Google Won't Pursue Yahoo Ad Deal

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/technology/internet/06google.html?_r=2&ref=technology&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Microsoft looking to China to create new products

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story/mpl/ap/business/6096002.html

Voting Machines Cause Few Problems

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/05/voting.machines.ap/index.html

Campaings in a Web-2.0 World

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/business/media/03media.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin

30 Seconds to Boot Up? That's 29 Too Many

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/business/02digi.html?scp=1&sq=Randoll%20Stross&st=cse

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Google's Super Satellite Captures First Image

Google earth is up, off and even further away from competitor search engines after launching new technology from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Although Google Earth has been around since 2004, its newest satellite, the recently launched Geo-Eye-1, is able to take pictures from space at a resolution of 41 cm. This is close enough to zoom in on the home plate of a baseball diamond! The government has had this high resolution technology since the late 1970s, HOWEVER, the highest resolution available to the "average Joe" is 50 cm. The satellite's sponsored by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a U.S. government agency that analyzes imagery in support of national security, and is paying for half of the satellite's cost: $502 million.

Not so long ago, I remember downloading Google Earth onto my desktop. I also remember being frustrated after searching for my house, which looked like an identifiably fuzzy version of the real thing on the old Google Earth. Regardless, I was still very impressed by the fact that I could searh and see almost anything anywhere in the world. The fact that this new satellite will yield an even more precise, less-fuzy image, both amazes and scares me.

It scares me that much of our government's technology is being made available to the public; although the government is placing regulations on this technology, I feel like there will always be people who are willing and able to bypass regulations in some way, shape or form. In my opinion, Google's huge stake in this new satellite will undoubetedly help the company emerge as an even large conglomerate than it already is. I know I'll be sure to re-Google Earth my house and compare the new resolution with the old.

photo is courtesy of the following article from Wired Magazine online:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/10/geoeye-1-super.html