Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Consumer Watchdog is running a 540-square-foot video billboard advertisement in Times Square, New York that shows Google CEO Eric Schmidt as an ingratiating ice cream truck driver who knows everything about everyone and happily offers free ice cream in exchange for full body scans. The group says its goal is to push Congress and the Federal Trade ...

Posté le vendredi 3 septembre à 14h49

Those out there who want to be able to stream their media content over to the TV and need a new device to do that with may be glad to hear that the SageTV HD Theater 300 is now available to purchase. The network media device sells for $149.95 and supports full HD resolution. The new device has HDMI 1.3 and supports Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD/MA sound formats. The device can stream video from online ...

Posté le vendredi 3 septembre à 6h15

An anti-Google video is running on a billboard in Times Square, criticizing the search company on privacy issues. The 15-second cartoon depicts Chief Executive Eric Schmidt as an ice cream peddler with the text, "He's collecting your personal information."

Posté le jeudi 2 septembre à 19h24

Twice an hour, an animated version of Google CEO Eric Schmidt can currently be seen giving away free ice cream to little kids in return for their private information on a 540 square foot screen hovering over New York's Times Square. The cartoon was produced by a " Inside Google ," a project of the non-partisan Consumer Watchdog group, that wants to draw attention to what it perceives as Google ...

Posté le jeudi 2 septembre à 15h53

Consumer Watchdog has created a new anti-Google video portraying Google CEO Eric Schmidt has some kind of evil ice cream man. The video is a commentary on what the group perceives to be Google's lack of regard for consumer privacy.  Google and Facebook are two of the biggest companies on the web, whatever you think about the privacy practices of either company, both have received a great deal of ...

Posté le jeudi 2 septembre à 14h31

Gmail users can now make phone calls from within their Gmail account for free to the U.S. and Canada, and for pretty cheap to several other countries.

Posté le jeudi 2 septembre à 12h14

Next markets include universities, hospitals and hopefully smartphones

Posté le jeudi 2 septembre à 2h35

Google has unexpectedly angered Gmail users running Chrome after an attemptto publicise its new PriorityInbox feature caused many to think they had been infected with a virus.

Posté le mercredi 1 septembre à 8h01

# television YouTube, the video brand most closely associated with freak babies , freak kids and cheap pranks , is reportedly poised to charge for its high quality content. Whatever high quality content, that is, the Google video service can drum up. More »

Posté le lundi 30 août à 15h19

Google joins the competition for online movie-streaming.

Posté le lundi 30 août à 11h02