Woman Exposing Her Breasts Highlights Privacy Concerns Of Google Street View
Published on May 16, 2008 to Using the InternetThe European Union’s data protection supervisor Peter Hustinx has joined the growing chorus of calls on Google to beware the pitfalls of its street-level photographic mapping service for Google Maps. Read more
Cybersquatters Camp on Domain Names of Merged Financial Institutions
Published on September 19, 2008 to Business & LawIt seems some opportunist cybersquatters are trying to buy out all possible domain names for merging financial institutions. Read more
Google Reduces IP Retention Period to 9 Months
Published on September 9, 2008 to NetworkingGoogle announced today that it will divide the amount of time before it anonymizes users’ data in half, meaning your search data will now only be associated with your IP address for nine months... Read more
Cashing In: Google Sued For Patent Infringement
Published on August 19, 2008 to Business & LawMountain View (CA) - GraphOn, a software company that offers remote application access software, said it has filed a patent infringement suit against Google. Read more
St. Paul Suburb Tells Google Maps: Keep Out - We Mean It
Published on June 3, 2008 to SecurityYou can look at almost anything on Google. Read more
Quick View: GIGABYTE GN-A17GU 802.11g Wireless Access Point
Published on June 29, 2004 to NetworkingGIGABYTE Technology has decided to join the ranks of companies trying to eke out a decent business pursuing the rapidly decreasing margins in consumer Networking products. Their GN-A17GU 11g Access Point turned in decent performance, but left us wondering how GIGABYTE plans to gain market share with me-too, hard-to-find networking products. Read more
Quick View: SanDisk SD Wi-Fi card w/ Zire 71 support
Published on June 24, 2004 to NetworkingIt took eight months, and two backpedals on schedule and supported OSes, but SanDisk finally has added PalmOS support to its SD 802.11b card. The good news is that it works. The bad...well, you'd best read our Quick View to find out the whole story. Read more
Quick View: PCTEL WiFi Seeker
Published on May 4, 2004 to NetworkingPocket-sized WiFi network detectors may seem like a dumb idea at first. But if the size and features are right, they can be a real time-saver for seeing whether it's worth it to pull out the ol' notebook. PCTEL's WiFi Seeker seems to succeed where previous devices have failed. Read our Quick View review and see if you agree! Read more
Google Phone: Whaddya Wanna Know?
Published on October 21, 2008 to Smartphones
Should You Ditch Google?
Published on August 26, 2008 to Using the Internet
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VIDEO: T-Mobile G1 aka The Google Phone
T-Mobile and Google have officially announced the G1, the first cell phone running Google's Android software. How does it stack up with the iPhone? Read more
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VIDEO: Google Picasa 3 And Web Albums
Google's latest free photo software is a leap forward from previous versions, including facial recognition technology for auto-tagging. Read more
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Google's Chrome Browser In Action
Google's open source web browser has launched in beta. It's tab-centric design and feature set show promise, but can it compete with the Firefox 3 and IE8? Read more
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Google's Voice App For iPhone
Ben Meyer tests out the nifty new voice search software added to Google's suite of free apps for the iPhone. It works well except for one glaring issue. Read more
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The Spotlight: A Few Good Geeks
YouTube asked to remove USAF Cyber Command recruitment video, Google kicked off the base, a holocaust game gets banned (duh), and the Candle Canon. Read more
