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CSI Stick grabs data from cell phones

New device from Paraben works like a USB stick and could be used by law enforcement, thieves, or parents to snoop on the cell phone activities of anyone who leaves their phone unattended.

Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, News, elinor mills, csistick, cell phones, data, fbi, hacking, security

Videos 2008-09-02

Google proposes global privacy standard

Search giant wants standard based on actual harm to consumer, but a privacy advocate says the proposed guidelines are weak. While Google is leading a charge to create a global privacy standard for how companies protect consumer data, the search giant is recommending that remedies focus on whether...

Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, DoubleClick Inc., Security, Elinor Mills, Corporate & legal, Proposal

News items 2007-09-13

Google bets on mobile market

Mobile is the next frontier for Google, but how will it straddle the line between partnering and competing with major cell phone operators? Search giant Google is setting the stage for its biggest push yet into the U.S. mobile market, in a strategy that delicately straddles the line...

Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Wireless, Search Engine Land, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Elinor Mills, FCC, Partnership, Activity, Business Structures, Finance

News items 2007-07-31

Still no cure for what ails Yahoo

Executives offer promises but no real plan to turn company around in the face of search titan Google. At Yahoo, there is plenty of talk but no real plan. As expected, Yahoo posted disappointing second-quarter financial results on Tuesday and...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Elinor Mills, Web Technology

News items 2007-07-18

Google Desktop goes Linux

Company releases Linux version of desktop search software, which simultaneously scans the Web and computer-stored data for results. Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Desktop, Desktop Search, Linux, UNIX, Desktops, Open Source, Operating Systems, Search, Software, Hardware, Elinor Mills, Web Technology

News items 2007-06-28

Five steps to a Yahoo turnaround

Social media, video, efficiency and someone calling the shots on technology should be on the top of the to-do list for new CEO Jerry Yang.Photos: Boomerang bosses After 18 months of floundering, Yahoo finally swallowed a bitter pill Monday and replaced Chief Executive Terry Semel with co-founder Jerry Yang....

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Communications, Social Networking, Internet, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Elinor Mills, Technology News

News items 2007-06-20

Yang replaces Semel as Yahoo CEO

Terry Semel steps down one week after shareholders blast him over search company's financial performance. Yahoo Chief Executive Terry Semel stepped down on Monday and handed the reins of the struggling search company to co-founder Jerry Yang after six years on the job. Susan Decker, former chief...

Tags: Shareholder, Jerry Yang, Terry Semel, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Susan Decker, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Elinor Mills, Technology News

News items 2007-06-18

Images: Google offers a Street View

Google's new street-level view offers a closeup look at reporter Elinor Mills' former dwelling.

Tags: Google Inc., Elinor Mills

Image galleries 2007-05-30

Keeping up with the (Dow) Joneses

Rumblings of a Microsoft-Yahoo deal may not have panned out, but in the merger world, the pursuers and pursued are still out in force. In a flurry of activity last week that some would say defied good business sense, media and entertainment companies and a few troubled Internet portals...

Tags: Google Inc., Acquisition, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., The Dow Chemical Co., Search King, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Internet, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Elinor Mills, Technology News

News items 2007-05-07

Google first-quarter profit rises almost 70 percent

Results beat Wall Street expectations as the company turns search market share gains into even more revenue from paid search advertising. Google's first-quarter profit rose 69 percent and results beat Wall Street expectations as the company turned search market share gains into even more revenue from its core paid...

Tags: Paid Search, Revenue, Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Google Earnings Report, Operational Accounting, Finance, Elinor Mills, Technology News

News items 2007-04-19

Google takes the pun out of shopping

Search firm rebrands "Froogle" as "Product Search" and shifts away from a vertical search strategy for shopping.Images: Google's new Froogle Acknowledging that it's better to be clear than clever, Google is rebranding "Froogle" as "Google Product Search" and simplifying the interface to match the main search site,...

