Google continues to trim down its product line as part of the company’s new “focus”. The Internet giant announced that it is closing down some more of them, and some functionality of others. Google Wave. You may have already thought it was dead. The company announced that it would no longer develop for it over [...]
Say goodbye to the Picasa and Blogger names: Google intends to retire several non-Google name brands and rename them as Google products. The move is part of a larger effort to unify its brand for the public launch of Google+, the search giant’s social initiative. Blogger and Picasa aren’t going away, of course — they’re [...]
Until recently, Googling “President Obama Twitter” would give you a page of search results topped with a smattering of the president’s latest tweets. That feature disappeared Saturday, when a nearly two-year agreement between Google and Twitter to include tweets in search results through a special feed expired. The deal dated back to late 2009, when [...]
Mischief makers, or hardened criminals? Cyber terrorists, or digital Robin Hoods? No matter your opinion of the “hacktivist” group that calls itself the Lulz Boat, or LulzSec for short, one thing is for certain: the band has been compromising websites at a seemingly unstoppable rate. As defined by a 2008 New York Times story, lulz [...]
