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Google has long been obsessed with speed. It’s paramount in pretty much everything they do. Which is why the launch of Google+ with some — gasp — attention paid to design is even more surprising. But a new service Google is launching this evening very much puts the focus back on speed — an obsessive amount of focus, one might say. (more)

Web cam or webcam (web camera) is a live and real-time camera whose images can be accessed using the World Wide Web, instant messaging, or a PC video calling or video conferencing application. Webcam is increasingly used as web surveillance cams to monitor security, traffic beach, office, and other sensitive areas. Some of these webcams or networked cameras have Web interfaces that allows owners to view the image or video captured via Internet, and even direct the cameras’ motorized pan-and-tilt or zoom mechanisms. (more)

Google Hacking

This is by far the easiest hack of all. It really is extraordinary what you can find in Google’s index. And here’s Newsflash #1: you can find a wealth of actual usernames and passwords using search strings.

Copy and paste these into Google:

inurl:passlist.txt
inurl:passwd.txt

…and this one is just priceless… (more)

New tool by webddr is available in Free internet tools. The new tool is Longitude Latitude Geographical Coordinates with Google Map. The tool uses the Google Maps API to find out accurate geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) for any place on Earth.

It provides two ways to search, either by moving around the map and zooming in, or by typing an address if the place is unknown. (more)

The Chinese government Tuesday criticized Google for being “totally wrong” by stopping censoring its Chinese-language search results, while reaffirming that the foreign investment environment will not be affected in China, a ready made reaction after two months of tension sparked by the search engine’s pullout threat.

Surveys showed that the majority of China’s Web users is not much affected by Google’s decision to reroute searches to its Hong Kong-based site. (more)

Washington – Google’s decision to withdraw its main Chinese website from the mainland and relocate to Hong Kong was a business decision that did not involve the US government, the US State Department said Tuesday.

“This was a business decision by Google,  as to the issue of Internet freedom and the flow of information around the world,” spokesman PJ Crowley said. (more)

Imitation Web sites of both Google and YouTube have emerged in China as the country faces off against the real Google over its local operations.

YouTubecn.com offers videos from the real YouTube, which is owned by Google and blocked in China. The Google imitation is called Goojje and includes a plea for the U.S.-based company not to leave China, after it threatened this month to do so in a dispute over Web censorship and cyberattacks. (more)