Posted May 12th, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
Spam messages have surged to outrageous levels currently representing 95% of all email communications throughout the Internet. Because of that, it is simply not feasible to apply the full power of spam filtering to every single message that is received by email servers. This problem is tackled by the use of blacklists of IP addresses [...]
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Posted April 24th, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
An advertiser sued Google Inc. in federal court Tuesday claiming the company deceived him and charged for ads displayed on third-party Web sites, even though he left blank an “optional” box that seemed to address the issue.
The dispute is over Google’s popular AdSense program, which targets ads to keywords in articles and other content at [...]
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Posted March 12th, 2008 by Andrew Popoff
Google Inc. announced today that it has completed its acquisition of DoubleClick, a company that offers online ad serving and management technology to advertisers, web publishers and ad agencies.
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Posted November 27th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company’s competition with Microsoft Corp.
Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they [...]
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Posted November 6th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
A few hours after Google’s dramatic announcement which some sources had still been anticipating as a mobile phone bearing the Google brand, we actually know less about Android than we did — or thought we did — at 11:00 this morning when it was announced. During a midday press conference featuring key Google executives including [...]
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Posted November 1st, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Google during the recent Analyst Day announced they want to release an updated version of Gmail that’s supposed to be faster than the current one, thanks to a JavaScript back-end rewrite. Also, the new version aims to improve contacts management. “Gmail 2.0” – possibly the announced update – was also mentioned in Google’s internal company [...]
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Posted October 24th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
IMAP, or Internet Message Access Protocol, lets you download messages from Gmail’s servers onto your computer so you can access your mail with a program like Microsoft Outlook Express or Apple Mail, even when you aren’t connected to the Internet.
IMAP creates a constant connection between mail clients (desktop and/or mobile) and Gmail.
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Posted October 1st, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Google has patched a recently reported Gmail flaw that could allow attackers to steal information from inside a user account.
The vulnerability was discovered by independent security researcher Petko Petkov, who classified it as a cross-site request forgery.
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Posted September 28th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming e-mails from Google Gmail users.
“This can be used to forward all your incoming e-mail,” Pure Hacking security researcher Chris Gatford told ZDNet Australia. “It’s just a proof of concept at the moment but what they’re demonstrating is the [...]
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Posted September 26th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Rumors of Google’s plans to create a virtual world that rivals that of Second Life have popped up once again over the weekend. The company could now be collaborating with Arizona State University to test the 3D social network, which may be tied into Google’s current applications of Google Earth and Google Maps.
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Posted September 25th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Gmail was launched on April 1, 2004, and has revolutionized the way many of us use email. The interface has remained largely untouched since it launched, but get ready, it’s soon to undergo a change in what they describe as a “New Version”.
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Posted July 18th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Google Inc. introduced a new service for small businesses that allows visitors to search within their Web sites on a customized search page.
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A key difference with the paid edition is that businesses can customize the search page with their own logo and color scheme. They can also modify results by manipulating an XML (Extensible Markup [...]
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Posted July 13th, 2007 by Andrew Popoff
Today Google officially released a new feature of Google Maps that enables users to layer valuable third-party information directly on Google Maps with a single click and to save these customized maps to their personal library. These mini-applications, called Mapplets, make it possible for users to view and layer maps containing information such as real [...]
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