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Twitter Unveils Tool to Share Tweeting Locations
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Twitter 1, cowardly bike thief 0
It's been proven of late that some on Wall Street are dishonest people who might not even think once about stealing whatever they can get their hands on. However, this rampant disease of thieving seems to have spread to the corners of Madison Avenue. No,

Summary Box: Report on Online Censorship
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Google makes its local shopping move
It took a while, but Google has made its big move as a local shopping inventory gatekeeper. The company said Thursday that it will offer mobile device users inventory checks on local stores, allowing them to see if products are available. The program has

Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs
MikeChino writes 'A group of scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have devised a way to encode a visible-frequency wireless signal in light emitted by plain old desklamps and other light fixtures. The team was able to achieve a record-setting

Microsoft plants Bing on Google-free Chinese Androids
Google apps 'postponed' on China carriers Motorola will soon push Microsoft's Bing search engine onto Android phones in China, after announcing an alliance with the Redmond software giant that will see Bing appear on Androids across the globe. In the

The Internet is Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
The Italian edition of Wired magazine has nominated the Internet to be a contender for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Institute yesterday announced there are 237 nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Though the the institute doesn't

Help Us Review Google Maps For Bikes
Google Maps has finally added bike routes. That’s great — but how well does it work? You tell us. Google’s “Bike There” mapping tool provides directions for cyclists in 150 cities and covers some 12,000 miles of trails. There’s no way

Al Franken Jokes, But Google Fiber Is No Laughing Matter
Now U.S. Senator Al Franken has been enlisted to lobby Google in a bid by two midwestern cities to get free upgrades to gigabit internet connections. Comedy from the funniest man in Congress may give the towns of Duluth and Superior an edge in the

Report Finds Online Censorship More Sophisticated
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Why Google Android is winning
The global smartphone market is still RIM's to lose, with Apple in the pole position to profit from its mistakes. But new ComScore data on the U.S. smartphone market suggest that both should be worried by what they see in their rear-view mirrors: While

Airline Twitter promotion attracts huge crowds
JetBlue employee Morgan Johnston took this photo of the people who showed up in the Financial District when the airline launched an ambitious campaign to give away free tickets by telling Twitter users where to show up. (Credit: Morgan Johnston) NEW

BT, Google criticise Digital Economy Bill amendment
A group of internet companies including BT, Orange, Google and Virgin Media have strongly criticised an amendment to the approved last week by the House of Lords, saying it would harm the status of the UK as a centre for digital business. The companies

Eliminate Google from your life
Are you afraid of how much information Google has about you? You can live without them.

Cisco shows off Internet super-router
New CRS-3 system is no game-changer but still big, with speeds up to 322Tbps and 'twelve times' the capacity of its nearest competitor, Cisco says Hyped as the router that would 'change forever the face of the Internet', Cisco has launched its new CRS-3

Work Smarter with Online Collaboration Tools
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Celebrities Caused 2009 Twitter Crime Wave
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Google-ize Your Hometown
Google announced several weeks ago they were going to select a city for a high-speed internet pilot. Several cities have done some crazy things to woo the Googleplex to their neck of the woods. Some are pretty funny, and it seems, why should

Twitter to start blocking phishers' tweets
Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks. The company will route all links submitted to the site through a filter created

Google, Facebook cop for preposterous patent potshot
Gathering information from around the internet and presenting it on a mobile phone is protected by patent, according to Wireless Ink, which is suing Google and Facebook over it. The patent

Carrier apathy depresses Google Phone outlook
Google is discovering just how dangerous it is to ruffle the feathers of the major cellcos. Its Nexus One handset may be one of the most advanced on the market and bear the magical brand, but half-hearted marketing efforts by carriers have led to

How does the Google Apps Marketplace fit in with business?
Google's new apps model is great for small business, but it might not work so well for enterprises Yesterday, Google announced the Google Apps Marketplace, an online store for cloud-based third-party applications that integrate with existing Google Apps.

Google updates Street View to capture majority of all UK roads
One year after its UK launch, Google's Street View service has been extended to cover almost all UK roads. On Thursday the street-level mapping service added a further 210,000 miles of UK roads to its image bank, meaning Street View now covers

Tories vow to roll out superfast broadband
Conservatives try to outdo Labour by promising broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps in technology manifesto The Conservatives have launched a technology manifesto that aims to increase broadband speeds and improve access to government data as the

Twitter Becomes More Proactive About Phishing
if (!self.ord) } write(' Twitter is finally being proactive about the that have plagued the micro-blogging service in the past year. On Wednesday, Twitter introduced its own anti-phishing service designed to protect its users from these types of attacks.

Video: Most people would rather vote online
More than three in four (77%) of the public would vote via the internet in the general election if given the choice, according to a survey. Some 1,000 people...

Google Reader Play: iPad-Friendly News Reader
Google has added an iPad-friendly version of its RSS aggregator, called Google Reader Play. According to the Official Google Reader Blog, the new full-screen slide-show is for people who “aren’t interested in taking the time to get Reader set up”.

Bing Gains Again -- Should Google Worry?
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Memo to Google's Android team: Tie your shoelaces, kids
With the Nexus One a yawner and the Android platform fragmenting more every day, Google is looking like a five-year-old tripping over his own feet Is Google the new Microsoft? Maybe -- but that's the wrong question. More to the point is this: Can Google