Lord Of The Google: February 2008

Google backing science contest

Google Inc. is adding more e-mail security and storage products for businesses, sharpening its aim on a Microsoft Corp. >> full story

MySpace to launch third-party applications next month

MySpace users will be able to add games, e-mail services and other features from outside developers without ever leaving the site under a new program the popular online community will fully launch next month. >> full story

Crime in neighborhood? Check out reports online

The inspiration for CrimeReports.com came a decade ago when Greg Whisenant made the mistake of letting a stranger, who turned out to be a burglar, into his apartment building in Arlington, Va. >> full story

Universal Names Street for Former Exec

He left Universal Studios more than a decade ago, but thanks to his protege, Steven Spielberg, he'll always have a place on the Universal lot. >> full story

Google backing science contest

They call it the "Olympics of science fairs." And when the International Science and Engineering Fair, or ISEF, returns to San Jose in 2010, it will have an Olympian corporate sponsor to boot. >> full story

For Yahoo, options grim in takeover

Ron and Carol's 51st Wedding Anniversary For the past few days, reports have been floating around about how well Ron Paul did in the last quarter of 2007 with donations from veterans and current servicemen and ...full story

Takahashi: Google, Microsoft's next battle in cloud computing

The real battle between Microsoft and Google - now in conflict over Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo - ultimately isn't over search. >> full story

Spaces and Places: Valley forecast bright for commercial real estate

Silicon Valley's commercial real estate experts forecast a slow start to 2008, but a grand finish - the exact opposite of 2007, which began with a bang and wound up a whimper. >> full story

Model checkers get Turing Prize

Find out how your peers are dealing with Virtualization The Association of Computing Machinery has awarded the $250,000 A.M Turing Prize to three men who created an automated way to find design errors in ...full story

Google Releases Code to Help Make Social Data Portable

Google has unveiled a new API that it hopes will make data created by users of social networks portable. >> full story

For Yahoo, options grim in takeover

Microsoft's $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other ...full story

Pirate Bay ordered blocked by Danes

A while back I started a series on "frozen conflicts" in the former USSR. The first two can be found here and here . >> full story

Microsoft paints Yahoo deal as fair, competitive

Microsoft Corp.'s proposed $42 billion purchase of Yahoo Inc. would establish the world's largest software maker as a "strong No. >> full story

Who Purchased the Sun/Storage Tek campus?

Just like the "Who Killed JR?" cliffhanger, the recent news reports are providing us with speculation and little confirmation! The big Denver real estate scoop is the Sun/Storage Tek Campus has been sold for a ...full story

Web site blows whistle on neighborhood crimes

The inspiration for CrimeReports.com came a decade ago when Greg Whisenant made the mistake of letting a stranger, who turned out to be a burglar, into his apartment building in Arlington, Va. >> full story

Pirate Bay ordered blocked by Danes

THE NATION that bought fear to the whole of Europe with its pirating activities in the Dark Ages is trying to stop its citizens accessing the P2P Pirate Bay site. >> full story