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The Federal Trade Commission is no longer pursuing its inquiry into the two companies' connections.

Those testing Google Voice will be allowed to invite friends to use the service.

Google augmented its Google Docs suite, adding shared folders, batch file uploads a more than 50 other new features to make it more valuable for knowledge worker collaboration. The latest upgrades are the culmination of work Google has been doing for the last several months to position Docs less as a productivity suite targeted at taking down Microsoft Office's Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps, and more as the team collaboration application for Google Apps. Google expects Wave will eventually let users pull all of their content from Google Apps programs into Wave, and possibly, vice versa. - Google Oct. 12 revamped its Google Docs word processing, spreadsheet and presentation trio, refreshing its appearance and adding shared folders, batch file uploads a more than 50 other new features to make it more valuable for knowledge worker collaboration. In Docs, colors have be...

Conservatives in Egypt are in a lather over a new device that promises to simulate the bleeding a virgin bride experiences on her wedding night. Politicians are calling the device an assault on Islamic and Arab values. But some young women say it's the inevitable result of Egypt's double standard for premarital sex.

Gamasutra is running an article about the state of game development on Android. The author explains some of the strengths and weaknesses of the platform, and makes comparisons to development on the iPhone. Quoting: 'While iPhone apps are written in Objective C, the Android SDK uses relatively more programmer-friendly Java. The iPhone store charges developers $99 a year to distribute their apps, while Android has a one-time $25 fee for developers. And the review process for iPhone apps grows increasingly lengthy — sometimes weeks or more — and it's somewhat arcane. Android apps go live as soon as the developer hits the publish button. Google handles the review process post-hoc, and is much more lax in terms of content. ... For now, if a developer decides to implement a game exclusively for a particular smartphone platform, and the choice is between the iPhone and Android, the tradeoff is between trying to get noticed in an incredibly crowded and competitive market where the

Playboy Playmate claims Private Sex Tape Acquired Illegally

coondoggie writes 'The US department of Energy said today it will spend $32 million on a project that will deploy a large cloud computing test bed with thousands of Intel Nehalem CPU cores and explore commercial offerings from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Ultimately the project, known as Magellan, will look at cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient way for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics, the DOE stated. Magellan will explore whether cloud computing can help meet the overwhelming demand for scientific computing, the DOE stated. Although computation is an increasingly important tool for scientific discovery, and DOE operates some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, not all research applications require such massive computing power. The number of scientists who would benefit from mid-range computing far exceeds the amount of available resources,

Former Business Week writer Richard L. Brandt recently published Inside Larry and Sergey's Brain, a bid to look at Google through the eyes of its co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The book >takes readers through the mechanics of Google's operations for the last 11 years, revealing some nuggets about the company's co-founders, other executives and other details the average reader might not be aware of. Think you're a Google fan? See how many of these details you knew before reading this eWEEK slideshow. By Clint Boulton - ...

Joanne Hale gave her husband Peter a natural aphrodisiac called horny goat weed before she blindfolded him and led him into nearby woods.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Google Inc. posted third-quarter results Thursday indicating the Internet advertising market is bouncing back after being knocked down by the recession....