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Wednesday, 31 December '08 - 5:07:26 PM -0400
An anti-gun group is suing to stop enactment of Bush administration rules that would let people carry concealed weapons in many U.S. parks.
Thursday, 1 January '09 - 10:30:49 AM -0400
Viacom and Time Warner have settled on a new contract. They had disagreed over fee increases, and Viacom had threatened to pull the plug on its 19 cable channels, including MTV and Comedy Central.
Sunday, 4 January '09 - 7:45:20 PM -0400
Rhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. Event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.
Wednesday, 5 November '08 - 6:31:31 PM -0400
A couple weeks ago, fanboy dorks exposed their stupidity to the wider community by hijacking the user reviews of two games on review aggregate site MetaCritic.
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The (for-now) non-profit Mozilla Foundation released its financial statements for 2007 (embedded below). Revenues for the organization behind the open-source Firefox browser were up 12 percent to $75 million, with search-related royalties from Google accounting for 88 percent of the total, or $66 million. (Another $2 million or so came from other search engines).
Some of Argentina's most famous figures are coming up blank on popular search engines - by court order. Unfortunately for footballer Diego Maradona, anyone outside of Argentina can still get search results for him and all of the other celebrities.
The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, on behalf of a broad class of copyright holders, will join with Google to host a teleconference today to discuss a settlement agreement that would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of major U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search.
Via 6 sources. 10.29.08 @8:26PM -0400
Google is accused once again of making money from typosquatters - those who register mistyped domains and throw ads on them to make money. This time, a Harvard law professor says he's looking out for trademark holders who are suffering from the actions of typosquatters.
There once was a time when Google search tried to be a neutral bystander, watching the web without getting too actively involved. There once was a time when Google instructed webmasters to serve their Googlebot the same thing served to a site's human users. Now, Google is officially telling webmasters they can serve one thing to people coming from Google web search, and another thing to people coming from elsewhere.
Google has put itself in charge of policing Android devices. The search giant is retaining the right to delete applications from Android handsets on a whim.
Google is profiting from millions of typo-squatting websites that earn advertising from Google's Adwords advertising program, Harvard University professor Ben Edelman says.
A German court has ruled that Google's image searches aren't allowed to display thumbnails of copyrighted images, and says that it's Google's job to figure out what's copyrighted.
Via 2 sources. 10.14.08 @10:05PM -0400
After reading an XKCD cartoon about a youtube "virus", Google actually decided to impliment it for real.
As expected, Microsoft announced a Windows-based "cloud OS" during the first day of PDC. Windows Azure offers virtualized computing, automated service management, and scalable storage and will compete against cloud-based offerings from Amazon and Google.
Via 6 sources. 10.4.08 @12:52AM -0400
A recently published patent from Google describes a device-based bidding system for consumers to pick and chose which services and providers they communicate over.
Google Transit is integrating with NY MTA's website and various kiosks are being placed throughout the transit system. Users do not need to search specifically for transit information. Instead, they are shown transit routes, stations and stops even if they search for something like a bagel store.
T-Mobile, Google, and HTC lifted the curtain on the first Android-enabled mobile phone today. The $179 device will have Google app integration, a built-in music store, and the Android Market to buy apps from developers. The device is to go on sale Oct. 22.
Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, talks with Steve Inskeep about the "Global Network Initiative." It's a code of conduct for Internet companies that do business in countries where governments censor or interfere in the Internet and media.
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