Latest on Google: News, Features, Opinions and More  Chinese artist-dissident lauds Google plan to stop censoring
A well-known Chinese artist and activist voiced strong support late Tuesday for Google's plan to stop censoring results on its China-based search engine. Google Buzz: A visual tour
Google Buzz is part Facebook and Twitter, allowing you to share links and images and keep your friends informed as to where you are and what you're doing. We take you on a visual tour. Update: Gmail gets social with Google Buzz
Google has given Gmail a social networking component with its introduction of Buzz, a service built inside of the Web mail product that lets users post and share content in similar ways as they do in sites like Facebook and Twitter. Cut in Line for Google Buzz
So you're pining for Google Buzz, the social-feed addition to Gmail, but you're tired of hitting F5 every 30 seconds to see if it's on your Gmail. Here's how you can try out Google Buzz, get a head start on all your similarly Buzz-less buddies, and, of course, take one more step to Internet infamy by beating the Twitter mob to the punch. Google Buzz takes the fight to Facebook
Today's leading social networks -- Facebook and Twitter -- now face a very formidable foe with search giant Google's unveiling of social upgrades to its Gmail e-mail service. Opinion: iPhone and Android market share on the rise
New statistics from comScore show that Apple and Google are both gaining ground in the battle for smartphone market share in the U.S. Microsoft, Google team with chipset vendor in smartphone push
Microsoft and Google have turned to Taiwanese chipset vendor MediaTek to boost their traction in smartphones aimed at China and other emerging markets. Google reduces its Nexus One termination fee
Google has quietly chopped $200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One, meaning it will now cost users less to cancel service on the smartphone. Update: Google to make Gmail more social
Google plans to tweak Gmail to make it easier for its users to post and share status updates, in an attempt to inject the Web mail service with social-networking capabilities popularized by Twitter and Facebook, a source confirmed today. Father of Linux calls Nexus One smartphone 'a winner'
Google's Nexus One got a big time endorsement over the weekend from Linux kernel developer Linus Torvalds, who blogged about the Android-based smartphone being "a winner." Latest Malware Is a Call to Action
Practice tempers panic. But the Google 'Operation Aurora' malware required a few extra precautions. The Grill: Microsoft's Chris Capossela
Microsoft's Office marketing chief Chris Capossela talks about the company's plans to beat Google Apps, and adding Twitter-like features to Office. Juniper execs share network vision
Juniper Networks has always been about high performance and, since it straddles the carrier and enterprise markets, has an interesting perspective on where these worlds intersect. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Kim Perdikou, EVP and GM of the Infrastructure Products Group, and David Yen, EVP and GM of the Fabric and Switching Technologies Business Group, to discuss converging needs, tech trends and the company's Stratus project, a single-layer network architecture. ShmooCon: Your iPhone's dirty little security secret
Just how easy is it for the bad guys to use your iPhone against you? Well, pretty easy. Trevor Hawthorn explains what to do about it. Oracle patches flaw, Asustek to take on iPad
This week brought a mix of IT news. Oracle was forced to issue an emergency patch for buggy software after details of the flaw became public. Yahoo continued to shed excess business units and sold its HotJobs division. Nexus One users finally have some multitouch functions after Google issued an update for the smartphone. Also, check out an interview with Eugene Kaspersky of security company Kaspersky Lab, and a package on business intelligence if your company is looking to delve deeper into data analysis. After China pull-out bluster, will Google backtrack?
