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...newer pursuits: a proposal to provide free wireless Internet service for San Francisco; an online video store selling TV shows and NBA games; a classified-advertising site; a project to scan every book ever published and make the texts searchable; a free desktop package loaded with software; free instant messaging and online voice communication; a $1 billion investment in America Online. (AOL, like this magazine, is owned by Time Warner.) In the past year or so, Google Inc. has doubled in size to about 6,000 employees to handle all the new work. Even the bullish Rashtchy acknowledges that "Google...
...time in three parts: 70% devoted to Google's core businesses, search and advertising; 20% on pursuits related to the core; and 10% on far-out ideas. The San Francisco wi-fi initiative resulted from someone's 10% time; so did Google Talk, a free system for instant and voice messaging. If Google ever builds that space elevator, it will no doubt be during 10% time...
Tonight, for the first time all year, the Harvard women’s basketball team will find itself in the neighborhood of instant validation. If Harvard beats league heavyweight Princeton (13-5, 4-1 Ivy) to continue an upward trend that began with a pair of wins last weekend, it will have affirmed its position in a four-team championship hunt. If it loses, the Crimson (7-11, 3-2) will return from its road trip, which also includes a tilt tomorrow with league doormat Penn (3-15, 1-4), without any real hope for its fourth title...
...First, the road warriors who are sick of toting a bag of DVDs on every flight (and paying for all of those discs). Second, people who have broadband at home, but don't spring for premium cable. Vongo might not have the selection that Netflix offers, but the near-instant gratification of a 25-minute download is alluring...
...every 33 children has received an aggressive sexual solicitation in the past year. An aggressive solicitation is one in which the predator asks a child to meet somewhere or called them on the phone.Despite widespread incidences of unwarranted advances that occur over the internet, whether by email, instant messaging, or websites like Facebook, students are largely apathetic.R. Breffny Morgan ’08 is “comfortable with all of the information” that he gives on Facebook, despite listing his e-mail address, cell phone number, and campus address. “When does browsing the Facebook...