ReadWriteWeb: February 2009 Archives

Orkut User Loses in Indian Supreme Court

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 25, 2009 3:58 AM / 10 Comments

The Supreme Court of India has denied legal protection to a 19 year old computer science student facing a lawsuit for comments left on a group page he created on Continue reading »

Just Work Please: Mainstream Media Meets the Fail Whale

Written by Rick Turoczy / February 25, 2009 12:34 AM / 15 Comments

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The online world is an imperfect place. Gmail goes down, chunks of blog posts disappear, and users are deceived on a regular basis. Most of us who spend time online Continue reading »

Updated: Google Talk Worm Origin Found?

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 24, 2009 2:37 PM / 13 Comments

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"Hey check out this video! http://tinyurl.com/xyz,"; says an old friend by Google Talk IM. Well sure, you think, I'd love to see a video from you - it's been a Continue reading »

Hitwise: Search Queries are Getting Longer

Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 24, 2009 2:03 PM / 17 Comments

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According to Hitwise, search queries on all the major search engines are starting to get longer and longer (PDF). While the average search query is still around two words long, Continue reading »

Google Announces Pricing for App Engine: Allows Developers to Scale Beyond Free Quotas

Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 24, 2009 11:30 AM / 6 Comments

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Google today finally announced its pricing plans for its App Engine service. Google's App Engine allows developers to run their web applications on Google's infrastructure and, until today, was only Continue reading »

Apple Releases Safari 4 Beta: Faster, Prettier, and Easier to Use

Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 24, 2009 9:13 AM / 23 Comments

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Apple today released the first public beta of Safari 4, which sports a redesigned interface that resembles Google's Chrome, as well as support for all of the major Internet standards, Continue reading »

Gmail Give Millions An Unexpected Holiday

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 24, 2009 9:10 AM / 8 Comments

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Gmail was down for so long last night that Google felt compelled to apologize this morning. Google's online apps are unavailable for short periods of time often enough for it Continue reading »

The Future of Touch

Written by Sarah Perez / February 24, 2009 7:19 AM / 15 Comments

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It's tempting to give Apple's iPhone credit for the birth of touch-based computing, but it was not the first touchscreen user interface - nor is it the only one in Continue reading »

Bad News for OpenID: People Still Using Same Password Everywhere

Written by Sarah Perez / February 24, 2009 5:50 AM / 35 Comments

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A new survey from Gartner Research delivers some bad news regarding our online security practices: two-thirds of U.S. consumers use the same one or two passwords for all the websites Continue reading »

Google.org Gets More Business-Like

Written by Rick Turoczy / February 24, 2009 12:34 AM / 0 Comments

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Three years ago Google launched Google.org, an attempt to "use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges of our age." And they've been very successful in Continue reading »

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