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Is Google Too Big? 
I didn't write this, but I'm posting it because I thought it was a good write up.


Written by Scott Spanbauer at PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132989-c,privacysecurity/article.html

From search to e-mail, from calendars to spreadsheets and text documents, more and more of what PC users read and create flows through one firm: Google.

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>>   Cyberculture
YouTube Video Makers: Drill Your Message Home With YouTube Annotations Christopher  
Corporate media News - 3 Hours ago
NEW YORK , July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Christopher Ming Ryan , an executive producer of internal and external video marketing communications for Wheelhouse Communications, published a feature that explains
YouTube Video Makers: Drill Your Message Home With YouTube Annotations KLFY
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US court overturns MySpace bullying conviction 
RTE Online - 118 Minutes ago
A US judge has moved to overturn the conviction of a Missouri woman accused of bullying a teenager who later committed suicide. District Judge George Wu has ruled that Lori Drew was not guilty of violating
Judge temporarily dismisses MySpace cyberbully case ARNnet
Judge acquits woman in MySpace case San Francisco Chronicle
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CNET UK Podcast 142: What do you do about Internet obscenity? 
CNET.co.uk - 5 Hours ago
This week Ian and Nate asked that most ancient of all questions: is it possible to 'clean up' the Internet and should we even try? It's a debate that's been sparked off by the decision that the author     Add Comment

Facebook Following Up Privacy Change With iPhone App 
San Francisco Chronicle - 5 Hours ago
The folks at Facebook don't seem to be taking much downtime this summer. After announcing a this week, the Facebook team is now preparing to launch a new and improved Facebook application for the iPhone.
Facebook slammed over privacy setting changes Africa Leader
News: Facebook following up privacy change with iPhone app Good Gear Guide
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>>   Internet news
Google updates some Apps functions 
Macworld - 8 Hours ago
Google made a few updates to various Apps services this week, including one that lets users within an organization share templates with each other. Google already has a template gallery for Google Docs     Add Comment

Breakfast briefing: Google under legal scrutiny while MySpace bully case thrown  
Guardian Unlimited - 16 Hours ago
Google's testy relationship with US regulators just cranked up a notch: the Department of Justice has said it is formally investigating the internet giant's Google Books settlement, reports CNet. More     Add Comment

Google updates Gmail labelling 
RTE Online - 118 Minutes ago
Google has made another update to its labelling feature in Gmail in an attempt to make it easier for users to organise their inbox. The search firm added buttons and menus to the top of the Gmail inbox
Google revamps Gmail's labels feature Computerworld UK
Google revamps Gmail labels feature for organising messages NZ PC World
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Cisco won't take on Amazon in cloud 
TMC Net - 3 Hours ago
(Network World Middle East Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Cisco Systems won't try to compete with pay-as-you-go cloud computing providers such as Amazon, and instead will sell its infrastructure to those     Add Comment
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>>   Online access
'Gigaset completes broadband business sale to Sagem' 
TMC Net - 3 Hours ago
Gigaset Communications has completed the sale of its broadband business to Sagem Communications, effective from 01 July. The sale will allow Gigaset to focus on its core business of making DECT phones
Sagem Communications: Sagem Communications completes the acquisition of the Broadband  Individual.com
Sagem Communications completes the acquisition of the Broadband and WiMAX business  TMC Net
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Firefox 3.5 and the potential of web typography 
CNET News.com - 18 Hours ago
In addition to new features such as support for HTML 5, geo-location and a noticeably faster engine, Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes web typography much more attractive. @font-faceis a CSS     Add Comment

Ericsson announces broadband contracts in China 
Sydney Morning Herald - 70 Minutes ago
Swedish mobile phone network supplier Ericsson won contracts to supply broadband Internet to millions of users in China by a deal with three operators there, it said Friday. The company, the world's leading     Add Comment

Video: Talking About Firefox 3.5, Apple's Snow Leopard, The Return Of Steve Jobs,  
Information Week - 107 Minutes ago
I sat down with my colleague Fritz Nelson and we talked about some of the big headlines this week: the release of a new version of Firefox, why the Snow Leopard operating system is more important to Apple     Add Comment
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>>   Online content
YouTube Video Makers: Drill Your Message Home With YouTube Annotations Christopher  
Corporate media News - 3 Hours ago
NEW YORK , July 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Christopher Ming Ryan , an executive producer of internal and external video marketing communications for Wheelhouse Communications, published a feature that explains
YouTube Video Makers: Drill Your Message Home With YouTube Annotations KLFY
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paidContent - GGL, Pro Vs GI Joes Launch Online Game Tournament For Soldiers 
CBS News - 72 Minutes ago
(PaidContent.org) This story was written by Tameka Kee. A little Independence Day-themed news ... GGL Global Gaming, a social network and online gaming platform, has teamed up with Pro Vs GI Joe to launch     Add Comment

