Google Blogoscoped (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
ZDNet today writes: Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 has been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company used by Google and other companies to handle human-resources functions, were stolen in a burglary on 26 May. An undisclosed number of employees' details and those of dependents, such as names, addresses,...
NeoWin (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 has been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company Google and other companies use to handle human-resources functions, were stolen in a burglary on 26 May. An undisclosed number of employees' details and those of dependents, such as names, addresses, and social security...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Google's Street View launched in the US last May, but expanding the service to Europe is proving to be a bit more difficult for Google. The Google Maps blog today announced the release of Street View for the route of the Tour de France , but privacy activists in England are anything but amused by the prospect of Google starting to photograph the streets of London. England's Privacy International doesn't...
MountainRunner (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Totally off topic, but if you missed it, this year’s Tour started today. I haven’t been seen much in the way of U.S. advertising, but then I haven’t been looking. Did you know there are two U.S. teams this...
Webware.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Summer may be a time for fireworks and barbecues in America, but halfway across the globe there's some serious bicycling underway. To celebrate the Tour de France as well as the recent inclusion of Street View in France proper, Google has created a custom Street View map for tracking the entire race route at eye level. Along for the ride are some of the newer Street View additions like face blurring...
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Google has created a street-view map of each stage of the Tour de France (which some Americans my be surprised to learn is still held each year, despite Lance Armstrong’s retirement). I continue to marvel at the powerful ways in which stories can be told with Google Maps. : Click here to view ’street-view’ [...]
ChatzWorld - A World of Chat (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 has been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company Google and other companies use to handle human-resources functions, were stolen in a burglary on 26 May. An undisclosed number of employees' details and those of dependents, such as names, addresses, and social security...
TechnoCloud (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
As an update to my previous post , Google has announced the details on their blog and provided more details on the Lat Long blog , complete with some rather cloudy stills. Note to Google: wait for a sunnier day, as it looks like there’s a stage in England after all…
