One billion dollars. A lot of money. That’s what Viacom is suing Youtube for copyright infringement. It is widely know that copyrighted materials of famous TV shows or even music videos do appear readily on YouTube. The problem doesn’t lie only with YouTube but also with the plethora of other video sharing sites out there.

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Well, Google is definitely pumping it’s web muscles in the face of Microsoft. Yesterday, Google announced Google Appls Premier Edition which hosted business applications that includes phone support, additional storage space, and a now set of administration and business integration capabilities.
Google Apps combines applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, all in one suite. [...]

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Shortly after releasing it’s great Gmail service into the wild for any and all to register it seems that Google found the domain Gmail.pl taken. The polish domain name was taken by a group of Polish Poets. GMAIL stands for Grupa MÅ‚odych Artystów i Literatów (GMAiL) or Group of Young Artists and Writers.

Google has decided to seek action through Poland’s IT and telecommunications tribunal and have gmail.pl because the name is very close to gmail.com (the very famous email service). The owners of gmail.pl are not trying to make money of any potential sale of the name. They want to keep it.

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Gmail is finally open to everybody and anybody. Google made the move after lifing invitations, and invitations via mobile phone. It’s good to see this because Google’s Gmail is a great service. It provides over 2 GB of storage space, treats e-mails like conversations for easy storage and easily allows you to tag mail.
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Google has managed to grow another tentacle, this time it’s dipping into the domain business (examples of domains are hello.com, example.net) . Google recently partnered up with popular domain registrars GoDaddy and eNom to provide their users to register domains for $10.
The $10 fee is higher than most domain registrars ( most charge [...]

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Well, Google’s appetite seems to be growing as Google announces that JotSpot has been bought. JotSpot was the creation of Joe Kraus and Graham Spencer who founded the company in order to allow wikis (a website that allows users to constantly add or edit content as a group. eg. wikipedia.com).
However, since wikis are [...]

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Many environmentalists go nuts when big companies consume power and burn so much fuel that they seem like hungry locusts - eating everything they find. Of course the large corperations always say they don’t have the cash do do anything about it.
Google on the other hand has decided that solar is the way to go. [...]

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Google has now officially released a news report that they have indeed agreed to buy YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars in a stock-for-stock transaction. Google has agreed to allow YouTube to run independently (i.e. no name change.)
YouTube has become the fastest growing video etertainment community and after Google Video became a flop it was a [...]

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Well, it seems this story is not going away any time soon. As it picks up steam it also seems to have picked up a lot of credibility. The NY Times is reporting that Google and YouTube! are both holding seperate shareholder meetings today to approve the deal. The announcement could come as early as [...]

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Internet security is a big issue these days. More and more people find themselves visiting websites that are harmful to their computer, or their personal information. Software that is downloaded fromwebsites is also a huge concern.
Many times free software that is downloaded contain viruses or spyware and adware that affect not only your computer but [...]

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Google has released the newest version of Google Maps and a customizable Google homepage for your cell phone.
Google Maps mobile is simply a Java program that can be downloaded now can help you to save time in your car. Google Maps now gives you live travel updates and even allows you to save your [...]

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Google’s great presence in the lives of people now extends from the Internet and software into language and dictionaries. The Meriam-Webster dictionary added “Google” and it’s verb form “Googling into its dictionary.
Meriam-Webster defined Googling this way:“To use the Google search engine to obtain information about [a person or thing] on the world wide web.”

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Well, Gazotto predicted that 2006 would be a big year in the war between Google and Microsoft. Google announced that it will be launching an online spreadsheet (think Microsoft Excel). However, unlike Excel it won’t have any advanced features such as macros.

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Google has taken another step in competing with Microsoft today, by signing a deal with Dell Computers. While Google has held the advantage online, Microsoft did eventually take notice of Google, when they began to write software.
Well, Google has made a move that would see their software placed on millions of new Dell Computers. The [...]

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Google has introduced Google Calendar, a free service which aims to put your agenda online. To use Google Calendar you simply need to login in with your Google Account or create one. The service simply displays an agenda with different allotments for time.

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