Category — Computer & Internet

Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that’s likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader. The pilot project announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 patients at the Cleveland Clinic who volunteered to an electronic transfer of their personal health records so they can be retrieved through Google’s new service, which won’t be open to the general public.

Each health profile, including information about prescriptions, allergies and medical histories, will be protected by a password that’s also required to use other Google services such as e-mail and personalized search tools. Google views its expansion into health records management as a logical extension because its search engine already processes millions of requests from people trying to find about more information about an injury, illness or recommended treatment.

But the health venture also will provide more fodder for privacy watchdogs who believe Google already knows too much about the interests and habits of its users as its computers log their search requests and store their e-mail discussions. Prodded by the criticism, Google last year introduced a new system that purges people’s search records after 18 months. In a show of its privacy commitment, Google also successfully rebuffed the U.S. Justice Department’s demand to examine millions of its users’ search requests in a court battle two years ago.

It’s not clear how Google intends to make money from its health service. The company sometimes introduces new products without ads just to give people more reason to visit its Web site, betting the increased traffic will boost its profits in the long run.

WELCOME TO NATIONAL ANGKASAWAN PROGRAMME

The Angkasawan Programme is the Malaysian national programme to send the first Malaysian to space. The Malaysian will join two other cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz space craft that will rendezvous with the International Space Station, which is in orbit around the Earth at an altitude of approximately 360 km. The Angkasawan will carry out scientific researches on board the space station.

Maybe this is not the official Malaysian Angkasawan website since it’s develop by emedia.com.my. But it’s contain with lots of information like photos, video clips and also news update. You can visit the website here http://angkasa.emedia.com.my or you also can visit here http://www.angkasawan.com.my.

YouTube finally rolled out the long-awaited technology that automatically remove copyrighted clips, hoping to solve the movie and television studios fed up with the website’s persistent piracy problems. The filtering tools are designed so the owners of copyrighted material can block their stuffs from appearing on YouTube, which has become a havoc in its two-year existence. The tools also give the owners of copyrighted material the option to sell ads around their material if they want the clips to remain available on YouTube. To find and remove copyrighted music, YouTube already uses separate filtering tools developed by Los Gatos-based Audible Magic Corp.

As the YouTube’s traffic getting bigger, movie and TV studios became increasingly frustrated with the rampant piracy fuelling its popularity, although YouTube said it has followed copyright laws by removing any protected video upon request. YouTube’s critics have argued that the site turned a blind eye to flagrant piracy so it could show more appealing material to build its audience and pump up its value. Google prized San Bruno-based YouTube so much it paid US$1.76bil to buy the site 11 months ago and after that YouTube has been working with Google engineers ever since to develop the tools needed to flag copyrighted video, said David King, a YouTube product manager. Google and YouTube began promising the new copyright protection technology six months ago.

It’s still too early to tell how YouTube’s new filtering system will affect the Viacom suit, said Mike Fricklas, Viacom’s general counsel. “We are delighted that Google appears to be stepping up to its responsibility and end the practice of infringement,” he said.

YouTube’s previous lack of copyright protections for video content prompted Viacom Inc to sue it for US$1bil (RM3.4bil) for showing thousands of clips that the New York-based company owned.

BlogRush is changing again and this time with a lot of issues. And for what I know these guy are going to change everything. For more details you can read the news at their blog.

TO: All BlogRush Members
FROM: John Reese, Founder of BlogRush

ARE YOU READY? Because *everything* is about to change. Forget everything else up until now…

PREPARE FOR *BIG* CHANGES! (TWO MAJOR CHANGES ARE NOW LIVE.)

BlogRush CAN’T EXIST if we’re not sending you a lot of ongoing, targeted traffic. We fully recognize this and that’s why this is our ONLY FOCUS.

The BlogRush team has been hard at work making major improvements for you and we won’t rest until BlogRush is running 100% smoothly and sending you tons of targeted traffic! This is OUR MISSION. Please know that our entire team is working around-the-clock to make improvements and fix any problems AS FAST AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE.

(We sincerely appreciate your patience.)

We’ve encountered some problems since our historic launch just over a week ago, and we fully recognize that we’ve made some real ‘goofs’ with the system for our Public Beta release…

Here is the full news…