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The presence of mind of a girl in Washington DC helped her from being kidnapped when she held her iPod Touch in front of the kidnapper and pretended to call the cops. The  girl from Stanton in Delaware state was waiting for her ride on a sidewalk outside her school when the man drove up and asked her to get into the van. The girl held her iPod Touch against the ear and told the guy that she is calling police.  The iPod Touch looks exactly same like iPhone .  Using the device's Wi-Fi capability, you can convert it into a iPhone.  By installing some applications, the iPod Touchwill be able to make calls, London's Daily Mail reported. That's why parents in US have been asked to purchase iPod Touch while considering to purchase a Music Player.

Google files its lawsuit with US Court of Federal Claims that says that the US  Department of Interior(DOI) unfairly excluded Google for five years contract and favors rival software firm Microsoft. The DOI RFQ mentioned that the department was looking for a new, unified e-mail, calendaring and collaboration solution, but chose Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) Federal suite only. The search giant offered Google products for the contract. The contract is worth $49.3 million over five years.  Google made the point,  “unduly restrictive of competition”.  The company further said that they were told initially full and open competition for the product.

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SAN FRANCISCO (GaeaTimes.com)- Google might be the first word that comes to mind when we say search engines, but the creators of Blekko are hoping that the habit and the trend will change soon. Today the company launched and ironically the website has itself landed on the hot search list of Google. The USP of the new search engine are the 'Slashtags' that allow the user to filter the website with the additions of certain tags to the keyword.

British MPs accuses Google for hiding information in terms of gathering  Wi-Fi data via its Street View cars. Conservative MP Robert Halfon said "I find it hard to believe that a company with the creative genius and originality of Google could map the personal Wi-Fi details, computer passwords and email addresses of millions of people across the world and not know what it was doing".  Google replied that it is extremely sorry for gathering the information by mistake and delete it very soon. They will also make sure that similar incident doesn't happen again.