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Thursday, March 11, 2010

• Help Us Review Google Maps For Bikes
  Google Maps has finally added bike routes. That�s� great � but how well does it work? You tell us. Google�s �Bike There� mapping tool provides directions for cyclists in 150 cities and covers some 12,000 miles of trails. There�s no way
  
• Al Franken Jokes, But Google Fiber Is No Laughing Matter
  Now U.S. Senator Al Franken has been enlisted to lobby Google in a bid by two midwestern cities to get free upgrades to gigabit internet connections. Comedy from the funniest man in Congress may give the towns of Duluth and Superior an edge in the
  
• Report Finds Online Censorship More Sophisticated
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• Why Google Android is winning
  The global smartphone market is still RIM's to lose, with Apple in the pole position to profit from its mistakes. But new ComScore data on the U.S. smartphone market suggest that both should be worried by what they see in their rear-view mirrors: While
  
• Airline Twitter promotion attracts huge crowds
  JetBlue employee Morgan Johnston took this photo of the people who showed up in the Financial District when the airline launched an ambitious campaign to give away free tickets by telling Twitter users where to show up. (Credit: Morgan Johnston) NEW
  
• BT, Google criticise Digital Economy Bill amendment
  A group of internet companies including BT, Orange, Google and Virgin Media have strongly criticised an amendment to the approved last week by the House of Lords, saying it would harm the status of the UK as a centre for digital business. The companies
  
• Eliminate Google from your life
  Are you afraid of how much information Google has about you? You can live without them.
  
• Cisco shows off Internet super-router
  New CRS-3 system is no game-changer but still big, with speeds up to 322Tbps and 'twelve times' the capacity of its nearest competitor, Cisco says Hyped as the router that would 'change forever the face of the Internet', Cisco has launched its new CRS-3
  
• Work Smarter with Online Collaboration Tools
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• Celebrities Caused 2009 Twitter Crime Wave
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• Google-ize Your Hometown
  Google announced several weeks ago they were going to select a city for a high-speed internet pilot.� Several cities have done some crazy things to woo the Googleplex to their neck of the woods. Some are pretty funny, and it seems, why should
  
• Twitter to start blocking phishers' tweets
  Twitter is launching a new service designed to stop users of the social media site from getting duped by phishing links that steal their login credentials and other attacks. The company will route all links submitted to the site through a filter created
  
• Google, Facebook cop for preposterous patent potshot
  Gathering information from around the internet and presenting it on a mobile phone is protected by patent, according to Wireless Ink, which is suing Google and Facebook over it. The patent
  
• Carrier apathy depresses Google Phone outlook
  Google is discovering just how dangerous it is to ruffle the feathers of the major cellcos. Its Nexus One handset may be one of the most advanced on the market and bear the magical brand, but half-hearted marketing efforts by carriers have led to
  
• How does the Google Apps Marketplace fit in with business?
  Google's new apps model is great for small business, but it might not work so well for enterprises Yesterday, Google announced the Google Apps Marketplace, an online store for cloud-based third-party applications that integrate with existing Google Apps.
  
• Google updates Street View to capture majority of all UK roads
  One year after its UK launch, Google's Street View service has been extended to cover almost all UK roads. On Thursday the street-level mapping service added a further 210,000 miles of UK roads to its image bank, meaning Street View now covers
  
• Tories vow to roll out superfast broadband
  Conservatives try to outdo Labour by promising broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps in technology manifesto The Conservatives have launched a technology manifesto that aims to increase broadband speeds and improve access to government data as the
  
• Twitter Becomes More Proactive About Phishing
  if (!self.ord) } write(' Twitter is finally being proactive about the that have plagued the micro-blogging service in the past year. On Wednesday, Twitter introduced its own anti-phishing service designed to protect its users from these types of attacks.
  
• Video: Most people would rather vote online
  More than three in four (77%) of the public would vote via the internet in the general election if given the choice, according to a survey. Some 1,000 people...
  
• Google Reader Play: iPad-Friendly News Reader
  Google has added an iPad-friendly version of its RSS aggregator, called Google Reader Play. According to the Official Google Reader Blog, the new full-screen slide-show is for people who �aren�t interested in taking the time to get Reader set up�.
  
• Bing Gains Again -- Should Google Worry?
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• Memo to Google's Android team: Tie your shoelaces, kids
  With the Nexus One a yawner and the Android platform fragmenting more every day, Google is looking like a five-year-old tripping over his own feet Is Google the new Microsoft? Maybe -- but that's the wrong question. More to the point is this: Can Google
  
• Punters: we want our internet TV
  Consumers really do want to access internet video on their tellies, market watcher In-Stat has concluded. The research that led In-Stat (http://www.instat.com/) to make this claim comes out of the US, but it's hard to believe there would be any
  
• MEPs reject Acta online anti-piracy deal
  Negotiators who are thrashing out a secret international anti-counterfeiting agreement (Acta) may have to revise their strategy following a 663 to 13 vote against it in the European Parliament.Arguing against the measure, MEP Stavros Lambrinidis said,
  
• Google TV search - Look mum I'm on TV!!
  According to the Wall Street Journal, Google has been testing its "television programming search service" for the past twelve months.The idea is that viewers will be able to search by typing on a keyboard, instead of using a remote control. Google hopes
  
• Google chief says China decision coming 'soon'
  While 'there is no specific time table', Eric Schmidt said that he expects a decision over the company's presence in China to be made
  
• Twitter to add phishing filter service
  The social media site is launching a service to keep users safe from having their login details stolen through scams
  
• Online banking fraud costs rise to �60m
  Online banking fraud cost the UK nearly �60m last year after a sharp rise in the number of criminals using malware to harvest people's bank details. Losses from rose 14 percent in 2009 year-on-year to reach a total of �59.7m, according to the trade
  
• Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
  Warwick� Ashford� email The internet is among a record 237 nominees for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, supported by 2003 winner Shirin Ebadi and founder of the $100 laptop project Nicholas Negroponte. Others on the shortlist include Russian human rights
  
• Google tries to make its RSS reader fun, too
  A view of . (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) I've happily used RSS readers for years, but I'm not only an information junkie, I'm a professional information junkie. But I'm one of those people who sees the technology as appealing to
  

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