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YouTube Reaches 'Well Over' 1B Views Per Day

Google subsidiary takes the opportunity to gloat

Oct 9, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a move ripped right from the McDonald’s playbook, YouTube’s logo today comes with the tag “1 billion views per day!” That’s right, YouTube now gets “well over a billion views a day,” according to the site's official blog. Sure, execs are... More »

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Google • Internet • YouTube • online videos • web traffic

Dell to Launch
Android Phone for AT&T

Company's first mobile device should be out early next year

Oct 7, 09 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dell plans to launch a smartphone that uses the Google Android operating system and runs on AT&T's network, the Wall Street Journal reports. The phone should be out early next year, sources tell the paper. It is expected to have a touch screen, like the iPhone, as well as... More »

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Google • Dell • smartphones • Google Android • AT&T • Droid phones • Verizon Droid price

Hotmail Phishing Scam
Also Took In Gmail Users

Hotmail users not alone; scheme was 'industry-wide'

Oct 6, 09 2:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hotmail users weren’t the only ones compromised in the huge phishing scheme that came to light yesterday. Another 20,000 email accounts and passwords have surfaced, bearing addresses from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and other services, the BBC reports. Google has found a third list but hasn't detailed its contents.... More »

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Google • email • Gmail • hackers • phishing • hacking • e-mails • Hotmail

Google: We
Have 'Moral' Duty to Help Journalism

We're not a newspaper killer, says CEO

Oct 3, 09 5:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google not only wants big news organizations such as the New York Times to survive, it has a "moral responsibility" to help them do so, says CEO Eric Schmidt. He tells Search Engine Land "there will always be a market for people who read the newspaper on a... More »

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technology • Google • Internet • Eric Schmidt • online newspapers • newspaper industry

Google Gives Select Few a Taste of Wave

New communication tool isn't 'ready for primetime' yet

Sep 30, 09 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A hundred thousand lucky beta testers today got their hands on the much-hyped “Google Wave,” a communication app that Google’s calling “what email would look like if it were designed today.” Wave operates a little like a cross between email, instant messaging, and collaborative wikis,... More »

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Google • email • communication • Web apps • beta testing • Google Wave

 Google Earth, Al Gore 
 Detail Climate Change  

Al Gore narrates intro to new feature detailing perils, and solutions

Sep 25, 09 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google—with the help of Al Gore—has introduced new “layers” to its Earth application that detail the possible effects of climate change in the next century. The Nobel laureate narrates an intro to a series of virtual tours that highlight terrifying scenarios and solutions. The upgrade allows users... More »

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climate change • Google • Internet • Al Gore • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change • Google Earth • green energy • search engine • renewable energy • Nobel Prize • Nobel Peace Prize • carbon emissions

 Google Doodles
Latest Wells Tribute 

Crop circles, UFOs, invaders on logo honor British science fiction pioneer

Sep 22, 09 4:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google has confirmed what many had guessed—that its mysterious UFO-themed logos this month were a tribute to British science fiction writer HG Wells, the Telegraph reports. The latest logo, which features the Martian fighting machines from War of the Worlds, takes Googlers to a list of search results for... More »

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Google • UFO • aliens • science fiction • HG Wells

MARKETS

 Dow Down 41; 
 Tech Rises, 
 Banks Fall 

September rally sees slight pullback

Sep 21, 09 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Stock indices finished mixed today after the markets reached what most traders saw as a slight pause in a very strong September, the Wall Street Journal reports. Financials led declines: AmEx fell 2.9%, while Bank of America lost 1.8%. Google rose 1.1% after Citigroup analysts boosted their... More »

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Google • Citigroup • Bank of America • Dow Jones • American Express • Nasdaq • S&P 500

On Net Neutrality, Feds Go With Google, Against ISPs

Proposed new rules wouldn't allow bandwidth-hogging services to be blocked

Sep 18, 09 7:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Consumers stand to benefit under a proposal, coming Monday, from the Federal Communications Commission that would mandate so-called net neutrality, forcing Internet service providers to treat all Web content equally and not restrict access to sites and services that take up more bandwidth. The Obama administration is siding with the... More »

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Google • net neutrality • Skype • Internet service providers • AT&T • bandwidth • wireless carriers

opinion

Gmail Reveals Google's Achilles' Heel: 'Arrogance'

Search giant is starting to look a lot like the companies it toppled in late 90s: Blodget

Sep 17, 09 3:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Henry Blodget of the Business Insider recently switched from Yahoo Mail to Gmail, mainly because Yahoo had become “buggy, inconsistent, and unreliable.” For basic functionality—and spam-blocking—Gmail performs well. But he hates the "conversation model" for email. Why? "Because I can't easily find the exact... More »

