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Judge Refuses To Decide ‘Fair Use’ in Java Trial

Thu, 10 May 2012 06:15:00 EDT

Judge William Alsup Wednesday refused to decide whether Google had fairly used the Java IP a jury found Android infringed Monday. There are, you see, circumstances that allow copyrighted work to be copied without the owner’s consent such as creating something new that advances the public interest but the jury deadlocked on that issue and returned only a partial verdict. Oracle hoped the judge would intervene and hand down a judgment in its favor as a matter of law since Google’s liability depends on it but he refused. He reportedly said, “I don’t think it would be right to rule in favor of Oracle” at a hearing Wednesday. His decision suggests that Google will get the new trial it’s asked for. “I hate to even contemplate the idea of another trial,” the judge was quoted as saying, “but if it comes to that, that’s the way it will have to be.” It’s unclear whether a new jury would be asked to decide infringement as well as fair use like Google wants. Judge Alsup also reportedly refused to throw out the jury verdict that Google cribbed nine lines of Java code. He is expected to rule on the copyrightability of APIs and of course he has to rule on Google’s motion for a mistrial. The existing jury is currently hearing the patent infringement phase of the case and has heard from folks like Android creator Andy Rubin as well as other engineers.

Research and Markets: Digital Media - Insights into Google

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:47:18 EDT

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4xf4ll/digital_media_in) has announced the addition of the "Digital Media - Insights into Google" company profile to their offering.

Research and Markets: Google Secrets - Become a Google Guru with These Effective Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:26:23 EST

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a8d9ca/google_secrets) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Google Secrets" to their offering.

Oracle-Google Trial Slips into Next Year

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:49:00 EDT

Judge William Alsup has now definitely said that there ain’t gonna be an Oracle-Google trial this year. In place of that disappointment he has proposed that there be a three-phase trial before the same jury: the first on copyright infringement, the second on patent infringement, and the third on willfulness/damages. Oracle and Google have until November 18 to complain. FOSS Patents says the plan favors Google but that may just be because the judge believes “that Google is on the losing track, so he may just want to reduce the degree of certainty on Oracle’s part in order to increase the likelihood of a settlement.”

Google Gets ITA & Maybe More Trouble

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:00:00 EDT

Google got its way. The Justice Department isn’t going to oppose its $700 million acquisition of ITA Software, which provides the data for airline tickets to airlines and online travel companies, a purchase the agency has been reviewing since last July. But unlike Google’s equally opposed $3.2 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, the display ad house, in 2008 or its $750 million acquisition of AdMob, the mobile ad company, last year, the DOJ put strings on this one.

Google Could Face FTC Antitrust Investigation: Bloomberg

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:00:00 EDT

Already under investigation for antitrust in Europe, Google could face a broad parallel investigation of its dominant search business in the US by the Federal Trade Commission, Bloomberg said Monday quoting two unidentified people “familiar with the matter.” A heck of a way for Larry Page to start his run as Google’s new CEO. Looks like Eric Schmidt stepped down just in time.

Google Sentenced to 20-Years with a Parole Officer

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:56:00 EDT

The Federal Trade Commission has charged Google and its infamous Buzz social network with deceptive privacy practices and violating its own privacy promises. To settle up Google has agreed to implement a “comprehensive privacy program” and submit to third-party privacy audits every two years for the next 20 years. The FTC said this is the first time an FTC settlement order has required a company to implement a comprehensive privacy program to protect the privacy of consumer information. It’s also the first time the FTC has alleged violations of the privacy requirements of the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework, which lets US companies lawfully transfer personal data from the European Union to the United States.

MPEG LA Moves To Drown Google's VP8 in a Patent Pool

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:00:00 EST

The monetizing MPEG-LA patent consortium has whistled up anybody who thinks they have patent dibs on the royalty-free open source VP8/WebM video codec that Google bought to replace the technically superior, royalty- bearing H.264 standard in HTML 5. MPEG-LA, which controls H.264 and believes VP8 treads on many patents, says it wants to create a patent pool that could attach license fees to VP8, or theoretically sue the widgetry depending on the strength of the claims.

Android 3’s Not Ready Yet: Google

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 06:30:00 EST

Google held a quasi-private viewing at the GooglePlex Wednesday so the press could ooh and ah over the still-unfinished Android 3.0, its tablet- friendly version of the operating system also known as Honeycomb that still has no fixed release date. Product management director Hugo Barra said the widgetry is “not quite ready” to leave home although Motorola Mobility wants to start selling the Honeycomb-based Xoom tablet that Google used for the demo by the end of March.

iPad’s Loss of Market Share to Android Greatly Exaggerated

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:21:00 EST

The latest tablet figures claim that shipments doubled sequentially in Q4 to 9.4 million units, up 120% from 4.4 million units in Q3, and that iPad – which owned 96% of the market in Q3 – suffered a 21% share loss to Android – up 2,000% – complements of Samsung purportedly getting off two million of its Android-based Galaxy Tabs.

Okta Seeks to Accelerate Secure Adoption of Cloud Apps

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:15:00 EST

"Enterprises everywhere are realizing the inherent benefits of running their core IT services in the cloud,” said Todd McKinnon, most recently VP of Engineering at Salesforce.com from 2003 to 2009, and now CEO of the on-demand identity and access management service, Okta. "This shift fundamentally requires them to rethink their IT infrastructure and how their employees access it," McKinnon added. "Okta," he continued, "is the only enterprise class, on-demand service purpose built to help customer secure and manage their entire cloud services network and the people who need access to it, with no professional services required."

Obama Endorses the Value of U.S. Social Technologies

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:00:00 EST

"We are the nation that put cars in driveways and computers in offices; the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers; of Google and Facebook. In America, innovation doesn’t just change our lives. It’s how we make a living." With this one sentence, President Barack Obama ushered in once and for all the Age of Sociotechnology, the age that recognizes the importance of the interaction between people and technology in both workplaces and society.

Facebook, Google, and the Near-Term Future of the USA

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:45:00 EST

On the day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 12,000 for the first time since June 2008, it was impossible not to correlate the eloquence and optimism of President Obama's "State of the Union" speech on Tuesday night with the restoration of a sense of perspective and hope in the USA about the future.

Is Television in Eric Schmidt’s Future?

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:00:00 EST

Outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt is only going to stick around as executive chairman for a year after he turns the company over to co-founder Larry Page, 37, on April 4, according to the New Yorker's Ken Auletta, who wrote the book "Googled." Eric reportedly started getting antsy after he lost the China uncensored search battle last year to Page and Google's other co-founder Sergey Brin coupled with Facebook becoming the hot technology shop where the top engineers really want to work while Google looked increasingly bureaucratic and governments complained about privacy and copyrights. He was tired and couldn't "re-energize."

Cloud Expo 2011 New York Expands Technical Program

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:00:00 EST

Due to a record increase in the number, quality and breadth of submissions to the Conference Advisory Board, the organizers of 8th Cloud Expo (June 6-9, 2011) - Cloud Expo New York 2011 - have extended the technical program through the addition of an all-new "Telcos in the Cloud" track - to complement the already extensive selection of tracks, including "Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing," "Federal/Government Cloud Computing," "Real-World Virtualization,"Cloud Security," "The Cloud in Practice: Case Studies," and the always-popular "Hot Topics" track.

GSA and Unisys/Google Marks GovCloud Watershed

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:30:00 EST

As widely reported this week, the United States General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded a contract to Unisys to create a secure cloud-based email and collaboration platform. The solution will be based on Google Apps for Government and is expected to save $15M over the next five years when compared to current staff, infrastructure, and contract support costs.

Google To Show Off ‘ChromeBook’

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:00:00 EST

Google is supposed to unveil a beta Chrome OS on a generic Atom-based netbook Tuesday and put the Google-branded thing into limited circulation in the run-up to a commercial product next year. Reportedly no more than 65,000 of this first-stab widget will be made as an appeal to developers.

