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	Google boosts Chrome 6 speed into dead heat with leaders Google's Chrome 6 is 17% faster than the version it replaced, putting it in a virtual dead heat with the speed leaders, Opera and Safari, according to benchmark scores. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Guide: Best Vmware backup method for you Although data protection processes developed for physical environments can be used for virtual environments, backup processes specifically designed for virtualized environments are more flexible and scalable. This whitepaper presents information to assist in making a considered choice of data protection method for your VMware environment. Read Now. In this Issue Schmidt says Google TV on track for fall release Google shows HTML5 love with bouncing balls What's Up With Google's Bouncy Ball Logo? Have a ball with today's 'mysterious' Google doodle Former Google China head invests in Chinese startups 11 funny UK sights on Google Street View Anti-Google Group's Creeptastic Video Campaign Google Wave becomes Wave in a Box Consumer group lampoons Google CEO over privacy issues Google settles Buzz privacy lawsuit Texas conducting antitrust review of Google Consumer Watchdog Losing Credibility With Google Feud? Consumer Watchdog thinks Google's Schmidt is a data perv Oh Snap! Consumer Watchdog kicks Google and CEO Schmidt HARD! Happy 2nd Birthday, Google Chrome Google toots browser birthday horn, ships Chrome 6 Google and AOL renew long-term partnership Huawei and Google launch Android 2.2 smartphone Where is Microsoft in the Apple, Google TV race? WHITE PAPER: PC Mall Maintaining Continuity of Operations Download this HP white paper to learn how to reduce the financial impact and maintain acceptable levels of productivity during an unplanned disaster. Read Now Schmidt says Google TV on track for fall release Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the company will launch its TV service in the U.S. this fall. Read More Google shows HTML5 love with bouncing balls Google's line of 'doodle' home page designs has taken a new twist with the debut of an interactive bouncing ball design designed to show off the greatness of HTML5. Read More What's Up With Google's Bouncy Ball Logo? Google launched another Google Doodle guessing game Tuesday, with a new interactive Google logo that you can manipulate with your mouse. Google replaced its static logo with a set of dynamic colored balls that make up the Google logo. Move your mouse pointer near the logo and all the balls disperse and don't settle down until the pointer stops moving. Read More Have a ball with today's 'mysterious' Google doodle It's not often that Google's daily doodle makes me utter a "Yikes," but today is one of those days. The six Google letters are formed simply enough with colored balls - blue, green, orange and red - of various sizes. The exclamation was uttered when my curser came in contact with the assemblage: Chaos ensued as the balls bounced about the page before reassembling in their assigned spots. Read More Former Google China head invests in Chinese startups One year after leaving his position as head of Google's China operations, Kai-Fu Lee is funding a dozen startups with his new company Innovation Works to seize on opportunities with China's booming Internet market. Read More 11 funny UK sights on Google Street View Google's Street View only launched in the UK last year, but since then the add-on to Google Maps and Google Earth that offers photographs of streets and cities has certainly had its fair share of controversy. Read More WHITE PAPER: Iron Mountain Online Server Backup and Recovery Show the profitability of reducing operational costs in server backup and recovery through investment in online server data protections rather than traditional backup method. This paper includes a checklist of comparative cost categories used in calculating ROI. Read Now Anti-Google Group's Creeptastic Video Campaign Consumer Watchdog, an anti-Google group, invaded Times Square with a 540-square-foot video cartoon of Google CEO Eric Schmidt frightening children -- and me -- with threats of infiltrating their online lives. Watch it with the lights on. Read More Google Wave becomes Wave in a Box The recently-canceled social networking service is being revived as application bundle for real-time collaboration Read More Consumer group lampoons Google CEO over privacy issues Consumer Watchdog, a group that has been a sharp critic of Google's privacy practices in the past, is at it once again. Read More Google settles Buzz privacy lawsuit Google is spending US$8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed over the rollout of its Google Buzz social-networking service. Read More Texas conducting antitrust review of Google Google on Friday said that the Texas Attorney General's Office is conducting an antitrust review of the search giant, following a similar investigation launched in Europe earlier this year. Read More Consumer Watchdog Losing Credibility With Google Feud? Consumer Watchdog, a consumer advocacy group that has criticized Google for its privacy policies, released a disturbing commercial cartoon featuring Google's chief executive creepily selling ice cream to children and saying, "There's no such thing as a free ice cream. ... Now, hold still while we collect some of your secrets." Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Virtualize your end-to-end IT infrastructure A virtual storage infrastructure available only from HP can double your capacity utilization and cut management costs in half with innovations that unlock trapped capacity in individual servers or in enterprise disk arrays. Learn how. Read Now Consumer Watchdog thinks Google's Schmidt is a data perv Imagine wandering through Times Square and seeing a 60-foot-tall animation depicting you (yes, you) as a creepy child-baiting ice cream truck driver. How would you feel? That's probably the question Google's Eric Schmidt is being asked today. Read More Oh Snap! Consumer Watchdog kicks Google and CEO Schmidt HARD! Picture a 540-square-foot animated ad, a cartoon video mocking Google's CEO Eric Schmidt; now picture it running twice an hour, 36 times per day, in New York's Times Square. Consumer Watchdog has launched a huge and very public campaign against Google, highlighting its concerns over Google's privacy policies and the need for Congress to enact a national 'Do Not Track Me' list. Read More Happy 2nd Birthday, Google Chrome Today marks the second anniversary of the release of Google's Chrome browser. While Chrome hasn't completely taken the world of Web browsing by storm, it has made a lasting impact on the market for Web browsers -- a decent accomplishment for a two-year-old. Google is celebrating Chrome's birthday by releasing a brand new stable build of Chrome, which is already available for download, but let's mark the occasion in our way: by looking back at the ways in which Chrome has shaped the Web browsers we use today. Read More Google toots browser birthday horn, ships Chrome 6 Google today celebrated Chrome's second birthday by launching the sixth version of its browser for Windows, Mac and Linux. Read More Google and AOL renew long-term partnership Google and AOL have renewed a long-term partnership that gives AOL Web properties access to Google search and advertising services. Read More Huawei and Google launch Android 2.2 smartphone Google and Huawei have announced an Android smartphone that runs the Android 2.2 mobile OS. Huawei says the IDEOS phone is the first mass-market handset to be offered with the Android 2.2 OS preinstalled. The Huawei IDEOS will carry a recommended SIM-free price tag of between £99 and £129. Read More Where is Microsoft in the Apple, Google TV race? The black turtlenecked-denim jeansed wonder swooped down into San Francisco again today with "one more thing" to dazzle Appleytes -- new iPods and a new and improved Apple TV. But Apple TV, along with a coming offering from Google, seem to be crowding out Microsoft in the competition for the TV operating system space. Read More
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