions

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:09:53 -0400

Jailing Arab Twitter users could lead to greater physical action such as violent protests, a Google executive has told Arabian Business in an exclusive ...

Google starts drive to simplify web for Indian users

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:13:36 -0400

With an ambition to simplify the web for the Internet users in India, search giant Google's local arm has launched a campaign, whose objective, according to Google India, is to show how the Internet users can get instant answers to their most common ...

Netflix to bring video streaming service to The Netherlands

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:57 -0400

June 18 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:00am EDT June 18 (Reuters) - Netflix Inc will launch its TV and movie streaming service in The Netherlands later this year, expanding its reach further into Europe, the company said on Tuesday. Netflix boasts 29.2 million streaming subscribers in the United States and 7.1 million in international markets, delivering movies and television shows to Canada, ...

Six nations ask Google for answers on Glass privacy

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:13:59 -0400

Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery 36 Privacy Commissioners from around the world have written to Google to ask, in the polite-but-firm language of international diplomacy, for some details about Google Glass. ...

Amazon drops blogger affiliates in Minnesota to avoid sales tax

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:11:45 -0400

The move, which parallels those by other Internet retailers, is a response to an upcoming change in the state’s tax law that applies to ...

Google challenges gag orders

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:44:26 -0400

Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it is forced to give the ...

Google’s purchase of Waze may bring government scrutiny

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:55:51 -0400

Google is the top dog, dominating mobile maps used on smartphones, and Waze makes Google a bigger dog. The question now is whether the U.S. government pushes back and forces Google to give back its new ...

Julia Stiles YouTube Series Blue Coming to Hulu in TV-Length Episodes

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:48:42 -0400

Hulu in TV-length episodes, beginning with the popular Julia Stiles-starring "Blue," Wigs announced Tuesday. The first two seasons of "Blue" launched on the streaming service Monday. Earlier this year, Fox entered into a multi-year programming, marketing and distribution partnership with Wigs, after Fox decided to extend the reach to Hulu as part of its multi-platform ...

Google Wants to Share PRISM Information

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:52:02 -0400

Google asked a special court in Washington Tuesday to let it make public information it's being forced to give to the government. Google is one of nine companies named in NSA documents as providing information to the top-secret PRISM program. The company is asking that U.S. officials give it more authority to describe the government's demands as it and other companies seek to ...

Google Bets on Framingham Company

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:45:28 -0400

BOSTON (CBS) – A small video game company in Framingham has attracted some major funding from Google Ventures, and its online game attracts thousands of fans. Disruptor Beam, which has developed an online game, Game of Thrones Ascent, completed the round of funding. It also included Common Angels and Romulus ...

Microsoft says it freed millions of computers worldwide from criminal botnet

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:44:46 -0400

said that an assault it led earlier this month on one of the world's biggest cyber crime rings has freed at least 2 million PCs infected with a virus believed to have been used to steal more than US$500 million from bank accounts worldwide. "We definitely have liberated at least 2 million PCs globally. That is a conservative estimate," Richard Domingues Boscovich, assistant general ...

DuckDuckGo Search Engine Surges 33

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:42:46 -0400

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg says web traffic on his search engine, billed as an alternative to Google that doesn't store your private information, surged 33 percent after the NSA news broke. Weinberg discusses the model of his search engine, and ...

Google wants to reveal how many secret security requests it gets

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:33:01 -0400

Google is seeking court approval to reveal more detailed information about Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act requests it receives from the ...

Miss. AG Hood say hell subpoena Google on drugs

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:29:17 -0400

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi’s attorney general says he still considers Google’s responses on its efforts to prevent illegal sales of online drugs insufficient and says he’s sending subpoenas for company documents to further his investigation. Jim Hood urged fellow attorneys general from other states to do the same at a meeting in Boston ...

Google challenges U.S. gag order citing First Amendment

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:51:09 -0400

Washington Post June 18, 2013 Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. ...

Google Files First-Amendment Request With FISA Court

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:49:27 -0400

Google has filed a legal motion asserting its "First Amendment right to publish aggregate information about FISA orders," asking the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to remove the gag order that keeps the company from issuing that information. Google and other big U.S. tech companies have been under fire after it was reported that ...

