When the deal was announced, Google and Yahoo said they had agreed to delay it for three months to allow the Department of Justice time to review the arrangement.
Pigs Fly: Google Adds Privacy Link To Home Page
Last month, a handful of privacy groups urged Google to add a link to its privacy policy on its home page, in accordance with California law.
Google Gets Chatty, Creates New iPhone Instant Messaging Program
Users of Google's Talk instant messaging program can now access it through the iPhone's Safari browser. It also will work with the iPod Touch. There are some minor differences when compared with the desktop version, but otherwise Google kept it as similar as possible.
Google Brings Full-Album Downloads To Picasa
Google's photo sharing site, Picasa, is one of the many Google services I take advantage of to share my pictures with friends and family. Often there are times when someone wanted to be able to download an entire album, rather than snag each image one by one. Before today, that was not possible. Now it is.
Google Drops the Ball on Data Portability
Google is all for data portability, unless it threatens the company's dominance of online advertising.
In order to accommodate the restrictions that Apple placed on iPhone apps to conserve system resources, this version of Google Talk shuts down if you launch another application.
The owner of YouTube has to turn over user login IDs, records showing when users watched videos, their IP addresses, and numbers that identify the videos.
A recent Pew Internet report finds just 25% of American households with annual incomes of $20,000 or less had broadband connections in their homes.
New rules in California and Washington make the market ripe for improved speech-enabled cell phone applications, a Nuance study suggests.
Gains came mostly from users upgrading from Firefox 2, while only a small portion came at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
The company released firmware 2.40 Tuesday, and reports of problems started flowing in soon after on the official PlayStation 3 message board.
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