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There’s a reason Google can shut down its Street View cars and still maintain a quality geolocation service on mobile devices: it’s crowdsourcing the data. Mobile-phone and some laptop users who use Google applications to get a fix on their position or share their location with friends are helping Google build out a database of [...]

A consumer group has called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google after the search company revealed that it had been collecting people’s Internet communications from open wireless networks. On Friday, Google said it would stop its Street View cars from sniffing wireless networks after discovering that they had been collecting unencrypted content [...]

Cisco, HP, and others are waging an epic battle to gain control of the data center, but at the same time they are joining forces to push through new Ethernet standards that could greatly ease management of those increasingly virtualized IT nerve centers. The IEEE 802.1Qbg and 802.1Qbh specifications are designed to address serious management [...]