Your internet search results just might include more personal information, as Google is now sifting through your social network sites and getting to know you, thus tailoring your search results based upon your likes and preferences. It will be called “Search, plus Your World.” You will be allowed to turn off the personal results search permanently, according to the world’s most famous search engine, by changing a setting in your Google profile personal preferences, or clicking on the globe of the results page. One site that it is mining it’s data from is, of course, Google Plus, as well as Picasa, the online photo service. Facebook and Twitter do not allow Google-bots to mine their pages, which is really cramping Google’s style. Those two social media giants have an avalanche of data available on us that could really prove useful to Google. Of course, there are those of us who don’t like the idea that “it always feels like somebody’s watching me, and I’ve got no privacy.”
With cloud storage becoming the rage, it is no surprise that Sprint is jumping into the arena and will begin offering cloud services at the end of the year. The big question has to do with competition. The rumor is that Sprint will begin offering the iPhone 5. which will come with iCloud. Therefore the question begging for an answer: Will Sprint find itself in direct competition with Apple or will they be trying to snag a different market entirely? Word on the street is that Sprint will market their hosted collaboration services to businesses of all sizes — and perhaps not individual consumers. Their service will apparently include software, a security package and Internet hosting. Not all of the details have been released. However the rumor is Sprint will provide these services on-demand, so companies will be billed as the services are used. It will now be interesting to see what