Google-Groupon Deal Stalls

Sat, 04 Dec 2010 16:00:00 EST

Chicago-based "social buying" site Groupon will not, after all, be acquired by Google for approaching $6 billion. That's because Groupon's investors and its CEO Andrew Mason have reportedly ended the "direct negotiations" between the two companies that Reuters was already reporting on Wednesday were in full flow.

Unisys Gets GSA Contract for Cloud Solution on Google Apps for Government

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:45:00 EST

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) on Thursday awarded a contract to Unisys to create a secure cloud-based email and collaboration platform, based on Google Apps for Government, to allow GSA employees to collaborate and work remotely from any location at any time. According to GSA, the migration will result in a 50 percent savings over the next five years when compared to current staff, infrastructure, and contract support costs.

Google Reportedly Ready To Blow $6 Billion on Groupon

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:25:00 EST

Google is reportedly ready to shell out $5 billion-$6 billion – evidently more like $6 billion – to buy two-year-old Groupon. The All Things Digital blog says the bid works out to $5.3 billion down and $700 million in earnouts unless negotiations fall apart. That’s more than Google paid for any other acquisition. It only spent $3.1 billion on DoubleClick and $1.65 billion on YouTube. Naturally there’s talk it’s overpaying.

Google Cloud Client Almost Here

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:55:00 EST

The rumors are approaching consensus that a pair of new netbooks running the Google Chrome OS may/will be available early in the New Year. The details of the specs and marketing plans are still a bit vague, but we do know that they will run the Chrome OS. We think that they will be called “Smartbooks”. We have a persistent, unconfirmed notion that they will be Google-branded. And, we suppose that Google may sell them directly, possibly supplemented by other channels. Much of the reporting about the Google netbooks refers to them as “web-only” devices, which, depending on how that phrase is defined, is either misleading or just plain wrong.

EC To Investigate Google for Antitrust

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:36:00 EST

Google’s luck dodging formal antitrust investigations has finally run out. The European Commission said Tuesday that it will investigate charges Google has abused its dominant position in search by closing out the competition.

Google Building Its Own Facebook: WSJ

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:00:00 EDT

Google is looking to build its own Facebook to defend against Facebook and its 500 million members running off with too many ads or even starting an ad network across other sites à la Google’s AdSense according to the Wall Street Journal. The search giant has reportedly been talking to online game companies about it like Electronic Arts, Playdom – just bought by Disney for $563.2 million – and Zynga – where Google is investing over a $100 million in aid of its plans according to the New York Times, which jumped on the Journal’s story.

[Updated] Google Twists in the Wind over Beijing

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:15:00 EDT

Google's quixotic and poorly executed attempt to do business in China on its terms rather than the Chinese government's has suffered another serious setback. Google's Internet Content Providers (ICP) license to run google.cn expired on Wednesday and the Communist regime told the company it won't be renewed if Google keeps automatically redirecting google.cn search traffic to its uncensored Chinese language site in Hong Kong. That's where Google unilaterally retreated to in March after the government called its bluff on leaving the country if search was going to be censored. Now Google hopes that if it puts up an intermediate "landing page" where users have to click on the message "We have moved to google.com.hk" it won't get kicked out of the largest, fastest-growing Internet market in the world on its ear. If the gambit doesn't fly, well, as its general counsel David Drummond blogged, "without an ICP license, we can't operate a commercial web site...so Google would effectively go dark in China."

Cisco To Field a Tablet

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:15:00 EDT

First it seemed that everybody’s middle name suddenly changed to cloud. Now every boy simply has to have a tablet. The tablet du jour is a thing that’s coming out in Q1 from Cisco called Cius (say see-us). Oh, stop rubbing your eyes, yes, Cisco. It’s a little seven-inch Android-on-Atom affair fitted out with two – count ‘em – two cameras that are meant to support Cisco’s videoconferencing mantra.

Chrome Architect Jumps Ship to Facebook as Google Me Rumor Surfaces

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:00:00 EDT

Google has lost the guy who started and led its Chrome OS project to Facebook. Matthew Papakipos, who joined Google in 2007 when it acquired PeakStream which he founded, tweeted the news Monday morning, saying “Now that Chrome OS & WebGL are in good shape, it’s time for something new. I’m going to work @ Facebook! Love the product and team. Woot!” Google, meanwhile, is running up a Facebook clone according to a tweet Saturday by Digg co-founder and CEO Kevin Rose that said, “Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch Facebook competitor very soon ‘Google Me,’ very credible source.”

