AT&T is finally going to start carrying Google Android-based phones starting March 7.

We've blogged before about our thoughts on the social web, steps we've taken to add social features to our products, and efforts like OpenSocial that propose common tools for building social apps.

These are the people that introduced the World (and Google) to 360 Immersive Media imagery (think Street View). Well, seems the team has been driving around Port au Prince, capturing 360 degree video of some of the areas devastated by the earthquake.

Steve Wozniak may have once cut in line to get an iPhone. But now he's moved on to a hotter gadget. The cofounder of Apple -- the company that made him millions -- told NBC Bay Area a dirty little secret. He's ditched the iPhone for Google's Nexus One.

When Google ( GOOG - news - people ) recently disclosed an attack originating from China targeting more than 20 U.S.

VeriSign's iDefense security lab has published a report with technical details about the recent cyberattack that hit Google and over 30 other companies.

Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis.

COMCAST, the second-largest US cable television and Internet communications service provider, has a new broadband traffic throttling scheme installed and operating in all of its markets.

We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now — we are too, and we definitely feel your pain.

In a sudden, if not unexpected, announcement this morning, Google said it would release an open-source operating system based on its Chrome browser. The OS will be free, geared (at first) toward netbooks, and focused on "speed, simplicity, and security."

We're often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta. For example, Gmail has worn the beta tag more than five years.

This is an excellent lesson in the security problems inherent in trusting proprietary software:

Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected.

Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse.

Imagine someone watching your every move, hearing everything you say and knowing where you are at every moment. If you have a cell phone, it could happen to you.

On the night of March 8, cruising 22,000 miles above the Earth, U.S. Navy communications satellite FLTSAT-8 suddenly erupted with illicit activity.

In Maryland, an individual that installs building-wide WiFi access in residential buildings apparently fed the wireless routers using 35 different Comcast residential accounts. Now, the cable giant wants its money back.

The Google Docs suite with its text, spreadsheets and presentation editors got a new tool: a vector drawing program. You may remember Tony hinted at this possibility here last month. You can try this feature by opening a new Google Docs document and clicking Insert -> Drawing.

When Microsoft decides to imagine the future, it never fails to impress.

A few months back, I reviewed Epson's Artisan 800 printer, and I loved it. Tonight, I hate its shiny plastic guts. In fact, I may never touch another Epson product again because of this...

This afternoon, in Denver, Colorado, President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known in US political circles as the "stimulus bill".

Bill Gates seems to be enjoying his semi-retirement. At the TED technology conference in California, Microsoft's (MSFT) Chairman just let a bunch of live mosquitoes go into the audience.

For all the good that Google Earth has brought to the world, it's been a boon for ne'er-do-wells and mischief-makers as well. In the U.K., teenage hooligans allegedly use it to scope out private pools they can crash for impromptu parties.

Google and a host of net-savvy partners have opened up a free set of web tools to help anyone determine if their net connection is blocking or throttling BitTorrent or otherwise limits their bandwidth.

Ever try to access local or federal government data and suddenly felt like you were released into a digitized version of Labrynith or immersed in a giant logic puzzle that's impossible to navigate? Government Web sites notoriously lack organization and are a frustrating maze to n …

I covered my first inauguration and what an inauguration it was. Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States in a ceremony on the west front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC.

In a series of separate posts on various official Google blogs Wednesday evening, the company announced that it is terminating, stopping development on, or restricting access to six products that clearly haven't been adding much to the Google brand or bottom line lately:

Last week's CES saw the announcement of the much anticipated public beta of Windows 7, with 2.5 million license keys promised to beta testers on Friday. Friday arrived, and as is now well-known, Microsoft's servers melted under the load.

Online gaming history has always been fragile due to the transitory nature of internet sites and web based information. Wikipedia was supposed to be one of the checks on that - a powerful catalog of information supported by good software and active maintainers.

Once again, Apple (AAPL) has showed why analysts and Apple fans have been right to worry about Steve Jobs' health despite the company's assertions that everything is okay.

Right, so this is a weird one: we're getting tons of reports—tons—about failing Zune 30s. Apparently, the players began freezing at about midnight last night, becoming totally unresponsive and practically useless.

TEXT messaging is a wonderful business to be in: about 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers' costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.

Large parts of Egypt are without Internet at the moment, multiple sources report.

When filling out your next job application, it might be wise to leave your level 80 Shaman off of your list of accomplishments, as some job recruiters are being told to avoid WoW players.

On Wednesday, Security Fix warned readers about a newly-discovered security hole in Internet Explorer 7.

