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Google releases free tool to migrate from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps

Serious threat to the web in Italy

  • In 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. Google took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police, and also worked with the local police to help identify the person responsible for uploading i, who was subsequently sentenced to 10 months community service by a court in Turin. But then, a public prosecutor in Milan decided to indict four Google employees. None of them had anything to do with this video. They did not appear in it, film it, upload it or review it. None of them know the people involved or were even aware of the video's existence until after it was removed. Nevertheless, a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants.

The Missing Google Analytics Manual

Google finally kills Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

YouTube Music Discovery Project and Playlist Creation Tool

The Google Tax: Hiding The Real Threats to French Democracy

Google’s Brilliant Move: Not Buying NexusOne.com Domain Name

ChromeMUSE – Multi-URL Shortener/Expander Chrome Extension

  • Shorten and expand URLs with different shortening service providers. ChromeMUSE is an extension to facilitate the use of URL shortening services. A short URL can be generated for any web page, using the user's preferred shortening service. The short URL is automatically copied to the clipboard to paste into other applications. ChromeMUSE also automatically expands short URLs on any page, replacing the target URL with the original URL and displays the page title as a tooltip. The URL expansion is provided by LongURL.org, which handles links from more than 200 services.

What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google

How Google became Microsoft: A decade of hits, misses and gaffes

Add, edit, or remove search engines in Google Chrome

18 Extensions Worth Downloading from Google Chrome's Extensions Gallery

  • Actually, rating these extensions by "worth the slowdown," as is often the case with Firefox, doesn't seem applicable here. Chrome renders pages just as snappily on a Linux install with eight extensions loaded, and the memory use seems not all that different. Your mileage may certainly vary.

    We pulled out extensions from the gallery for highlighting that do something a bit different from widely-available bookmarklets, or at least fill a crucial need for those who use the web productively. You can disagree with our picks or tell us how blind we must be to miss a great one—do so in the comments, and if we missed a really great one, we'll update the post.

Make Google Chrome Open with Permanently Pinned Tabs – Step by Step

Google: Firms can get rid of Office in a year

  • "In a year, most enterprises will have the choice to "get rid of [Microsoft] Office if they chose to", suggests Dave Girouard, president of Google's enterprise division.

    He acknowledged that Docs is currently "much less mature" than Google Mail or Calendar. "We know it. We wouldn't ask people to get rid of Microsoft Office and use Google Docs because it is not mature yet," he said.

    But, this is expected to change in a year, when the company's introduces some "thirty to fifty" updates to Docs to beef up the SaaS (software-as-a-service) office suite. These will include updates to features and performance, Girouard said."

The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave