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Google Pushes On With Free Wi-Fi
News Google will begin a phased rollout of a free wireless Net access service in its hometown of Mountain View, California, this summer and is still hammering out details with San Francisco officials for its citywide Wi-Fi service there.
[June 8, 2006, 8:55]
Google's First Mashup Goes Green
News The site, at maps.google.com/green, features information on and video tours of spots in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York and Orlando, Florida, as well as tips for "travelling green" during the summer using Google Maps.
[May 31, 2006, 9:25]
Google Earth Zooms In
News In a product demonstration, Jones showed a 3D view of San Francisco from 2005, and with a click, showed the same view of San Francisco in the 1940s. Google unveiled on Monday a new version of its Google Earth application, which features greater...
[June 13, 2006, 9:35]
Google's Revenue (almost) Doubles
News In response to a question about Google's motivations for bidding to offer free wireless Internet access to the city of San Francisco, company co-founder Larry Page said: "We are excited about expanding Internet access in general.
[October 21, 2005, 11:00]
Yahoo Chief To Be Paid $1 Salary
News Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel, the highest compensated executive in the San Francisco Bay Area last year at more than $56.8m (£30m), will receive an annual salary of $1 through 2008, according to documents made public on Friday by the US...
[June 5, 2006, 10:00]
Yahoo Launches Customisable Ad Tool
News For instance, instead of just seeing a generic ad for a Toyota Prius, a woman in San Francisco who conducts research on hybrid cars on Yahoo Autos could be served an ad for a local San Francisco dealer with information on the types of Priuses that...
[July 2, 2007, 9:51]
Behind The Scenes At Mozilla HQ
News Originally built at Netscape in 1999, it is a model of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and was moved to the Mozilla offices later. The office is in a small, leafy industrial park in the suburbs of Mountain View, a town in the heart of Silicon...
[July 19, 2005, 13:35]
Case Threatens Search Engines' Use Of Trademarks
News The Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday found that Playboy Enterprises can pursue charges that Excite and Netscape Communications violated its trademark by selling banner advertisements triggered by the terms "playboy...
[January 16, 2004, 8:25]
Net Marketers Target Mums
News Those numbers don't surprise DeeDee Schroeder, a 35-year-old lawyer in San Francisco and the mother of two-and-a-half-year-old Maureen. I can use it anytime, on my own schedule," said Susanna Marshland, a 36-year-old mother of two in California...
[May 7, 2002, 13:29]
Google Demos Android Software
News Google demonstrated its Android mobile-phone software on Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The project, under development by Google and a number of partners in the Open Handset Alliance, is due to ship as open-source software...
[May 29, 2008, 12:09]
Google Gives Glimpse Into Security Strategy
News Google director of product management Scott Petry — founder of Postini, which is now owned by the search giant — gave the low-down on the web giant's approach to security at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week.
[April 11, 2008, 9:04]
Google Web Workshop Targets Developers
News Google is stepping up its efforts to engage developers, with a two-day workshop called "Google I/O: Web Forward", scheduled for 28 to 29 May at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco. At a time when its competitors see extending developer involvement...
[March 12, 2008, 14:38]
Google And Yahoo Sued Over Gambling Ads
News The 60-page filing, presented in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that the companies sell rights to Web advertisements based on searches for terms such as "illegal gambling," "Internet gambling" and "California gambling.
[August 4, 2004, 9:20]
Google Wheels Out Big Legal Guns
News Kekar & Van Nest, a 50-lawyer firm based in San Francisco, represented Grokster it its legal battle over file sharing, and also represented Wall Street banker Frank Quattrone and former Enron leader Andrew Fastow in criminal cases.
[August 25, 2005, 15:55]
Google Apps On The Salesforce Platform
News The two companies announced a joint cloud-computing venture at a press event in San Francisco on 14 April. Here's how it looks when Google applications Gmail, Docs, Talk, and Calendar operate on the Salesforce platform.
[April 29, 2008, 17:40]
Google Considers Privacy Dashboard
News Pending the acceptance of the organisation's invitations, the meeting will take place in the week of 23 July in San Francisco. Google is considering introducing a "privacy dashboard" after the storm of controversy that has greeted its data...
[June 12, 2007, 15:33]
Google Looks For IPO
News Electronic IPO auctions are closely associated with San Francisco investment bank WR Hambrecht, which has pioneered the method through its OpenIPO service. Web-search giant Google could go public early next year using an unusual electronic bidding...
[October 24, 2003, 8:55]
Google Opens Geographic Search Interface
News With the search API now producing broader results, a website could show not just the Marriott hotel near San Francisco International Airport but also nearby jogging trails, Hanke said. Google has added a new element to its search interface that...
[May 14, 2008, 14:08]
Google Jumps Into TV Business
News In a related move, Google also confirmed it has been testing a similar advertising effort with Astound Broadband, a small cable TV operator east of San Francisco that serves about 23,000 customers in Concord and Walnut Creek, California.
[April 3, 2007, 10:07]
Google Offers Shopping Coupons
News For example, a search for "San Francisco veterinarians" will display business listings that match those terms alongside a map. Google Maps will begin offering printable coupons for everything from pizza to car washes on Wednesday as the search...
[August 15, 2006, 17:40]
