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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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."

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

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)

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.