Google pulls some street images
Google has removed dozens of photos from its new UK Street View service.
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20.3.2009 Google Maps visits up 41% following UK Street View launch
Following the launch of Google Street View in the UK yesterday (19 March 2009), UK Internet visits to Google Maps UK Increased by 41%.
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23.3.2009 Microsoft pulls four planned patches
Microsoft has pulled four bulletins from its announced list of Patch Tuesday fixes, but did not specify why it was backpedaling on the security releases.
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6.1.2007 Microsoft Pulls Vista RC2 Public Download
On Monday, just two days after making the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) version of Windows Vista available to the public via the Customer Preview Program (CPP), Microsoft pulled the download, confounding users who were hoping to get the last public pre-release version of the product.
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12.10.2006 DOWNLOAD Street Wars: Construction Underworld
Street Wars Online, a multi-player, real time, strategy game where you are a drug dealer in one of 6 major U.S. citys and gives you the opportunity to become a high profile mafia boss.
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The Wall Street Journal interviews Steve Ballmer
For 26 years, the chief executive of Microsoft Corp. had worked hand in hand with Bill Gates to guide a tiny personal-computer-software maker into a technology behemoth whose products are at the center of the world's businesses and homes. But the day before, Mr. Gates had announced plans to step away from Microsoft in two years. The duo would become a solo act.
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30.7.2006 Windows Live Local, offers street-side level imagery!
Windows Live Local technical preview (pre-beta version) will go live offering "street-side" level imagery for Seattle and San Francisco.
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28.2.2006 Hubble Images Screen Saver
Take your mind to the heavens every time your computer is left idle. The Hubble Images Screen Saver displays images of nebulae and celestial bodies, captured by the world-famous telescope.
There's no other information concerning the images than the names, so if you wish to learn more about spacey sights with names like "Eta Carinae" or "NGC-3603," you'll have to look elsewhere. But the full-screen NASA photographs will jettison you to places far removed from this mudane, terrestrial existence.
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XP SP3 Integrated Images on MSDN
Microsoft is pleased to make available integrated retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3, to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers.
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3.5.2008 Images of Zune HD Retail Packaging Leaked
A tweet by Crazyphoneguy yesterday revealed the packaging material that comes with the Zune HD. Some things, just cannot be faked, there is no doubt this image is the real deal.
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24.8.2009 Vista SP2 RTM DVD ISO Images Available for Download
Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to manufacturing on April 28, 2009. As was the case with Vista SP1, the RTM and General Availability dates failed to coincide.
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15.5.2009 Download Free Vista and XP from Microsoft as VHD Images
Microsoft continues to offer free copies of its Windows Vista and Windows XP operating systems for download, in a tradition that started approximately a couple of years back.
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28.8.2009 Download Free Vista and XP SP3 via IE App Compatibility VPC Images
Since 2007, Microsoft has been offering free copies of Windows XP and Windows Vista for download, in order to make up for a handicap specific to the Windows client, namely the fact that two different versions of Internet Explorer cannot be installed and run simultaneously on the same operating system.
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30.12.2008 Capture Windows 7 and Vista SP2 Images with ConfigMgr 2007 SP2 Beta
Capturing Windows 7 and Windows Vista Service Pack 2 images, but also client assessment, updating and deployment are tasks that can be performed with System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
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15.6.2009 Download 32-bit and 64-bit Vista SP1 RTM Slipstream ISO Images
Microsoft is offering for download both the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista SP1, the slipstream versions as ISO images. A slipstream version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is essentially nothing more than the RTM version of the latest Windows client with the service pack already integrated.
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29.2.2008 Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page.
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24.10.2006 Google Chrome - Web browser from Google
Google has released the very first beta of their new web browser, Google Chrome. Chrome is a browser that, for now at least, is focused on offering a full browsing experience within a minimalistic user interface.
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2.9.2008 Can Microsoft Out-Google Google?
It aims to grab more of the search market with a new slew of search services that copy, and try to build on, Google's approach.
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13.9.2006 Next Up: Google Office?
