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Phorm's phlat product launch 01:52am on 05 Jun 2009 In the United States, there are trial programs by the Dept Homeland Security to voice match conversations (not the content but the sound signature) with suspected terrorist voice signatures. These trials are underway with at least one cell carrier. Under court rules, DHS can examine the from/to cell addresses plus with real time calls, the cell tower addresses. Now they can look for matches on voices against a database. All without you knowing that this is happening. In much earlier times with party lines, people could listen on other conversations.

Phorm is just a 21st century version of the same approach except it keeps "history" of your "conversations". This is the cardinal issue and that is why it requires a pre-disclosed opt-in at the ISP level.

Abuse will not come from marketeers or web services; it will come from govt intrusion under any and all sorts of premises. And remember, systems like Phorm are useless unless people manage them. There's the rub and the potential for abuse.
Google catches downsizing fever 03:08am on 24 Nov 2008 The economic climate for search advertising is cooling. Companies are reluctant to pay for the adwords at the current rate. I suspect that online ad revenue could drop by 18 percent or more based on ad metrics from the various ad networks and social media sites.

Google could have a revenue down tick of 5 percent which would translate to a cut on their stock value by one third in Q1 2009.

Why? Because unsold impressions for display advertising have skyrocketed to above 65 percent in October, at a time when it should be the hottest advertising period (Xmas).
Chrome - first impressions 01:44am on 06 Sep 2008 The Chrome browser is Google's Trojan horse. It allows a start page to the Internet to act as a hook to Google Services, Search, Groups, Chat, Storage, Indexing, File Sharing and other emerging applications that are Web based equivalents of Microsoft's business tools.

More important, by tightly binding their Java based scripts and modules into Chrome and enabling developers to use open source tools such as their OpenSocial API, GoogleAps, Google IDE toolkits and conforming developer web services, they can ensure a level of uniform operability to the end user.

Oh, forgot...Adsense compatibility throughout the above to make money.

Chrome doesn't need to be the best, as browsers will continue to cross breed their features. It just has to be useful. Great Job Google!

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