With the start of the Olympics in Beijing being only a few days away, a lot of focus in the technology blogosphere has been on the restrictions put on Chinese Internet users by the Chinese government and the role of major US Internet companies in this. According to US Senator Dick Durbin, Google, Yahoo, and [...]
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The B.C. government unveiled a new Internet mapping service yesterday, in partnership with technology company Google, which it says will help the public plot out everything from campsites to coal reserves on free customizable maps.
The province calls the system GeoBC and said it brings together otherwise hard-to-find government data previously accessible only through complicated and [...]
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Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has found itself in a number of privacy-related controversies, ranging from general user concerns over search records to its new Google Health site for storing personal medical records. But now some of its own employees face the threat of identity theft.
Last week the search giant revealed that on May 26, thieves [...]
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Google Talk chatback
Monday, February 25, 2008 11:23 AM
Do you have a blog, online profile, or some other personal web page? Would you like to communicate more with your visitors? Today we’re launching a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. We call it “chatback” because instead of you [...]
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