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The 'Google Phone': Reasons to Remain Skeptical
PC World – Mon Dec 14, 5:32 pm ET

The Google Phone is coming! The Google Phone is coming! With the way the blogosphere is deifying this thing, you'd think we were talking about the freakin' Jesus reader again. Full Story »
Picture of Google's Experimental Handset Appears on Twitter
PC World – Mon Dec 14, 3:10 am ET

A picture of an experimental Android handset given out to Google employees had blogs buzzing over the weekend amid signs that the company could offer a Google-branded smartphone next year. Full Story »
Google bolsters Web Elements capability
InfoWorld – Fri Dec 11, 5:49 pm ET

San Francisco - Google expanded its Google Web Elements mechanism for embedding Google products onto a Web site this week, adding three Web Elements and other enhancements, according to the Google Code Blog. Full Story »
Firefox Exec Rejects Google Privacy Stance, Pushes Users to Bing
PC World – Fri Dec 11, 5:17 pm ET

Firefox users are being urged to install the browser extension that adds the Bing search engine to Firefox. Mozilla director of community development, Asa Dotzler, made the recommendation in a blog post in response to Google CEO Eric Schmidt's recent comments on privacy. Full Story »
Facebook Changes Privacy Settings Yet Again
PC World – Fri Dec 11, 4:51 pm ET

Facebook has again changed how it describes its new privacy options, which began rolling out to the service's 350 million users just two days ago. The company has now changed a blog post describing how users can protect the contents of the Friends List from becoming public. Full Story »
Tech blog, Singapore startup feud over tablet PC
AP – Fri Dec 11, 4:30 pm ET

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SEATTLE - About 18 months ago, a technology blogger got fed up with the industry and forged an alliance with a startup to make his dream computer. It almost worked. Full Story »
Palm Ares moves to alpha stage
InfoWorld – Fri Dec 11, 1:50 pm ET

San Francisco - Palm has moved Ares, its Web-based development environment for WebOS applications, to an alpha release stage, a Palm official said in a blog earlier this month. Full Story »
Yahoo to Integrate Twitter Search Results Today
PC Magazine – Thu Dec 10, 9:02 am ET

On Monday, Google announced real-time search results from Twitter. And now, according to a Yahoo! Search blog entry that will be posted later today by team members Ivan Davtchev and Shiv Ramamurthi, Yahoo will show relevant tweets of popular, "buzzing" topics in the results page. Full Story »
NC elections board ends exam of 'Idol' runner-up
AP – Wed Dec 9, 6:17 pm ET

RALEIGH, N.C. - Elections officials dropped an investigation into 2003 "American Idol" runnerup Clay Aiken's voter registration on Wednesday, weeks after the singer ruffled feathers by slamming some local school board candidates on his blog. Full Story »
Chrome Browser Runs on Mac, Extends Windows, Linux
NewsFactor – Tue Dec 8, 5:00 pm ET

After a long wait, Google's Chrome browser is now available for Apple Macintosh and Linux computers. In a blog post Tuesday, Brian Rakowski, product manager for Chrome, announced that beta versions of Chrome are now available for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (Intel only) and several flavors of Linux, including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE. In addition, Rakowski announced the availability of extensions for the Windows and Linux versions of the browser. Full Story »
Tweet while you work, urges Australian report
AFP – Tue Dec 8, 3:04 am ET

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SYDNEY (AFP) - Blog, tweet, update Facebook -- that's the message the Australian government is sending its bureaucrats as part of a push to break down barriers between public servants and ordinary people. Full Story »
Google search results to include 'real-time' data
AP – Mon Dec 7, 9:33 pm ET

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Fresh information from blogs, news sites, Twitter and other popular hangouts will appear in Google's search results more quickly as the company aims to give people a more comprehensive look at what's happening on the Web. Full Story »
Will 2010 (Finally) Be Blu-ray's Year?
PC World – Mon Dec 7, 5:19 pm ET

A year ago, I wrote a similar Blu-ray blog with a nearly identical title--simply swap out "2009" for "2010." At the time, sales of Blu-ray players had been disappointing, although falling hardware and disc prices were inspiring some analysts to predict a brighter '09 for the high-def movie format. Full Story »
NY judge declares mistrial in NJ blogger trial
AP – Mon Dec 7, 2:49 pm ET

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NEW YORK - A judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case against a New Jersey blogger accused of making death threats against three federal judges in Chicago because they wrote a ruling supporting gun control. Full Story »
Google CEO joins Twitter
AFP – Mon Dec 7, 2:27 pm ET

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who took some flak earlier this year for calling Twitter a "poor man's email system," has joined the hot micro-blogging service. Full Story »
This Was One Good Wall Street PR Move
The Motley Fool – Fri Dec 4, 11:43 am ET

The following is a post from the Motley Fool Editor's blog. You can see all the posts by clicking here. Full Story »
Google Public DNS and Your Privacy
PC World – Thu Dec 3, 7:25 pm ET

Google's expanding its grasp on the Internet with a newly revealed DNS resolving service. Google Public DNS, announced Thursday on Google's blog, will offer you an alternative way to connect to Web sites. Full Story »
'Black Screen' Overhyped and Not Microsoft's Fault
NewsFactor – Thu Dec 3, 5:05 pm ET

After creating great distress in security circles, an issue with Microsoft Windows has proven relatively minor. The problem, labeled the Black Screen of Death, was initially thought to be widespread. Indeed, British security firm Prevx posted a series of blog items suggesting that several million computers using Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 could be compromised. The company said the problem often is associated with two Windows security patches, KB915597 and KB976098. Full Story »