Going to medical school can be expensive. So Kenneth Chou, a 30-year-old student at SUNY Upstate Medical University in New York, decided to copy Kaplan lecture DVDs from his school’s library and resell them online to help pay for his tuition. Chou admitted to raking in more than $100,000 for the pirated materials, but is now facing a fine that is four times that much.
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Med Student Turns to Test-Prep Piracy
Posted by Chris Talbot, Elections and Issue Advocacy Team Editor’s note: We’re excited to welcome Google’s Elections and Issue Advocacy Team to the Public Policy Blog. Since 2007, they’ve worked with political candidates, consultants and advocates to build online advertising campaigns and fully integrate digital media into political strategy
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The Digital Playbook: Top 5 strategies for political campaigns
Posted by Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, YouTube (Cross-posted from the Official YouTube Blog .) Tonight at 9 p.m. ET we’ll be livestreaming the President’s State of the Union address on YouTube . As we announced yesterday, not only will you have the opportunity to watch the speech live online, you’ll also be able to submit your questions for the President during and after the speech, and the President himself will respond to a collection of your top-voted questions in a live interview at the White House next week
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Live Tonight on YouTube: The State of the Union
Google has launched its New Google voice application for iphone OS 3.0 and higher. This new Google Voice application uses new technology to make calls with better voice quality. This new web application also lets you display your Google Voice number as the..
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Google Voice Application for iPhone and Palm WebOS
This week, my team has been busy getting ready to move TMC out of our building at 1 Technology Plaza as we prepare to move down the street to River Park. Our new headquarters will allow us to accommodate our rapid growth and we hope to double our size at our new address. By Monday, we expect to be up and running and look forward to the next phase of our company’s growth
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TMC Moves on Friday
I used a slew of technology at the show but two products are worth special mention. The first is the Flip Mino HD video recorder which excelled in low-light conditions and allowed me to take rapid and high-quality videos of the show. Thanks Cisco for providing me with this device
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Tools I Used at ITEXPO East 2010
Posted by Harry Wingo, Policy Counsel This weekend, Google along with dozens of other D.C. organizations, attended the Winterhaven Homeless Veterans Stand Down at the Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The annual event helps homeless Veterans get back on their feet with job clinics, medical aid, dental care, and housing assistance.
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Google Voice & Project CARE connect with DC’s homeless vets
Elysia is “an enthusiastic fashion-addicted chick writing about trends, inspiration, often changing wants, and anything else random popping into her mind,” and she blogs all about it at Fashion Fille , which is set to celebrate its two-year anniversary this July. I had the pleasure of speaking with Elysia about her blog and her take on fashion
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Ten Questions with Fashion Fille
Foreign students represent a huge revenue source for the big players in the market. For example, the UK and Australia have an international student market that is estimated to be worth €12 billion and countries like New Zealand receives around €1.5 billion per year
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Ireland drops the ball attracting International Students
Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone vendor, decided to bring its Ovi Map navigation software to all Nokia smartphone users for free. This is considered as an attempt to retrieve its loss in the smartphone market and a response to Google’s services
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Nokia Offers Free Navigation and Mapping Tools for its Smartphones
The Cricket MSGM8 is a candy bar messaging phone with a QWERTY keypad released for Cricket Communications. As a basic handset designed for starters, the MSGM8 has an easy-to-use interface, intuitive layout and one touch keys for opening messaging and email box, scheduler and MyHomeScreen for web access. It has a simple and straightforward slate form factor, measuring 4.2″ long by 2.3″ wide by 0.5″ thick and weighing 3.7 ounces.
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Cricket MSGM8 – the Affordable Texter-friendly Handset
Posted by Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change & Energy Initiatives, Google.org Along with other entrepreneurs, investors and industry stakeholders, we wrote a letter urging President Obama to craft a jobs package that includes the creation of a Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA). Swift enactment of CEDA will create jobs in 2010 and also position the U.S. as a global leader in the development and deployment of clean energy technologies for years to come
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Finance clean energy, Mr. President
ShoesForHaitNow.com has a simple goal: collect 100,000 pairs of shoes to send to the people of Haiti. BlogCatalog and BloggersUnite have offered their support to the Shoes For Haiti Now project. Not only will we be helping to promote the site, but we will also be collecting shoes at our BlogCatalog offices
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BlogCatalog Accepting Donations For ShoesforHaitiNow.com
If you stream any video on your site, this news could drastically increase your future costs. Here is an excellent article from Christopher Blizzard on HTML 5 video and H.264 which delves into the potential problems we could see on the web when a company demands to get paid for technologies which users may have thought were open.
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HTML 5 Plus H.264 not as Open as you Think
While smartphones with increasingly advanced capabilities continue to improve user experience, they also pose higher risks of mobile virus, spyware and other malware. With more companies developing security software and services to tackle this problem, the smartphone security market is set to boom in the next five years, according to ABI Research
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Rising Demand for Smartphone Security
With all the heavy texting, gaming and web browsing, it is not uncommon for iPhone owners to find their devices running out of juice just a few hours after charging. Luckily, there are always alternatives to keep your iPhone going. This stylish-looking external power pack is one of them.
