Google told to “keep out” of Minnesota town

June 2nd, 2008

North Oaks, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, is demanding that Google Maps remove images of the homes in the community from the site’s Street View feature. The city is claiming that Google is “trespassing” by displaying images of the homes online.

North Oaks is believed to be the first U.S. city to ask that street images be removed.

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Rupert Murdoch predicts landslide win for Obama

May 30th, 2008

Rupert Murdoch says that he expects Barack Obama to win the U.S. presidential election in a landslide. He also admits to influencing his New York Post to back Obama in the New York primary.

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Comcast “Roxed”

May 30th, 2008

Wednesday night hackers took over and defaced Comcast’s Web portal for several hours, leaving a cryptic message on the site that the company’s 14.1 million subscribers use to access e-mail, news and technical support.

Hackers posted that they had “RoXed” Comcast.

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