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?

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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An anonymous reader writes “University researchers in the UK have put together a team tasked with predicting the next big thing in terms of communication technologies, in a bid to tackle ethical pitfalls before they become a problem. This is in the wake of the rise of social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, which has led to a dramatic increase in the amount of personal information available online.”

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