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Google Launches Interactive Book to Teach Everyone About the Web

In an attempt to teach the average person about the fundamentals of browsers and the web, Google has released an interactive online book that explains concepts like, TCP/IP, HTML, browser extensions and malware.

The short book, 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web, is a step-by-step explanation of the web and how it works. It was created by the Google Chrome team using HTML5, but it also features a lot of clever illustrations by award-winning German illustrator and children’s author Christoph… Continue Reading

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Viacom Joins the Anti-Google TV Brigade

Add Viacom properties to the ever-growing list of television websites blocked on Google TV.

Google’s set-top box product has already received blowback from the major broadcast networks — NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox — not to mention Hulu —…

Christina Warren

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Google Docs Now Syncs With Microsoft Office

Google has transformed one of its acquisitions into Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, a new tool that lets users simultaneously edit an Office doc via the cloud.

Launching in beta today, Google Cloud Connect is an add-on for…

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New Campaign Seeks to Stop Flash Ads from Breaking the Web

A new Internet campaign is seeking to stop Flash ads from breaking websites across the entire web by convincing ad networks to make changes to their Flash embeds codes.

Flash Ads Are Broken, which launched yesterday, is focused…

Ben Parr

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For Google, Social Networking Is Just One Chapter of the Book

With its valuations and the number of users going through the roof, Facebook is perceived by many as the company that might dethrone Google as the next Internet superpower. Google, however, doesn’t see Facebook as a direct threat, since social…

Stan Schroeder

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Borders Goes Local With Google, Meetup Partnerships

Beginning Monday, shoppers will be able to use Google’s Local Availability feature to locate books and other products at their local Borders, as well as look up how many items are in stock, prices and store directions — a feature…

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Google in Talks to Buy Groupon? [RUMOR]

Another day, another Groupon acquisition rumor. This time the would-be suitor is reportedly Google.

Groupon is no stranger to acquisition rumors — Yahoo was reportedly in talks to purchase the daily deals site earlier this year. That deal obviously didn’t…

Christina Warren

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Google Street View Comes to 20 German Cities

After being launched as a preview two weeks ago in the small town of Obesthaufen, Google Street View imagery is now available in Germany’s 20 largest cities, including Berlin, Hamburg and Munich.

Google has been struggling to…

Stan Schroeder

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This Morning’s Biggest Stories in Social Media, Tech and Business

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today.

Users Can Now

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The Year of Facebook: U.S. Traffic Has Grown by 55% in the Last Year [STATS]

Watch out, Google: U.S. traffic to Facebook has risen by a whopping 55% in the last year, according to data sent to us by comScore.

In October 2009, Facebook had 97.37 million unique U.S. visitors. In October 2010 though, the…

Ben Parr

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Google Apps Adds Voice, Maps, Reader & More

Google continued its charge into the enterprise sector on Thursday with the introduction of a massive infrastructure overhaul for Google Apps. Previously, Google Apps was limited to basic services like Gmail, Calendar and Docs. Starting today, Google…

Blake Robinson

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Verizon FiOS Signs On for Google TV Ads

Google just gained a new partner in its Google TV Ads platform: Verizon FiOS TV.

The new partnership means that advertisers who buy ad space through Google AdWords for TV now have access to more than 50 networks carried by…

Christina Warren

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FCC Chairman: Google and Verizon Slowed Down Net Neutrality

At the Web 2.0 Summit Wednesday in San Francisco, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski talked about the ongoing debate over net neutrality. While remarking that recent court decisions had hurt the commission’s plans to adopt sensible policies, Genachowski noted that the…

Christina Warren

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The Problem That Keeps the FCC Chairman Up at Night

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski says it isn’t current U.S. broadband penetration that keeps him up at night, but the fact that the world’s remaining superpower ranks dead last for the deployment of new broadband connections.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski sat…

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