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German Chancellor Tells Google: "You Can't Just Go Around Scanning Books"
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 12, 2009 12:10 PM / 8 Comments
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On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel used her weekly video podcast to attack Google and the Google Book Settlement. According to Merkel, the Google Book Settlement disregards international copyright laws. Continue reading »


Google Maps Ditches Tele Atlas in Favor of Street View Cars and Crowdsourcing
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 12, 2009 8:55 AM / 5 Comments
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After a flurry of activity around Google Maps over the last few weeks, it now looks like Google is also ditching Tele Atlas as its data provider for Google Maps Continue reading »


Casting Stones Before the FCC: Google Voice and AT&T
Written by Dana Oshiro / October 9, 2009 2:42 PM / 3 Comments
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Ever since AT&T filed a letter with the FCC about Google Voice's refusal to connect to certain areas, the two companies have been in a heated public battle. On the Continue reading »


Google Squared Gets Some Much Needed Improvements
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 9, 2009 11:43 AM / 4 Comments
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Google Squared launched to a lot of hype earlier this year, but the initial reaction from most pundits was rather negative. Squared, which gathers and displays structured data, often returned Continue reading »


Update to Google Sites Demonstrates What the GDrive Could Look Like
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 9, 2009 9:23 AM / 4 Comments
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We have been hearing rumors about the Google Drive online storage service for years now. This mythical GDrive would give users the ability to easily store and access all of Continue reading »


Spammers Newest Tactic: YouTube Video Spam
Written by Sarah Perez / October 9, 2009 6:02 AM / 13 Comments
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Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have recorded a mass mailing of spam emails containing a link to a video advertisement on YouTube. Although in the past, spammers have attempted to lure Continue reading »


Google Fixes Usenet Archive; Old Geeks Rejoice
Written by Jolie O'Dell / October 8, 2009 6:50 PM / 11 Comments
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In response to a Wired article that ran yesterday, Google is fixing its archives of Usenet posts, one of the richest and oldest repositories of user-generated content ever to exist Continue reading »


Tracking Influenza: Google Flu Trends Now Covers 16 More Countries
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 8, 2009 8:53 AM / 1 Comments
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Google just announced a major expansion of its Flu Trends program which monitors searches for Flu-related symptoms on Google's search engine to predict Flu outbreaks. Until now, Google only made Continue reading »


Google Search Options Come to Mobile
Written by Jolie O'Dell / October 7, 2009 7:41 PM / 2 Comments
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Back in May, when Google launched a spiffy new suite of search options at their Searchology event, users got a gambit of new tools for exploring different kinds of content Continue reading »


Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Others Also Hit by Phishing Attack
Written by Sarah Perez / October 6, 2009 6:06 AM / 7 Comments
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Yesterday's phishing attack in which several thousand Hotmail username and password combinations were leaked to the web now appears to be just the beginning of a massive phishing attack affecting Continue reading »


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