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Google Earth Heading Towards Extinction? — Google has announced two new features for Google Maps that mimic features in Google Earth, begging the question: is Google Earth on borrowed time? — The first new feature is the additional of terrain in Google Maps.
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Search Engine Watch Blog
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My Our Maps — The My Maps feature of Google Maps lets people create maps to share their hobbies and expertise with the world. For example, a surfing enthusiast could map out their favorite surf spots or a surfing club could plot all the best beaches in Southern California.
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Google Maps gets terrain maps, updated collaboration features — Google Maps has added a new view layer to its repertoire today. It's called terrain view, and as the name suggests, it lets you get a detailed look at geographical features both natural, and human-built like buildings and landmarks.
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Google Operating System, The Register, Compiler, Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Land and The Last Podcast
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There's No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere — In 2004 Chris Anderson wrote an influential book called The Long Tail. In it, he argued that the future of business is to sell less of more. The main premise is that collectively, things that are in rather low demand can amount to quite large volumes.
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CNET News.com
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In global precedent, Google to hand over blogger's IP address — An anonymous blogger using Google Blogger slandered Shaarei Tikva councilmen. — Noam Sharvit 27 Nov 07 13:22 — In an unprecedented move, Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG) has agreed to supply the IP address of an Israeli blogger who used …
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Google Provides Details Of Anonymous Blogger In Israel (Updated) — Google has provided the IP address of an anonymous blogger to an Israeli court voluntarily as part of a defamation case. — The defamation case centers on allegations against three members of the Shaarei Tikva council posted on Blogger …
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Future of the Web coming fast and furious — PALO ALTO, Calif.—Though the favorite metaphor to describe the Web has long been a highway, or for some, a "series of tubes," the man credited with inventing it all thinks of the Web more like the human mind. — "Lots of people are doing research around …
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Cellphone's slosh and rattle reveal its contents — Cellphone users could soon tell when their handset is running low on juice or laden with new messages simply by reaching into their bag or pocket and giving it a quick shake. — A new system uses a phone's speaker and vibrator …
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Source: Yes, LinkedIn and News Corp. are working on a deal — A rumor surfaced last week, in Techcrunch UK, that News Corp. is looking at buying business networking site LinkedIn. — A well-placed source has confirmed with us that these talks are serious. LinkedIn has declined to comment.
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Silicon Alley Insider, CNN, ParisLemon, The Social Times, ContentBlogger, bub.blicio.us, cheezhead, PE HUB, Lost Remote and Mashable!
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iPhone is launched in France at 749 euros — The Apple iPhone handset, incorporating mobile phone, multimedia access and music functions, was to go on sale in France with a promotional blitz late on Wednesday, following European launches in Britain and Germany.
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When E-Mail Is Outsourced — In 1998, Dartmouth College was at the forefront of campus e-mail. Its homegrown system, BlitzMail, reflected the college's reputation for being ahead of the curve on technology. — Dartmouth students still rely on BlitzMail today, downloading their messages …
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C2. Office Software — C2.1 Description — This section includes vulnerabilities for office productivity suites that include e-mail clients, word processors, spreadsheet applications, document viewers and presentation applications. Vulnerabilities in office products are typically exploited via the following attack vectors:
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InfoWorld
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Google's Electricity Initiative — Web Firm to Invest — In Renewable Power, — Aims to Upend Coal — Google Inc. said it expects to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in efforts to make renewable electricity cheaper than power from coal-fired plants, aiming to hasten the deployment …
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New effort to link 50M online media site users to Facebook, MySpace — Pluck, using Google OpenSocial APIs, to send user contributions to social networking pages — More than 50 million users of online communities operated by media companies like Gannett Co., Reuters Group PLC …
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ParisLemon
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AOL Gets Serious About Finance — AOL Money and Finance has been around almost as long as AOL itself - forever in Internet time. But they've sat on the sidelines as Yahoo periodically updated their own property, and Google launched their own competing site.
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Cable Industry Wins Compromise on F.C.C. Plans — In the face of a lobbying blitzkrieg by the cable television industry, the Federal Communications Commission drastically scaled back Tuesday evening a proposal by the agency's chairman to more tightly regulate the industry.