Google has agreed to pay $500 million in fines, for running illegal Canadian pharmacy adds.
The U.S. Department of Justice, said it is illegal to mail prescription drugs from outside the country. Many of the Canadian online pharmacies did not require a prescription either.
Google officials admit they knew what they were doing could get them into trouble, so they set up a fund to pay any fines, if they were caught.
“We have told them (US officials) to leave the air base.”-Chaudhary Ahmed Mukhtar, Pakistan Defense Minister
June 29, Mukhtar orders the CIA to vacate the once secret Shamsi air base. That’s where the Central Intelligence Agency has been launching drone attacks against supposed terrorists in Pakistan. The reality is that many hundreds of civilians have been killed instead.
Another reason the Pakistan government wants the U.S. to get out; they claim the United States has not been forthcoming with promised payments from a War on Terror coalition fund. Pakistani officials are now re-thinking their relationship with the U.S., in regards to the War on Terror.
In 2009, The times of London revealed that the CIA was using Shamis air base to launch drone attacks. The Times used Google Earth to spot drones parked on the runway.
“Do not use Facebook and Twitter”-Egyptian revolution manual
WikiLeaks founder has told Russian media that he’s discovered that popular social networking tools are really tools for many governments to collect data on the users.
Julian Assange is talking about Facebook, Twitter, even Yahoo and Google. He says an Egyptian revolution manual warns people not to use the social networking sites, because in past demonstrations, the demonstrators that used Facebook, or Twitter, were immediately targeted and arrested by government forces. Assange says social networking sites provide governments with a cheap, almost free way to gather information.
“So Facebook in particular, is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been ever invented.”- Julian Assange, Russia Today interview
Assange points out that governments are not directly involved, but are taking advantage of the fact that people love to post even the most detrimental information about themselves, and others, on the internet.
He also says that the social media sites have “…built in interfaces…” with intelligence agencies. This came as a result of legal pressure from the U.S. government. Rather than deal with individual court orders for individual databases, media sites decided it would be easier to give government agencies blanket access.
“Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook they’re doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building these databases for them.”-Julian Assange, Russia Today interview
Assange’s interview is on RT web site. It is in two parts, totaling 41 minutes. His comments about social media sites are at the end of the second part.
We have all seen our fair share of DVRs, however, Google has released one set-top box OS that is sure to gain popularity. Google TV is not a set-top box, but more of an operating system, as on Google’s website, the products listed are a Sony TV with Google TV built in, or Logitech Revue set-top box with Google TV. Both of which have yet to be released.
Logitech Revue with Google TV
What sets Google TV apart from the rest are its freely accesible apps from the Android Market (starting next year). Google TV does come preloaded with apps such as Netflix, Twitter, Pandora, and more. Yes, of course Google TV comes with Chrome and Adobe Flash Player 10.1, which means you will be able to freely browse the internet, regardless of website requirements.
Other features include the ability to use your Android phone or iPhone as a remote, with unlimited remotes possible, the ability to “fling” video from your phone to your TV, and the ability to record TV from DISH Network (if you subscribe to DISH Network) right from the search bar.
As for a release date, its up in the air. Rumor had it at September 29th, now the release date is expected on October 17th, but all of this is could change. One thing is for sure, it will be released sometime this fall. If you would like to check out more on Google TV, you can go directly to Google’s website at www.google.com/tv.