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Google descends on Israel

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago in Browsing Habits.... 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

The internet search giant has promised that all of its services will be translated to Hebrew and moved into Israel within 18 months as the company’s grip on the web tightens.

Google appears to have put a lot of work into the Israeli operation, as the new Hebrew branch comes loaded with a CEO and trained staff.

Meir Brand, CEO of Google Israel revealed: “We discovered that the Israeli surfer has unique characteristics that the American surfer does not have.

“Israelis are chronic searchers. The search is the main use they make of the internet, while for Americans, the main use of the internet is email,” he added.

It seems, however, that Google’s main focus is on advertising. In Israel 15% of all online adverts appear on search engines, whereas in the US this figure is as high as 40%. Google have seen the gap and are closing in before their rivals do.

Source: Neowin.net

EFF warns of Google hacker threat

Published on 5 years, 12 months ago in Browsing Habits.... 0 Comments Tags: , , .

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is warning people not to use Google’s newest desktop search product, saying it provides a “convenient one-stop-shop for hackers” who’ve gotten a user’s Google password.

The new search tool allows consumers who regularly use multiple PCs to search all of those systems simultaneously, even when they are not connected to the Internet. But EFF says that feature makes personal data “more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants.”

Google has included some privacy protection measure to the feature, allowing users to screen out specific files or folders and promising to delete any copies of the files from its servers within 30 days and encrypt the data.

Read More on CNet

Coming Soon…Chat in GMail

Published on 6 years ago in Browsing Habits.... 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Chat in GMail

What’s new?Gmail learned to Talk. Now Gmail accounts are automatically enabled with chat features. You don’t have to do anything special, it just works. See when your friends are online and decide for yourself how you want to get in touch with them. Email and instant messaging don’t have to be so different. And why should you always have to remember whether something important was said over email or IM? We’ve made it easy for you to save chats, so you can search for them, print them, even reply to one over email.

Well not yet, but it will be coming soon. Chat feature in Mail thats the latest buzz from GMail and I am excited :)
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Google-Funded ‘Badware’ Coalition Forms

Published on 6 years ago in Browsing Habits.... 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Web search powerhouse Google has joined with Sun Microsystems to fund a new anti-spyware coalition that is on tap to launch on Jan. 24, according to information reaching eWEEK.

The nonprofit group is setting up shop at StopBadware.org to help computer users deal with the scourge from adware, spyware, rootkits and other malware threats.

Sources say the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School will run the operations of the coalition with help from Consumer Reports WebWatch, a consumer advocacy group.

Vint Cerf, the renowned technologist who was recently hired as chief Internet evangelist at Google, is on board as an adviser to the coalition.

Former ICANN board chairman Esther Dyson, who publishes the influential Release 1.0 newsletter, is also involved.

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Google Execs Keep $1 Salaries

Published on 6 years ago in Browsing Habits.... 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders and co-presidents Larry Page and Sergey Brin will retain the $1 paid salaries from 2005, according to a filing this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The three will instead rely on stock options and grants for their pay.

The action, approved by Google last week but only made known yesterday came during a week in which Google’s stock lost 14 percent amidst fears stemming from a flap with U.S. Justice Department. However, don’t expect to see these men on the streets any time soon. Google’s stock recovered 7 percent yesterday, meaning that Schmidt’s stock value alone increased $413.8 million in a single day of trading. His total wealth in shares is estimated at $6.3 billion.

Google’s policy of paying top executives $1 started in the second quarter of 2004, leading up to the company’s initial public offering in August 2004.

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Google censors itself for China

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Leading internet company Google has said it will censor its search services in China in order to gain greater access to China’s fast-growing market.

Google has offered a Chinese-language version of its search engine for years but users have been frustrated by government blocks on the site.

The company is setting up a new site – Google.cn – which it will censor itself to satisfy Beijing’s hardline rulers.

Google argued it would be more damaging to pull out of China altogether.

