Google has gone the Wikipedia way for its Street View by giving web users the ability to edit the locations of businesses that appear in its Street View service. It will even allow users to move the tags, many of which are badly positioned.
Street View was made available in UK last year is an add-on …
An Italian court has convicted three Google Inc. executives on Wednesday for being criminally responsible for a video showing an autistic teenager being bullied. Though they can appeal against the verdict, the case highlights the broader problem related to Internet freedom. Google has responded strongly to the verdict saying that if the verdict stands, ‘The web as we know will cease to exist’.
Google has been publicly blasted by users as well as industry analysts for privacy invasion on Google Buzz. The results get even scarier if you are a parent who wants to control and monitor your child’s activity on social networks on the internet.
Apple and Google have made it a habit to cross each other’s roads – Be it over Eric Schmidt, Apple blocking Google Voice on iPhone or the recent showdown of iPhone vs. Nexus One. Now, with Google releasing details of its Chromium Tablet, the Apple Google rivalry seems to be entering a new dimension altogether.
After categorically denying any involvement in the recent cyber attacks on Google, China has signalled its intent to improve its deteriorating relations with Google. In a recent press release, China has indicated that it would welcome Google Android without any restrictions.
China has categorically denied any state involvement in Operation Aurora, the series of cyber attacks that rocked Google and several other technology companies earlier this year. This is in response to United States President Barack Obama’s comment where he mentioned that he was “troubled” by Google’s claims of a Chinese hand in the recent cyber attacks.
Haven’t you heard of Google Voice? It is the best way to manage all your phone numbers via a single number. This phone number rings any phones (work, mobile, home, etc). You can even place a set of rules to restrict who is calling and when. As you can imagine, moving away from the traditional phone numbers is quite difficult …
Yahoo is continuing to show signs of weakness and vulnerability, with Q2 earning reports just being released they are showing a 13% decrease in earnings on the same period as last year (1.14 billion dollars from 1.35 billion dollars). Looks Yahoo is continuing to feel the pinch of recession, although as many are quick to point out, these figures are better than expected. But yet rather lack luster when you see their main rival Google swelling up with cash.