It has been a long three and a half weeks since Google made the dramatic announcement that it will no longer censor its search results in China, even if that means exiting that huge Internet market. Report: Microsoft may launch new Office cloud license
Microsoft Corp. may be close to adding a new way for big businesses to buy Microsoft Office. Update: DOJ again turns down Google book search settlement
In a big blow to Google's efforts to build a massive digital-books marketplace and library, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has come out against the revised agreement to settle copyright lawsuits brought against Google by authors and publishers. Kaspersky: Google hack takes spotlight from Russia
Kaspersky Lab may not be a household name in the United States, but in some parts of the world, it's the most popular consumer antivirus software. In China the company boasts 100 million users, and the software is also popular in Germany, and, of course, Russia, where Kaspersky got its start in 1997. DOJ: Thumbs down again to Google book search settlement
In a big blow to Google's efforts to build a massive digital-books marketplace and library, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has come out against the revised agreement to settle copyright lawsuits brought against Google by authors and publishers. EPIC files FOIA request over reported Google, NSA partnership
Privacy advocacy group EPIC has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA asking for details on the agency's purported partnership with Google on cybersecurity issues. IE more popular than you think, researcher says
Microsoft's Internet Explorer is used much more often than most assume, a researcher asserted today. Reported Google-NSA alliance sets off privacy alarms
In a development that is already causing alarm among privacy advocates, search engine giant Google Inc. is reported to be enlisting the help of the National Security Agency to investigate recent cyberattacks that Google says originated from China. Colorado looks to SaaS to cut e-mail costs
A Colorado state agency that oversees e-government efforts is soliciting bids from software-as-a-service vendors that could provide hosted e-mail and other applications to state agencies and local governments. Zoho slows frantic growth, works on integrating Web apps instead
Despite competition from Google Docs and others, start-up Zoho has built the broadest Web productivity suite out there. GleeBox Firefox Add-on
Do your mousing muscles ache after you browse the Web? The free GleeBox experimental Firefox add-on and Chrome extension let you perform many tasks by using your keyboard rather than the mouse--including some tasks that require multi-step actions. What we know about Oracle Cloud Office, OpenOffice.org
Product announcements have raised a number of questions that neither Oracle nor OpenOffice.org want to answer. Here's what we know. IE flaw gives hackers access to user files, Microsoft says
Microsoft warned on Wednesday that a flaw in its Internet Explorer browser gives attackers access to files stored on a PC under certain conditions. Symbian goes open source four months early
Symbian has completed the process of open sourcing its entire code base, in advance of its June deadline. Gmail to drop IE6 support this year
Google said today it will suspend Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) support for its Gmail and Calendar services later this year. Motorola launches Devour, Verizon's first Android phone with Motoblur
Motorola is adding another device into its Android arsenal. The Motorola Devour, officially announced on Wednesday, will be available on Verizon Wireless starting in March. InfoWorld review: Eight PHP power tools
Eclipse PDT, NetBeans, NuSphere PhpED, and Zend Studio lead a capable field of IDEs for Web developers Google Email Uploader gets old e-mail to Gmail
Google's Gmail service offers vast amounts of storage, a unique approach to organization, one of the best e-mail-searching features around, and access to all your e-mail from any Web browser--all for the low, low price of free. And with a program such as Mailplane, you can even get many (though not all) of the niceties of a dedicated e-mail client. At Black Hat, a search for the best response to China
Google's revelation last month that attacks out of China resulted in the theft of some of its data drew attention to the broader question at the Black Hat conference here of what can be done to the villains. Nexus One update fixes 3G problem, adds multitouch
Google has started pushing out an update for the Nexus One that will fix a 3G connectivity problem that has plagued some users and adds limited support for multitouch. Petition urges British government to dump IE6
An online petition calling for British government agencies to drop Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 has been launched on the official site of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Senator questions tech companies on China activities
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is seeking information from 30 technology companies in advance of a hearing he is planning on their human rights practices in China. Report: Google to open app store for business software
Google may open as early as March an online store to sell third-party software that complements its Google Apps collaboration and communication hosted suite, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Android apps for business users
These 10 handy apps for Google Android phones take the sting out of business travel and keep you productive on the road China takes step to toughen hacking laws
Chinese police and judicial officials are formulating new measures that govern how hacking crimes are handled by courts, the country's latest step to strengthen its cyber laws, state media reported. AP renews licensing deal with Yahoo, not yet with Google
Yahoo has renewed its licensing deal with the Associated Press to post articles from the global wire service on Yahoo Web sites, the companies said on Monday. YouTube support of IPv6 seen in dramatic traffic spike
Google has quietly turned on IPv6 support for its YouTube video streaming Web site, sending a spike of IPv6 traffic across the Internet that has continued from last Thursday until Monday. Nexus One for AT&T may be in the works
Google may be gearing up to increase the availability of the Nexus One Android phone. SAP's enterprise collaboration tool entering public beta
An upcoming enterprise collaboration tool from SAP that has echoes of Google Wave will enter public beta. Google Hot Search a good tool for spreaders of malware and their adversaries