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New year, new imagery

Published on 6 years ago in Browsing Habits.... 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

We’re always trying to improve the imagery in Google Earth and Google Local, but our latest update is bigger than usual. Not only have we added extensive 6-inch imagery for many parts of the U.K., but we’ve updated the Google Local database to match the coverage we have in Google Earth, and (drum roll, please) … we’ve added two more zoom levels in Google Local’s Satellite mode! Now for many areas around the world you can see a lot more detail than you could before.Take a look at people standing at the gates of Buckingham Palace in London, or jump over the pond and see the Statue of Liberty in New York, and then maybe drop down to the southern hemisphere and check out the boats sailing past the Sydney Opera House.

Source: Official Google Blog

Pixar buyout for $7 billion

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On Tuesday, board members for Pixar Animation Studios will meet to approve a $7 billion buyout by Disney.

The buyout will make Steve Jobs, the company’s chief executive, around $3.5 billion and the single largest shareholder in Disney. Jobs, who co-founded Pixar in 1986, is also the chief executive of Apple Computer, Inc.

In the last few years, the giant company has failed to produce an animated hit of its own; however, since 1995, both Pixar and Disney have made six films together, including Toy Story, which has grossed the companies more than $3.2 billion.

News source: Telegraph
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Source: Neowin.net

Bush Administration Versus Google

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Back in 1998 the Child Online Protection Act was passed here in the United States. This act was created to protect children from harmful sexual material on the Internet. This act would have required adults to use access codes, or other methods of registering before they could view pornographic material online. Those distributors who violated this law would face fines of up to $50,000. However, this law was blocked by lower courts and had since then never taken effect.

Late last year the Justice Department issued a subpoena to Google. This subpoena requested that Google hand over a broad range of material from its database, which included one million random web address, and all Google searches from any one week period related to pornographic material. The Bush administration claims that it needs this vast amount of information to determine how often pornographic material shows up in web searches, in the administrations attempt to revive the Child Online Protection Act.

Not willing to be pushed around Google has refused to comply with the administrations request, stating that the release of such information would violate the privacy rights of its users and reveal company trade secrets. The U.S. government has indicated that other unspecified search engines have already agreed to release the requested information. In the end will Google be able to protect their user’s privacy, or will they also give in to the government’s request?

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Windows Vienna to follow Vista

Published on 6 years ago in Browsing Habits.... 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

That’s right folks. Windows Vienna is the new codename for Windows Blackcomb the successor to Windows Vista.

Not much is known about Blackcomb officially and Microsoft is not ready to talk about it yet. However, Microsoft’s blogging guru, Robert Scoble confirmed in a thread reply to a channel 9 video, “since this video was shot the codename for Blackcomb has indeed changed to Vienna. I haven’t gotten the story on this yet, though.”

While Windows Vista is intended to be a technologies-based release, with some UI changes (in the form of the Aero set of technologies and guidelines), Vienna is targeted directly at revolutionizing the way we interact with our home and office PCs.

For instance, the “Start” philosophy, introduced in Windows 95, may be completely replaced by a “new interface” which was said in 1999 to be scheduled for Blackcomb, before being moved to the Longhorn project, and then back to Blackcomb. The interface involved some ideas based upon truely 3D Windows and an intergration of what is now known as Sidebar.

The Explorer shell is expected to be replaced in its entirety, with features such as the taskbar being replaced by a new concept based on the last 10 years of research from Microsoft’s “Vibe” lab. Projects such as GroupBar and LayoutBar are expected to make an appearance, allowing users to more effectively manage and keep track of their applications and documents while in use, and a new way of launching applications is expected – among other ideas, Microsoft is investigating a pie menu-type circular interface, similar in function to Apple’s dock feature.

All features are speculation and rumour at this point. However, with Vista arriving so late (5 years after Windows XP) – will Vista sell to the masses just as many enterprise customers have moved to XP and many home users are comfortable with XP. Time will tell.
View: Channel 9 Vienna Confirmation