Google’s claims to be legally allowed to photograph on private roads stems from its assertion that privacy no longer exists in this age of satellite and aerial imagery.

Google’s Street View service apparently thinks your “no trespassing” and “private road” signs are just for decoration.

Webb’s experience apparently is not an isolated incident: the newspaper used digital [...]

Google Earth is a little different from many Google products, though, because the company also sells premium versions of the software, so Google has alternate revenue sources.

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“We’re huge fans of the iPhone. It’s a fantastic platform and a great opportunity to show Google technology. We’re equally excited about Android,” Birch said. However, he added, [...]

Rumors of a bidding war between Microsoft, Google, and two unidentified media companies began in March, sending some Digg users into a panic about what a new corporate overlord might mean for the site. With a no-go on the Google deal, Digg could either pursue other offers or go after another round of funding and [...]

Jason Perlow has come up with a suggestion for Microhoo–a Windows Mobile-based “Y!Phone” mated with a Wi-Fi-enabled Zune and some combination of Yahoo and MSN online services. Of course, it would also include a camera, a 3G wireless service and, as a differentiator from the
iPhone, an integrated slide-out keyboard and support for Microsoft applications.
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T-Mobile USA is expected to sell in the fourth quarter between 400,000 and 500,000 of the recently announced G1 phones, which use Google’s Android operating system, according to Taiwanese news site CENS.
T-Mobile will also order up to 2 million of the devices from G1 handset maker HTC, the site said, quoting industry insiders. This could [...]

Google Checkout’s most obvious competitor is eBay’s PayPal service, although the services aren’t identical.

The promotion applies to purchases of $60 or more from participating retailers. That includes better-known outfits such as Buy.com and TigerDirect.com as well as niche sites such as YoYoCrazy.com, Beefjerky.com, PondDeals, and MyHipHopBling.com.

Google mentioned the promotion on its Google Checkout blog on [...]

Getting into applications will exacerbate that friction, but at some point, the friction is worth the return.
Here’s the catch, though: if this is true of JBoss middleware, it’s even more true of enterprise applications like customer relations management and enterprise resource planning. Why do you think Oracle has moved so quickly into applications, just as [...]

As such, a change in one country’s vote would not affect the overall result.

In Germany, too, there were accusations of improprieties in what was a close vote, but Germany’s standards organization said it will not change its Yes position to No or Abstain.

“As always, the sentiment has to be organic. It will be up [...]

It’s definitely worth checking out the full blog, as even more details are revealed, including why only stereo audio is included and how video quality is adjusted to match your connection speed. We haven’t done a full evaluation of Netflix’s new HD video streams yet, but we’re hoping they’re close to Vudu’s HDX content, which [...]

Software and servers also helped push up HP’s numbers: blades revenue was up 66 percent, and software revenue increased 29 percent to $731 million this quarter.

There were fears leading up to the announcement that slowing demand for PCs in Western nations and a strengthening dollar could mean HP had peaked this year already. But HP [...]