Google Reviews More Prominent With Official Knowledge Graph Update

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:44:30 -0400

While these new results are at their most visually-compelling on the desktop (for now), the results are mirrored on mobile devices. They do not look the exact same, but when I compared the results on the iPhone 5, iPad 2, and Samsung S3, the results were very similar and highlighted most of the same results in a Maps/Places "box." Some pundits have argued this is a move toward ...

Google asks to make surveillance orders public cites First Amendment

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:42:35 -0400

IDG News Service - Google has asked the court overseeing terrorism-related surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency to allow the company to publish information on the number of surveillance requests it receives. The Internet company, in a filing with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday, asked the court to allow it to publish the number of surveillance ...

Google challenges US surveillance gagging order

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:36:43 -0400

Google has asked the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) court to allow it to publish details of the number of data requests made by a secretive body, invoking the first amendment in a legal challenge that is aimed at easing concern among users following recent revelations regarding the activities of the National Security ...

Yahoo Discloses Number Of U.S. Government Data Requests

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:22:50 -0400

SUNNYVALE (CBS/AP) — Yahoo is the latest company to disclose how many requests for user data it has received from U.S. government agencies, putting the number between 12,000 and 13,000 in the six months that ended on May 31. Yahoo Inc. CEO Marissa Mayer and General Counsel Ron Bell said in a blog post late Monday that the most common requests concerned fraud homicides, kidnappings, and ...

Mississippi leans on Google to crack down on illegal products

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:51:36 -0400

Reuters © An employee rides her bike past a logo next to the main entrance of the Google building in Zurich July 9, 2009. REUTERS/Christian ...

Google mounts legal challenge to surveillance gag orders

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:51:35 -0400

Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery Google has filed a legal petition "respectfully requesting" the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) release it from a gag order, and allow the company to tell users how often the NSA comes calling for data. "We have long pushed for transparency so users can better understand the extent to which ...

Video The Globes Google hangout on open data

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:51:08 -0400

What is open data and how can it benefit you? Watch a shortened recap of the discussion below."> The Globe's Google hangout on open ...

Google asks to publish data requests

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:47:48 -0400

Google has asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court today to let it report the numbers of national security data requests it receives."Greater transparency is needed, so today we have petitioned the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow us to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests, including FISA disclosures, separately," the company said in a ...

Ask Matt Can Yahoo reach all-time high territory

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:34:29 -0400

Q: What's the problem with Yahoo stock ? Will it come back? A: Depending on when you bought Yahoo, it's either doing great or it's been a ...

Google fights gag order

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:33:02 -0400

Fortune 500 ) asked that the court let it disclose the scope of the newly discovered "Prism" program. Google also asked for the ability to share the number of user accounts associated with those secret data requests. The company argued that a gag order barring such disclosure is a violation of its right to free ...

Google in Chromebook retail push

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:32:23 -0400

(Google) Partnerships with a number of bricks-and-mortar stores in the US and beyond are designed to help Google move its Chromebook computers into the mainstream. The Chromebook, the Google-developed notebook range with a web-based OS that promises virus-free computing and superfast boot times, is coming to a number of US chain stores this week. The entry-level $200 US Acer Chromebook (which ...

Google Challenges FISA Gag Orders on Free Speech Grounds

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:27:59 -0400

Google filed a legal challenge today against gag orders that come with the FISA court orders it receives from the FBI and NSA, on grounds that the silence orders impinge on the company’s First Amendment rights to speak freely about the data requests it receives for user data. Google is seeking permission ...

Funny SEO emails part 6

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:24:58 -0400

I was on your website www.google.com and wanted to shoot you a quick note. I think I can make a few changes (aesthetically and/or SEO – wise) to make your site convert more visitors into leads and to get it placed higher in the organic search results, for a few of the select terms. This is NOT like one of those foreign emails you probably get in your inbox every day. Just to be upfront I ...

