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The internet should not be used as a scapegoat for society's ills, said Vint Cerf, Google's net evangelist and a founding father of the network.
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme he rejected calls for strict control of what is put online.
He said the net was just a reflection of the society in which we live.
Yahoo has moved to further strengthen its service to advertisers by buying web marketing business BlueLithium for $300m (£149.4m).
Set up in 2004, BlueLithium provides technology enabling websites to better match adverts with users' interests.
The purchase is the latest in a series of deals by Yahoo as it seeks to regain ground on market leader Google in the web search sector.
Gmail has a bunch of lesser-known features that can end up being very useful once you get to know them. I've put together a list of my top 10 favorite features that you may or may not be familiar with. Here are the first five; watch for the second batch sometime next week.
Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates. The function will initially allow anyone who is not registered with the site to search for a specific person.
More controversially, in a month's time, the feature will also allow people to track down Facebook members via search engines such as Google.
If the murmurs are true, the GPhone cometh in September.
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins has uncovered some details about the long-rumored (and apparently all but confirmed) Google Phone.
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Search giant Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a robot rover on the Moon.
The competition to send a robot craft to the Moon is being run with the X-Prize Foundation.
To claim the cash, any craft reaching the lunar surface must perform a series of tasks such as shoot video and roam for specific distances.
Firms interested in trying for the prize have until the end of 2012 to mount their Moonshot.
"Amazon MP3 Offers Over 2 Million Songs From More Than 180,000 Artists and Over 20,000 Labels, Including EMI Music and Universal Music Group. Most songs are priced from 89 cents to 99 cents, with more than 1 million of the 2 million songs priced at 89 cents. The top 100 best-selling songs are 89 cents, unless marked otherwise. Most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99. The top 100 best-selling albums are $8.99 or less, unless marked otherwise."
Makes you wonder if apple is truly serious about having DRM free media on the itunes store. Locking people in with DRM has undoubtedly helped them move ipods.
Today Sony's official Japanese site (linked above) has released a new PSP Custom Theme Converter utility. It allows users to create custom themes for firmware 3.70 and above.
Download: PSP Custom Theme Converter
Included is a PDF file detailing how to create new themes, but unfortunately it is in Japanese. If anyone wishes to translate it post below, or check back (hopefully) for an English version of the utility at a later date.
From the source: A friend of mine who has someone close that works at Bungie has just been dying to tell me a secret about their future. Since the NDA officially expire today the sent me and email with the details. I have full faith in this contact. The email is as follows:
"So heres my big secret. You should google Bungie + Microsoft + separation this week.
You know that big ol BILLION dollar franchise Bungie has created for Microsoft, to show their appreciate Microsoft is letting Bungie leave. Of course Microsoft gets to keep all rights to the Halo franchise, but as today Bungie no longer part of Microsoft. Ask anyone who works there to search the global address book, they're no longer in there. Microsoft was supposed to release the press release today but if they wait till the 10/6 the impact wont effect the quarterly results. However today is the actual official date and the day the NDAs expire, however you still didn't hear this from me.
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Google has came out swinging once again against telecommunications player Verizon Communications in the companies' ongoing debate over the upcoming auction of the 700-MHz wireless spectrum band.
In an entry on the company's policy blog, Google's Washington media and telecom counsel Richard Whitt criticized Verizon for reports that the telecom company is heavily lobbying the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to change the newly established "open access" provision to the auction.