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Google Chrome Hit With Another Security Buge
Less than a week after the release of Google's new Web browser Chrome, security researchers detected a buffer overflow vulnerability that could enable remote attackers to completely take control of a user's computer. read more
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Sounding Board: Readers Weigh In
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"Look at NPD's report on falling smart phones. Expect Android to make that worse by design. I have an iPhone. I will be giving it to the wife when Android is available."
-- Posted By Short Rimm
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Let's Grok!
Analyst: Android 'Ain't No iPhone,' Will Fail
Google's much-hyped mobile platform, Android, is set to make its big debut in the market in the coming months. Developers, execs, and analysts who've used it say it is going to bomb, and if it does, it is all Google's fault. read more
Industry Group Opposes Google-Yahoo Partnership
The Association of National Advertisers' letter to the DOJ warns against limited competition and advertiser choice, concentrated market power, and higher ad prices. read more
Justice Department Hires 'Super Lawyer' For Possible Google Antitrust Fight
The Department of Justice has been reviewing the proposed ad deal that Google and Yahoo announced in June for possible antitrust action. read more
Google Expands Historical Search In Old Newspapers
The effort involves the archives of dozens of newspaper titles and expands on a two-year-old partnership with The New York Times and The Washington Post. read more
Google Announces Photostreaming App For Android
The final list of applications that will appear on the first wave of Android handsets hasn't been revealed, but this new, open source project from the Android Developers Blog might be one of them. Photostream can stream Flickr photos to an Android handset. read more
Google Is Everywhere
Google has purchased the exclusive commercial rights to satellite images acquired by the just launched Geo-Eye 1 satellite. The images should be sharper than those available from the other satellite imagery providers that Google uses for Google Earth and Google Maps. read more
Working At Google
What's it really like to work at Google? If you haven't worked there (and I haven't), it's harder than it might seem to get a straight answer. read more
Google Launches Mapping Satellite
GeoEye-1 will capture high-resolution earth images for exclusive use on Google Maps. read more
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Editor's Note
Google Offers More Privacy To Searchers, Chrome Users
Moving to address privacy concerns, Google said it will reduce the amount of time it keeps server log data.
"We'll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months," said Google privacy counsels and a software engineer in a jointly authored blog post. "We're significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step to improve privacy for our users."
Google also said it will change the way its Google Suggest feature works to make the service more private.
Google Suggest proposes possible search term refinements as Google users type their queries. It is available in Google Chrome, Google's new Web browser, as well as in Google Search, Google Toolbar, Google Search for the iPhone, and Mozilla's Firefox.
To read what the user is typing and respond to it, Google Suggest routes typed input to Google, without any affirmative action on the user's part. And 2% of Google Suggest input gets stored and logged "to monitor and improve the service." The information retained includes the user's IP address, through which is it usually possible to identify the user.
Google insists that it needs to retain certain information to improve search and security. But Urs Holzle, Google's senior VP of operations, in a blog post said that in the case of Google Suggest "it's possible to provide a great service while anonymizing data almost immediately."
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RESEARCH, RESOURCES, AND REPORTS
Video: Taking Google's Chrome Browser On A Test Drive
If you want to take a closer look at Google's Chrome browser, check out Mitch Wagner's video tour of the software. He takes you around the user interface, features such as application windows and incognito mode (aka "porn mode") and more.
Report: Google Chrome: Our First Take
We look at Chrome's strengths and weaknesses for enterprises, its impact for SaaS providers, and its level of security.
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