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Google Dashboard is unveiled revealing just how much information the internet giant stores about its users. Benjamin Cohen asks whether it raises privacy concerns. Google has this morning unveiled the Google Dashboard, a simple way of immediately seeing all of the data the internet giant holds on you and allowing you to delete, if you wish. For years, Google has been under pressure from privacy campaigners due to the huge amount of data the company has stored for many years about nearly every internet user in the world.

Want more evidence print media is giving way to digital formats? According to CNBC "Squawk on the Street" Nov. 3, Internet behemoth Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) could have its sights set on The New York Times (NYSE:NYT). Brian Shactman, a general assignment reporter for CNBC noted an article in the Nov. 2 Wall Street Journal that indicated a lot of big companies are hoarding cash and short term investments and it pointed out the information technology sector had nearly $280 billion to invest. ...more (w/video)...

Mountain View wants your exabyte Google’s massively global infrastructure now employs a proprietary system that automatically moves and replicates loads between its mega data centers when traffic and hardware issues arise. The distributed technology was first hinted at — in classically coy Google fashion — during a conference this summer, and Google fellow Jeff Dean has now confirmed its existence in a presentation (PDF) delivered at a symposium earlier this month. The platform is known as Spanner. Dean’s presentation calls it a “storage and computation system that spans all our data centers [and that] automatically moves and adds replicas of...

ON THE INTERNET - Quote: 30 October 2009 SERGEI BRIN MAKES JIHADI SH*TLIST Mazel Tov! Posted on 30 October 2009 @ 23:42

Verizon Wireless opened up to us. Verizon Communications Inc. and Motorola Inc. proudly and excitedly showed off their new Droid smart phone in a meeting Wednesday afternoon.First impression: The device is fast, powerful, fully featured and well-designed -- a combination of adjectives we've never used for a Verizon cellphone.When was the last time a Verizon phone got this much hype? The BlackBerry Storm? Ouch.Yet, one is coming on Nov. 6, and it has a good chance of living up to the hype. A phone with Google's fast-improving Android operating system, a 5-megapixel camera with a flash and digital zoom, a...

Conservative columnist and radio host Andrea Shea King had her Radio Patriot site at Google's Blogspot taken offline last night by Google.King had maintained the Radio Patriot at Blogspot for over three years. The site was taken down without warning and without explanation. King's efforts to contact Google have been for nought so far. Attempts to bring up the site get this message:Blog has been removed Sorry, the blog at radiopatriot.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs.King is a vocal opponent of Barack Obama. She has posted many entries criticizing his presidency and reporting on...

Just how far is the Obama administration willing to go to reward big donors? In the wake of yesterday’s explosive report regarding “scores of top Democratic donors” being rewarded with “VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall meetings,” it’s a question that’s on the minds of many politically-engaged Americans, and one likely to grab yet more attention, thanks to this article in today’s USA Today. It notes that: “More than 40% of President Obama’s top-level fundraisers have secured posts in his administration, from key executive branch jobs to diplomatic...

SNIPPET - quote: Doing a Google search today for "al Qaeda", I accidentally hit "map" instead of "news". And you know what? Al Qaeda is on the map.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced this morning at Google's Mountain View campus the first round of federal grants on high-risk but potentially high-reward ventures, such as converting bacteria into gasoline, to counter global warming. Chu chose Google's college-campus-like headquarters to fulfill a pledge by the Obama administration to back the kind of convention-breaking technology Silicon Valley — and the innovative search engine company — is known for. "We are trying to hit home runs, not base hits," Chu said. "These are out-of-the-box approaches." The grants are being directed through the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or Arpa-e, a relatively new organization...

Leading Indian politicians have condemned Google, the internet search engine, for publishing a map which cedes parts of the country's Himalayan states to China. Google's satellite map of the border area between India and China show several Indian towns in Arunachal Pradesh listed under their Chinese names as part of the People's Republic of China. Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal Pradesh, is shown on Google Maps as north of a dotted line marking the border between India and China, ie in disputed territory The maps also show the state's southern border with Assam and its northern boundary with China as...

Think that everything you get with a Google search is the real deal? Not when you search for "Ruth Bader Ginsburg"! And this is one search you might regret making! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thanks much peeps!

Ever get the idea that what you were searching for on Google aint quite what you got back in the results? We know how you feel in today's "Geeks On Caffeine"! NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying then cartoon within this thread. Thanks a bunch y'all!