There's a Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. These times must be really interesting for Steve Ballmer.
Microsoft's CEO allegedly said he'd crush Google, his company's rival in search, and the lucrative ad business it engenders. On Tuesday, Google may strike back at Redmond's heart: Microsoft Office.
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Google PC?
Just five years ago, Microsoft Corp. was considered the Big Bad Wolf of the media business.
Armed with a stockpile of cash and the Windows operating system that dominates office computing, Bill Gates' company was expected to huff and puff its way into America's living rooms as well, with video game consoles, home networking systems and TV set-top boxes.
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3.1.2006 Google Sites For All!
Google has just announced a new service called Google Sites, which is now available for any registered Google user. This service was previously only available to businesses with specialty accounts.
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22.5.2008 Google TV Coming soon?
Using Google?s search and advertising technologies to enhance users? Television viewing experience trends that are shaping user behavior when watching Television identify areas where use of Google?s search and advertising technology can enhance this user experience.
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Google history - Milestones
Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, Mathematics and the Imagination by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.
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Google Talk Unleashed
I'm impressed with their initial effort, and I think when they add the ability to connect to MSN, AIM, Yahoo, et. al. they claim a major share of the IM market. Google Talk is worth a look
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Google fright for eBay
GOOGLE is testing a new service that could eventually propel it into new markets on the web in competition with a wide range of existing internet companies, from e-commerce giants like eBay to online listings sites.
News of the test, which Google would not discuss publicly, spread quickly around the internet and contributed to a 4 per cent fall in eBay's shares.
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Google Whistles a New Tune
Google on Thursday launched a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page.
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16.12.2005 Google to buy Opera?
"Take that, IE 7"
Google may soon announce its acquisition of browser firm Opera, if rumour is to be believed.
Pierre Chappaz, founder of Kelkoo and ex-Yahoo! Europe president, has revealed in his personal blog, Kelblog, that a "usually well informed source" has told him the buy is on the cards.
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17.12.2005 Google Sued Over Talk
Rates Technology (RTI), a company that owns several internet voice communication patents, is suing Google for $5 billion claiming the search giants' Google Talk software uses two RTI patented technologies without licensing them.
The suit, filed in October in US District Court in the Eastern District of New York, seeks damages in compensation for "irreparable damages" caused to RTI.
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2.1.2006 IE7 getting the Google treatment
For those of you who have downloaded Windows Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview you might get a surprise when visiting the Google.com webpage.
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9.2.2006 Playing catch-up with Google
At Ask.com, Steve Berkowitz didn't have enough resources to take on Google. Now, at Microsoft, he has plenty of money, but still has a lot of work to do.
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21.11.2006Google street view car hits a bridge
Google street view is not only helpful but it has produced many quality blunders that keep us coming back for more. In the latest edition of a Google
street view bork up, a Google street view driver tried to drive under a low bridge, the bridge won. In the images below you can clearly see the
bridge that the driver tried to go under but in the following pictures you see that the attempt resulted in a bent camera rig as the following
pictures are looking straight up. Google must have a good sense of humor as it tends to leave these kinds of pictures live.
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10.04.2009Google Pulls Pentagon Pics
Google has complied with a request by the Pentagon to remove some online images from its street-level map service because they pose a security threat
to U.S. military bases, military and company officials said on Thursday. General Gene Renuart, head of the military command responsible for homeland
defense, said the Pentagon had talked to Google about the risks and expected the company to cooperate in removing selected images from its Street View
service. " We have been contacted by the military, " Google spokesman Larry Yu said. " In those instances where they (the U.S military) have
expressed concerns about the imagery, we have accommodated their requests. "
The images that worry the Pentagon include views of bases,
including security at the entrances to those installations. " It actually shows where all the guards are. It shows how the barriers go up and down.
It shows how to get in and out of buildings, " said Renuart, commander of U.S. Northern Command. " I think that poses a real security risk for
our military installations. " However, a Google spokesman said his company's policy was to photograph only those images visible from public
roads. " It is against Google's policy for a driver to seek access to a military base, " Yu said.
