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Oscar The Grouch From Sesame Street Is Today's Google Logo Saturday 07th of November 2009 06:34:05 AM MOUNTAIN VALLEY, Ca., Nov.7 (TOTI) -- Oscar the Grouch joins his pals Big Bird, Cookie Monster and Bert and Ernie as one of this week's Google logos. Oscar is best known for living in a metal trash and loving trash of all sorts. As his name suggests, Oscar can be grumpy at times but that doesn't make him a bad character. Read more	Bert And Ernie From Sesame Street Are Today's Google Logo Friday 06th of November 2009 06:33:17 AM MOUNTAIN VALLEY, Ca., Nov.6 (TOTI) -- Google has been celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street this entire week. The childrens show first aired on PBS on November 10, 1969. Today, November 6, Google features Bert and Ernie as their logo. The two are fast friends and are always eager to play games and read books. Ernie also has a great fondn... Read more
Droid joins 'Google phone' army in smart phone war Thursday 05th of November 2009 10:05:14 PM by Glenn Chapman SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- A Motorola Droid smart phone goes on sale Friday, joining the growing ranks of smart phones on the open-source operating system backed by Google.With Droid, which will work on the Verizon telecom network, Motorola is ... Read more	Droid joins 'Google phone' army in smart phone war Thursday 05th of November 2009 09:25:26 PM by Glenn Chapman SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- A Motorola Droid smart phone goes on sale Friday, joining the growing ranks of smart phones on the open-source operating system backed by Google.With Droid, which will work on the Verizon telecom network, Motorola is ... Read more
Droid joins 'Google phone' army in smart phone war Thursday 05th of November 2009 06:20:47 PM SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- A Motorola Droid smart phone based on Google-backed software hits the US market Friday, taking aim at mobile device powerhouses such as Apple, Nokia, and Research In Motion (RIM).Droid, which will work on the Verizon telec... Read more	Droid joins 'Google phone' army in smart phone war Thursday 05th of November 2009 06:20:32 PM by Glenn Chapman SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- A Motorola Droid smart phone based on Google-backed software hits the US market Friday, taking aim at mobile device powerhouses such as Apple, Nokia, and Research In Motion (RIM).Droid, which will work on the Verizon te... Read more
Cookie Monster Is Today's Google Logo Thursday 05th of November 2009 08:18:16 AM MOUNTAIN VALLEY, Ca., Nov.5 (TOTI) -- Google is helping celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street by integrating their beloved characters into their logo. Yesterday, Big Bird's legs reined supreme as Google's theme logo. Today, Cookie Monster's eyes make up the two 'O's ' in the popular search engine's logo. Cookie Monster is n... Read more	Google wants businesses to ride Wave Wednesday 04th of November 2009 09:10:48 PM by Glenn Chapman SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Google pitched its fledgling Wave communications platform as a way for businesses to turn routine email into collaborative exchanges that ramp up productivity.Google Wave product manager Gregory D'Alesandre made his cas... Read more
Big Bird Legs Are Google's Logo Wednesday 04th of November 2009 06:56:24 AM MOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA., Nov. 4 (TOTI) -- It gets boring to be a web giant. That's why the boys and girls at Google in Mountain Valley, California like to keep things fresh. One way they can do that is to put up new and interesting logos on their popular home page. Today's image includes half of Big Bird's body, starting from the waist down. When yo... Read more	Facebook group seeks camera's owner Monday 02nd of November 2009 06:37:04 PM SYDNEY, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- An Australian man said a Facebook group he created to identify the owner of a camera he found in Greece has grown to more than 180,000 members. Danny Cameron said he found a camera by a bus stop on the Greek island of Mykonos while vacationing in September and he was unable to find any information leading to its owner before he returned ... Read more
Judge: Spammer owes Facebook $711 million Saturday 31st of October 2009 10:20:39 AM SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A U.S. judge says an Internet marketer known as the Spam King must pay the Facebook Web site $711 million in damages. U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled in San Jose, Calif., Thursday that Sanford Wallace must pay Facebook after employing compromised user accounts to send out 14 million junk e-mails to the Web... Read more	Google gets its groove on with music search Wednesday 28th of October 2009 11:11:35 PM LOS ANGELES (AFP) -- Google stepped onto the Internet music stage, unveiling a service for finding, listening to or buying songs online.Google announced an alliance with Lala.com and MySpace-owned iLike at Capitol Records headquarters in Los Angeles that cou... Read more
Facebook suggests messaging dead friends Monday 26th of October 2009 04:06:32 PM LONDON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Facebook users in Britain said the Web site's latest feature, which encourages people to contact old friends, is bringing up deceased people as suggestions. The new feature, which went live during the weekend, appears in the form of an automatically generated box suggesting the user logged in reconnect with a specific friend they... Read more	Icahn resigns from Yahoo! board Friday 23rd of October 2009 09:00:40 PM NEW YORK (AFP) -- Billionaire investor Carl Icahn resigned from his position on the Yahoo! board, saying the US Internet giant no longer needed an "activist" director like him."I don't believe that it is necessary at this time to have an activist on the boa... Read more
Icahn resigns from Yahoo! board: spokeswoman Friday 23rd of October 2009 06:40:19 PM NEW YORK (AFP) -- Billionaire investor Carl Icahn resigned Friday from his position on the board of Yahoo!, saying the US Internet giant no longer needed an "activist" director like him, his spokeswoman said."I don't believe that it is necessary at this tim... Read more	Google improving its music options Thursday 22nd of October 2009 09:36:17 AM NEW YORK, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- The popular Google Internet search engine plans to unveil new capabilities that will allow users to listen to and buy songs more easily, industry sources say. USA Today said the company is slated to introduce Google OneBox next week. The new system would allow users searching for a song or musician via Google to quickly access... Read more
Microsoft, Google integrating Twitter into search Wednesday 21st of October 2009 10:40:21 PM by Glenn Chapman SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Microsoft began integrating Twitter messages into its new Internet search engine Bing and arch rival Google announced plans to do the same.Microsoft unveiled its real-time Twitter search feature at a Web 2.0 Summit her... Read more	Microsoft, Google integrating Twitter into search results Wednesday 21st of October 2009 10:31:26 PM by Glenn Chapman SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) -- Microsoft on Wednesday began integrating Twitter messages into its new Internet search engine Bing and arch rival Google announced plans to do the same.Microsoft unveiled its real-time Twitter search feature at a Web 2... Read more
Microsoft to work with Facebook, Twitter Wednesday 21st of October 2009 05:56:49 PM SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. software giant Microsoft Corp. said it had formed partnerships with two social networking Web sites, Twitter and Facebook. The deal with Tweeter gives users the ability to search Twitter's real-time information feed directly in Microsoft's search engine Bing, said Qi Lu, president of Microsoft's Online Services Division. Read more	Yahoo! posts 244 pct increase in net profit Tuesday 20th of October 2009 04:50:35 PM NEW YORK (AFP) -- Yahoo! reported Tuesday that net profit soared more than 244 percent in the third quarter, easily surpassing the expectations of Wall Street analysts.The Sunnyvale, California-based Internet firm said revenue declined 12 percent to 1.57 bil... Read more