Ads by Google A Billion-Dollar Brainstorm Turns 10

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:23:45 -0400

AdWords , the firm was going to extend its search-based ad program with a new service that would allow web publishers to serve ads themselves -- ads that would be precisely targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages. "With Google ...

Google wants to make public PRISM information

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:15:28 -0400

Googles Fight for NSA Transparency Explained in 2 Paragraphs

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:41:06 -0400

In particular, Google seeks a declaratory judgment that Google has a right under the First Amendment to publish, and that no applicable law or regulation prohibits Google from publishing, two aggregate unclassified numbers: (1) the total number of FISA requests it receives, if any; and (2) the total number of users or accounts encompassed within such requests. Google's publication would ...

UPDATE 1-Google challenges US surveillance court on 1st Amendment grounds

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:33:35 -0400

Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:33pm EDT SEATTLE, June 18 (Reuters) - Google Inc asked the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests it receives separately from criminal requests, on First Amendment grounds. In its filing, Google requested the court to allow it to publish the aggregate number of national security requests it ...

Google demands US government removes gag-orders from surveillance requests

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:30:12 -0400

USA Google filed legal papers with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday in an attempt to provide the American public with more knowledge about the government's ongoing requests for personal data. Through a provision in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, the federal government can and do routinely compel Internet companies such as Google for the ...

CORRECTED-FEATURE-From the ashes of Webvan Amazon builds a grocery business

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:29:12 -0400

Tue Jun 18, 2013 5:29pm EDT (Corrects to remove reference to Mark Zaleski in paragraph 18) By Alistair Barr SAN FRANCISCO, June 16 (Reuters) - The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001. Twelve years ...

Google pledges to rid the web of child pornography

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:27:03 -0400

If any one company could conceivably stop the sexual exploitation of children online, Google would be a likely contender - but not even the web's most ubiquitous search engine can tackle such a widespread problem without help. So, in an effort to help clear the web of child pornography and abuse footage, the search and mobile juggernaut is sharing its data, resources and technological ...

Naked gymnast faces charges over San Francisco transit stop antics

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:21:39 -0400

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A trained gymnast whose naked acrobatics and harassment of passengers at a San Francisco public transit station were captured on video and circulated widely on the Internet is facing criminal charges over his antics, authorities said on ...

Exclusive Facebook reaches 1 million active advertisers

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:21:14 -0400

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it now has 1 million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue ...

Google cites 1st Amendment in transparency push

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:19:13 -0400

+1.62% on Tuesday petitioned a court to let it publish separately national security government user-data requests, citing its rights under the First Amendment. The move expands on Google's earlier request to publish government data requests under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as part of its regular transparency report. "Greater transparency is needed," Google said in a ...

States Tackling Google on Human Trafficking Drugs

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:16:42 -0400

IDG News Service (Boston Bureau) - The attorneys general of several states are turning up the heat on Google, concerned that the search engine giant makes it easier for criminals to sell illegal drugs online, engage in human trafficking and peddle pirated intellectual property. At the summer meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General in Boston Tuesday, Mississippi's Attorney ...

Google asks US court to allow data query release

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:14:39 -0400

This is a bitter lesson to us: In matters concerning Pakistan one should not totally trust the US. They would do anything to ensure that no harm came to Pakistan, said ...

Yahoo discloses number of US govts data requests

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:14:38 -0400

With the Aadhaar unique identity number at its core, the scheme is heavily dependent on banks, which in turn are relying on technology firms to implement the ...

Mars Curiosity rover to be offered as official Lego toy

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:09:48 -0400

Danish toymaker Lego says it will produce a version of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover requested in an online vote by customers. The rover was selected from a number of candidate creations that passed 10,000 votes on Lego's Cuusoo website, CNET reported Tuesday. "The product aligns well with the Lego Group's mission to 'inspire and develop the builders of ...

Google settles share suit but jury’s still out on strucutre

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:40:33 -0400

In this Sept. 2, 2008 file photo, Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page talk during a new conference at Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google has settled a shareholder lawsuit to clear the way for a long-delayed split of the Internet search leader's stock. The agreement announced Monday, June 17, 2013, resolves allegations that Google co-founders Page and ...