FIRST ONE STORY, THEN ANOTHER — Has Google scrubbed its own News Archive? (Scrubbing the tracks of Obama's origins--Google is politically hyper liberal) http://thepostnemail.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/googles-archive-shows-obama-birth-story-has-changed/ FIRST ONE STORY, THEN ANOTHER — Has Google scrubbed its own News Archive? Google’s archive shows Obama’s birth story has changed October 15, 2009 by John Charlton FIRST ONE STORY, THEN ANOTHER — Has Google scrubbed its own News Archive? by John Charlton (Oct. 15, 2009) — It’s the world’s largest online repository of Newspaper information, spanning the globe and more than a century of history: the Google News Archive. The Post & Email can attest...

No matter what you are searching for on Google, one thing ALWAYS shows up in the results. Can you guess what it is? Read today's "Geeks On Caffeine" and see for yourself. NOTE: The author of this strip requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thanks!

Former Vice President Al Gore a few years ago advised Internet behemoth Google about "aspects of search quality." Such was reported by the New Yorker in its October 12 issue (subscription required). By themselves, the following paragraphs from this 6500-word piece don't mean much. However, given the ongoing concerns about Google's political leanings and how its search algorithms might be manipulated to favor liberal news outlets over conservative points of view, the very idea that Gore might have had any input to this process is worrisome to say the least. So, a few years ago, Gore raised some concerns about...

When one wants to produce propaganda and get away with it they first need to do a couple of things: 1. Make it seem credible (false third party quotes) 2. Make it benefit the ones who are intended to believe it (The sky is falling, but WE have the solution) 3. Erase all facts from the past so there can be no informed dissent. I'm of the firm belief that we're finally gaining traction and getting the word out, but we need to continue to ensure that google can't remove old info from the web to "change" the past to...

This is a free 411 service from Google and it's voice recognition for numbers, connection or maps.

Sponsored search results lead to malware By Susan Bradley The ads served by Bing and Google along with your search results are linking more and more often to sites trying to infect your machine. Neither Bing nor Google effectively prescreens these bogus advertisers, so it's up to us to detect and avoid them. You may recently have used either Google or Microsoft's new Bing search engine to find the popular Malwarebytes Anti-Malware utility. If so, chances are good that the sponsored ads alongside your search results contained links to the very malware that the security tool is designed to remove....

Since 2006, many observers have scratched their head over what prompted Google to pay $1.65 billion for the video site YouTube. We're now a little closer to the answer. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in May, "I believe YouTube was worth somewhere around $600 million to $700 million."(Credit: Elinor Mills/CNET) The blockbuster acquisition for the 18-month-old start-up played a large role in sending valuations in the tech sector skyrocketing. Although YouTube made little revenue, the all-stock transaction gave Google control of a company many believed would change the face of mass entertainment. It also led to criticism from skeptics who...

Type Palin in Google News and a list of other negative words or phrases automatically pop up: Palin Resigns Palin Scandals Palin Indictment Palin Embezzlement Palin Letterman Tried to do a ScreenGrab on Firefox but it didn't work

A bank that inadvertently sent confidential account information on 1325 of its customers to the wrong Gmail address is suing Google for the identity of the Gmail account holder. The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, involves Rocky Mountain Bank of Wyoming. According to court documents, the bank in August received a request from one of its customers asking for certain loan statements to be sent to a third-party. An employee of the bank, responding to the request, sent the documents to the wrong Gmail address. In addition to the requested loan information,...

I have seen no less than a million of these "Housewife discovers teeth whitening secret ads on facebook and just about every single website with any advertising content on it. I refuse to pay any money to these shills by clicking on their ads, but my curiosity is getting the better of me. Has anyone out there actually found out what this stupid thing is and want to share so I can stop being freaked out by all the teeth on my computer screen? Is anybody else experiencing these ads, or is it just targeting me and my aging, yellowing...

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is asking a federal judge in New York to amend a proposed $125 million settlement that would allow Google Inc. to create a huge online library of millions of books, claiming the agreement clashes with state laws

Google has continued to tease fans of its Google doodle with yet another image of a UFO. The latest in the, now series, sees the Google logo spelt out in crop circles with a UFO hovering above. The creation of the doodle also coincided with a tweet - this time what appeared to be long/lat coordinates, however the "51.327629, -0.5616088" reference puts it just outside Woking in the UK. The link of the doodle goes to a search for crop circles. The second UFO reference comes just 10 days after the last teaser which showed one of the "O"s being...

