Thursday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on February 9, 2006 at 2:35:32 PM
Amazon's A9 CEO jumps to Google. And big Google steals more employees.
China to become toxic with pollution.
Google's Desktop approaches OSness.
I think I speak for everyone when I say, "Screw you, Google." My data is MINE and MINE alone. I love how people don't trust the government in terms of privacy, but seem willing to give a large corporation access to all the information they have.
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Manber will become Google's vice president of engineering after he leaves A9 at the end of the week. His departure from Amazon was announced late Tuesday. A9 is a general Web search site, like the more popular Google or Yahoo, and it powers the Web search and site search on Amazon.com.
China to become toxic with pollution.
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Pan criticized problems ranging from the over-development of hydro power in the upper reaches of China's major rivers to the clustering of dangerous chemical plants on river banks in populated areas and reckless urban expansions nationwide. "It's not a problem of certain companies or regions any more, the pollution is now structural," the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) official said.
Google's Desktop approaches OSness.
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Google Desktop 3 poses new challenges to Microsoft Corp.'s dominance of the way people interact with computers, but also demands users place far greater trust in Google's capacity to protect their privacy. Google Desktop vacuums up data stored on a user's PC and makes it accessible on any other computer in regular use by the customer at home or work or even on an airplane trip, assuming users consent to storing data on Google's central computers.
I think I speak for everyone when I say, "Screw you, Google." My data is MINE and MINE alone. I love how people don't trust the government in terms of privacy, but seem willing to give a large corporation access to all the information they have.