A class action complaint filed in San Jose federal court alleges that Google Inc. broke the law when its controversial Google Buzz service shared personal data without the consent of users.
The case was filed on Wednesday on behalf of Eva Hibnick, a Florida woman, by law firms in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. William Audet of Audet & Partners LLP in San Francisco declined to comment.
The legal complaint accuses Google of breaking various electronic communications laws, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The plaintiff is seeking injunctions to prevent the company from taking similar actions in the future, and unspecified monetary relief.
Eva Hibnick and her legal team–who we won’t name, because clearly they agreed to help her for the glory of suing Google–wants to enjoin the 31.2 million U.S. Gmail users that were duped into revealing their most personal contacts. via :[SFGate]
Already hate Google Buzz. Now you can simply disable it from the Google Buzz tab which can be accessed from you Gmail Account. In the Gmail settings page the last tab is the Buzz settings page. And the last option in that page is for disabling the Buzz, which is given as a Red Bold link.
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Google demonstrated a new prototype of the technology , which can translate the text from any given photo. Well Google Goggles is Google’s experimental Android visual search application.
You may wonder what’s happening in the background. On the simplest level, this prototype connects the phone’s camera to an optical character recognition (OCR) engine, recognizes the image as text and then translates that text into English with Google Translate.Right now this technology only works for German-to-English translations and it’s not yet ready for prime time. However, it shows a lot of promise for what the future might hold. Soon your phone will be able to translate signs, posters and other foreign text instantly into your language. Eventually, we’re hoping to build a version of Google Goggles that can translate between all of the 52 languages currently supported by Google Translate — bringing even more information to you on the go.
Google real time search results, which already have twitter, yahoo answers, etc now included Myspace. That means that publicly available status updates, blog posts, and other MySpace data will now be included in the “latest results” area that now often pops up in Google search results when looking for information about a current event.
Now that google’s Buzz is really making a Buzz in the internet world, everyone with a blog or website might be trying to figure out how to integrate it with their website. Now here I am going to explain how to integrate it to your wordpress blog.
The easiest way for doing it is Use Plugins. I will list a few plugin which will do the integration for you.
Google Buzz Button
This Google Buzz Button plugin that allows you to add a “Buzz This” button to each of your WordPress posts. this may also look familiar because lots of famous techie websites use this.
Upload in wp-content/plugins folder on your server
Activate the plugin from Plugin Dashboard
Done! A new Google Buzz Button will start appearing after the post content on each single page. You can customize the location of Buzz Button.
WP Google-buzz
Another button plugin option is WP Google-buzz. This plugin has some more options compared to the previous one.
Features:
Show Google-buzz button before/after post content.
Manual insertion of code: Use this: <?php if(function_exists(‘add_wp_google_buzz’)) { add_wp_google_buzz(); } ?>
10 different beautiful image options
WPBuzzer
This plugin also has got lots of options by which we can customize the look and feel. Download WPBuzzer v0.5 from here.
Light Social
The Light Social plugin takes a slightly different approach to the Google Buzz button. Light Social is a plugin that inserts a set of social share links at the bottom of each of your WordPress posts.
Buzz In Your Sidebar
Google Buzz ER Plugin allows you to use the google Buzz features to display your public Buzz content. Just enter in your username and define how many Buzz entries you want to display and drag the widget to your designated choice in your blog.
Symbian now have a new version. All these days iPhone and Android devs were all over the news, doing something and Symbian & Nokia people were standing by just watching whats going on. The wait is over today as the newest verion of Symbian was revealed at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Well this is not the only good news. The good news is the features of this new operating system.
UI that’s three times faster.
UI which runs at a super smooth 60fps.
Better multitasking.
Added support for multitouch on capacitive screens.
Integrated online music store support.
HDMI output capabilities at full HD (1080p) resolution.
A new graphics architecture which takes advantage of hardware acceleration.
All these feature may make symbian to match up with the iPhone Os and Android. The latest version is named Symbian^3, or S^3 for short and is expected to be completed by the end of March. The first devices featuring S^3 should start shipping from Nokia in the third quarter of this year.
