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DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde made an appearance via Skype at the South by South West Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. In the conference Sunde stated piracy is a forbidden fruit of sorts, and compared it to sugar. In the conference Sunde says that he understands that piracy is a forbidden fruit of sorts. He states, "This idea has been discussed for hundreds of years. Not everything...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Search giant Google has yet to re-register as an internet content provider in China Google missed a deadline to re-register as an " internet content provider " (ICP) in China last night, which observers say is a sign that it is preparing to shut down its search engine there. Google UK denied the reports, saying that the ICP licence – required by the Chinese government for companies...
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Google Operating System (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York Times has an interesting article about the evolution of Google's relationship with Apple. If three years ago Google was an important partner for Apple, Android's launch and its growing popularity eroded the relationship. "In the last six months, Apple and Google have jousted over acquisitions, patents, directors, advisers and iPhone applications. This month, Apple sued HTC, the Taiwanese...
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Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
At SXSW, The Pirate Bay 's Peter Sunde helmed a conference via Skype, where he likened P2P to Coca Cola , and The Pirate Bay to sugar. He also said he could make Sergey Brin "want to marry me." [ TechRadar ] More »
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 03/15/2010
A product manager from Google told attendees at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas that Google had misstepped by launching its social network, Google Buzz, too broadly and too promiscuously. In the future, said Google’s Todd Jackson, the company will pre-test new features rather than roll them out to all customers at once. Earlier at the conference, keynote speaker...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 03/15/2010
A product manager from Google told attendees at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas that Google had misstepped by launching its social network, Google Buzz, too broadly and too promiscuously . In the future, said Google’s Todd Jackson, the company will pre-test new features rather than roll them out to all customers at once. Earlier at the conference, keynote speaker...
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The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 03/14/2010
As a boy growing up in the Soviet Union, Sergey Brin witnessed the consequences of censorship. Now the Google co-founder is drawing on that experience in shaping the company's showdown with the Chinese government.
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Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 03/13/2010
Richard Waters at the Financial Times, reports that a source "familiar with the company’s thinking" has told him that Google is 99.9 percent certain it will close its Chinese search service. ...the company is likely to take some time to follow through with the plan as it seeks an orderly closure and takes steps to protect local employees from retaliation by the authorities, the person...
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ZDNet (Free subscription) | 03/12/2010
Google co-founder Sergey Brin adores the company's social network called Google Buzz. We know this because an engineer working five feet from Brin used Google Buzz to say so. by Declan McCullagh CNET News
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Geeking with Greg (Free subscription) | 03/12/2010
The Onion has a hilarious article, " Google Responds To Privacy Concerns With Unsettlingly Specific Apology ", that should be enjoyable for this crowd. An excerpt as a teaster: Acknowledging that Google hasn't always been open about how it mines the roughly 800 terabytes of personal data it has gathered since 1998, [CEO Eric] Schmidt apologized to users -- particularly the 1,237,948 who take...
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LitmanLive (Free subscription) | 03/12/2010
The internet has created some of the world's youngest billionaires, possibly in the shortest possible time scale, ever. The richest are Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the pair who set up Google in the late 1990s. They went from PhD students to (paper) billionaires in about five years. The youngest is 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking site Facebook, who has returned to the billionaire...
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The Young Professional Blogs Aggregator (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
I’m sure everyone by now has heard of Google; the world’s preferred search engine. They are a multinational public cloud computing and Internet search technologies corporation who hosts and develops a slew of Internet-based services and products such as Google Buzz. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while the two were attending [...]
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Indian Express (Free subscription) | 03/10/2010
In a meeting at Google in 2004, the discussion turned to an email message the company had received from a fan in South Korea. Sergey Brin, a Google founder, ran the message through an automatic translation service that the company had licensed.
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Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk - Liverpool News (Free subscription) | 03/10/2010
GOOGLE began as a project by Stanford University student Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996.
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Bigmouthmedia (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
Among other things, Google now provides one of the largest online translation services, handling 52 languages and servicing hundreds of millions of queries every week. Although its translation services are not perfect, the New York Times reports that Google is rapidly improving the service. In 2004, Sergey Brin received an email from a Google fan in South Korea. Running it through the translation...