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A Guide to Google's New Privacy Controls
A Guide to Google's New Privacy Controls
Google has moved the debate about privacy and Internet advertising with deceptively simple engineering and a willingness to impose its way on others.
Official Google Blog: Here comes Google Voice
googleblog.blogspot.com — We've just started to release a preview of Google Voice, an application that helps you better manage... your voice communications. Google Voice will be available initially to existing users of GrandCentral, a service we acquired in July of 2007. The new ... (more) Official Google Blog: Here comes Google Voice
Welcome to Google Voice
Welcome to Google Voice
google.com — Google Number One number for all your calls and SMS Google Voicemail Voicemail as easy as email,... with transcripts Voice Features Free calls, conference calling, and more Sign in to Google Voice with your Google Account Email: Password: Remember ... (more) Welcome to Google Voice
Google Voice
Google Voice
google.com — Google Voice is currently open only for GrandCentral users Learn More Google number - One number for... all your calls and SMS Features_thumb1 Call screening - Announce and screen callers Listen in - Listen before taking a call Block calls - Keep ... (more) Google Voice
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Around the Web 3.12.09: Robo-gardeners, Google Voice and Hulu friends
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... March Madness comes to iPhone via paid App. Chicago Tribune -- Bye-bye, black thumb! MIT develops robo-gardener. CNet -- No fair = no fun. An essay on the notion of balance in video games. Strange Horizons -- Microsoft: Explorer is faster than Firefox and Chrome. Slashdot -- How does Google track you? Let us count the ways. NYT -- Google Voice turns voicemails into e-mails. Reuters via ...

Bits: Four Privacy Protections the Online Ad Industry Left Out
NYT > Technology — ... like Google and Yahoo have suggested that each ad on a page have its own link or icon that will take users to an explanation of exactly who is behind the ad and, ideally, a more precise description of what it does. The trade group’s proposed standards offer this sort of disclosure as an option, but they also allow a simple link at the bottom of a page, so long as that link is “clear, meaningful, and prominent.” Users should be able to see data collected about them Google now will tell users what it thinks they are interested in based on what sites they have visited in the ...

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