Category Archives: Google

States push harder for online sales tax collection

By doris | Published: March 20, 2011

Full Story at CBSNews.com AP) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tax-free shopping is under threat for many online shoppers as states facing widening budget gaps increasingly pressure Amazon.com Inc. and other Internet retailers to start collecting sales taxes from their residents. Billions of dollars are at stake as a growing number of states look for ways [...]

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Dell unveils Android-based Mini 3 smartphone

By doris | Published: November 15, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com CNET) — Dell said Friday that it’s ready to enter the smartphone business with the Android-based Mini 3. Long rumored to have such a device in the works, Dell said that the first two carriers to sell the Mini 3 will be China Mobile and Brazil’s Claro. The Mini 3 will [...]

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Google poised to become your phone company

By doris | Published: November 14, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (Wired) — Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process.Seriously.Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. TechCrunch, which broke the news on Monday, [...]

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Google changes to aid music searches

By doris | Published: October 30, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles, California (CNN) — The Internet’s most popular search engine should get smarter about music, as Google updates the algorithms that power its searches this week, a company spokesman said. “You don’t have to know what you’re looking for,” Google’s Jennie Johnson said. “If it looks like they’re looking for [...]

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Google to launch music search service

By doris | Published: October 23, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Google will not become a music retailer itself, but will offer enhanced music search with a streaming function — the first of possibly several vertical search offerings. Searching for an artist or song will apparently bring up a box (thus Google’s working title: “One Box”) with a streaming link randomly assigned [...]

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Google Wave to be released to 100,000 testers Wednesday

By doris | Published: September 30, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The Web application from Google Inc. combines elements of e-mail, chat, Wiki documents, blogs and photo-sharing sites to create a form of Internet communication called a “hosted conversation,” or a “wave.” Google demonstrated Wave at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, California, in May. The closed group of beta [...]

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Justice Department urges court to reject Google book deal

By doris | Published: September 19, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com In a highly anticipated announcement, Justice Department attorneys cited “class action, copyright, and antitrust” concerns in asking U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin in New York to reject the currently constructed class action settlement between Google and the Authors Guild, which had sued them. Despite the perceived problems, the federal government [...]

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Microsoft, Google expand search-engine tools

By doris | Published: September 17, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Or what if you’re in the market for a new camera? You saw a friend with a credit-card-thin model at a party last weekend. But was that a Canon? A Nikon? A brand you’ve never heard of? If you’re like many people, you’d turn to the Internet for answers. But you [...]

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The future of libraries, with or without books

By doris | Published: September 5, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Books are being pushed aside for digital learning centers and gaming areas. “Loud rooms” that promote public discourse and group projects are taking over the bookish quiet. Hipster staffers who blog, chat on Twitter and care little about the Dewey Decimal System are edging out old-school librarians. And that’s just the [...]

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Microsoft and Yahoo: Search partners

By doris | Published: July 30, 2009

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Microsoft and Yahoo reached a long-awaited partnership Wednesday in a bid to challenge Google’s dominance in online search. Under the 10-year deal, Yahoo.com and Bing.com will maintain their own branding but search results on Yahoo.com will say “powered by Bing.” Yahoo, in turn, will be responsible for [...]

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Google vs. Microsoft: What you need to know

By doris | Published: July 16, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com And not more than a month and a half ago, Microsoft unveiled its new search engine Bing, which it hopes will steal market share from Google and finally make it real money online. From the news of it, it’s a full-blown tech battle, complete with behind-the-scenes machinations to sic government regulators [...]

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Glitch in antivirus software troubles PC users

By doris | Published: July 11, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com SAN JOSE, Calif. – Antivirus software cuts two ways. It’s great at blocking known viruses, but it can sometimes misfire, mistakenly flagging clean files as malicious. That sends a computer into a tailspin trying to clean up stuff that’s supposed to be on there. The problem can crash a computer, and [...]

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Google takes on Windows with Chrome OS

By doris | Published: July 9, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com The company says the forthcoming Google Chrome OS will revolutionize how computers operate, putting more emphasis on Web functionality, making computers faster and opening them up to helpful tinkering by outside program developers. “The operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web,” Google [...]

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Web site tracks policy changes at popular sites

By doris | Published: June 5, 2009

Full Story At Tech.yahoo.com A new Web site unveiled Thursday will track policies imposed by popular Internet sites such as Facebook and Google, hoping to help users spot potentially harmful changes. TOSBack.org, the brainchild of privacy advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, will track terms of service modifications within hours of an update. The site will [...]

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Google Networking Error Caused Outage

By doris | Published: May 15, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News Updated at 12:25 p.m. PDT: Google has confirmed an error on its end caused the outage.Widespread outages involving several Google services – including search, Google Docs, and Gmail – were caused by an upgrade gone awry inside of Google, according to engineers. Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research for [...]

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