Google Hot Search topics are turning out to be a useful tool for security researchers at SonicWall who are trying to find URLs for malicious Web sites as well as signatures to help block the malware they contain. BI's dirty secret: Better tools no match for bad strategy
The pressure on CIOs to deliver business intelligence tools and analytic applications--on the cheap and ASAP--has been building steadily for years. In 2010, survey results point out that that demand has reached a fever pitch with which CIOs are very familiar. Chrome snatches share from IE, Firefox
Google's Chrome gained browser market share in January at the expense of both Microsoft's Internet Explorer and IE's biggest rival, Mozilla's Firefox, according to data published today. Google joins the 'kill-IE6' campaign
Google Docs will drop support for Microsoft's nearly nine-year-old IE6 browser starting March 1. Dark clouds gather over online security
It seems as if everyone is moving everything to the cloud. Meanwhile, sophisticated organizations are figuring out how to exploit cloud vulnerabilities to harvest valuable secrets. And if Google can't stop them, what chance do you or I have? You'll never guess what this week's topic is …
How could Mark Gibbs resist writing about the Apple iPad? He couldn't. Google to pay bounties for Chrome browser bugs
Google has unveiled a bug-bounty program that will pay researchers $500 for each vulnerability they report in the Chrome browser and its underlying open-source code FCC's McDowell: Net neutrality would face legal challenge
If the FCC adopts broad new Net neutrality regulations, the agency's authority to do so will be challenged in court, predicted Robert McDowell, a member of the commission. Google's Social Search won't leverage much of Facebook
Google's recently released Social Search feature, whose raison d'etre is to include content from users' social-network contacts in search results, can barely tap into the connections people have made on Facebook, the world's largest social network. Clock may be ticking for Google to act on China
Google's reputation among industry watchers and users could be hurt if the company is slow to follow through on its threat to leave China unless the government there relaxes censorship rules. Chrome apes IE8, adds clickjacking, XSS defenses
Google yesterday announced it has added several new security features to Chrome, including two that were first popularized by rival Microsoft in Internet Explorer 8 last year. Managing Your Reputation Online: 5 Essential Tools
You must monitor what people are saying about you in order to keep your reputation online intact. These five free tools will help you stay up to date whenever you're mentioned. Google expands Social Search test
Google's Social Search service, which includes public content from users' social networks in search results, is getting promoted to Google.com from the company's Labs site, meaning it is no longer considered an early prototype. CTIA defends early termination fees
The leading trade group for wireless telcos is defending carriers’ right to charge early termination fees to customers who break their contracts early. Android apps for developers and IT pros
These handy tools help you make the most of the Linux at the root of your Google Android phone China says no limits on Google's Android if it follows laws
China on Wednesday said Google's Android operating system will not be blocked if it follows local regulations, after speculation that Google's threat to leave China could hurt the adoption of Android there. Google nixes Wal-Mart Nexus One sales
Despite a detailed page on Wal-Mart's Web site indicating that the Nexus One phone is "coming soon," Google says it has no plans to distribute the phone anywhere but its own Web site. FCC queries Google, others on early termination fees
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is continuing its investigation into wireless early termination fees but this time is targeting one notable newcomer: Google. Google to push update for Nexus One soon
Google hopes to be able to push out a software fix in about a week for a 3G connectivity problem that many Nexus One users have complained about. Google Toolbar Tracks Some Browsing When It Should Not
A bug in Google Toolbar has resulted in the search giant receiving information about users' Web surfing in violation of the product's privacy policy, according to an anti-spyware and privacy researcher. Google Voice finally gets to the iPhone with browser app
Google has found a way to let iPhone owners use Google Voice, the telephony management service whose iPhone-specific application Apple rejected last year. Nexus One maker sees potential in Windows Mobile 7
High Tech Computer (HTC), the world's largest maker of smartphones running Google's Android mobile OS and Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS, believes the Nexus One will raise its global profile this year while the launch of Windows Mobile 7 will lead to the development of more apps for Microsoft phones. New Microsoft Office price list: Winners and losers
Microsoft's new Office pricing scheme is more complex than first thought; it's at least partially a response to increased competition from IBM, Google, Zoho and OpenOffice.org. Chinese censorship strong despite Google
The Internet has loosened the control Chinese authorities hold over information in the country, but censorship there will remain strong despite Google's threat to leave China. Search engine use explodes in December
Users conducted 46% more online searches -- 131 billion worldwide -- last month compared to December, 2008. 10 Great Google Chrome Extensions
With Google releasing a stable version of Chrome that supports extensions, it's a great time to install some of these enhancements for the Web browser. Google says there are now 1,500 extensions to choose from -- here are 10 favorites. Google offers HTML APIs and browser extensions in Chrome browser
A "stable channel" version of the browser is offered for Windows. Google patches 13 Chrome bugs, adds extensions to Windows
Google today added support for extensions and bookmark synchronization to the production version of Chrome for Windows. Google co-founders to unload stock in company
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin each plan to sell some 5 million shares in the company, cutting their joint ownership stake to under 50%. Google's Android will surge in mobile OS wars, IDC says
IDC projects that Google's Android mobile operating system will be the second most popular by 2013 when some 68 million devices running the mobile OS will be sold. New TechNet CEO: Expanding access to tech is priority
