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2 hrs ago | USA Today

Apps from inspired developers will drive Google Glass

Steve Lee understands the hesitation some folks have about Google Glass. When he saw an early version of the concept, a pair of augmented-reality glasses that users could wear to enhance their everyday lives, he thought it was crazy.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Search Engines, Slater, IA, Iowa State University

6 hrs ago | Tri-cityherald.com

Google settles suit, clears way for stock split

In this Sept. 2, 2008 file photo, Google co-founders Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page talk during a new conference at Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Search Engines, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Mountain View, CA

6 hrs ago | KPLC-TV Lake Charles

'Tweet' is now officially a word in the Oxford English Dictionary

Anybody connected to the Web already knows that a tweet is more than a sound a bird makes.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Social Software, Blog News, Search Engines, Startups, Facebook

10 hrs ago | InfoWorld

Feedly starts moving users to homespun RSS service as Google Reader death looms

Feedly said Monday that it has started migrating its users to its own back-end RSS infrastructure two weeks before Google is to pull the plug on its Reader service.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Search Engines, Blog News

13 hrs ago | West Australian

Analysis: European cloud computing firms see silver lining in PRISM scandal

France has its "Sovereign Cloud" project while across the Rhine data firms have created the label "Cloud Services: Made in Germany", all trying to reassure big companies that their information is stored away from the prying eyes of U.S. spies.

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Related Topix: Cloud Computing, Science / Technology, Google, Startups, Widevine Technologies, Search Engines

17 hrs ago | Forbes.com

Google Unleashes New Weapon And Millions of Dollars To Fight Child Porn

Google on Saturday said that it's building a "cross industry database" of encrypted "fingerprints" of child sexual abuse images to "enable companies, law enforcement and charities to better collaborate on detecting and removing these images, and to take action against the criminals."

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Related Topix: Search Engines, Life, Charity , Criminal Defense Law, Law

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Mashable

Google Aims to Abolish Child Porn Pics With New Database

Google announced plans over the weekend to remove child pornography images from the web by using a new, picture-sharing database.

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Related Topix: Search Engines, Science / Technology, Internet

Customer Interaction Solutions

Ventev Wireless Infrastructure Partners With X-TRA Communication to...

Ventev Wireless Infrastructure , a division of TESSCO Technologies Incorporated that creates solutions to deploy, protect, power, and improve the performance of wireless networks, today announced it has partnered with X-TRA Communication , a Singapore-based IT provider, to distribute critical wireless LAN and Wi-Fi infrastructure solutions to ... (more)

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Related Topix: Telecom, TESSCO Technologies, Wireless, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi

MSNBC

A zoomed image of a computer screen showing the Amazon logo is seen...

The online grocery start-up Webvan may have been the single most expensive flame-out of the dot-com era, blowing through more than $800 million in venture capital and IPO proceeds in just over three years before shutting its doors in 2001.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Venture Capital, us Travel, North America Travel, Los Angeles Travel, Travel, San Francisco, CA

Local10.com

Intelligence community gives fuller justification for data collection

The intelligence community has provided Congress additional counterterrorism justification for the government's controversial stockpiles of telephone and Internet records.

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Related Topix: US News, Patriot Act, Terrorism, Search Engines, Social Software

Ynetnews

Gay-intolerant Pakistan world leader for gay porn searches

According to Mother Jones magazine, surprising data reveals Pakistan , one of the world's least tolerant nations toward gays, is the world leader for Google searches of gay porn.

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Related Topix: World News, Pakistan, Asia, Search Engines,

Courier News

Does Google want to conquer the world?

Google plans to corner the wind energy market in New Jersey. It's a first-of-its kind venture that could cost Google and its partners $1.3 billion, but one Google believes fits its core mission: You can make money without doing evil.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Search Engines, Alternative Energy, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Computers, Internet, Science / Technology, Hazlet, NJ

Sat Jun 15, 2013

The Independent

Google spends $5m to rid web of child porn

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Related Topix: Search Engines

The Guardian

Porn wars: the debate that's dividing academia

With pornography accounting for huge volumes of internet traffic, it's a subject ripe for analysis.

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Related Topix: Search Engines

Bangor Daily News

Google to use balloons to provide free Internet access to remote or poor areas

Google technicians prepare a balloon for launch in New Zealand. Google started a pilot program in June 2013 in the Canterbury area of New Zealand with 50 Wi-Fi testers trying to connect to 30 airborne balloons.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Search Engines, New Zealand Travel, Travel, Pacific Travel, Wireless, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Privacy

PC World

'Tweet' added to Oxford English Dictionary lexicon

Tweeting has become so popular that the Oxford English Dictionary broke one of its own rules to add 'tweet' to its lexicon this month.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Search Engines, Startups, Facebook, Printers

SFGate

Has Amazon Really Figured Out How To Screw Small Businesses Out Of Their Google Rankings?

Amazon has found a way to lower the Google search rankings of small businesses who use its Pro Merchant program, according to The Daily Dot.

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Related Topix: Search Engines, WebMD, Small Business, Personal Finance, Search Engine Optimization, Business News

SanLuisObispo.com

All the ways you're being watched

What you spend. Where you eat. Whom you call. Where you travel. What you Google.

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Related Topix: Widevine Technologies, Search Engines, Computers, Social Software, Cellphones

Fri Jun 14, 2013

PC World

NSA surveillance boosts interest in non-US cloud providers

European cloud providers think the U.S. spy scandal will result in more enterprises choosing local alternatives over the likes of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which, on the other hand, are adamant that they aren't taking part in programs such as Prism.

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Related Topix: Rackspace, Telecom, IT Services, Search Engines, Social Software, Marketing, CloudSigma, Amazon

Customer Interaction Solutions

WiSpry Announces Dr. Arthur Morris Named an IEEE Fellow

WiSpry, Inc., the leader in high-performance tunable radio frequency semiconductor products for the wireless industry, today announced that Dr. Arthur S. Morris has been named an Fellow by the IEEE Board of Directors for his significant contributions to the field of radio frequency engineering.

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Related Topix: WiSpry, Wireless, Cell Phones, Cellphones, Electronics

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