Sergey Brin and Larry Page are the executive producers of "Broken Arrows," the story of a man who loses his pregnant wife in a terrorist attack and then takes a job as a hit man. ...Production costs are just under a million dollars, well within the means of Brin and Page, who are worth an estimated 16 billion dollars each.More...
"Google will be the default search partner for the mobile browsers: Opera Mobile and Opera Mini," Opera Software ASA said in a statement. "Under the one-year contract, Opera will make Google Search a major part of the browsers home screen."More...
The lawsuit about former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee, who defected to Google last summer, has been settled - details not disclosed.
Jews for Jesus is suing Google Inc., saying a weblog hosted through the company’s blogging service infringes on its trademark.Source: ChristianPost
According to Reuters, Jews for Jesus filed a suit in the U.S. District Court in New York on Wednesday, seeking to gain control of the blogspot site as well as “unspecified monetary damages.”
"We have a right to our own name and Google has allowed the use of our name on Blogspot without our permission," Susan Perlman, associate executive director with Jews for Jesus, told Reuters. "Our reputation is at stake.”
The blog in question, jewsforjesus.blogspot.com, began in January 2005 by a blogger who takes the name “Whistle Blower.” The blogger had posted only three blogs, or online journal entries, on the site before the San Francisco-based evangelical group filed suit.
Whistle Blower maintained that the purpose of the blog site is not to be “against Jews for Jesus, but for an uncensored interchange of ideas and comments.”
However, the blogger noted that the “site poses a potential threat that might cause donors to cease giving” to the group since its entries are meant to “enlighten” the Christian donor base about the way the group supposedly uses its donations.
Comments on the blog revealed that Jews for Jesus unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the blogger to transfer the domain.
Search for an artist name and click on the prominent link - you can find album reviews, song lyrics and links to stores
"The latest initiative from Google was announced this week, with Gmail now accessible via mobile phone in the US for those with internet-capable handsets".More...
Reported at the NYT:
Time Warner has agreed to sell a 5 percent stake in America Online to Google for $1 billion as part of an expanded partnership between AOL, once the dominant company on the Internet, and Google, the current online king.
While the deal terms are largely set, it will not be final until it is ratified by the Time Warner board on Tuesday, according to an executive who was briefed on the negotiations.
One is an anti-phishing thing, and the other shows weblog comments about the page you are viewing. Find them here
Google will shortly announce plans to expand its European headquarters in Dublin, where it already employs 500 people. More...
Three years after Google Answers was launched, Yahoo has copied the concept, with some major differences:
The IE bug was disclosed late last week by Matan Gillon, a security researcher in Israel. He found a way to steal information from unwitting Google Desktop users by exploiting the web browser flaw.More...
A Google representative said on Tuesday: "We did make an adjustment to the product to help protect users. We made the adjustment on our end. Users don't need to download a patch or take any action."
The bug in IE allows an attacker to retrieve private user data or execute operations on the user's behalf from remote domains, Gillon wrote in his description of the attack method.
It's essentially an RSS Reader, but no mention of RSS on the Google Reader homepage
Danny Sullivan has expressed concerns about the approval process of Googe Adwords ads, and I agree, for ads that deliberately break the rules appear regularly, and stay there until someone complains, or a change in the ad prompts a human to look at it.
Google uses a combination of humans and technology to review keywords and ads for relevancy, editorial guidelines and our content policy. In many cases, ads are reviewed through automated processes first and then followed by human review.The key phrase is "many cases". Sounds like a lot of ads do not get reviewed by a human, whereas in the past they all were. Makes sense, seeing as having humans reviewing ads is probably their greatest expense.
Stanford University has made $336 million on the sale of its stock holdings in Google Inc., the Internet search engine giant created by two of the university's graduate students.
This year to date, 14 Google executives and directors had gained a total of $4.3 billion by selling 18.6 million of their shares.
No word yet on who the third-party provider is (or perhaps Google have a new product for us?), but attachments are now scanned for viruses.
Wired have come up with a list of all the major players who should be feeling threatened by the ever expanding Google.