Pause Your Google History

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:40:00 EDT

Have you ever used your Google search history? If you are logged into any Google service, Google automatically keeps a history of your search queries ad web activities. You know that great web site you saw online and now can’t find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you’ve visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time. View and manage your web activity. You know that great web site you saw online and now can’t find? [...]

Introducing CloudBerry Explorer for Google Storage

Fri, 28 May 2010 09:59:00 EDT

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer for Google Storage 1.0 and later.

Google Storage for Developers is a RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure. The service combines the performance and scalability of Google's cloud with advanced security and sharing capabilities.

Following the Google’s announcement CloudBerry Lab decided to support Google Storage in their CloudBerry Explorer product line. CloudBerry Explorer for Google Storage will have all of the functionality of CloudBerry S3 Explorer taking into account Google Storage specifics.

Google Storage is currently in private beta but if you are one of those lucky individuals who got an invitation you can now work with your storage using CloudBerry Explorer.

Note: CloudBerry Explorer for Google Storage is currently in beta.

You get your Access and Secret key on the Key Management section of Google Storage website:

You register your Google Storage account in exactly the same way as you register Amazon S3 accounts.

Now you can enjoy one of the many features of Google Storage:

* Register and connect to any number of Google Storage accounts

* Work with any number of Google Storage accounts simultaneously

* Create, browse, and delete Google Storage files

* Create, browse, and delete folders

* Copy and move files between Google Storage and your local computer

* Create Buckets

* List Buckets

* Delete Buckets

* Upload/ Download files

* Copy/ Move files

* Delete files

* Rename files

* View files

* Generate URL for files

* View files properties

* Copy/Move in background

* Synchronize folders

* Copy files from Windows Explorer

* Remember user settings

* Built-in feedback form

* Automated check for updates

In addition to CloudBerry Explorer, CloudBerry Backup will also have a version designed for Google Storage. Stay tuned!

CloudBerry Explorer for Google Storage is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Google Storage. You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=explorer-gs

CloudBerry Explorer PRO for Google Storage is a Windows program that helps managing Google Storage. You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=explorer-gs-pro It is priced at $39.99 .

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Guess What? There’s Gonna Be a Chrome Store!!

Wed, 19 May 2010 19:00:00 EDT

In a move that will come as no surprise to anyone, Google is planning to set up an online store for third-party Chrome apps later this year. It’s promising a secure payment system. It’s also got some documentation on how to write Chrome apps for the store but warns that technical details will probably change before launch. The Chrome OS itself is supposed to be free. So is the Chrome browser. Google is already claiming 70 million active users.

Consumer Watchdog to Follow Google's Dangerous Dominance Over the Internet

Wed, 19 May 2010 17:00:00 EDT

The nonpartisan, nonprofit public interest group is launching Inside Google to educate the public and opinion leaders about Google's dangerous dominance over the Internet, computing and consumers' online lives. Inside Google's blog is authored by experienced consumer advocates and journalists working to expose the "black box" at Google with an eye towards holding Google engineers accountable to social mores, ethical customs and the rule of law. "Google advocates openness and transparency for everyone else, but when it comes to their own activities, the company is extremely secretive," said John M. Simpson, consumer advocate with Consumer Watchdog. "Inside Google will focus needed public attention on Google's activities." In the fall of 2008, with the support of the Rose Foundation, Consumer Watchdog embarked upon a privacy project to educate the public and opinion leaders about the need for greater online privacy, and to hold Google accountable for tracking consumers online without explicit permission. The goal was to convince Google of the social and economic importance of giving consumers control over their on-line lives.

Google To Kill Direct Google Phone Sales

Tue, 18 May 2010 21:15:00 EDT

Having alienated carriers like Sprint and Verizon by trying to sell its Android-based Nexus One phone direct to the consumer from its google.com/phone online store - Google's attempt to change the traditional cell phone sales model - it's killing the four-month-old store, describing it as merely "niche channel for early adopters," meaning its sales have been paltry. It swears it's because "many customers like a hands-on experience before buying a phone, and they also want a wide range of service plans to chose from."

