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Scary Google Voice
“Google Voice (formerly GrandCentral) is a free Google-owned Internet service that uses voice over internet protocol (VoIP) to link customers’ phone numbers,” says a Wikipedia post, also noting: “On July 1, 2009, Google Voice provided users that had set up their account before, to change their number. For a $10 fee, users can change their number to any of the new numbers that Google purchased.” But Google is a nothing but a massive online advertising agency dressed up to look like a service, and you know anything and everything it does will in some way or another be hooked into that reality. Now, “Google is already thinking of the ways of monetizing Voice” in the way it, “knows best,” says UnwiredView , going on, “Through advertising.
Continue reading »Amazon censors Orwell’s 1984
Amazon has joined Google, Microsoft, China, Australia and major Canadian ISPs — to name just a few – who think it’s up to them to decide what people see online. In George Orwell’s 1984 , “government censors erase all traces of news articles embarrassing to Big Brother by sending them down an incineration chute called the ‘memory hole’,” says the New York Times . But on Friday, Amazon remotely deleted digital versions from Kindle ‘books’, says the story, noting: “Digital books bought for the Kindle are sent to it over a wireless network.
Continue reading »For the last time: Spamming P2P networks doesn’t make you Google
Here we go again: Canada-based P2P company Peermatrix published a press release today touting itself as “the Google of P2P ads”. I’ve previously written about the fact that most forms of P2P advertising are much more like spam than like Google, and Peermatrix is no exception. Here’s how the company’s product works, taken straight from the press release: “The software works similarly to Google AdWords, creating ads that match whatever a file sharer is searching for.
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