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Analysis: How Google Has Changed Our Lives

Source: PC Magazine
September 9, 2008

Ten years ago, I sat next to a filing cabinet of press releases, notes, presentations, and financial documents. My crappy Compaq 386 notebook chugged away on my desk. And someone down the hall—I think it might have been Will Wade of EE Times—told me to check this new site out. So I did. Damn. I personally have always been on the lookout for pieces of technology that change the way we live. The Atari 2600. The mobile phone. The notebook ...

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Battle of Net Neutrality: Comcast Appeals FCC Throttling Order

Source: All About Jazz
September 5, 2008

Comcast on Thursday appealed the Federal Communication Commission's order that it stop its controversial practice of throttling file sharing traffic.

On Aug. 1, FCC commissioners concluded on a 3-2 vote that Comcast monitored the content of its customers' internet connections and selectively blocked peer-to-peer connections using the BitTorrent protocol. The commission found that Comcast violated so-called rules of net neutrality.

David Cohen, a Comcast vice president, said Comcast would comply with the order, even though Comcast maintains it never throttled ...

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File Sharing Lawsuits at a Crossroads After 5 Years of RIAA Litigation

Source: All About Jazz
September 5, 2008

It was five years ago Monday the Recording Industry Association of America began its massive litigation campaign that now includes more than 30,000 lawsuits targeting alleged copyright scofflaws on peer-to-peer networks.

The targets include the elderly, students, children and even the dead. No one in the U.S. who uses Kazaa, Limewire or other file sharing networks is immune from the RIAA's investigators, and fines under the Copyright Act go up to $150,000 per purloined music track. But despite the crackdown, ...

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Cablevision Rolls out Free Wi-Fi in NY

Source: PC Magazine
September 5, 2008

operator Cablevision Systems Corp has started rolling out a free Wi-Fi network for subscribers who want to access the Web via laptops and other wireless devices. Cablevision on Thursday said the Optimum Wi-Fi is free for existing subscribers to its Optimum home Internet service. It said the service is already activated in commercial and high-traffic areas in the Long Island, New York suburbs of Nassau County and parts of Suffolk County. The cable operator has more than 2.4 million Internet ...

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Google's Chrome Tops Opera in Market Share

Source: PC Magazine
September 5, 2008

You work a decade to build a trendsetting browser, even the first with tabs, and what happens? In two days you're kicked aside for a Johnny-come-lately that doesn't even have a sidebar, let alone one with more options than any other browser. I'm talking about the much-loved but little-used Opera, which already has taken a backseat to Google's mere 2-day-old infant of a browser, Chrome. At least according to one source, Market Share from NetApplications.com. The new browser topped out ...

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Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari Shared Vulnerability

Source: PC Magazine
September 4, 2008

Google's new browser, Chrome, has quite a few security-related features: Site blacklists to protect against malware and phishing A privacy mode (Incognito) to erase tracks of user activity. A thorough Clear Browsing Data dialog box. But the really innovative feature in Chrome is the way Google has built the browser's rendering engine to run in a sandbox. Each browser tab is an isolated process running with limited capabilities. This means that if a malicious application were to run, it could ...

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Google, Criticized for Harsh Chrome EULA, Backs Down

Source: PC Magazine
September 4, 2008

They've already issued an “Our Bad" and retracted the offending language, but Google's initial EULA (End User License Agreement) for their Chrome browser was seriously offensive. The original language went like so: 11. Content licence from you 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive ...

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Google Chrome's the Internet

Source: Michael Ricci
September 3, 2008

Review Google's Chrome browser: This baby flies! The new rival to Explorer and Firefox, now available for testing in Windows, makes up in exceptional speed for any minor shortcomings. And it's got a nice array of features.

Google's much-anticipated Web browser, Chrome, arrived Tuesday like a shiny new sports car: It's streamlined, has some great new features and is very, very fast.

Chrome, the most talked-about new tech product since the iPhone, became available shortly before ...

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