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Google hits the streets, raises concerns
Jun 1 2007 5:51PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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Google hits the streets, raises concerns
Jun 1 2007 5:51PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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Google hits the streets, raises concerns
Jun 1 2007 5:51PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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Google hits the streets, raises concerns
Jun 1 2007 5:51PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. bills the latest twist on its online maps as "Street View," but it looks a bit like "Candid Camera" as you cruise through the panorama of pictures that captured fleeting moments in neighborhoods scattered across the country.
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Google buys feed distributor FeedBurner
Jun 1 2007 3:36PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Online search leader Google Inc. said Friday it purchased FeedBurner, which helps bloggers and podcasters syndicate and make money from their online content, for an undisclosed sum.
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Firms race to update E. Africa telecom
Jun 1 2007 1:00PM (CT)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Plans to lay an undersea fiber-optic cable off eastern Africa could be the beginning of the end of crackling long-distance calls, slow dial-up Internet connections and universities without e-mail.
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Company to create Chinese virtual world
Jun 1 2007 12:40PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - Swedish software company MindArk, which operates the online game "Entropia Universe," has authorized a Beijing company to create a version of its online game for the Chinese market.
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Sex blogger files for bankruptcy
Jun 1 2007 12:12PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Jessica Cutler, the former Senate aide whose online sex diary landed her a book deal and a Playboy photo spread but got her kicked off Capitol Hill, has filed for bankruptcy.
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Google hires former DOJ lawyer to lobby
Jun 1 2007 10:56AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Google Inc. has hired a former Justice Department official to lobby the federal government on its proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc., which is being reviewed by antitrust regulators.
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Google hires former DOJ lawyer to lobby
Jun 1 2007 10:56AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Google Inc. has hired a former Justice Department official to lobby the federal government on its proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick Inc., which is being reviewed by antitrust regulators.
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Poll: A fifth vacation with laptops
Jun 1 2007 10:35AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sun block. Beach umbrella. Laptop. One in five people toted laptop computers on their most recent vacations, an AP-Ipsos poll released Friday said. Along with the 80 percent who said they brought along their cell phones, the survey shows going on vacation no longer means being out of the electronic loop.
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Sweden cracks down on web credit checks
Jun 1 2007 10:26AM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Swedes will no longer be able to snoop through each other's finances anonymously after a popular Web site agreed to tighten the rules on its credit information services, officials said Friday.
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Feds give Web access to lobbying records
Jun 1 2007 9:08AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has launched a searchable online database that tracks the activities of foreign governments and companies lobbying the U.S. government.
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Woman sues eHarmony for discrimination
Jun 1 2007 6:17AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Northern California woman sued the online dating service eHarmony on Thursday, alleging it discriminates against gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
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