One of the first posts I wrote for this blog last summer tried to define what we at Google mean when we talk about the concept of net neutrality.

The appropriateness of using of modern technology to spy monitor children and adolescents has been hotly debated over the last few years, particularly as GPS technology has matured and become capable of identifying one's exact location rather than a general area.

To the Tabula Rasa Community,

Several Verizon Wireless employees stumbled upon the Pandora's Box of personal cellphone accounts, that of President-Elect Barack Obama, and couldn't help sneaking a peek.

Google has gone live with a big change to their result pages, at least for those of you who are logged in (if you're not seeing it yet, it may still be rolled out for your Google Account).

In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways.

Let Me Google That For You is a tutorial search engine for those whose assistance is constantly needed by the technologically impaired or those clueless friends you have who are just too lazy to search for answers themselves. Follow the jump to find out how it works.

The Tesla dealership is quiet as a cage of sleeping panthers. A pack of the electric roadsters, in varying degrees of grey, are strewn across the show floor looking 120mph standing still.

Adobe has released the very first alpha version of a 64-bit Flash Player for Linux. This move is part of the company's broader plans to provide comprehensive 64-bit support for the widely-used browser plugin.

Barack Obama's longtime campaign photographer David Katz took 82 pictures of the soon-to-be first family election night. Later, Katz uploaded them to Yahoo's (YHOO) photo-sharing site, Flickr. Gawker's Ryan Tate puts it in perspective:

There are just two months and a half months between now and when Barack Obama will take the oath of office as the 44th President of the United States, and without what even seemed to be a pause for a champagne toast, the Obama-Biden '08 campaign shifted into transition mode for w …

Barack Obama, soon to become the 44th President of the U.S.A., is many things: a statesman, a lawyer, an author, and an orator. It is also our opinion at GeekDad that, even without knowing him personally, we have enough evidence to demonstrate that he is a big geek.

In June we announced an advertising agreement with Yahoo! that gave Yahoo! the option of using Google to provide ads on its websites (and its publisher partners' sites) in the U.S. and Canada.

In the final days of this captivating presidential election season, are you interested in knowing how US has voted in the past? Together with the Digital Scholarship Lab at University of Richmond, the Google Earth team has mapped historical election results in Google Earth and Go …

Google finally published today the source code of its Linux-based Android mobile platform. This long-awaited release arrives—as promised—at the same time that T-Mobile is officially launching its new G1 handset, the first mobile device that will ship with Android.

Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, signaling Mr. Schmidt's push for a greater voice in politics while giving the Obama campaign a boost from a highly desirable constituency.

Cyberintruders used the Internet to crack into at least 18 computer servers at the World Bank Group last July.

Right now the U.S. has a very real opportunity to transform our economy from one running on fossil fuels to one largely based on clean energy. We are developing the technologies and know-how to accomplish this. We can build whole new industries and create millions of new jobs.

Hundreds of millions of users access our services through the web, and this traffic requires lots of computers. We strive to offer great Internet services while taking our energy use very seriously.

ast year, New Scientist revealed that the US Department of Homeland Security is developing a system designed to detect "hostile thoughts" in people walking through border posts, airports and public places. The DHS says recent tests prove it works.

Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's private Yahoo e-mail account was hacked, and some of its contents posted on the internet Wednesday.

While Comcast's new network management scheme—to slow down heavy bandwidth users' entire connection—started back in June, we're just getting some of the grislier details.

Yesterday, if you listened closely, you could hear the sound of John McCain selling off the internet to his campaign backers, the cable and telecom interests.

The recent conflict in Georgia has raised some questions about how Google Maps has handled mapping in that part of the world.

Before buying the new Iphone I checked the coverage area for my home and was reported to have full 3G. Excited by this nice but not completely necessary perk I purchased the Iphone.

Google Page Creator is or was Google's general web page creation program (Google also offers Knol to create knowledge articles, and Blogger to start a blog; other tools of theirs, like Google Documents, can output a webpage too).

The Federal Communications Commission has sanctioned Comcast for "secretly degrading peer-to-peer applications," as the agency put it today.

A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we're making Knol available to everyone.

Google and Viacom have reached a deal to protect the privacy of millions of YouTube watchers.

Square-Enix has announced Final Fantasy XIII for Xbox 360 at Microsoft's E3 press conference.

Virtual news-gathering website NowPublic said Thursday it has bought rumor-backing Truemors to go beyond eye witness accounts to exposing developments "bubbling under the hood."

