New service will fingerprint programming to prevent video piracy
Wall Street Journal Dec 5, 07 10:11 AM CST
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Television ratings giant Nielsen is getting set to take a new role—video piracy cop. The company says its new service, Digital Media Manager, will fingerprint programming to make sure videos can be posted on Internet sites like MySpace and YouTube only if they have owners' permission, reports the Wall Street Journal .
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Candidates embrace chance to flex high-tech cred, even as technology influences campaign
New York Times Dec 2, 07 10:29 AM CST
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Where Detroit once beckoned to any candidate who would be president, the 2008 field is making increasing pilgrimages to the Googleplex to showcase their tech savvy, reports the New York Times. And YouTube, which didn't even exist in the last presidential election, has launched YouChoose ’08, a modern version of Sunday morning news shows politicians use to explain their platform.
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Internet surfers can report sites online
PC World Nov 30, 07 1:27 PM CST
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Google is enlisting Web users in the hunt for sites hosting malicious code aimed at infecting visitors' computers. The internet giant has created an online form where Web surfers can report suspect sites, says PC World . Google searches that display sites the company believes are malicious show a warning, and Google has deleted some such sites from its index.
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Search giant expected to jump into FCC auction fray today
Wall Street Journal Nov 30, 07 7:30 AM CST
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Google will announce today that it does plan to bid for a slice of wireless spectrum coming up for FCC auction in January, the Wall Street Journal reports. A winning bid would allow it to provide wireless phone and Internet service, to partner with other providers, or to lease out the spectrum. They'll be competing against mobile phone segment leaders Verizon and AT&T.
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Malicious websites may have fooled Google, Yahoo and MSN
BBC Nov 29, 07 10:50 PM CST
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Software security firms believe they uncovered a massive hacker effort earlier this week to "booby-trap" web searches, one which could have rendered Windows and Internet Explorer users vulnerable to fraud. Seemingly innocuous and random search terms, like "Christmas gifts" and "infinity," brought results that included links thousands of malicious China-registered websites, built to fool search engine page rank algorithms.
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Voluntary rules update has no enemies yet
Associated Press Nov 29, 07 3:01 PM CST
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News outlets with online presences are looking to add controls over how search engines index and display their material, asserting an outdated status quo doesn’t allow them to set enough terms on how their sites get crawled. A new set of guidelines proposed today, called ACAP, would allow sites greater latitude in setting rules like which content can be indexed on search engines, and for how long.
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But others say number of junk messages increasing
Wired Nov 29, 07 11:37 AM CST
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Emailers have been hitting the “Delete” button for years, but spammers may be just now taking the hint, Google says. The tech giant isn’t releasing specifics, but it insists that the number of junk emails sent out has leveled off and could even be dropping for the first time in years, an encouraging sign that spammers may be giving up.
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Wall Street Journal Nov 28, 07 5:07 PM CST
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Amazon, Research in Motion and Google led a blue chip advance in the tech sector today, helping to pull the Nasdaq Composite up 3.2%, after a Fed officials reiterated the need for a “nimble” monetary policy, raising hopes the group will lower interest rates next month, the Wall Street Journal reports. Nasdaq added 82.11 points to close at 2662.91.
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Company pledges to spend hundreds of millions on renewable energy initiative
MarketWatch Nov 27, 07 5:19 PM CST
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Google is making a huge financial push to replace coal with cleaner, cheaper renewable energy. The company says it will invest "tens of millions" in the search next year, starting with solar, wind, and geothermal technology, and hundreds of millions more in subsequent years, MarketWatch reports. The company says it can reach its goal “in years, not decades."
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Carrier will allow use
of any compatible cellphone
Wall Street Journal Nov 27, 07 3:35 PM CST
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On the heels of Google's plans for an open-source wireless platform, Verizon Wireless has announced that it will open up its own network to any compatible phone and will allow access to third-party applications. Sprint is currently the only other major carrier using CDMA technology, and Verizon had been fiercely protective of its network, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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Long-rumored 'Gdrive' might become reality within months
Wall Street Journal Nov 27, 07 11:16 AM CST
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The Wall Street Journal reports on a new service under development at Google that would allow users to store personal files on the search giant's own hard drives, making them available via the Internet to multiple devices. The new service, as yet unnamed but known among bloggers as Gdrive, could hasten a shift to Web-based computing and transform the economics of hard-drive and backup sales.
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The cellphone Internet experience has yet to attract frequent users
New York Times Nov 25, 07 3:45 PM CST
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The mobile web, or cellphone-based Internet, has been the focus of a lot of attention lately, whether its iPhone hysteria or buzz over handset hardware companies joining Google’s Open Handset Alliance. The New York Times reports that the hype hasn’t helped the existing mobile web do very well: only 13% of users surf the Internet via phone more than once a month.
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Predictions of $900 stock price as engine's market share grows
Reuters Nov 22, 07 1:10 PM CST
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Google is already the US most popular search engine, but new data indicate it enjoyed a substantial jump in traffic this past month. Reuters reports that the search giant accounted for 58.5% of the American market. Google is trailed by Yahoo, Microsoft, IAC (the owners of Ask.com), and Time Warner (owner of AOL) for shares of the search market—and all four of those challengers saw their traffic flatline or drop.
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CNET blogger looks at the Internet giant's increasing vertical integration of its tech
CNET Nov 19, 07 5:30 PM CST
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Is Google moving in the direction of writing its own platform software and building its own hardware? That's what Gordon Haff argues on CNET's The Pervasive Datacenter blog, citing recent news about Google designing its own network switches and writing its own virtual machine for its cellphone platform, on top of its longstanding practice of assembling its own servers from component parts.
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