South Korean antitrust authorities raided Google’s offices in Seoul on Tuesday, according to media reports. Officials from the Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) also plan another visit to Google’s South Korean headquarters on Wednesday, according to Reuters. South Korea’s NHN and Daum Communications, two Internet companies providing such services as search, email, and news, filed...Read More
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Attackers who hacked into a Dutch Web security firm have issued hundreds of fraudulent security certificates for intelligence agency Web sites, including the C.I.A., as well as for Internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Twitter, the Dutch government said Monday. Experts say they suspect the hacker — or hackers — operated with...Read More
Fox News and Google will team up later this month to host a Republican presidential debate featuring video and text questions submitted by the public via YouTube. The use of YouTube-generated questions for a presidential debate was first attempted in 2007, when YouTube and CNN joined to produce Republican and Democratic debates. But the format...Read More
One of the things that made Google apps the web-based productivity suite to beat was the ability to access your information offline using Gears. When that experiment was killed, many of us let loose a single tear as we contemplated returning to our desktop apps. Well, as promised, HTML5 is finally returning Gmail to its...Read More
OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch (Credit: OpenDNS) OpenDNS, Google, and a few others have built a new technology into their Internet operations that’s designed to speed up the delivery of data around the globe. The technology augments the Domain Name System that provides the numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address needed to get data to an Internet...Read More
In one of the largest settlements of its kind in U.S. history, Google agreed last week to pay the U.S. government half a billion dollars for allowing its advertising system to be abused by Canadian Internet prescription drug peddlers illegally importing their wares into the country. The size of the settlement wasn’t the only eye-opener...Read More
BY THOMAS CATAN AND AMIR EFRATI Behind Google Inc.’s decision this week to settle a U.S. criminal probe into ads it carried for unlicensed online pharmacies lies a previously undisclosed factor: Justice Department investigators believed company co-founder Larry Page knew of, and allowed, the ads for years. Sorting through more than four million documents, prosecutors...Read More
Image: See-ming Lee æŽæ€æ˜Ž SML on flickr Liz Klimas What‘s the Oddest Thing Found at Gadhafi’s Compound? How About a Condi Rice Photo Album Cops Confiscate 2 Cameras at Ohio GOP Rep. Chabot’s Town Hall Mtg. Two Russian Bombers Caught Invading European Airspace Personal info of 43,000 Yale students, staff and alumni was hacked using...Read More
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Search-engine giant Google Inc. has agreed to forfeit $500 million for improperly allowing online Canadian pharmacies to use Google advertising services to target US consumers, the US Department of Justice said today. At a news conference this morning at the US attorney’s office in Providence, Justice Department officials said that...Read More
As we’ve reported before, our good friends over at Google are starting up a daily puzzle challenge. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. And much to our enjoyment, they’ve decided to share the puzzles with us at GeekDad (hmm… Google a Day? GD? GeekDad?), so...Read More
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