Google Drive Launches In 18 More Languages

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:05:17 -0400

here . ';You can switch back and forth as often as you like, and many of these languages are also supported by Drive's spellchecker,'; writes Google Localization project manager Ian ...

Google Adds Knowledge Graph-Like Carousel For Local Results

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:05:15 -0400

Google announced today that it is adding a new carousel feature for local search results on the top of some search results pages. It looks essentially like the recently redesigned Knowledge Graph carousel, but includes local businesses and their Zagat scores. Google says ...

Google director Early adoption is for rich chumps

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:01:42 -0400

Rich people get all the cool stuff first--or so we in the middle class grumble and gripe to one another. Cell phones, laptops, smartphones, and now Google Glass (ifapplicantsmanaged to ...

Why Google Is Crazy For Spending A Billion Dollars For Waze

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:15:29 -0400

Waze , a company unfamiliar to most people. My first reaction was, "Are you crazy, Google?" followed immediately by, "Why so little?" Living (and driving) in the land of freeways and Sig Alerts, I discovered the social navigation app Waze through friends a while back on the way from Los Angeles to Palm Springs. Like all groups traveling together in L.A., we were all in ...

Google puts $7M into fighting child porn abuse

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:13:31 -0400

Computerworld - Google said it's spending $5 million to wipe images of child abuse off the Internet and another $2 million to create tools to find the images and eradicate them. "We're in the business of making information widely available, but there's certain 'information' that should never be created or found," wrote Jacquelline Fuller, director of Google ...

GE moves into Industrial Internet service with Amazon

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:07:15 -0400

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday to make a wide range of data on products, including jet engines and gas turbines, available online so they can be analyzed. GE ...

This Google Tech Talk Is All About 3D Printing

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:56:27 -0400

going to change the world . That’s at least what some people will tell you. Those who are a bit more realistic will tell you that there are many challenges the technology must overcome before it becomes the revolutionary technology that some think it is. Vladimir Bulatov, a 3D graphics research scientist at Shapeways, came to Google recently to be a bit more realistic about 3D printing. ...

How Google puts the kibosh on rogue pharmacies

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:54:48 -0400

(Credit: Google) Will annoying online drug pitches ever go the way of pop-up ads? Probably not. But Google revealed on Tuesday some behind-the-scenes techniques it uses ...

How Green Is Google

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:09:09 -0400

Google plans to corner the wind energy market in New Jersey. It's a first-of-its kind venture that could cost Google and its partners $1.3 billion, but one Google believes fits its core mission: You can make money without doing evil. It's all well and good until you look at the fine print. If the project goes as planned, Google wins a handsome profit -- 12.6 percent -- paid by ...

Google Glass raises international privacy concerns

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:05:36 -0400

IDG News Service - The Canadian privacy commissioner and 36 other data protection authorities on Tuesday raised privacy concerns about Google Glass in an open letter to CEO Larry Page. Jennifer Stoddart, Canada's privacy commissioner, signed the letter. Co-signers include Europe's privacy watchdog the Article 29 Working Party and as well as the privacy commissioners of New Zealand and ...

Privacy commissioners raise concerns about Google Glass

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:58:23 -0400

Google Glass, smart glasses under development by Google, are seen in an undated handout picture released Feb. 20, 2013. ...

Canadians a silent threat to the U.S. blogger warns

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:58:17 -0400

(Shutterstock) An open letter to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio warns that Canadians are a "silent threat" to the U.S. and shouldn't be allowed to stay in the state longer than six months. But many people who commented on the blog post in ...

Google AdWords Enhanced Campaign CPCs Grow 6 Report

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:53:29 -0400

Adobe released their findings today on the impact of Google AdWords Enhanced campaigns on advertising click costs. To arrive at their conclusions they examined 100 U.S. advertisers spending more than $100 million between March and May of this year using Adobe’s Media Optimizer. They found overall the cost-per-click (CPC) across devices was up 6 percent since March. The primary factor for ...

