Google Desktop goes Linux

Google has introduced a Linux version of Google Desktop. The beta of Google Desktop for Linux - the application designed for indexing and finding data in PCs, as well as for searching the Web - comes three years after the product's launch for the Windows operating system.

Google Desktop allows people to search the Web while also searching the full text of all the information on their PC, including Gmail and their Web search history, reports India Times.

Since the index is stored locally on the computer, users can access Gmail and Web history while offline as well.

YouTube may be the dominant player in the video-sharing arena today, but MySpace is stepping up its own bid to compete in that realm as it relaunches and renames the video portion of its social networking site, says TechNewsWorld.

MySpaceTV, as the company renamed its MySpace Video, is available to all Internet users, whether they have MySpace accounts or not, and has been localised in 15 international versions. It is the first spin-off from the company that does not require registration on the main site.

"This is the tip of the iceberg," said Chris DeWolfe, CEO of MySpace.

Nearly one in three teenagers who use the Internet say they have been harassed online by "cyber bullies" who spread rumours, post embarrassing pictures, make private conversations public and even send threatening messages, according to PC World.

"Bullying has entered the digital age," the Pew Internet & American Life Project stated this week, in a report based on a telephone poll of 935 kids, ages 12 to 17.

Adolescent cruelty has moved from the whispers and shouts of the schoolyard to the online world, where teens often feel insulated from the consequences of their actions, kids reported in focus groups conducted in addition to the poll.

Small webcasters intent on keeping Internet radio stations from going out of business best not look to Congress for help, says BusinessWeek.

That is the message from a 26 June House of Representatives hearing aimed at resolving a dispute over efforts to increase the royalties paid by Web radio stations to musicians and record labels for spinning their songs.

At issue is a move by the recording industry and SoundExchange, the company that collects royalties on behalf of music labels, to increase the fees paid by Internet radio stations to play songs.