Google launches real-time search

" Google announced Monday the fruits of its earlier deal with Twitter, showing off how it has decided to present real-time Internet content within search results. Amit Singhal, Google fellow, introduced the...

Google Voice, Phone Sex Lines, and the FCC

Google has responded to the Federal Communications Commission regarding an issue the FCC had with Google Voice blocking calls. Google says it has blocked access to certain numbers because they noticed they were being used for phone sex lines and similar "party" lines. The...

Google’s ‘Immigration Fixer’

The title “immigration specialist” grabbed my attention in this article in the Business, Innovation, Technology and Society (Bits) section of the online New York Times. Christine Doyle does not, as I first...

Three dead in Santa Clara office Park Shooting

SANTA CLARA - Police are searching for a man who supposedly returned to the office where he was recently made redundant and opened fire, killing three people. The infer is identified as 47-year-old Jing Wu of...

Queen uploads YouTube Video

" " She was the first British monarch to send an email. She has her own website. And today the Queen uploaded video to YouTube during a visit to Google's British headquarters. The company celebrated the queen's visit by creating a special version of its google.co.uk...

Google's Android coming November

For the past year, the Mountain View organization has been developing 'Android' – a phone OS that would operate on many handheld devices – and were just approved by the FCC for production. The first device to...

Why many Americans prefer their Sundays segregated

" The Rev. Paul Earl Sheppard had recently become the senior pastor of a suburban church in California when a group of parishioners came to him with a disturbing personal question. Rev. Rodney Woo leads a successful interracial church but says church members...

Google Street View's Privacy Flaws Demonstrated... with Google Street View

While Google continues to swear up and down that its Street View feature is not intrusive to users' privacy, the National Legal and Policy Center spent half an hour compiling street views of top Google execs'...

New Car That Runs On Water

June 16 2008 This new invention is destined to solve the oil price rise in near future. Water Energy System developed byGenpax can generate power by supplying water and air to the fuel and air electrodes. the...

Belgian newspapers sue Google for $77 mil

Google is being sued by a group of Belgian French-language newspapers for up to $77 million, on copyright violations."The newspaper copyright group Copiepresse said it had summoned Google to appear again before a...

Wal-Mart-owned Sam's Club rationing rice

"BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Sam's Club, the membership warehouse division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is limiting how much rice customers can buy because of what it calls "recent supply and demand trends." ...

Land Rover, Savi launch RFID pilot to track auto parts

"Land Rover division and Savi today announced they have launched a pilot program that deploys an active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions that better synchronizes the delivery of auto parts from multiple suppliers to Land Rover's key assembly plant in the West...

Wi-Fi Camera Card Gets a CES Prize

This actually looks pretty cool:"LAS VEGAS (AP) — A memory card that wirelessly sends pictures from a digital camera to a computer — letting you skip the tedium of plugging the camera in to upload images — got bragging rights Wednesday at the International Consumer...

The Vehicle that Delivered The Internet

A used car salesperson comes up to you and givesyou his sales pitch about this van he has.  Nothingspectacular, looks likes a ultility van or better yet,a milk truck.  Sales price, only because you are...

Google Goes Toe-to-Toe With Facebook

Well it was bound to happen sooner or later, and in this case it looks to be sooner. Instead of buying in and trying to take a piece of facebook's pie, internet giant Google is poised to take a giant chunk of the...

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