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News posted on the Official Google Blog announces the cooperation between Google technology and Nike Sports …
Excerpt:
“What do you get when Google and Nike get together and brainstorm? A sneaker-shaped server? A great TV ad for web search? No, you get Joga.com, an online football community that combines Google technology with Nike’s unique sports content […]

This is messed-up … someone (Feds) better do something to change this!!
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Lynn Perry was living an online shopping nightmare.
A hacker had snatched her home address and phone and credit card numbers–even the three-digit security code printed on the back of her credit card–and was offering them to anyone willing to pay the asking price: […]

Whenever phishing e-mail came in, security professional Alex Eckelberry would check it out and often find that the fraudulent Web sites advertised in the spam were still online, waiting for victims.
So, starting a few months ago, Eckelberry began taking some time out of his day to take action. He would analyze the phishing e-mail […]

Google Inc. unveiled a new site Tuesday featuring financial news and related content, pushing into a high-growth market long ago staked out by rivals such as Yahoo Inc.
A trial version of the site, located at finance.google.com, contains stories from other financial-news services, including Bloomberg, Reuters, CNet, Forbes, Microsoft’s MSN Money and Dow Jones & […]

Xbox 360 gamers will get a year of free music videos and other content from artists signed to Epic Records under a promotion deal between the record label and Microsoft Corp., the companies said Thursday.
The arrangement calls for Epic Records to feature 12 of its artists on a program dubbed Artist of the Month, which […]

Jessica Simpson loves President Bush. She’s just not a big fan of Republican fundraisers. The Hollywood starlet and tabloid cover girl was in Congress on Thursday to lobby for Operation Smile, a nonprofit organization that provides reconstructive surgery to children with facial deformities. Everyone was asking, however, why she turned down an invitation to attend […]

WOW … a Google product finally out of BETA. It will be strange to see this Google logo without the word “BETA” next to it.
Get the latest Google Desktop version here.
Check out their blog for the latest feature … the Middle-of-the-screen-Search box.

Posted on the Official Google Blog this morning is a post from an employee of a small start-up called @LastSoftware who writes about his now being a Google employee ….
The blog post can be read here.
The official news release can be read here.
And the SketchUp web site can be found here.

Google has just launched their new mapping system of the planet Mars called “Google Mars” (fitting).
Using this service, you can browse the martian landscape the same way as using Google Maps. Google has included three different types of data in Google Mars.
Elevation - A shaded relief map, generated with data from the Mars […]

Like many colorblind people who have adapted all their lives to a particular way of seeing things, Harry Rogers says his inability to discern red and green hasn’t caused him much trouble over the years.
Even so, there is one particular challenge: Making sense of charts, graphs and other colorful material on his computer screen. Sometimes […]