If you’ve ever searched for something on the internet, you’ve probably used Google. If you use Chrome, you’re using Google’s own browser to surf the internet. If you have a gmail account, again you’re using a Google product to send and receive emails. Don’t forget to watch your favorite videos online using YouTube, another Google service but if you want to comment on them, you’re going to need a gmail account. If you need to store personal documents, …

More than 30,000 websites are not happy over a reintroduced Internet security bill in the U.S. Congress.
Thousands of websites, including Craigslist and Reddit, have joined forces to oppose the moot cybersecurity bill Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
Tuesday last week the anti-CISPA movement started to display an interactive banner from the Internet Defense League.
The ad banner shows how voters can send a message to their local members of Congress: “CISPA is back. This …

A petition on the White House’s social engagement site We the People is asking for congressmen and senators to wear their sponsors’ logos or names a la NASCAR.
Posted on the site on March 19, the petition has already gotten over 22,000 signatures. However, it still needs over 77,000 signatures from now up to April 18 for the White House to act on it.
Filed under the Government Reform category, its creator says that if the country’s politicians are forced to “prominently display” their …

In a bid to take on YouTube and at once invest in overseas assets as well, Yahoo Inc. is discussing acquisition of video hosting site Dailymotion.
The news comes from the proverbial “people familiar with the talks” who told The Wall Street Journal of the development.
According to the publication, Yahoo may acquire as much as a 75-percent stake in Dailymotion.

The move will strengthen Yahoo’s position against Google as it gives the once reigning internet search giant a direct competitor …

Google recently announced the imminent July 1 retirement of Google Reader, arguably the world’s most popular RSS reader, because of the decline in usage. But thousands of petitioners beg to differ, as they go online with a signature campaign to save the service.
The company has now decided to close a total of 70 features as part of its “spring cleaning” under the helm of CEO and co-founder Larry Page.
The chief executive, who took the seat from current Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, …

Google has announced its second spring of cleaning under CEO and co-founder Larry Page. And it sadly includes RSS feed organizer Google Reader.
The rapid change rate in Google products and services is unprecedented for the company, wrote Google Fellow and SVP of Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle as he unveiled the bad news in a post on the company’s official blog.
He said changes in the computing environment, with almost everyone owning at least one device, triggered the company to …

An Irish senator thinks that you should pay if you want to post comments online. However, the move is not just to generate income; the senator explains its altruistic roots.
According to a report from the Irish Examiner, Senator Eammon Coghlan has suggested to a legislative committee tasked to scrutinize the link between social media and cyber bullying that people should pay to post comments when using the internet.
That or people should register passport numbers which can be traced through …

In what a Canadian judge calls a change that should be taken to reflect our current society, arrested suspects should be allowed to look for a lawyer on Google.
Judge H.A. Lamoureux of the Provincial Court of Alberta said in a ruling that internet access should be provided by the police to accused persons in order for them to exercise their right to access a lawyer.
In a ruling for the case of a certain Christopher McKay, the judge said that the world is “at an unprecedented time in human …

You can now export and download your Blogger data and Google+ pages through Google Takeout.
The move was announced by Google’s Kári Ragnarsson, a member of the company’s Data Liberation Front, in a post on the group’s blog.
Google Takeout is a Google-built tool that lets users download their data from Google products and services.
Accordig to Ragnarsson, this latest development caters to users of Blogger or Google+ account owners who want to control their data more.
By visiting …

A California man has been arrested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation for allegedly pressuring women into stripping for him over the internet.
According to the FBI, 27-year-old Karen “Gary” Kazaryan is now facing 30 counts of hacking and identity theft.
The Glendale, California man faces 15 counts of computer intrusion and 15 counts of aggravated identity theft and if convicted of all the charges, he faces up to 105 years in prison which is essentially a life sentence.
According to …