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Candy from strangers, Kool-Aid from Jim Jones...…ice cream from Google.ConsumerWatchdog.org has launched a viral video against Internet tracking, by lampooning Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt. Schmidt stars as the creepy ice cream salesman offering free "ice cream" (and full body scans) to unsuspecting children. "They should know there's no such thing as free ice cream!" snickers Schmidt. Ironically, the video is being broadcast on Google's own YouTube and on the Jumbotron in New York's Times Square. Video, "Don't be Evil?" at YouTube, 9/2/2010Read more about the ad campaign on CNet.
Published on Tuesday 7th of September 2010 10:32:52 AM
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It was all touched off by a classic bit of know-nothing blogosphere silliness: A prominent Silicon Valley blogger claimed that Microsoft's mobile business was "fatally flawed" because—get this—the software giant actually charges handset makers a small per-unit fee for its Windows Phone software. "That game is over for good," he-who-shall-remain-nameless claimed. As proof, he cited Google giving away its Android software—one reason why Android is "rapidly taking over the smartphone world." Meanwhile, Microsoft is charging about $15 per unit. How in the world will Redmond ever compete? How, indeed. As is typical of such insular, one-sided arguments, it conveniently leaves...
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Starting next July, eBay (EBAY) will no longer let Google (GOOG) provide transaction checkout services on eBay Web sites. It won’t allow any checkout service except its own PayPal-featured service. EBay’s instituting the new policy “to give eBay buyers a consistent, speedy checkout experience and to ensure support for fast-growing sales via mobile platforms...,” Todd Lutwak, eBay’s vice president of the seller experience, wrote in a little-noticed blog post last week. “It’s certainly an attempt to get more revenue through PayPal and direct people to PayPal,” said Beth Robertson, director of payments research for Javelin Strategy & Research.
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Google and The Associated Press have agreed to a new deal after years of wrangling over alleged misuse of AP's content. As part of the pact, Google has said it will help AP better understand how its content is being used across the Web and what stories are gaining widest distribution.The deal could help AP modify its story selection based on what's popular. "AP and Google will work together in a number of new areas, such as ways to improve discovery and distribution of news," the news organization said ..... News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has argued in recent months...
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A curious thing has been happening on Google Maps -- the Lincoln Memorial is being misplaced in favor of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, which is a good half a mile south of the more famous memorial. According to the Geographic Travels blog, this "misplacement" has been happening for about two days now. Typing "Lincoln Memorial" into the regular Google search bar brings up a number of listings related to the Lincoln Memorial, yet shows a map of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial. (Click on the image to see the map that's being served up.) Is this a Google Maps...
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Red State reports that Google might be giving bogus results about maps and directions to Glenn Beck’s rally. "A reader emails that if you search Google today, on the eve of Glenn Beck’s rally, a search for Lincoln Memorial turns up, instead, the wrong address. And not just any wrong address either; it takes you to the FDR Memorial. Curious." I have to say, and this may not be popular, but I question Glenn Beck and his motives. Don’t yell at me. I don’t disagree with his message or the research he’s done. I just don’t like this whole cult...
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My pastor challenged me to prove Obama is allowing federal funding for abortions. Recall he signed an executive order not allowing such. I told him this has been violated. Please post some links proving him wrong. Thanks
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It locks up. It locks up Blogger, too. It did it when I was composing this despatch, and I had to recreate it. What a waste of my time! Furthermore, it takes forever to load, as if it's scanning every byte of my computer for stuff it can parse with my email and put together into some sort of profile of me that it can sell to someone. I'm over that. I'm also over this obesity shit. I see people who literally *wobble* around, wearing this "oh, feel sorry for ME!" look on their faces. When I was a kid,...
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You would think they would learn but Socialists don't see any other way other than to tax, tax and tax some more: [VIDEO AT SITE] The Governor of Utah's (the state in which all these businesses are fleeing to) motto is "keep government off your back and out of your wallet." Now that is how you run a state, and a country. Unfortunately our President is the exact opposite and is helping to speed up the exodus of business from our shores to overseas. Good article via Dan Riehl: For the second year in a row, a corporate relocation expert...
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Microsoft is touting the fact that it's had about 300,000 downloads of its development tools for the forthcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile OS, which is expected to hit store shelves in the form of mobile devices in October. That's an impressive number -- until you compare it to the SDK downloads for the Android SDK over a comparable period. About three months after its November 2007 release, the original Android SDK had about 750,000 downloads. Of course, the number of SDK downloads doesn't necessarily correlate with the number of apps that actually become available. In its first three months after...
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