A US judge has ordered Google to expose to Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used YouTube in a decision condemned by the Internet giant and privacy advocates.
Viacom charges Google, which bought YouTube in 2006, acts as a willing accomplice to Internet users who put clips of Viacom’s copyrighted television programs on the popular video-sharing website.
“We are disappointed the court granted Viacom’s overreaching demand for viewing history,” Google senior said.
Google has just released in the US a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch browsers. In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, you can now chat with them while you’re on the move, too! In your iPhone browser, just go to www.google.com/talk, sign in and start chatting. That’s it. Google Talk runs entirely in the browser so there’s no need to download or install anything.
There are some differences from using Google Talk on your computer. For instance, in order to receive instant messages with Google Talk on your iPhone, the application needs to be open in your Safari browser. When you navigate away to another browser window or application, your status will be changed to “unavailable” and your Google Talk session will be restarted when you return.
Last month, privacy organizations wrote to Google CEO Eric Schmidt asking the company to link to its privacy policy from its home page. Including the link on the home page is good practice — and also mandated by California law, the organizations said.
To read what Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience said click here
On Thursday, Google acceded to the request, putting the word “Privacy” at the foot of its home page and linking it to its privacy information pages. The link replaces the company’s name next to the copyright notice, leaving the number of words on the home page unchanged.
Google had previously declined to make the change to its home page, saying that users appreciate the lack of clutter there. Microsoft and Yahoo both include privacy links on their search pages, while Ask.com added a link to its privacy policy on June 18.
The order to remove the company’s name to make way for the privacy link came right from the company’s founders, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience Marissa Mayer explained in a posting to the company’s blog.
To all of my friends and visitors residing and belonging to US, I wish them a very happy holiday.
Enjoy your holiday and be safe :) Warm wishes to everybody from the staff of ApoTheTech.com
The long awaited Acer One has finally made an appearance and it’s listed for sale in Taiwan already with European availability starting in 6-10 days according to several etailers. The first model is the A110L which is the most basic out of three SKU’s that Acer will launch.
The A110L comes with an Atom N270 processor, the 945GSE chipset, 512MB to 1GB of RAM depending on where you look, an 8.9in LED backlit LCD display with 1,024×600 resolution, an 8GB NAND flash module, a multi-format memory card reader, 802.11b/g WiFi, 10/100Mbit Ethernet, modem and three USB 2.0 ports.
It measures 249x170x29mm (WxDxH) and weighs in at 0.9kg. Again, depending on where you look it’ll either come with a 2,200mAH 3-cell battery or a 4,400mAH 4-cell battery. It will use Linpus Linux Lite as its OS and it’s divided up into four sections on the screen to make it easy to locate the applications you need. The sections are connect, work, fund and files. Continue reading “Acer makes Aspire One A110L available-in Europe for the time being”
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2 is finally out of beta.
The final release includes all the new features that Microsoft added, some of the highlights include:
Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2 is free, and a Universal app.
Price of NAND flash memory continuing its steady sequential decline. Apple this month cut the price of its Solid State Drive (SSD)-equipped MacBook Air by half a grand($500). The 13-inch 1.8GHz MacBook Air with a 64GB SSD is being sold for $2598, down from the $3098 fetching price that was listed as recently as last week. The half-grand markdown is a result of price cuts to two separate components.
First, Apple reduced the price of the Air’s 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor upgrade by $100 to just $200.
Secondly, the company slashed the cost of the Flash memory-based 64GB SSD drive upgrade to $599 from $999. That means customers can now configured a 1.6GHz MacBook Air with an SSD drive for as little as $2398.
Xandros is in the process of aquiring Linspire, which proclaims itself to be world’s easiest linux desktop.
Linspire has been told to change their name to Digital Cornerstone Inc. Linspire is not the name everyone knows. Infact, the only linux distribution I know is ubuntu and red hat. Xandros was an unknown word for me before the introduction of EEE PC by ASUS.
Lets us see what Xandros would do with Linspire :)
It is a Portege. Yet it is not a laptop ;)
Mobiletechreview takes a look at the much anticipated G810 from Toshiba. They have given it “thumbs-up”.
I hope Toshiba has got the software stability right this time. Somebody remembers the G900? :shock:
Link to the review
Mobile services revenue in India is projected to grow around 18 percent a year, hitting US$37 billion by 2012.
India’s mobile subscriber base is also set to exceed 737 million connections by 2012, growing around 21 percent annually. India will continue to be the second largest wireless market after China in terms of mobile connections.India had nearly 278 million mobile subscribers at the end of May after adding 8.6 million mobile subscribers during the month, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
Source: Yahoo technology