Search giant Google Australia is continuing to add features to its Google Maps tool, launching a tool that allows users to monitor traffic flows in major cities and uses crowd-sourcing data on which the service relies. Information on Google Maps displays the current traffic status of many motorways, major and minor arterial routes in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and smaller areas like Wollongong, the Central Coast, Geelong, the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast. When the "traffic" function is turned on, roads are marked with a coloured line indicating whether traffic flow is fast (a green line), medium (yellow), heavy (red)...

A great explosion of purity is about to come , But "not" as before(as Katrina) ,something straight from my kingdom , The heavenlies are about to applaud , I AM The Lord behold I alone am God ! Yet for my children of my rod and staff , They shall rest in my bossom of Zion and laugh , For the Joy of The Lord is their strength , And these are my children of victiory that have gone the full length , Obedience to me has become their rod , My staff is their com(fort) for I AM their...

I came across a book written by David Horowitz and Richard Poe about George Soros. The Shadow Pary. It was written three years ago. With what is happening in our country and the involvemnt of Acorn, Unions, activist groups and media blackouts this is worth reading.

I hope this was an accident, a fluke that can be rationally explained. If not, then our news is being censored beyond the wildest excesses of the Soviet Union. And Google, which has already stooped to co-operating with China in similar censorship, may be a co-conspirator. On Saturday, September 12, 2009, President Barack Obama spoke before about 15, 000 people at a healthcare rally in Minneapolis. A few hours earlier, a crowd of between 70,000 and 1,200,000 citizens gathered in Washington, DC to protest excessive federal spending and intervention. I think we can safely conclude that any Tibetan monk or...

If you have Firefox with Google as default search engine and you mistakenly type Joewilsonforcongress.org you go to a fact check type site that says "Joe said Obama lied but he didn't" Don't click on the link I do not want them to get hits on that blog. This is blatant politization of the search engine process. Now, to change your firefox so it does not use Google in the address bar live search: Type about:config hit enter. Scroll down and find browser.search.defaultenginename Change from Google to Yahoo (others work too, ymmv)

Reporting from Broughton, England - The good folk of Broughton don't take kindly to being photographed without permission. Just ask Google. When the search-engine giant sent one of its specially equipped cars to take pictures of the village for its Street View feature, residents swung into action. They stopped the car in its tracks, called the police and quizzed the bewildered driver for nearly two hours before letting him go. "I don't think this guy anticipated how angry people would get," said Edward Butler-Ellis, 28. "We didn't stand there with pitchforks or anything and block the road with bales of...

SNIPPET: "Whatever the number is, at some point you must assume that the people admitting online that they wish to emulate the 9/11 conspirators represent a larger pool of people who not only wish this, but who are at some stage of the process leading to "martyrdom". I'm not saying Google's lax policies in policing this kind of file filth will lead directly to another 9/11 style attack. But it is clear that one of the common denominators between all -- and I mean all -- homegrown jihadis is that they like to spend their free time watching these types...

Google is well known for the clever logos it often drapes over its home page on holidays and some anniversaries, such as the Internet behemoth's own birthday. But on the solemn eighth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks, while rivals including Ask.com and Microsoft's Bing.com offered prominent commemoration displays, it was just another day for the biggest search engine of them all. Whereas Google made special note when Luciano Pavarotti died, the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in history went unnoticed

Google is planning to roll out a system of micropayments within the next year and hopes that newspapers will use it as they look for new ways to charge users for their content. -

Built into the internet giant Google's marketing identity is the quirky, distinctive way in which it incorporates little symbolic ‘doodles' into its logo on those days it deems socially significant....So what touching, compassionate memorial have these creative denizens produced in tribute to this century's most devastating and deeply felt American anniversary? Nothing. You read that right. Google have apparently concluded that 9-11 is not a date of sufficient significance to warrant a gesture. Michael Jackson's birthday, yes. First hot air balloon flight? They had it covered. But the fatal flight of those four airliners does not warrant so much as...

Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 12:19 PM GOOGLE has decided to ignore 911 today, so today is the day I give BING an honest try, maybe I'll switch for good. Check out BING's main page for today 9/11/09. Feel free to pass this on.

Google always commemorates special days like Independence Day and Thanksgiving Dayand the all powerful Earth Day. However, I checked their site solely to see what they had up and sadly it was as plain and stark with nothing to remember the hateful attack against our country 8 years ago. Maybe they will get something up later today or maybe I am being routed through a foreign server but it just made me a little sad to be honest. Anybody else notice?

Google remembers Ghandi, astrology, the first day of spring, Dr. Seuss birthday but nothing about honoring the lives lost and the sacrifice given. Bunch of shmucks.

