Google Inc. said it is not quite ready to decide where it will build an experimental, ultra-high-speed broadband network that will provide Internet connections that are 100 times faster than the connections most Americans get from their phone and cable companies. Get the full story »
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Facebook CEO named Time’s ‘Person of Year’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (AP/Paul Sakuma)
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year. Rick Stengel, the magazine’s managing editor, made the announcement Wednesday on NBC’s “Today“ show.
Zuckerberg created the widely popular and influential social networking site, which reflects a major transformation in the way people communicate and do business.
“Facebook has merged with the social fabric of American life, and not just American but human life: nearly half of all Americans have a Facebook account, but 70 percent of Facebook users live outside the U.S. It’s a permanent fact of our global social reality. We have entered the Facebook age, and Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here.“ Get the full story »
Google searches for new role as business incubator
A small team has toiled since early October in a quiet corner of Google Inc.’s sprawling campus in Mountain View, Calif., on a project related to the discovery of human antibodies.
The group is not part of Google and has nothing to do with Google’s flagship Internet search business. Get the full story »
Consumer Reports site to list recalls of kids’ products
Trying to track recalled products and foods that might be harmful to children is a nightmare for parents because there’s no single place to look.
Until now.
The new site www.ClickCheckandProtect.org, a Consumer Reports companion site, is the product of a newly formed National School Safety Coalition convened by Consumer Reports, the National Parent Teacher Association and the National School Boards Association. Get the full story »
Dec. 14, 2010 at 10:54 a.m.
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Filed under: International, Internet, Investigations, Technology France steps up Europe’s scrutiny of Google
France’s antitrust regulator on Tuesday put Google on notice not to abuse what it said was its dominant position in online search advertising.
In the latest sign of growing regulatory scrutiny of Google in Europe, the watchdog said Google’s market power was not necessarily bad or illegal but its practices needed to be monitored to avoid anticompetitive impact. Get the full story »
WikiLeaks’ Assange granted bail in Britain
A British judge granted bail to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Tuesday, saying he must abide by strict conditions as he fights extradition to Sweden in a sex-crimes investigation.
The 39-year-old Australian has been in a London prison for a week after surrendering to Scotland Yard due to a Swedish arrest warrant. Get the full story »
Dec. 13, 2010 at 4:43 p.m.
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Filed under: Internet, Privacy issues, Technology, Telecommunications Gawker breach spreads to Twitter
A spam attack on Twitter shows why it’s wise to use different passwords for Internet accounts.
Twitter said Monday that hackers broke into an unspecified number of accounts and sent spam promoting acai berry drinks. Twitter says the passwords came from a breach at Gawker Media, which runs Gawker, Gizmodo and other technology and media sites. People who used the same passwords for both sites were vulnerable. Get the full story »
McDonald’s warns of customer information breach
McDonald’s Corp. has informed an undisclosed number of customers that certain information such as phone numbers and ages has been obtained by an “unauthorized third party” via information collected from its Web sites.
McDonald’s described the information as customer information as “limited information” provided to McDonald’s that included “information required to confirm your age, a method to contact you (such as name, mobile phone number, and postal address and/or email address).” Get the full story »
Illinois to offer amnesty on online shopping taxes
Illinoisans can often dodge sales taxes by shopping online, but the state of Illinois is hoping to collect on those taxes next year by offering a sales tax amnesty.
A new law allows people who didn’t pay sales tax on items bought online, through the mail or over the phone between June 20, 2004, and the end of 2010 to pay what they owe without penalty. The tax amnesty runs from Jan. 1 through Oct. 15. Get the full story »
Amazon: Web problem due to hardware, not hackers
Internet retailer Amazon is denying that pro-WikiLeaks hackers were responsible for the failure of its Web sites in several European countries. Amazon sites were offline for about half an hour in Britain, France, Germany and other countries late Sunday, leading to speculation they could have been targeted by online “hacktivists.” Get the full story »
Report: Ex-WikiLeaks staff to launch rival site
A group of former WikiLeaks collaborators who quit the project are to launch a new campaigning site next week to protest against its founder, a Swedish newspaper said on Thursday. Get the full story »
Google list shows hottest search terms in Chicago
(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Education-related Web sites ranked among the most popular Google searches for Chicagoans in 2010, according to the search giant’s newly released “Zeitgeist” list.
Google compiled lists of the hottest search items for individual U.S. cities, ranking searches based on their uniqueness to that city. A search query is considered unique if it is “disproportionately popular” in a certain city versus the rest of the country, Google said.
In Chicago, the top search was the bulky “student.cps.k12.il.us,” which is a Web portal for Chicago Public School students to manage grades and assignments. Jim Lecinski, Google’s Chicago-based managing director of U.S. sales, said students were likely bringing home flyers or notes from teachers with the URL printed on it. Their parents would then type the address into a Google search bar instead of their browser’s address bar. Get the full story »
Groupon teams up with Tribune shopping site
Chicago-based Groupon.com, the fast-growing social networking site that offers its users daily discounts to businesses in their individual markets, has entered into a partnership with Chicago Tribune Media Group’s recently launched e-commerce site.
Robert Feder moves to Time Out Chicago
Former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Feder, who spent a year blogging for Chicago Public Media before quitting last month, is moving his media commentary to Time Out Chicago magazine’s Web site, effective Jan. 3.
