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British military chiefs and MPs slammed Google's Street View service for including detailed pictures of the headquarters of the SAS. The Special Air Service or SAS is a special forces regiment of the British Army.

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Sensitive subjects, such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday, after the company said it would no longer bind itself by Beijing's...


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A new feature allows Twitter users to display their location, when they are tweeting, via a tracking tool that can be turned on or off.

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It is “99.9 per cent”certain that Google will close its local search service in China, as negotiations over internet censorship with the Chinese authorities have reached a gridlock, according to a knowledgeable source.


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A series of articles by BusinessInsider.com have accused Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of hacking into the email accounts of rivals and journalists. The articles allege that the CEO of the world's most successful social networking has breached ...

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The following Firefox add-ons could be considered applications on their own and transform Firefox into a fully functioning application. Some of these are so good, they can even replace standalone applications.


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A Milan court convicted three Google Inc. executives for privacy violations Wednesday, because they did not act quickly enough to remove an online video that showed the bullying of a youth with Down's syndrome in 2006.

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Investigators looking into cyber attacks on Google and numerous other American companies last year have linked the intrusions with computers at Shanghai's prestigious Jiaotong University and another vocational school in eastern China.


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Internet security company Webroot recently surveyed over 800 IT professionals in the US, UK and Australia to find out what are their biggest concerns are for 2010.

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An investigation, launched by ZDNet.com, has revealed that performance and metrics researcher Devil Mountain Software's chief technical officer does not exist; Craig Barth is an alias only created by a tech writer.


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FarmVille, Facebook's most popular game application can really go on your nerves at times by sending out status updates to your friends & receive theirs. Here are a few tricks of how to stop them.

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Sharing every happening in your life with friends and family on social networking sites is getting more and more popular. However, providing up-to-the-minute updates on websites such as Twitter or Foursquare has also made it a lot easier for users...


Google Poaches Social Search Service Aardvark

Ryan Singel Wired News 12.02.2010
Google Poaches Social Search Service Aardvark

The coolest search engine you’ve never used got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million. Aardvark, a company that lets you use IM, Twitter and e-mail to ask full-text questions and then get answers from people in or close to your ...

With Buzz, Google Plunges Into Social Networking

MIGUEL HELFT and BRAD STONE The New York Times 12.02.2010
With Buzz, Google Plunges Into Social Networking

SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Facebook are on a collision course in the increasingly competitive market for social networking services.


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Novatel Wireless, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVTL), a provider of wireless broadband access solutions, today announced that CAT, the only CDMA operator in Thailand, is launching the Novatel Wireless' MiFi™ 2220 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot.

Iran to Suspend Google's Gmail

CHIP CUMMINS And JESSICA E. VASCELLARO The Wall Street Journal 11.02.2010
Iran to Suspend Google's Gmail

Iran's telecommunications agency announced what it described as a permanent suspension of Google Inc.'s email services, saying a national email service for Iranian citizens would soon be rolled out.


Google may quit China over censorship

Melanie Lee and Alexei Oreskovic Reuters 13.01.2010
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Internet giant Google Inc has made a shock threat to quit China, the world's biggest Internet market by users, after hackers accessed human rights activists' e-mail accounts.

'Google tax' proposed on web firms' online ad revenue in France

Online giants including Google and Yahoo are facing a tax on advertising revenue in France under controversial proposals being examined by Nicolas Sarkozy to help save creative industries from a "free-for-all" internet culture.


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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police arrested thousands in a drive against Internet pornography throughout 2009, officials said, vowing a deepening crackdown that critics say is being used to tighten overall censorship.

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Thailand is set to experience superfast broadband internet in 2010 as dominant fixed-line broadband providers have announced plans to begin the next-generation services.



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