Tags: Google Inc., Froogle, Site, Google Base, Sales Strategy, Real Estate, Search, Recruitment & Selection, Sales, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Elinor Mills, Web Technology

News items 2007-04-18

Google treads on PowerPoint turf

In his keynote address at Web 2.0 Expo, CEO Eric Schmidt shows off new Docs & Spreadsheets feature that lets users create presentations.Schmidt talks DoubleClick deal SAN FRANCISCO--Google is adding a feature to its Docs & Spreadsheets Web-hosted software that will enable people to create presentations and slide shows,...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Corp., DoubleClick Inc., Web 2.0, Productivity, Internet, Elinor Mills, Web Technology

News items 2007-04-17

Marrying old-media ads with Internet selling

Google is helping to sell newspaper and radio ads, while eBay is building an online exchange for cable TV ads. The business of buying and selling radio, television and print advertising is about to change as Google and eBay make moves to bring the efficiencies of online...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Internet, Inventory, Radio, Advertiser, Softwave Media Exchange, Bid4Spots, Elinor Mills, Web Technology

News items 2007-01-18

Google unveils unorthodox stock option auction

Program will let nonexecutive employees sell options via an online auction rather than on the public markets. Google plans to start an unorthodox stock options program in April that will allow employees to sell their vested options in an online auction, the search giant announced late Tuesday. ...

Tags: Stock Option, Google Inc., Employee, Stock, Auction, Option, Investment, Finance, Elinor Mills, Personal Technology

News items 2006-12-13

Attack code targets zero-day Mac OS X flaw

The unpatched security hole could be used by a remote attacker to compromise a vulnerable Mac, advisories say. A security researcher has published attack code for an unpatched flaw in Mac OS X, the latest vulnerability in the "Month of Kernel Bugs" campaign. The...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Researcher, Flaw, Vulnerability, Attack, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Security, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Elinor Mills

News items 2006-11-21

AOL replaces CEO with NBC exec

NBC Universal Television's Falco to replace Jonathan Miller after AOL business-model transition. Time Warner has hired the president of NBC Universal Television to be chairman and chief executive of its AOL Internet subsidiary, replacing Jonathan Miller, the company announced abruptly on Wednesday. Randy Falco,...

Tags: NBC, Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., NBC Universal Television, Sales Strategy, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Elinor Mills, Web Technology

News items 2006-11-16

Microsoft teams with Sprint on mobile Web service

Windows Live to power search for local content on some Sprint phones. Microsoft and Sprint are launching a combined service that will allow some Sprint customers to use Windows Live Search to look for location-based information from the Web. Sprint PCS Vision and Sprint...

Tags: Web, Team, Mobile, Web Service, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Elinor Mills

News items 2006-11-16

Google launches new mobile Gmail

Free, downloadable Java application lets U.S. users do in two clicks what previously took them 10 or more. Google launched on Thursday a version of Gmail for mobile devices that lets U.S. users do in two clicks what previously took them 10 or more. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Mobile, Java, E-mail Providers, Advertising & Promotion, Cloud Computing, Internet, Marketing, Elinor Mills

News items 2006-11-02

Searching on Zotspot could earn users a 10 spot

Small search site is the latest to use incentives, like paying people for referrals, to draw traffic from the big guys. In a field dominated by Google, some smaller search Web sites are hoping to lure people by offering them money or charitable donations to search. ...

Tags: Incentive, Search Engine, Site, Zotspot, Search Site, Search, Sales Force Management, Web Site Development, Sales, Internet, Elinor Mills, Web Technology

News items 2006-10-31

AOL offers new high-speed software

Called OpenRide, it lets people multitask via one integrated, four-part screen. A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. AOL on Wednesday launched a free version of its software optimized for broadband use. The OpenRide software lets people access...

Tags: Software, America Online Inc., OpenRide, OpenRide Software Screen, Tools & Techniques, E-mail, Management, Online Communications, Elinor Mills, Web Technology

News items 2006-10-04