February 5, 2012

Google-backed DMARC system aims to block phishers

Sign up to ZDNet UK’s daily newsletter. Topics Phishing, Anti-Phishing, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, PayPal, Microsoft, Email, Alliance, DMARC, Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, Cloudmark, Standard, IETF NEWS Google, Facebook,

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27k Google Chromebooks Headed to U.S. Schools

In what could only be called a business coup for Google, a new deal to put 27k Chromebooks in the hands of students in three school districts in three states may just be the boost in exposure Google’s Chromebook has needed. Sure, you say what is 27k

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27,000 Google Chromebooks coming to a school near you

Chromebooks may not have made the impact Google wished, but it does seem that they are at least beginning to appear in schools across the U.S. At the Florida Educational Technology Conference, Rajen Sheth, the leader of the Chromebook initiative,

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Google faces backlash over privacy changes

Google stirring up controversy…again.Google’s announcement that it is sharing more user data across its services has already raised the hackles of privacy advocates, technology writers and at least one national data-protection agency.For more,

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Facebook’s ‘don’t be evil’ Google fix now a Firefox add-on

If Google’s search engine decides that it’s relevant to surface a Google+ page in response to a query where Google+ content is hardcoded, the tool searches Google for the name of the Google+ page and identifies the social profiles within the first

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Google Expands Tracking on Sites

In a controversial move, Google Inc. said it will track users’ activities across nearly all of its services, and that in many cases, users can’t opt out of the tracking. It’s not entirely clear how the company will use the information.

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DoJ Investigates Apple, Google and Others Regarding ‘No Poaching’ Pact

In an attempt to retain their top recruits, a number of Silicon Valley companies including Apple and Google have signed illegal “no poaching” deals with each other, the US Department of Justice has revealed. The alleged move taken by the tech outfits

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Chrome 16 update closes security holes

.77[1] of Chrome which closes several security holes in the WebKit-based web browser. The update addresses a total of four vulnerabilities, all of which are rated as “high severity[2]“

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Google’s 2011 Lobbying Expenses Climb to $9.68 Million

Google’s interests in Washington these days are quite a bit broader than they once were: Competition, privacy, patent reform, copyright, H1-B visa reform, renewable energy — the list goes on. No surprise then that the company doubled its federal

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Obama to Take Live Questions on Google+ Hangout Next Week

U.S. President Barack Obama will participate in an interview with YouTube users on Jan. 30, as he has done before .

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