Google Outlines What It Is Doing To Fight Rogue Online Pharmacies

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:49:30 -0400

Google posted a big update to its Public Policy blog today about its continued efforts to combat rogue online pharmacies. The update comes ...

Why NSA Came Knocking At Googles Door

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:00:35 -0400

Security Agency, does its work -- courtesy of celebrity traitor Edward Snowden. If you're one of those people who thinks the world is awash in conspiracies, then it's no surprise that NSA is conducting domestic surveillance of the Internet and other communications. However, if you live in the real world of limited government and lawyers, NSA's domestic surveillance program is a bit ...

Googles not the only one with super-high-speed internet plans

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:52:09 -0400

wire more than a dozen cities with super-fast Internet service. The attention is well deserved. People at home will be able to download entire movies in just a few seconds. Businesses will be able to shave time from online chores, build new innovative products and lift productivity. But Google ...

Googles Loon Project Puts Balloon Technology in Spotlight

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:48:44 -0400

Google's Project Loon aims to bring remote parts of the globe online with a ring of floating balloons. The balloons will drift through the ...

Yahoo Joins Others Reports Data Request Numbers

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:42:35 -0400

Apple , Microsoft, and more, Yahoo is the latest tech company to release a transparency report in light of the recent allegations that they were involved in the NSA’s secret surveillance & data-mining ...

If only all offices could be like the Google workplace

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:04:36 -0400

, now showing in UAE cinemas, is the film for you. You will discover a world where staff nap in sleep pods and cycle around spacious parkland on bicycles in Google's distinctive colours; stairwells are littered with Google-coloured beanbags and inviting cafes churn out endless free, nutritious food. It's an office worker's paradise, but beyond the tantalising backdrop of the ...

Google Stock Split Ahead

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:55:40 -0400

Google settled a shareholder suit blocking a long-delayed stock split, clearing the way for the company to issue a new class of non-voting shares later this year. Google co-founders Larry Page, who is CEO, and Sergey Brin, who oversees special projects, will retain control of the company through a special class of "B" shares that gives them 10 votes per share. Creating a new class of ...

Yahoos Top 10 Biggest Acquisitions

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:54:07 -0400

Yahoo’s biggest acquisition to date took place in 1999 with its purchase of internet video streaming service Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Yahoo promised to ';integrate the company's audio and video programming, business services and advertising programs into Yahoo,'; then Yahoo president Jeff Mallett told CNET at the time. Looks like that plan fell through, as ...

Tumblr Yahoos Last Chance At Relevance

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:54:07 -0400

Tumblr was a mixed bag. With $3 billion in cash, selling at 18 times forward earnings, and no debt per the latest March 31, 2013 10Q Yahoo seems to be comfortably muddling along. A slightly closer take reveals revenues at Yahoo (YHOO) have shrunk 6 percent compounded over the last five years going from $8.2 billion to the $5 billion mark. The stock remains down over 75 percent from its 1999 high. ...

Google BT and Yahoo agree plan to tackle child porn

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:42:45 -0400

Computer experts are to track down and block online child abuse images in an attempt to reverse the spread of sites used by paedophile groups, the Government announced ...

Yahoo Said To Be Close To Buying Qwiki

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:36:52 -0400

launched to the public back in January of 2011, with funding led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. At the time, we compared it to a Wikipedia in which all the articles were read to you in a robot voice while showing you related imagery. A great deal has changed with Qwiki over time, however. These days, Qwiki is a more focused on mobile storytelling with an app that lets users make little ...

Yahoo reportedly eyeing two more acquisitions

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:35:25 -0400

Xobni , which is "inbox" spelled backwards, offers desktop and mobile apps that can automatically create an address book based on your e-mails. As such, Yahoo may be eyeing the Xobni as a natural fit for its own online mail service. And there's a common thread between the two companies, AllThingsD noted. Xobni's CEO Jeff Bonforte was previously the vice president of social ...

Yahoo joins rivals in PRISM data request admission

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:54:10 -0400

Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery Yahoo! has become the latest big-hitting American tech firm to reveal exactly how much information it has handed to US spooks. Marissa Mayer's outfit joined Apple, Facebook and Microsoft ...