Cody Taylor

Has Google grown too big? While the critics scream and yell however, Google stocks are still one of the highest, they reported over 5 billion in earnings for the fourth quarter of 2008 and are more heavily contributing to political campaigns.So what is the future of this multi-faceted world leader?

With Internet Connected television, Yahoo and Samsung try to take a leaf out of Apple’s design playbook

I am pleased to announce that this cycle’s Ubuntu Open Week will be held the week after Ubuntu 9.04’s release, from 27 April to 1 May on #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode. The sessions take place from 1500UTC to 2100UTC – This is a week full of IRC tutorial sessions on a range of subjects, designed to help people get involved in the Ubuntu community.

Fears that Britain is slipping into a surveillance society have been heightened by Brussels initiating legal action after declaring that UK laws guaranteeing data protection were “structurally flawed” and well below the European standard.

Virgin Media has announced a partnership with Google to power its email service, to enable better inbox management and more storage space.Unfortunately ‘@virgle.com’ isn’t going to be an option.

Idiomatick writes “Bell Canada is attempting to impose UBB on it’s wholesale customers. As Bell was given a last-mile monopoly in much of Canada by the government they are required to follow rules set up by the CRTC this includes leasing their lines to competitive ISPs. And they are given a directive by the CRTC to provide competitive speeds to said ISPs. Teksavvy has informed it’s customers that were this to go through the current monthly cap would be quartered and the cost for exceeding it would be “multiple times more than our current per Gigabyte rate of {content}.25/GB on overages”. They have also helpfully included a link where you can send your comments/concerns to the CRTC directly.”

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1sockchuck writes “The heat generated by thousands of servers at the new Telehouse West data center in London will soon be used to heat nearby houses and businesses. The Greater London Authority has approved a plan in which waste heat from the colocation facility will be used in a district heat network for the local Docklands community. The project is expected to produce up to nine megawatts of power for the local community.”

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