
August 17th, 2009

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Online calendars are great but the problem is you tend to have one at work and a separate personal one. Now you can see events in both calendars at once, at least if you are using Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook.
Google released Google Calendar Sync on Wednesday, which allows you to sync up those two calendars.
The tool gives you control over which direction you want the synchronization to go as well as how often you want it to happen.
The software was easy to install, and I was able to see the Outlook items in my Google Calendar…

August 16th, 2009

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European regulators are planning to grant approval for Google’s proposed $3.1 billion takeover of DoubleClick, possibly on March 11, according to a Bloomberg report.
And that would be approval without conditions, three sources familiar with the matter told the news service.
Google was given the go-ahead by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in December, but has been waiting for European regulators to act.

August 16th, 2009

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Researchers have found some holes in Google’s Android SDK that could make the software vulnerable to hack attacks. But because commercial Android devices are still months away from hitting store shelves, there’s no need to panic.
Core Security published an alert on its Web site on Tuesday stating that it had found eight vulnerabilities related to some open-source image processing libraries in Google’s Android SDK, which the group claims are outdated. Attackers exploiting these vulnerabilities could take complete control of Android handsets, the alert said.
It’s hardly surprising that some kind of vulnerability would be discovered. And, in fact, it’s…

August 15th, 2009

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Imagine searching inside Wikipedia or Amazon.com, but on the Google search site. Google’s got a test going of a way to search inside different sites from within a Google Web search results page. If you type in “amazon,” “wikipedia” or “new york times” on Google, it brings up the relevant result at the top and immediately underneath is a second search box. If you type a keyword in that secondary search box it will return results from within that site.

August 15th, 2009

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Is Facebook the next Google? Maybe and maybe not, but either way there’s a lot that Facebook can learn from Google and from the Googlers it’s hiring.
The latest person to move offices from Mountain View, Calif., to Facebook, seven miles away in Palo Alto is Sheryl Sandberg. The Google vice president of global sales and operations will become chief operating officer at the social network company later this month.
Facebook previously hired Benjamin Ling, who was in charge of Google Checkout; Justin Rosenstein, a developer on GDrive and product manager for Google Page Creator; and Gideon Yu, former YouTube…