…wrong house, however the entire incident angered Rahr who resented the notion that the council could monitor anyone’s home. The council does not use Google Street View or Google Maps, but rather its own in-house aerial mapping program, E-view. Mr Rahr said “that makes me feel even more creepy. It’s…
Every employee at Nintendo is earning the company around US $1.6 million in profit each year. What’s worth more than Googlers and investment bankers? Nintendo employees. The Financial Times estimated Nintendo and worked out the average worth of each of their employees. To put it in perspective, Google staffers earn…
As part of its quest to digitise newspapers from around the globe, Google have announced plans to scan ‘every story ever written’. As part of its quest to digitise newspapers from around the globe, Google have announced plans to scan ‘every story ever written’. Back in 2006 Google began a…
Gmail users beware, a new tool is out that will enables hackers to steal your login details. Gmail users beware, a new tool is out that will enable hackers to steal the IDs and logins of Google Mail users that aren’t using the Secure Sockets Layer now available to users…
Today Google launched their new open source web browser – Google Chrome. The beta version of the browser is available in 40 languages and is said to be a both a simple and powerful web browsing tool. Today Google launched their new open source web browser – Google Chrome. The…
Searching on the internet just got a whole lot easier with the arrival of Google’s latest search tool Google Suggest. Searching on the internet just got a whole lot easier with the arrival of Google’s latest search tool Google Suggest. According to Google, the new tool will help people search…
Don’t like the thought of random people checking out your house on Google Street View? Then you can remove your home from the service with just a couple of clicks. Don’t like the thought of random people checking out your house on Google Street View? Then you can remove your…
Google launched Google Aotearoa yesterday to coincide with Maori Language Week. The site specifically caters for New Zealand’s indigeneous people Google launched Google Aotearoa yesterday to coincide with Maori Language Week. The site specifically caters for New Zealand’s indigeneous people so that they can now carry out their search in…
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…against YouTube. Currently Google and Viacom are in the midst of a billion dollar court battle. The companies are at loggerheads because Viacom believes Google has not done enough to prevent piracy or the infringement of copyright material on its YouTube website. Despite Google introducing further safeguards against delinquency and…
…browsers supported are Internet Explorer and Opera Browser v9.5 Samsung has also gone into partnership with Google. A spokeswoman for Samsung offered the following comment: “As handset manufacturers, we don’t profess to specialise in phone software, although we will continue to offer phones supporting our own proprietary OS. Rather, we…
…department store, Sears. Users searching for a product with Windows Live Search that then wnet on to make a purchase with a participating retailer would get from 3-30% of ther purchase price refunded as a rebate. Currently Windows Live Search ranks a distant third to market leaders, Google and Yahoo….