"It appears that Best Buy is now selling Ubuntu, both through its Web site and in its brick-and-mortar locations. Going by the release on the product page, Ubuntu has actually been available for the low, low price of $19.99 since May 6th of this year.

Google launched Lively today, a 3D virtual world that can best be described as the search and advertising giant's take on Second Life.

Portable GPS manufacturer Garmin has posted the source code for its Linux-based Nuvi 8xx and 5xxx series portable in-car GPS devices on its Web site.

The latest Bungie podcast, which features the usual internal shenanigans — we get up to speed on the developer's air conditioning situation whilst discussing all things Halo — ends with a potential tease about the team's next title being revealed.

Finally, pictures of the touchscreen BlackBerry Thunder in action. BlackBerry Sync has a pair for us: One showing the music player (which will have an integrated carrier music store, but hopefully not Verizon's UI, ugh) and another apparently recording a video.

Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday.

From its Texas Rangers to its enthusiastic take on the death penalty, the Lone Star State has long been known for its aggressive stance on law enforcement. Thanks to a strange new law, it's a sting that may soon be felt by a number of the state's computer-repair people.

Microsoft Corp� plans to cut the price of its best-selling Xbox 360 Pro model by $50, to $299 in the next few weeks, the Hollywood Reporter reported citing anonymous sources.

One of the first things I noticed using Firefox 3 was that the address bar for HTTPS (encrypted) pages was no longer yellow. As the old joke goes, it's not a bug, it's a feature. That is, the decision was made for the address bar in Firefox 3 to always be white.

magine the view: a penthouse apartment that rotates on command to catch sunrise over the East River and sunset over the Hudson. It sounds like a vision from a futuristic novel, but it could be coming to New York.

Web regulators Thursday voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history, a French web official said.

"If you asked most Americans whether the government has the right to look through their luggage for contraband when they are returning from an overseas trip, they would tell you yes, the government has that right.

Yeah, this one's a rumour. A crazy rumour, right? Maybe not as crazy as you think, so bear with us. Here's what Quartermann says in the latest issue of EGM:

Ramming a XBox 360 and a Zunephone into a slender, shiny little package is always going to be a great idea... and would undoubtedly sell like hotcakes.

Sometimes, software isn't so magical. Even for Bill Gates.

At a Senate hearing tomorrow, privacy advocates and industry groups will urge the lawmakers to take action to protect the data and privacy of Americans not guilty of anything besides wanting to go home."

Italian architect David Fisher is building his first skyscraper, the Dynamic Tower, and it happens to be one of the most ambitious construction plans since the Pyramid of Khufu.

Google have launched MapMaker, a kind of faux OpenStreetMap where they own all the data and you're only allowed to map in certain Freedom Of Speech Zones.

Mobile phones designed around Google's Android software may not be available until the fourth quarter of this year, and some companies are struggling to even meet that deadline, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing unidentified sources.

Anti-spam service Knujon has released reports highlighting how certain registrars in the US and abroad have consistently failed to live up to certain WHOIS-related obligations under ICANN's Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) — specifically, the requirement that people or c …

Whether or not Monster Cables are worth it is a war that has raged since home theatre immemorial.

Yahoo has agreed a deal with Google which will see Yahoo use the search engine giant's advertising technology. Under the agreement, Google ads will appear alongside some Yahoo search results in the US and Canada.

Verizon Communications confirmed on Thursday that it will stop offering its customers access to tens of thousands of Usenet discussion areas, including the alt.* groups that have been a free-flowing area for discussions for over two decades.

This video appears to be from at least six weeks ago, but no one has really commented on it. Do we want a commander-in-chief who can't use a computer without assistance?

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint would "shut down major sources of online child pornography."

Friday was the last day of classes at the University of California at San Diego, where students faced a weekend of studying before finals began on Monday.

Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company's original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages.

Nintendo of America will launch a Wii channel that offers downloadable DS titles and information about the company's games when WiiWare rolls out in the United States next month.

The size of the average web page has more than tripled since 2003. From 2003 to 2008 the average web page grew from 93.7K to over 312K (see Figure 1), some 233% (Domenech et al. 2007, Flinn & Betcher 2008).

While Clinton and Obama are battling it out in the political arena, security researchers are continuing to find vulnerabilities in the candidates' and supporters' websites.

Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. government -- have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in Microsoft Windows to install malicious software on visitors' machines.

ISP's have long sought to monetize their consumer's "Internet experience"—there's a reason why Bellsouth/AT&T will offer to set your homepage to www.bellsouth.net when you install the company's software instead of, say, CNN—but certain internet service providers have apparent …