Google To Buy Key VoIP House

Tue, 18 May 2010 16:17:00 EDT

Google said Tuesday that it means to buy Norway's publicly traded VoIP codec house Global IP Solutions Holding AB (GIPS) for $68.2 million cash, a move that could put it in contention with Skype not to mention the telecom companies that are selling its phones. The deal, which represents a 27.5% premium over GIPs' closing price Friday, will also give Google ownership of parts of the technology underlying the instant messaging systems used by Yahoo, AOL and Baidu. Global IP Solutions makes the real-time processing software for voice and video calls over the Internet, widgetry used by IBM's Lotus Sametime as well as Cisco's WebEx scheme under a shiny new deal.

What Did Google Just Buy & What For?

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:45:00 EDT

Google, which has got more secrets than the CIA, has just bought that mystery outfit Agnilux that the PA Semi guys who didn't fit into Apple - or picked up their winnings from Apple's $278 million 2008 acquisition of PA and moved on to the next crap game- are supposed to have started. Nobody knows what Agnilux is doing. A couple of months ago the New York Times was told by an ex-PA person that Agnilux was working on a server and repeated scuttlebutt that it had a partnership in place with Cisco. A couple of months ago the New York Times was told by an ex-PA person that Agnilux was working on a server and repeated scuttlebutt that it had a partnership in place with Cisco. Well, Google does love to build its own servers. But since PA Semi apparently provided the A4 ARM chip for the iPad, maybe it's reinventing that wheel for Google. Or maybe it's working on something brand new!!!

Chinese Hackers Pinched the Tollgate on Google’s Cloud

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:51:00 EDT

Those unidentified but allegedly Chinese hackers who got into Google's repository in December got access to the code for the software that authenticates users of Google's Gmail and calendar and other online apps according to the Wall Street Journal, which quoted a "person familiar with the matter." So far Google has only vaguely alluded to some unidentified "IP" being lost. The hackers compromised a workstation used by a Google engineer through a seemingly innocent Microsoft Messenger instant message that connected to what the New York Times called a poisoned web site.

Bravo, Google!

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:40:00 EDT

Let me ask you this, “Can you come up with any innovation for the time interval between the moment you pressed the button Send in your email client and the moment when the send process actually begins”? No? And Microsoft couldn’t, even though MS Outlook is probably still the most popular email client.

Maximize Your Mobile Web Experience With New Mini Phone From LG

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:03:36 EDT

LG Electronics (LG), a global leader and technology innovator in mobile communications, today officially launched its new LG Mini (LG GD880), a pocket-size communication hub that maximizes the mobile web experience.

Consumer Watchdog Files White House FOIA Request For Ex-Googler’s Email

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:15:00 EDT

Consumer Watchdog filed a Freedom of Information Act request today with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy seeking copies of email between Internet Policy chief Andrew McLaughlin and his former employer, Google Inc. The nonpartisan, nonprofit consumer group made the request after an online publication printed an article showing that McLaughlin's "Buzz" profile revealed that many of his most frequent email correspondents were Google employees. Before being appointed the OSTP's Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy, McLaughlin was Google's head of Global Public Policy, its top global lobbyist.

Consumer Watchdog Files White House FOIA Request for Ex-Googler's Email

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:58:01 EDT

Geoff Ramsey Most Popular Speaker at I-COM Global Summit

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:48:50 EDT

ahead of Microsoft and Unilever.

New Sharetivity Plug-In Eliminates Old Bookmarking Method

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:01:07 EDT

A new browser plug-in kicked off by Palo Alto-based Sharetivity allows individual users to customize, save, share and discuss content all in one location: their browser.

Google Landing @ MobileMonday Toronto Members

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EDT

Attention Business and Technology Editors

Research and Markets: Google Buzz

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:29:26 EDT

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4dc9dc/google_buzz) has announced the addition of the "Google Buzz" report to their offering.