CNET UK Podcast 142: What do you do about Internet obscenity? 
CNET.co.uk - 5 Hours ago
This week Ian and Nate asked that most ancient of all questions: is it possible to 'clean up' the Internet and should we even try? It's a debate that's been sparked off by the decision that the author     Add Comment

Turn Web Content Into A Map With GeoMaker 
Washington Post - 6 Hours ago
At the end of last May, Yahoo released an experimental version of Placemaker, a ?geo-enrichment? platform. What it does is help developers make applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured     Add Comment
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>>   Online information
Reed Elsevier stars in quiet London trade 
MarketWatch - 8 Hours ago
Reed Elsevier on Friday stood out in a drab London market on Friday after Credit Suisse upgraded the European media sector and said the Anglo-Dutch company was one of its top picks. Credit Suisse changed     Add Comment

EKUs health center receives national grant for expansion, renovations 
Richmond Register - 16 Hours ago
Eastern Kentucky Universityâ??s Bluegrass Community Health Center will update its management system and expand one of its clinics with a $472,915 grant from the Health Resources and Service Administration,
CDC's National Center for Environmental Health Works with Thomson Reuters to Help  KSLA
CommuniCare Health Centers Receives Capital Improvement Grant Individual.com
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Thomson Reuters opens call center 
Manila Standard Today - 7/2/2009
BUSINESS information service provider Thomson Reuters opened yesterday a 500-seat facility at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City that will serve as its global customer support hub. 'We are here for a long-term
Ryla opens new call center in Saraland Mobile County Press-Register
Thomson Reuters opens RP facility for English-based center ABS-CBN News
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Medical Technology VCs Are Optimistic About Obama Administration's Health Care Goals  
Reuters - 7/1/2009
BOSTON, MA, Jul 01 (MARKET WIRE) -- Elsevier Business Intelligence announced today that leading venture capitalists who participated in the keynote panel discussion which kicked-off its annual 'IN3 East'
Medical Technology VCs Are Optimistic About Obama Administration's Health Care  Street Insider
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>>   Online marketing
Senior Creative Web designer - Marketing co. Surrey Ã?£30-36k 
ZDNet UK - 19 Hours ago
Senior Creative Web designer - Marketing co. Surrey £30-36k Radius has an excellent opening with an innovative, exciting, young, funky, cutting edge marketing company based in Surrey. This role requires
7/01 Rising senior blogs about marketing internship at design company in New York Holy Cross
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Internet tax veto revives affiliations [The Honolulu Advertiser] 
TMC Net - 5 Hours ago
(Honolulu Advertiser (HI) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Jul. 3--Overstock.com yesterday reinstated its relationship with Hawai'i-based affiliate advertisers following Gov. Linda Lingle's decision to veto
Internet tax veto revives affiliations Individual.com
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Ad Guidelines To Enhance Privacy 
Sci-Tech Today - 4 Hours ago
The nation's largest media and marketing trade associations introduced a set of self-regulatory principles on Thursday to enhance privacy protection for consumers surfing the Web. Among other things,
Advertising Guidelines To Enhance Privacy on the Web CIO Today
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TipTopCar.com, sister site of TipTopJob.com has launched and is free to advertise 
Online Recruitment - 95 Minutes ago
TipTopCar.com, sister site of TipTopJob.com is live and FREE to advertise cars and vehicles to private sellers and trader dealers. TipTopCar.com is part of the rapidly developing TipTopGroup. The TipTopGroup     Add Comment
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>>   Online portals
Myers Industries (MYE) Trend Change Alert: 4.2% Move in 15 Days 
TMC Net - 5 Hours ago
(SmarTrend(R) Spotlight via COMTEX) -- SmarTrend's proprietary algorithms detected bearish price action on shares of Myers Industries (NYSE:MYE) which generated a Downtrend alert on June 17, 2009 at $8.43.
Imation (IMN) Trend Change Alert: 10.5% Move in 15 Days TMC Net
Presstek (PRST) Trend Change Alert: 3.2% Move in 9 Days TMC Net
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New bubbles rising in China property market: state media 
AFP via Yahoo! - 5 Hours ago
BEIJING (AFP) China's recent moves to ease curbs on the real estate sector have sent prices soaring recently, stoking fears that new property bubbles are forming, state media reported Friday. Residential
New bubbles rising in China property market: media Yahoo! News Australia
New China property bubbles are forming Homes Overseas
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Airline crew bares all to get flyers' attention 
Canada.com - 5 Hours ago
WELLINGTON -- Air New Zealand has hit on a novel way to make sure even the most jaded flyers keep their eyes glued on its flight safety briefing. The national carrier's safety video for domestic services
Airline crew bares all to get flyers' attention - Yahoo! News Reuters via Yahoo!
Airline crew bares all to get passengersâ?? attention MSNBC
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Swiss town erects giant plastic Michael Jackson - Yahoo! News 
AFP via Yahoo! - 116 Minutes ago
ZURICH (AFP) A giant plastic statue of Michael Jackson has been unveiled in a village near the Swiss city of Zurich, ahead of a ceremony to pay homage to the late pop icon, an organiser said on Friday.
Swiss town erects giant plastic Michael Jackson AFP via Yahoo!
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>>   Open source
HTML 5 drops open-source video codec 
ZDNet UK - 6 Hours ago
HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec, the Google employee who maintains the burgeoning web-coding standard has announced. Ian Hickson that he was reluctantly dropping the open standard
No Codec Requirements for the HTML 5 Standard Softpedia
No mandatory audio and video codecs in HTML 5 Heise Security
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CNET: A Speedier New Firefox 
CBS News - 7 Hours ago
If you are a potential or current subscriber, contact the publisher to notify them that their feed content is not available. This may be temporary problem that requires their intervention to resolve,     Add Comment

Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it 
CNET - 7 Hours ago
Redmonk analyst a bleak, but likely accurate, eulogy for open source's relevance to cloud computing. In a world where horsepower matters more than the software feeding those 'horses,' in terms of the     Add Comment

Firefox 3.5 and the potential of web typography 
CNET News.com - 18 Hours ago
In addition to new features such as support for HTML 5, geo-location and a noticeably faster engine, Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes web typography much more attractive. @font-faceis a CSS     Add Comment
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>>   Search Engines
Bing Builds an Underwhelming Twitter Search 
San Francisco Chronicle - 5 Hours ago
Looking for in the Internet search wars, Microsoft plans to index Twitter updates in real time for Bing, its . The idea is that recent developments on the social messaging service will be easy to find
Bing Adds Twitter Search, Overload San Francisco Chronicle
Microsoft posts modest search gains with new Bing Africa Leader
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Seattle fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites 
CNET News.com - 2 Hours ago
Tenants of the Fisher Plaza data center carry servers out of the building Friday morning. (Credit: TechFlash ) A Friday morning fire at downtown Seattle's Fisher Plaza has interrupted service at some     Add Comment

Google's Book Deal Now Officially Being Investigated By Justice Dept 
Reuters - 6 Hours ago
By Rafat Ali - paidContent After a few months of informal moves on it, the U.S. Justice Dept is now investigating an anti-trust inquiry into Googles book settlement with the authors and publishers over
paidContent - Google's Book Deal Being Investigated by Justice Dept, Officially paidContent.org
Google book deal faces investigation Boston Globe
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Google updates some Apps functions 
Macworld - 8 Hours ago
Google made a few updates to various Apps services this week, including one that lets users within an organization share templates with each other. Google already has a template gallery for Google Docs     Add Comment
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>>   Web developer
HTML 5 drops open-source video codec 
ZDNet UK - 6 Hours ago
HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec, the Google employee who maintains the burgeoning web-coding standard has announced. Ian Hickson that he was reluctantly dropping the open standard
No Codec Requirements for the HTML 5 Standard Softpedia
No mandatory audio and video codecs in HTML 5 Heise Security
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Canadas HIV Vaccine Ready for Human Testing in U.S. 
POZ.com - 18 Hours ago
Canadian researchers are awaiting approval to begin human trials of an HIV/AIDS vaccine in the United States, CBC News reports. The vaccine has already passed safety tests in animals. Many HIV vaccines
New AIDS vaccine ready for trials Mangalorean
HIV, AIDS vaccine months away from human testing Sarnia Observer
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Pre recovery tool includes webOS... 
Electronista - 21 Hours ago
Although the Palm Pre is fresh on the market, users have already begun dissecting the which includes 195MB of operating system files and code. Used as intended, the recovery tool restores the functionality     Add Comment

Fire in downtown Seattle data center knocks out businesses, online services 
Beta News - 3 Hours ago
Small fire has global impact with payment centers, city services down. A fire that started at around 11:15 PDT Thursday night has taken a wide assortment of Seattle businesses, media outlets, and government
Seattle Data Center Outage Disrupts E-Commerce Slashdot
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