Google Street View Moves Indoors
Last Updated on Sunday, 30 October 2011 10:24 Written by External Post Sunday, 30 October 2011 10:24
Hugh Pickens writes “Google is taking its Street View mapping service indoors with plans moving ahead for 360-degree Business Photos, a program that would send Google photographers to various businesses to snap professional photos for their Places Page.
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Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic
Last Updated on Sunday, 10 October 2010 01:20 Written by External Post Sunday, 10 October 2010 01:20
Hugh Pickens writes “Autonomous cars are years from mass production, but technologists who have long dreamed of them believe that they can transform society as profoundly as the Internet has. Now the NY Times reports that Google has been working in
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US Negotiators Cave On Internet Provisions To ACTA
Last Updated on Friday, 8 October 2010 05:00 Written by External Post Friday, 8 October 2010 05:00
Hugh Pickens writes “Ars Technica reports that with the release of the ‘near-final’ ACTA text (PDF), it is becoming clear that the US has caved on the most egregious provisions from earlier drafts (advocating ‘three strikes’ regimes, ordering ISPs to
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Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues
Last Updated on Monday, 31 May 2010 10:20 Written by External Post Monday, 31 May 2010 10:20
Hugh Pickens writes ‘The Toronto Star reports that a Utah woman is suing Google for more than $100,000 in damages, claiming its maps function gave her walking directions that led her onto a major highway, where she was struck by a car. Lauren Rosenberg
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Judicial Nominations In the Internet Age
Last Updated on Sunday, 16 May 2010 08:00 Written by External Post Sunday, 16 May 2010 08:00
Hugh Pickens writes ‘Chris Good writes in the Atlantic that nominees to the Supreme Court and other high profile positions are required to provide the Judiciary Committee with everything they’ve ever written or said publicly, to the best of their
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Microsoft Accuses Google Docs of Data Infidelity
Last Updated on Sunday, 16 May 2010 01:40 Written by External Post Sunday, 16 May 2010 01:40
Hugh Pickens writes ‘For years Google has been pitching migrations from Microsoft Office to Google Docs, arguing that Docs makes Office 2003 and 2007 better because users can store Microsoft Office documents in Google’s cloud and share them in their
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Google Attorney Slams ACTA Copyright Treaty
Last Updated on Saturday, 8 May 2010 10:40 Written by External Post Saturday, 8 May 2010 10:40
Hugh Pickens writes ‘Cnet reports that Daphne Keller, a senior policy counsel at Google, says ACTA has ‘metastasized’ from a proposal to address border security and counterfeit goods to an sweeping international legal framework for copyright and the
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Google Releases a Web-App Case Study For Hackers
Last Updated on Thursday, 6 May 2010 01:20 Written by External Post Thursday, 6 May 2010 01:20
Hugh Pickens writes ‘The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Google has released Jarlsberg, a ‘small, cheesy’ web application specifically designed to be full of bugs and security flaws as a security tutorial for coders, and encourages programmers to
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FTC Could Gain Enforcement Power Over Internet
Last Updated on Thursday, 29 April 2010 12:00 Written by External Post Thursday, 29 April 2010 12:00
Hugh Pickens writes ‘The Washington Post reports that under a little-known provision in financial overhaul legislation before Congress the Federal Trade Commission could become a more powerful watchdog for Internet users with the power to to issue rules
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Senators Tell Facebook To Quit Sharing Users’ Info
Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 April 2010 11:00 Written by External Post Tuesday, 27 April 2010 11:00
Hugh Pickens notes a USA Today story reporting that two US senators have joined Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in telling Facebook to quit sharing more of its users’ data than they signed up for. Politico.com ups USA Today’s ante, saying that it was three
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