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Yahoo • Google • email • Gmail • search • Henry Blodget

 Google's New 
 UFO Mystery Solved 

Somebody's obsessed with HG Wells

Sep 16, 09 4:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google has apparently been abducted by aliens. The search engine sent Twitterers on an extraterrestrial mystery hunt this week after Tweeting map coordinates and posting "Google" written in crop circles as its ever-changing Internet logo. The coordinates led to the English town of Woking, which was the landing site... More »

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Google • UFO • extraterrestrial life • aliens • ET • Twitter • outer space • tweet • HG Wells • War of the Worlds

tech Review

 Google Unveils 
 Weird New 
 Web Reader 

Works great—'if your brain is stuck in 1969'

Sep 15, 09 9:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google unveiled an offbeat new news reader yesterday, which allows viewers to scan newspaper and magazine pages as they appear in print. Dubbed “Google Fast Flip,” it displays a set series of pages pre-cached by Google, to avoid loading times on the sites themselves. “If your brain... More »

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Google • Internet • publishing • Google Fast Flip

'Worst Sports Column Ever' Author Sorry, Sort Of

Calif. scribe used Jaycee as news peg

Sep 10, 09 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Orange County Register sports columnist is the talk of the blogosphere and the Twitterverse—and not in the good way. Mark Whicker used his Tuesday column to reminisce about the sports events of the past 18 years under the guise of catching Jaycee Dugard up on "what you've... More »

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social networking • Google • kidnapping • rape • abduction • journalism • Twitter • child abduction • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Mark Whicker • Orange County Register • sports columnist

Online Newspaper Payment Plan in the Works—at Google

Revolutionary model slated for completion within a year

Sep 10, 09 12:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Newspapers are getting help figuring out how to charge for online content from an unusual source: archnemesis Google. The online giant says it's developing a "micropayment" model that should be ready in the next year, reports Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab. "The idea is to allow viable payments of... More »

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Google • online newspapers • new media • newspaper industry • Newspaper Association of America

 New Google Mirrors 
 May Cut Solar Power Costs 

Would focus sun's energy to produce heat, steam

Sep 10, 09 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google is working on new mirrors to make solar thermal power significantly cheaper, Reuters reports. If it works, the technology could reduce the cost of building a plant to draw power from the sun by 25% or more. “We've been looking at very unusual materials for the mirrors both... More »

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energy • Google • electricity • solar power • energy costs • Bill Weihl

OPINION

Google Is Top Online Dictionary, But in Weak Field

Lack of sensical example sentences even in OED flummoxes Angwin

Sep 7, 09 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nowadays, Google is just about as good a reference as the Oxford English Dictionary—or better, Julia Angwin writes in the Wall Street Journal. Type in a misspelled word, and the search engine corrects it. What’s more, Google will display a trove of up-to-date articles using the word,... More »

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Google • Internet • definition • oxford english dictionary • dictionary • reference • Wordnik • example • word usage

ANALYSIS

 Thank Beck, 
 Internet for 
 Van Jones 
 Uproar 

Strategy deflected attention from Jones' Beck boycott

Sep 6, 09 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mainstream media entirely ignored the controversy over now-former Obama adviser Van Jones, who was slyly forced out by Glenn Beck and his online fans, Politico reports. Beck whipped up a fury over Jones—who once signed a 9/11 conspiracy petition—without mentioning that the green jobs czar was also... More »

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media • Google • Internet • White House • September 11 • czar • Glenn Beck • boycott • presidential adviser • conspiracy theory • Twitter • Van Jones

(Newser) - Google’s home page presents a extraterrestrial quandary today, the Telegraph reports. The “doodle”—the sporadic reworking of the Google artwork that usually marks a specific event—depicts one “O” being abducted by a UFO. Mouse over the alien spacecraft and click, and you’re taken... More »

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Google • Internet • search engine • viral video • UFOs • memes • doodle • phenomenon

(Newser) - YouTube is in talks with big Hollywood studios about making movies available for rent on the popular video-sharing site, the Wall Street Journal reports—a rare move toward making YouTube users actually pay for content. Lions Gate, Warner Brothers and Sony are among the studios that could make titles available,... More »

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Google • YouTube • Sony • negotiations • Warner Brothers • movies • new release • streaming video • movie studios • Lions Gate

ANALYSIS

Gmail Outage Means Unprecedented Googling


Sep 1, 09 7:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - The outage affecting Google’s email service today sent millions to its search function, Jennifer Van Grove writes on Mashable—with so many looking for an explanation that, for a time, Gmail-related topics were 18 of the top 20 US queries. “The frenzy of Google searches on its status... More »

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technology • Google • email • Gmail • Google Trends • outage • Mashable

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