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User Guide – Backup Battery for iPhone 3G / 3GS
Consumers from all over the world are quickly embracing mobile technologies for shopping, as over half (51 percent) of consumers across 11 countries reported using their cell phones as product research tools and bargain finders during the 2009 holiday shopping season, according to a new study released by Motorola . In-store activities performed by holiday shoppers on handsets include price comparison, reading product reviews, finding product information, and seeking coupons and discounts online. Although last year’s figures are not available for comparison, Motorola said the number of people using their smartphones for shopping has surged this year
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More Consumers Use Cell Phones for Shopping
Apple is holding a media event this week where the company is widely expected to launch its first tablet computer . But a new tablet may not be the only new product from Apple this week, as many people expect the company to launch new iPhone software and perhaps even new iPhone hardware at the event
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Apple Announcing New iPhone Software, Hardware This Week?
As I have the previous three years ( 2008 , 2007 , 2006 ), this is the post where I try to pull together some of the most interesting blog posts from my blog in 2009. These are not necessarily fantastic posts, but should give readers that are new to the blog a place to start to get a feel for what this blog is all about.
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The Best (?) of The Fischbowl 2009
In many cases, the rates charged on international calls to mobile phones are substantially higher than the rate charged for the same call to a land-line. Therefore, when making international calls, callers should take care and read the fine print so they fully understand the rate charged for making a call to the type of phone they plan to call or they may receive an unpleasant surprise.
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Rates on International Calls to Mobile Phones
Posted by Vincent Paquet, Senior Product Manager, Google Voice (cross-posted from the Official Google Blog ) It’s sometimes easy to take the little things in life for granted: a haircut, a shower, shoes or even a phone number. Sometimes life doesn’t turn out the way we planned, and those little luxuries become much harder to come by. Project CARE is a program to provide free Google Voice phone numbers and voicemail accounts to homeless individuals.
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Bringing Project CARE to veterans in Washington, D.C.
The Motorola Brute i680 , which combines an ultra-rugged design with noise cancellation and the best-in-class push-to-talk (PTT) capabilities, is now available to Sprint customers. Meeting Military Specification 810F for high temperatures, humidity, blowing rain, solar radiation, dust, shock and more, the Brute is built for people who need to work outside or in harsh environments
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Motorola Brute i680 – Designed for Communications in Extreme Conditions
As I’ve said several times before , we take a break from the regularly scheduled content of this blog to bring you the 2010 AHS Faculty Dance (performed at our Winter Pep Assembly). It might not show up in AYP, or help us get Race to the Top dollars, but I think this is still a huge part of what a learning community should look like.
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2010 AHS Faculty Dance Video
Most people know that prepaid phone cards are used to make cheap international calls but many do not know that many on-line (virtual) phone cards also offer a full range of features. These features make them more convenient to use than those bought in convenience stores and super markets. The following are some common features found with high quality virtual phone cards: PIN Free dialing is a convenient and common feature found with many virtual phone cards
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Prepaid Phone Cards offer Value, Convenience and Useful Features
Mobile Voip provider TruPhone has two days back launched its new offer/plan names TruPhone Local Anywhere. Its a SIM Card which helps you save on your phone bills by keeping you local even if you travelling abroad. If you are travelling to a TruPhone country…
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TruPhone launches TruPhone LocalAnywhere
Posted by Michael Terrell, Energy Policy Counsel Over the past six months we have been providing you with periodic updates and comments on the FCC’s National Broadband Plan , which is scheduled for release in mid-March. Earlier today FCC energy and environment director Nick Sinai gave a sneak preview of one of the Plan’s key components: how broadband will facilitate smarter energy usage. He told an audience at the Clean-tech Investor Summit that the FCC will call on States and the Congress to give consumers and consumer-authorized third parties access to real-time energy information.
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FCC broadband plan to call for access to real-time energy info
Skype wasn’t a target of the recent attack on Google and thirty other companies. Google is considering leaving China, where they believe the attacks originated . The United States government has not adopted a position until today’s speech by Hilary Clinton on Internet Freedom .
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Skype weighs in on Clinton’s response to China Internet freedom
What if Sherlock Holmes could wield an umbrella or a walking stick with the same dexterity and deadliness that Bruce Lee demonstrated with nunchuks? Introducing the coolest blog ever! No, really I defy you to find a blog more unusual or interesting or creative than this one
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What if Sherlock Holmes could fight like Bruce Lee?
Posted by Adam Kovacevich, Senior Manager, Public Policy Communications If you’ve ever posted a video on YouTube, shared a photo through Flickr, or used web-based e-mail service, you’re a cloud computing user. As more computing shifts from the desktop to the Internet “cloud,” what do policymakers need to know about the cloud? That question and many more were the topic of a Brookings Institution talk yesterday on cloud computing (full audio here ).
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Google Docs guy talks cloud computing at Brookings
Posted by Mistique Cano, Public Policy Communications Manager Like many people interested in technology, diplomacy, and free expression on the Internet, we look forward to hearing Secretary of State Clinton’s speech today on these topics. The speech will be streamed live here .
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Secretary Clinton to address Internet freedom