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Private firm plans to initiate ‘multibillion dollar’ asteroid mining industry
SAN FRANCISCO — A startup backed by top Google executives and film director James Cameron on Tuesday unveiled a plan to mine asteroids for precious minerals and water. Planetary Resources used a space museum in the Pacific Northwest city of Seattle as a launching pad for a bold plan to…
Google joins ‘cloud’ data storage trend
Google on Tuesday launched a long-anticipated “Drive” service that lets people store photos, videos, and other digital files in the Internet “cloud.” Google Drive accounts with five gigabytes of storage were available free at drive.google.com and upgrades to more space on servers in the California company’s data centers were available…
How much do the Internet giants really know about you?
To briefly state the obvious, the internet giants are seriously big: Google is not only the world’s largest search engine, it’s one of the top three email providers, a social network, and owner of the Blogger platform and the world’s largest video site, YouTube. Facebook has the social contacts, messages,…
Google launches Street View in Israel
JERUSALEM — Google on Sunday launched Street View in Israel, the US Internet giant said, putting on show streets and sites of interest from the Holy Land’s three major cities with its 360-degree street-level images. The imagery of “Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Haifa includes sites of interest such as the…
Space mining startup set for launch in U.S.
A startup evidently devoted to mining asteroids for metals is to make its public debut on Tuesday in the US northwest city of Seattle, seeking to redefine the term “natural resources.” X Prize founder Peter Diamandis and a former NASA astronaut are slated to unveil Planetary Resources, which boasts an…
U.S. judge allows tech ‘poaching’ suit to proceed
SAN FRANCISCO — A US judge has given a green light to a lawsuit charging Apple, Google, Pixar and other technology-driven firms with colluding to keep salaries in check by agreeing not to poach one another’s software engineers. District Court Judge Lucy Koh, in a decision released late Wednesday, rejected…
Google and Twitter can’t police web content, says British AG
Dominic Grieve agrees that privacy injunctions should be served on internet companies, but warns of ‘excessive regulation’. By Josh Halliday Google and Twitter cannot “act like a policeman” of content on their networks, the attorney general has said in his strongest intervention yet on regulation of the internet. Dominic Grieve…
Google blacklists Bank of America parody website
Update: Shortly after this report was published, Google removed YourBofA.com from its “phishing scams” blacklist Search giant Google blacklisted on Wednesday a website made to look like an outreach campaign by Bank of America, in what turned out to be an activist’s effort to get people talking about how the…
FCC ends probe of alleged Google Street View privacy violations
SAN FRANCISCO — US government telecom regulators have ended an investigation into Google’s “Street View” online mapping service gathering data from private wireless hotspots. The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) enforcement bureau on Friday called for Google to pay a $25,000 penalty for stalling the probe but said that it could…
Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei says internet censorship will fail
LONDON — Dissident artist Ai Weiwei warned the Chinese government that its attempts to censor the internet would inevitably fail, in an article published in Monday’s Guardian newspaper. Ai, who was held for 81 days last year as police rounded up dissidents amid online calls for Arab-style protests in China,…
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