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| 6:30AM 8/11/2010
The conventional wisdom gaining strength these days is that Google is past its hot-growth prime. But unnoticed by many investors are at least three businesses that could give the search giant's stock the kick it's looking for.
By Lauren Berger, The Intern Queen
| 8:00AM 8/09/2010
Lauren Berger is known for completing 15 internships in four years. Now she's turned her experience into her own business. As the Intern Queen, she helps interns find success.
With the start of school comes the end of summer internships for thousands of students across the country and abroad....
| 8:07PM 7/13/2010
A recent failure of Google's Gtalk instant messaging service highlights -- yet again -- the shortcomings of the tech titan's (in)famously hands-off approach to customer support and communication.
| 4:00PM 6/03/2010
What to do if you're locked out of Gmail? It's a question too many users ask, after they are already locked out and are attempting to recover their account. Given the incredible amount of personal and financial information we keep in our inboxes, gaining access to a compromised Gmail account is...
| 4:15PM 1/18/2010
Google is now investigating whether some of its own employees helped carry out the recent cyber-attack in China, which exposed Gmail accounts of U.S. companies and Chinese dissidents. News reports also say foreign reporters based in China were targeted by the hackers, too.
| 5:00PM 12/22/2009
As politicians argue over government spending, there is one line item that is likely to stay in the budget for the foreseeable future: the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD's) yearly Santa Watch. For the last 54 years, the military command -- tasked with protecting the US and Canada...
| 3:40PM 10/28/2009
I have a love/hate relationship with Gmail. As a foolish youth, I entrusted the free version of Gmail in its early beta days with reams of critical communications. Now I'm permanently wedded to at least partial usage of Google (GOOG)'s much-loved, and recently reviled, online email product.
Now,...
| 10:30AM 10/20/2009
Los Angeles has moved a step closer to replacing the city's crash-prone email system with a Google (GOOG) enterprise platform that would store data from America's second largest city on Google's servers. The switch is expected to save the city millions over the long term, but recent Gmail outages...
| 2:00PM 10/19/2009
E-mail addresses can tell people a lot about you.
Your username, or what's in front of the @ symbol can tell potential employers, dates and associates about your political affiliations, year of birth, what school you went to and even your affinity for elf culture.
Did you know that what comes...
| 2:00PM 9/24/2009
On the heels of a recent massive outage that took down Gmail access globally for several hours, Google (GOOG) suffered another black eye, when the contacts-management portion of its Internet email program went down for several hours on Thursday. Millions of users (including me) were greeted with...