Google China Has Called the Movers: Reports

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:15:00 EDT

Google's reportedly admitting that it's met somebody that's bigger, tougher and even more dominance-minded than it is, namely the Chinese government, which isn't going to let a little thing like Google leaving the country come between it and a censored Internet. Whatever talks Google has had with the Chinese government have apparently gone nowhere. The Financial Times has it from "a person familiar with the company's thinking" that Google is 99.9% certain to shut down its Chinese search engine and has drawn up a detailed evacuation plan.

Digital Footprint and Virtual Social Influence

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST

I’ve been thinking about my presence on the Internet from the early days, from my time at Argonne National Labs near Chicago in 1988-1989 and from my graduate school days at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1989-1992. That was even before the web browser days, which didn’t come out till 1993-94... I’ve been thinking about my presence on the internet from the early days, from my time at Argonne National Labs near Chicago in 1988-1989 and from my graduate school days at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1989-1992. That was even before the web browser days, which didn’t come out till [...]

Google Sets Up Google Apps Store

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:30:00 EST

Apple is beginning to know how Xerox PARC felt. Like Apple did to PARC, Google has lifted from Apple again this time on behalf of Google Apps and set up a Google Apps Marketplace where third parties can sell business programs that integrate with Google Apps to the two million companies and 25 million users that have reportedly adopted Google Apps in the last three years. The marketplace, which will irritate Microsoft, launched Tuesday with some 50 programs from companies like Intuit and Atlassian and more reportedly coming from companies like NetSuite and SuccessFactors. Skytap is kicking in its cloud.

Is Google the Next Evil Empire?

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:15:00 EST

The news last week that Italian authorities have convicted three Google executives with criminal privacy violations got my attention for two reasons. One, the charges are based on a video that shows an autistic boy being bullied, a video that Google did not create or post. It was filmed by cell cameras and posted more than three years ago, and indeed one of the executives has since retired from Google. Two, none of the three live or work in Italy, and a fourth executive – a product manager – was acquitted. We truly live in a global village, and one in which the legal operations move slower and slower. As someone who was bullied as a child, I get this, although not sure that justice really was served here.

Sentiment Metrics Launches an Industry First in Social Media Engagement Capabilities

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:00:00 EST

Sentiment Metrics today announced the launch of its social media engagement module, powerful new web-based functionality fully integrated with the existing Sentiment Metrics social media monitoring and measurement platform.

On2 Stockholders Approve Merger with Google

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:45:00 EST

On2 Technologies on Wednesday announced that its stockholders approved the merger of On2 with a wholly owned subsidiary of Google Inc. at its Reconvened Special Meeting held earlier today. On2 stockholders holding in excess of a majority of the outstanding shares of On2 Common Stock voted in favor of the merger proposal. Under the terms of the merger agreement, as amended, each outstanding share of On2 Common Stock (other than shares owned by (a) Google, Oxide Inc., Oxide LLC or On2 and (b) any On2 stockholders who are entitled to and who properly exercise appraisal rights under Delaware law) will be cancelled and extinguished and will be automatically converted into the right to receive

links for 2010-02-17

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:03:00 EST

Core i3 takes on Athlon II – The Tech Report A nice little benchmark comparing CPUs across the last few generations. Includes the P4 & boy does it get toasted. (tags: cpu computer benchmark hardware reviews reference) Please Rob Me Burglary 2.0? The site uses location information from twitter & the like to list "special" opportunities. Another nail in [...]

Google Buzz May Violate Wiretap Laws: EPIC

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:15:00 EST

Introduced last week Google's Facebook / Twitter-like Buzz social networking widgetry, untested outside the company and put in Gmail as a default, immediately raised a privacy hullabaloo over the idea that a list of the people Gmail users communicated with the most would be automatically shared with a Google-created network of their friends and who knows who else. Silly Google. It must have no secret lovers, abusive ex-husbands or politically incorrect friends best not known to each other or Big Brother. So far the company's apologized at least once, changed the thing twice, set up a "war room" to monitor reactions and contemplate further changes like creating a standalone Buzz, not integrated with Gmail, besides the one tied to Gmail.