Google and CIA in bed with web monitoring company
July 30, 2010
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Google and the CIA are among the big investors in a high tech analytics company that trawls the internet for 'invisible links'.
Google and the CIA are among the big investors in a high tech analytics company that trawls the internet for 'invisible links'.
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How's this for absolutely dominating an increasingly lucrative and fast-growing segment? Google currently boasts a mobile search market share of 98.
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Google said it was the first time the site had been blocked since March.
Google caused a stir Thursday night by saying that Chinese access to its search engine had been "fully blocked" -- only to back down hours later and say that its systems had ...
We've just received word from Google confirming that they are not currently blocked in China and that a server issue was most likely the cause of their dashboard misread.
Rebecca MacKinnon: As of this writing, numerous major American and European news outlets are reporting that Google is blocked in China, based on the information appearing on Google's Mainland China ...
A Google Web site that monitors access in China is reporting that Google Web search, which was fully or mostly accessible yesterday in mainland China is being completely blocked.
Microsoft should be making its own handsets, says Peter Bright of Ars Technica. There's merit in the argument, but it's far too late for such a change.
Google said late today that its automated systems might have exaggerated the size of the problem.
At Google I/O in May, the search giant indicated that they were about to take their commitment to location to the next level.
According to the Mainland China service availability page it looks like Google Web Search, Google Images and Google News are down in China, again.
Motorola today said it sold 8.3 million handsets in the second quarter, earning the Mobile Devices division $1.
Samsung provided the missing piece to its tablet computer puzzle on Friday, announcing the soon-to-be-released Galaxy Tab will run on Google's Android operating system, just ...
CIA, Google both back company that monitors Web in real time to predict the future. Google - Searching - Search Engines - Real-time computing - Central Intelligence Agency
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