One CSUN graduate student said he wanted to learn more about search engines and decided to combine all the features that every major search engine has to offer. Md Ershad Ali Suzon, 29, who is studying for his master’s in computer sciences, created Megasearches.com earlier this year. “The primary purpose is to learn about search engines and make it useful for me and for whoever else is using it,” Suzon said. “If it eventually becomes commercial, it’ll be an additional… Read more

Google Inc. was recently sued and settled a lawsuit concerning alleged privacy violations, according to an e-mail sent on Nov. 2 to all Gmail users in the United States. Google’s social networking program, Google Buzz, which launched in February of this year, was at the crux of the allegations. Google automatically registered Gmail users in Buzz, and the program released their information publicly. This information includes users’ most frequent Gmail contacts, and was exposed without enough user consent, according to… Read more

Google is proposing a partnership with major record labels for a long-awaited music service that would include music download store (like iTunes), as well as a subscription-based locker to store music, according to Billboard.biz.  The service would work like a traditional digital store, allowing customer to purchase a single song or an entire album. Google would charge customers $25 a year to store their songs in the locker. From the locker, customers can either stream or download their music from… Read more

You have a Facebook! I have a Facebook! Everyone has a Facebook! Okay, that’s quite cheesy and obviously an exaggeration. But almost everyone I know has a Facebook. We all know the purpose of Facebook is so that you can connect with your friends, talk with them, share photos and videos with them, so on so forth. It’s our form of entertainment. It’s even our reason for procrastinating on school work—that’s not something Facebook users can deny. Facebook, which launched… Read more

The advent of wireless Internet connection has been both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it’s allowed people the ability to work more efficiently and remain consistently accessible. On the other, it’s allowed people the ability to work too efficiently and remain consistently too accessible. The time when a person could shut off their technology and be left with their thoughts is slowly disappearing. Currently, airlines are moving quickly to make their flights Wi-Fi friendly. During a six-hour… Read more