It promises to be the biggest game of Monopoly the world has ever seen. In a 21st century twist on the popular board game, toymaker Hasbro and tech giant Google have made the game available online, allowing players to compete in a worldwide, real-time version of the game. Launched today, Monopoly City Streets uses the Google Maps platform to let users "buy" any street in the world. Once players create an online profile, they receive a handsome -- albeit make-believe -- $3 million to purchase, build and trade in neighborhoods close to home or the farthest-flung cities. The site went...

What makes a holiday a holiday? Or, what makes a holiday worthy of a celebratory logo on the world’s most popular website like Google? This question recently prompted me to talk with Michael Lopez, Google’s lead logo designer, to find an answer.September 19, for instance, is Rosh Hashanah. You’ll see synagogues celebrating the Jewish New Year and you’ll hear the “Shana tova!” greeting on the streets of New York. But if Google is true to form, you won’t find it a special Google logo marking the day. In the past, however, you will have found Google celebrations of both the...

I know there are some people who have not slept for fear that Google had finally committed itself to some alien culture. Well, some outerworldly alien culture. Well, some outerworldly alien culture where all beings were green and no one used phrases like "market segmentation" and "41 shades of blue." You see, a mysterious doodle appeared on the Google home page. It showed an alien spacecraft making off with the second "O" in the word "Google." Were we really expected to merely gogle now? Didn't that sound uncomfortably close to ogling? Though there were no references to the Church of...

Twitter, Facebook and the worldwide blogosphere have been flooded with alien conspiracy theories about the new Google UFO logo. The logo, showing a classic saucer-shaped spacecraft shining a light down on the search-engine's regular logo, has been the subject of much speculation. The world's internet voices want to now whether the all-powerful web giant is trying to tell us something....

Security: A Senate bill lets the president "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "nongovernmental" computer networks and do what's needed to respond to the threat. Didn't they just collect our e-mail addresses?We wish this was just a piece of the fictional "Dr. Strangelove" that fell to the cutting-room floor, but it's not. It is a real piece of disturbingly vague legislation sponsored by Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine. Senate Bill 773 would grant the administration emergency powers (where have we heard that before?) in the event of a cyberemergency that the president would have...

Google Inc.'s Gmail service was knocked offline Tuesday in a severe outage that the company said affected a "majority" of users. It wasn't immediately clear what caused the disruption, which led Gmail users to get an "Unable to reach Gmail" error message as their computers tried repeatedly to reconnect to the service.

AdMob released their monthly mobile metrics report for July and Android continues to increase its share.  Last month, Android pulled ahead of Windows Mobile.  Worldwide request from the Android operating system grew 40% month over month. This now gives Android a 7%  worldwide OS share and sets up a battle with RIM OS, the software that powers BlackBerry phones.

Quite a legacy Senator Kennedy.

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HAVANA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is trying to make positive changes in the United States, but is being fought at every turn by right-wingers who hate him because he is black, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday. In an unusually conciliatory column in the state-run media, Castro said Obama had inherited many problems from his predecessor, George W. Bush, and was trying to resolve them. But the "powerful extreme right won't be happy with anything that diminishes their prerogatives in the slightest way." Obama does not want to change the U.S. political and economic system, but "in...

The TERRY ANDERSON SHOW.. Articulating the Popular Rage! Sundays - 12-1 AM EDT, 11-12 PM CDT, 10-11 PM MDT, 9-10 PM PDT KRLA - 870 AM - Los Angeles -- KDWN - 720 - Las Vegas -- KFNX - 1100 - Phoenix "Stupid People of America !!! If You Ain't Mad, You Ain't Payin' Attention!" Call-In Number - (866) 870-5752 Don't miss Terry's August 23rd show... When Terry will once again rant patriotically about the invasion... And demand that our borders be closed... and those 30,000,000 illegal aliens sent back home... Can you guess WHO the most Horriblest Clown of...

A Jones County inventor has filed a lawsuit against two Internet server companies. John Ishmel Henry of Soso, in May, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. In his suit, Henry claims that “he was called and depicted as a n----r on two of the Internet service provider search engines, AOL and Google.” Henry, the original inventor of the vibrating toilet seat, was featured on the Jay Leno Show in November, 2008. “Needless to say that my invention garnered a lot of attention,” he said. “I was completely humiliated and horrified...

Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look up facts for themselves. We search for information we don't even care about. Nina Shen Rastogi confessed in Double X, "My boyfriend has threatened to break up with me if I keep whipping...