China rejects accusations on Google hack, Internet freedom
China on Monday dismissed accusations of any official involvement in hacking attacks on Google and other U.S. companies, adding to tension between the two countries over the issue. Mozilla revs up Firefox 3.6 speed by 15%
Mozilla's new Firefox 3.6 is about 15% faster than its predecessor, Firefox 3.5, but still is a slowpoke compared to the current speed demons, Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome, benchmark tests show. Google tunes search engine for facts, events
Google is making it easier for people to find factual answers and event information directly in its search engine results, as it continues evolving and enhancing its core product, the company said Friday. Here comes the new cell phone etiquette
Cell phones -- and the ways we use them -- change. In the past three years, the whole world of cell phones has evolved so much that we need some additional rules of etiquette, writes columnist Mike Elgan. YouTube declutters video page interface
Google has redesigned YouTube's video page interface because it has become "cluttered and a little overwhelming" by Google's own admission. China hacks used as lure for more targeted attacks
Malicious hackers have begun using the recent cyberattacks against Google and more than 30 other companies as lures for launching even more targeted attacks, security firm F-Secure said in a blog post today. Prineville, Ore., pop. 10,000, is Facebook's new friend
Facebook announced plans to build a massive data center in Prineville, Ore., a small city on the center of the state. IE attacks pose small threat to U.S., big risk to China
Security researchers say that the hackers exploiting an Internet Explorer bug are far more likely to hit Chinese computers users than those in the U.S. The hackers are believed to be working from China. China slams Clinton's call for Internet freedom
China on Friday slammed remarks made by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promoting Internet freedom worldwide, saying her words harmed U.S.-China relations. Analysis: Free Nokia GPS could hurt TomTom, Garmin
Nokia's announcement Thursday of free voice navigation for its GPS smartphones is bound to hurt some GPS vendors such as Garmin and TomTom, analysts said. Update: Google grows revenue and profit in Q4
Google's revenue and profits grew in the fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2009, and exceeded Wall Street's expectations, capping a year in which the search company did well despite the global economic turmoil. Widespread attacks exploit newly patched IE bug
The first widespread attack to leverage a recently patched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has surfaced. Google grows revenue and profit in Q4
Google's revenue and profits grew in the fourth quarter, which ended Dec. 31, 2009, and exceeded Wall Street's expectations, capping a year in which the search company did well despite the global economic turmoil. Microsoft patches IE, admits it knew of bug last August
As Microsoft patched the Internet Explorer zero-day used to break into Google's network, it acknowledged that it had known of the bug since August 2009, when an Israeli security company reported the flaw. Motorola works around Google issues in China
After Google decided to postpone the launch of a new Motorola Android phone in China, Motorola announced services and partnerships that will enable it to pursue the Chinese market without Google. Nokia hopes to outdo Google with free voice nav on its smartphones
Nokia today announced free turn-by-turn voice navigation for all its GPS-enabled smartphones globally, starting with 10 models today, and signaled a clear battle with Google over similar free technology now available in the U.S. Clinton: U.S. gov't will push harder against Web censorship
The State Department will launch several new initiatives focused on fighting Internet censorship, including working with businesses and other groups to develop mobile apps that help residents of countries with repressive governments report problems, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday. With latest features, Box.net claims edge over SharePoint, Google Docs
Just as Google Docs makes collaborating on documents via the Web easier than Microsoft Office does, Box.Net enables corporate workers to share documents and other files more easily and beyond firewalls than Microsoft SharePoint.
Microsoft confirms 17-year-old Windows bug
Microsoft warns that a bug in the kernel of a 32-bit windows versions could allow hackers to hijack PCs. The company said the bug is 17-years old. Sony Ericsson boss sees no impact on Android from China spat
Sony Ericsson isn't expecting any launch delay for its Xperia X10 Android-based smartphone in China despite Android-developer Google's threat to pull out of the market. Clinton to challenge Internet censorship in policy address
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will raise the issue of Google's ongoing battles in China in a broad policy address on Internet freedom she plans to make Thursday in Washington, D.C. Microsoft seeks legal protections for data stored in cloud
Microsoft's top lawyer today called on Congress to enact legislation that would protect data store in the computing cloud. Amazon jacks up e-book royalties ahead of Apple's tablet release
Amazon.com said authors and publishers will get a higher royalty on books using the Kindle Digital Text Platform starting June 30. Microsoft to issue emergency IE patch Thursday
Microsoft will release its emergency patch for Internet Explorer (IE) on Thursday, the company said, as it also admitted that attacks can be hidden inside rigged Office documents. New York Times plans to charge for some online access
The New York Times will start charging readers to access some of its Web site's content next year, hoping such a move will complement its online advertising revenue, it said on Wednesday.
| 
See your link here
Did you know that Google's ChomeOS is taking the form of a Tablet? I covered a 
Watch the most compelling Super Bowl ads of years past from the likes of Intel, Iomega, EDS, Apple and Xerox, then vote for your favorite in our reader poll.
As the technology used to create NAND flash memory continues to shrink, bit error rates and reliability issues are increasing, forcing solid-state memory makers to look for alternatives.
You're ready to advance, but your manager is asleep at the switch. Here's how to get ahead without a boost from your boss.
These applications can help you turn your raw video into a snazzy presentation.
Computerworld
