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All the fears being sparked over Google’s dominance in search, along with its land-grab of DoubleClick’s data mined consumer information, are really just an illusion.
Personalized search is the key to freedom when it comes to using Google. The company’s Peter Fleischer, global policy counsel, said the search giant’s policy’s put the user in charge of […]

An artist depicts the binary system LH54-425, which consists of two very massive stars. The larger star’s powerful wind overpowers the smaller star’s wind, creating a region of hot gas where the outflows collide. LH54-425 is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way about 165,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA […]

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Interview: General manager of platform strategy discusses the effects of Microsoft’s Linux patent claims.
Microsoft ignited hostility following its assertion in Fortune magazine on Monday that Linux and other open-source software infringe on 235 of the company’s patents. The software giant, which signed a controversial patent cross-licensing deal with Novell last November, is encouraging other companies […]

Original: Google searches web’s dark side
One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user’s PC.
Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to “in-depth analysis”.
About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called “drive-by downloads”, sites that install malicious code, such as spyware, without […]

Podcasting has only been popular in the public eye for a little over two years, but the technology has only recently shifted from early adopters to the rest of us. People are finding a lot of ways to use these recordings, many of which should get you thinking about how you (or your company) can […]

The rise of fast processors and cheap storage means that remembering, once incredibly difficult for humans, has become simple. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a professor in Harvard’s JFK School of Government, argues that this shift has been bad for society, and he calls instead for a new era of “forget fulness.”
Read More: Prof says computers must learn […]

In a whale-sized project, the world’s scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth’s 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone.
The effort, called the Encyclopedia of Life, will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and […]

Today at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen unveiled the new version of Google Analytics. We will be activating this new version on all current Analytics accounts over the next few weeks, so please be on the lookout for an email from us and keep an eye on your settings […]

Joost, one of YouTube’s rivals, signed a deal with several companies that will make the application more competitive for the Google product. The new partners, CNN, Sony and NHL, will enhance the Joost features to help it broadcast television using the Internet protocols. Some time ago, when Joost was announced, the YouTube fans were […]