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The Street View feature offered in Google Maps runs afoul of Germany's strict privacy laws.

NEWS ANALYSIS: NetApp's aggressive deal to acquire Data Domain creates the world market's fifth-largest data storage company, and it's only a percentage point or so behind Dell, the No. 4 data storage company. The new NetApp should move up quickly. - NetApp surprised the data storage market in a big way on May 20 with the announcement that it intends to acquire rival Data Domain for about $1.5 billion. Funny, we may have had a premonition about this here at eWEEK, and didn't realize it. Storage Station, our storage news blog, had NetApp ...

One of the perks of using search engine Google's home page is checking out the frequently changing seasonal, current-event, and holiday-inspired 'doodles' used for the logo.

Acer plans to introduce a smartphone that uses Google's Android operating systems at the end of 2009. Acer is already planning a number of smartphones that use microsoft Windows Mobile OS. - PARIS (Reuters) - Acer Inc, the world's third-largest PC brand, plans to introduce a phone model running on Google's Android software this year, the head of its phone unit said on Wednesday. The company plans to sell this year around 10 models, with all but one using microsoft's Windows Mobile ...

In the market for yet another way to navigate cyberspace? Just days after physicist Stephan Wolfram took his Wolfram|Alpha "computational knowledge engine" live, word is that microsoft next week will debut a revamped version of its flagging Live.com search engine, the No. 3 Web navigator behind Google and Yahoo. [More]

Facebook in no rush to launch on stock market, but could take further funding in meantime, says founder Mark ZuckerbergFacebook's founder says the company is in no rush to launch on the stock market - despite pressure to cash in while the site's standing is high.Speaking yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg said that the social networking site would not push for an initial public offering for several years, although this is the traditional route for large technology companies to cash in and provide a return for their investors.But he did not rule out the idea that the company could take further funding in the meantime.'If there's an investment to be done on very good terms, we will consider it - if for no other reason than to have more buffer if we want to do something in the future,' he said.The comments came after a rash of reports about Facebook's financial standing, which suggest the company is in negotiations with several investors to raise further funds.Over the past week, reports from lea

Hamburg - Google said Wednesday it had met objections by German privacy watchdogs to its Street View service, which offers photographs of buildings in major world cities taken from street level. Johannes Caspar, data safety commissioner of the state ...

...film covering, designed for iPods, laptops, cell phones, digital cameras, PDAs, watch faces, GPS systems, gaming devices, and other items. The ...

The Ovi Maps API enables developers to integrate 3-D maps into Web sites and apps using only JavaScript.

YouTube brand channel managers can now access user viewing data in Google Analytics, not just YouTube's built in Insight analytics tool.