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07.03.2008Google Maps Gets Its Own Version of Clippy (And Some Useful Street View Updates)
Google Maps has
just launched a number of updates
that make Street View much more prominent. Now, whenever you're viewing a map where there is Street View imagery available, you'll be able to drag
"Pegman" from the view slider to the street where you'd like to see a picture.
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26.11.2008Google Street View goes live for Canadians
Many Canadians can now see their homes, streets, points of interest and landmarks on Google Street View. The street level view of the top major
cities in Canada has finally gone live, after months of Google cars and cameras roaming the streets, adding the same feature Americans have on Google
Maps. The added street view perspective gives Canadians a detailed image view of the largest cities in Canada, allowing users to take a virtual 360
degree tour of the city. The online virtual tour of cities is available for free on Google Maps, and can be activated by clicking on the icon of the
little yellow man when the street preview is available.
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13.10.20096 must see funnys on Google Maps
Google Street view is a candid look at the environment that surrounds us. The idea of street view is to give the user an idea of what it would look
like if they were standing on the street. It's a simple idea that usually results in a great way to get a look at a destination before you
arrive. Sometimes, however, the Google cameras capture things that are not so ordinary. Below are six gems that have been unearthed on Google Maps.
They are posted in no particular order but all are rare sightings much like the Google van hitting Bambi.
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30.01.2009Google must re-shoot all Street View pictures in Japan
Citizens of Japan have won a fight against Google to get them to re-shoot all of the photos taken and shown via Google Street View. The argument
stemmed around the idea of invasion of privacy, specifically that the cameras could take pictures over the fences around private homes. Google agreed
to re-shoot all of the photos taken for Google Street View of Japanese cities and will lower the height of its cameras to avoid taking photos at
heights above private fences. Google has also agreed to blur out license plates numbers as well to further adhere to the complaints of the citizens.
"We admit that there were concerns about the service. ...
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19.05.2009Google Earth delivers miracle on 34th Street, and 65th Street, and...
It may not cover all of the good boys and girls in Manhattan, but Google Earth's 3-D option has bulked up enough to make a virtual traveler
feel a little like an airborne Santa...
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24.12.2008Google Maps street view rips hole in space-time fabric
Google Maps street view is a massive undertaking by Google. The idea of bringing a street level view to almost every major road in the country is
nothing to scoff at and then to do it on a global scale is almost unfathomable. While nearly everyone applauds Google's efforts for taking on
such a massive project it's only a matter of time until something goes wrong or something gets captured that we all can enjoy. This week it
appears that Google has managed to rip a hole in the space-time fabric that we call life. In the two pictures below you can clearly see that a
quantum leap has been perfected by Google.
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09.02.2009Google Street is coming to Canada
Google will soon be coming to 11 of Canada's largest cities including Halifax, Montreal, Winnipeg and Calgary. The Internet giant will be driving
around cities in the coming weeks to map the streets of Canada to include a street-eye view of streets, buildings and their surroundings. The street
view will provide users to help locate meeting spots, buildings and a better idea of their destination. With the added bonus of being able to see
your own home on Google, many people raise privacy concerns, which Google is ready to handle. Images of people's faces and licence plates will be
automatically blurred out, and any requested offensive images will be removed from the web site.
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27.03.2009Google Street + Twitter = Stweet?
That's right, Stweet is a mash up between Google Street View and Twitter! Now you can navigate the streets of the world and see who has been there
before you and what they've said! Certain Twitter applications can let Twitter your location in co-ordinates. What Stweet does is takes those
co-ordinates and determines where in the world you are before dropping your message down on the street. One such applications is TwitterFon. Just as
with Twitter initially, the uses may seem few and far between. However, if there is one thing Twitter has showed us, it's that we probably
underestimate everything. With such an increase in the locating capabilities of software, it's no surprise that privacy issues are arising.
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12.05.2009Japanese group wants Google to stop Street View
Google received another request on Friday to stop its Street View service, this time from a group of Japanese lawyers and professors who say the
service violates their right to privacy. Talking to Reuters, Yasuhiko Tajima, a professor of constitutional law at Sophia University in Tokyo, said,
"We strongly suspect that what Google has been doing deeply violates a basic right that humans have. It is necessary to warn society that an IT giant
is openly violating privacy rights, which are important rights that the citizens have, through this service." Tajima heads the Campaign Against
Surveillance Society, a Japanese civilian group that wants Google to stop providing its Japanese Street View service and to delete all saved images.
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19.12.2008Google pulls plug on "Green" search engine Forestle
Google has ended its affiliation with Forestle, the search engine that promised to donate all of its proceeds to save rainforests,
according
to Ars Technica. Google claimed
Forestle.com offered "incentives to click
artificially on sponsored links" despite a disclaimer at the top of the page telling visitors to "only click on Google sponsored links if you are
really interested in them."
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02.09.2008Minnesota private community says no to Google Street View
In the latest example of "opt-out" in action, an entire Minnesota town demanded that Google take down Street View imagery of its municipality,
and the search giant duly complied...
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03.06.2008Google Adds Detail to European
Maps
Google silently added
street-level mapping
capabilities to a number of
countries in Europe Tuesday,
bringing its local search
service across the Atlantic.
Users can search for specific
street names and addresses, as
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hotels and even find metro and
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26.04.2006Microsoft pulls 'sickening' Internet Explorer 8 ads
Last week, Microsoft released some ads for Internet Explorer 8 that were intended to provide a "tongue-in-cheek look" at some of the new features of
the browser. Unfortunately for them, there were those that weren't quite so happy watching a woman vomit, and as the Wall Street Journal reports,
they've been removed. The title for the ad was "O.M.G.I.G.P.", or for those not quite down with acronyms, "Oh My God I'm Going To Puke".
It featured a man happily sharing his laptop with his partner; to her horror, he was viewing some generic revolting website (yes, whilst sitting at
the table with his loved one), and thus, much projectile vomiting ensued. On him. After he slipped on it.
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03.07.2009eBay Pulls US Ads from Google Pages
Tensions between eBay and
Google rose on Wednesday after
the auction site decided to
pull some of its ads from the
search engine's AdWords
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14.06.2007Google street view car blocked by angry mob
A Google street view car was met by an unruly crowd in the UK. Some homeowners in the town of Broughton, UK were upset that a Google car was driving
and taking pictures of their homes and gardens. "A member of the public had called us to report that he, along with a number of others, were
standing in the middle of the road preventing the car from moving forwards and taking photographs. They felt his presence was an intrusion of their
privacy." Google did respond to the allegations that they do provide tools that allow users to remove the pictures of their homes to regain privacy.
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03.04.2009Pressure mounts on Google's UK street view service
Google's UK version of street view for Google Maps launched last week in the UK and has created a media circus ever since. The service, which
allows users to browse through popular cities with a set of high quality photos, has created controversy and huge media interest in the UK as many
fear for the privacy implications of such a service. Google has begun pulling images that users have found inappropriate. The Telegraph is reporting
that Google has removed images of naked toddlers playing in a garden square in north London that were captured on the mapping system.
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23.03.2009Google street view car pulled over by the cops for speeding
There are certain things you don't do in your car when your employer is paying you to drive around. One thing people may still do even if they
are being paid to drive around is speed; maybe not excessively or on purpose but it happens. If you are paid to drive around with a huge camera
recording all your events attached to the roof of your car you should probably obey all traffic laws to the best of your ability. Not so is the case
for one Google street view driver who got pulled over by the cops.
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06.04.2009Google: "No Trespassing" signs won't stop Street View
Google has once again managed to stir up debate about the existence of privacy in our highly connected culture as it argues that the "No
Trespassing" sign in your front yard is just for show.
Back in April, a Pittsburgh couple sued Google for driving up a private
road, taking pictures of their house, then posting them for the world to see with Google Maps' Street View feature. At the time, Google argued that
pictures and other details of the house were already on the Internet due to its previous sale listing. The company was also quick to point out that
the couple compounded the attention drawn to the photos it took by filing a lawsuit instead of using Google's tools for requesting a removal of the
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