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T-Mobile G1 Mobile Phone Preview

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:26:00 +0000

T-Mobile G1 is a touch-screen mobile phone that includes a QWERTY keyboard and features applications like Google Maps with StreetView, Gmail and YouTube.

The G1 phone will be available in the U.S. beginning Oct. 22 and in the United Kingdom in early November with other international launch dates scheduled throughout 2009.

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Google will limit data retention to 18 months

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Google is reducing the length of time it stores personal data that can identify its users as it tries to please the European Union watchdog that has questioned its privacy policies.

Google said last night that it will scale back the period it keeps data it harvested from users of its search engine to 18 months, from a previously proposed two years. After that period, information held in Google's vast data-storing server farms will be anonymous — meaning it should not be possible to link it to an individual.

The change in policy comes on the back of increasing pressure from privacy campaigners who are concerned about the amount of personal data Google is gathering.

Every time people search the internet using Google, the company collects personal information about users' interests and beliefs. But the company insists this potentially-sensitive data is not shared outside of Google.

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Google Backdoor - how to read paid content without paying for it?

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever experienced this? You ask Google to look something up; the engine returns with a number of finds, but if you try to open the ones with the most promising content, you are confronted with a registration page instead, and the stuff you were looking for will not be revealed to you unless you agree to a credit card transaction first.

The lesson you should have learned here is: Obviously Google can go where you can't.

Can we solve this problem? Yes, we can. We merely have to convince the site we want to enter, that WE ARE GOOGLE.

In fact, many sites that force users to register or even pay in order to search and use their content, leave a backdoor open for the Googlebot, because a prominent presence in Google searches is known to generate sales leads, site hits and exposure. Examples of such sites are Windows Magazine, .Net Magazine, Nature, and many, many newspapers around the globe.

How then, can you disguise yourself as a Googlebot? Quite simple: by changing your browser's User Agent.

Copy the following code segment and paste it into a new notepad file. Save it as Useragent.reg and merge it into your registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Googlebot/2.1"
"Compatible"="+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html"

You may always change it back again.... I know only one site that uses you User Agent to establish your eligability to use its services, and that's the Windows Update site.

To restore the IE6 User Agent, save the following code to NormalAgent.reg and merge with your registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

Ps:Opera allows for on-the-fly switching of User Agents through its "Browser Identification" function, while for Mozilla/FireFox browsers a switching utility is available as an installable extension from this address: http://useragentswitcher.mozdev.org/

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Google Announces Gmail Mobile

Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Google announced that its Gmail service will deliver quick e-mail access to cell phone owners whose handsets support java software. Separately, the leading supplier of ".mobi" domain names reported that it is registering users at a rapid pace.

Google said its mobile e-mail solution can be five times as fast as many existing mobile e-mail programs. Users of the Google product can synchronize it to operate with their PCs. Attachments can be read through Google Mobile.

Announcing the immediate availability of the Gmail product, cell phone provider Sprint Nextel noted that the Google service is available for Sprint data customers through a new Java application or from a WAP site. Sprint said the service is available now for its Java-enabled phones and the company promised the Google service will be available in coming weeks for phones that don't have Java technology.

On the .mobi front, Go Daddy reported that more than 220,000 users have signed up for mobile domain names to date. "It is important that so many have signed up considering that it took years for the Dot.com universe to reach 100,000," said a spokesman for Go Daddy, who noted that the PC domain world initially was also slow to take off.

Tim Ruiz, Go Daddy's vice president of corporate development, said Google Mobile e-mail will bring increased attention to mobile Web usage and help spur its development and growth. There are more than two billion cell phone users in the world today, about four times the number of PC users.

Ruiz said the initial surge in .mobi domain names came from firms that already had a .com domain name and wanted to protect the name in the mobile field. "We think the momentum for .mobi names will continue to grow," he said.

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