For a company founded and still largely run by a bunch of engineers, Google apparently knows a lot about human nature. Just as they did with Gmail, the Googlers have made their newest product invitation-only
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A H1N1 flu to-do (and don’t do) list
Swine flu vaccines are rolling out this month — finally.
‘Digital dirt’ can haunt your job search
Just like Vegas, what happens on the Internet, stays on the Internet. How that affects your job search is up to you
Google Wave to be released to 100,000 testers Wednesday
Google Wave, a product that promises to revolutionize online communication, will go out to about 100,000 beta testers Wednesday.
‘Wizard of Oz’ goes hi-def on 70th birthday
The Web application from Google Inc.
iPhone apps helps track sex offenders, spot crime
Tracy Rodriguez of Houston, Texas, is not a trained private investigator or police officer. But with a gentle tap on her iPhone screen, the mother of three can access information revealing the sex offenders who live within a 10-mile radius of where her children practice sports or watch movies
Google lets you custom-print millions of books
What’s hot off the presses this week? Any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public domain.
Microsoft, Google expand search-engine tools
Say you’re buying a dog.
Pakistan: Militants suffer heavy casualties as fighting rages
Fighting raged Tuesday between security forces and militants in northwestern Pakistan, leaving 43 militants dead and two commanders captured, authorities said. The cause of the outage, which Google said lasted an hour and 45 minutes, was not apparent by early Tuesday evening.
Gmail outage deprives millions of e-mail
Gmail, Google’s popular free e-mail service, was inaccessible to many of its 36 million users Tuesday afternoon, causing widespread chatter on Twitter and other social networks.