Google offers site search for small businesses

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Related Reading: Microsoft researchers show off wireless projects
News: Lenovo makes India its marketing hub
News: Hundreds weigh in on net neutrality
News: Vodafone denies plan to buy Verizon
News: HP recycles a billion pounds of e-waste
News: Intel improves dual-core chip to protect its notebook share
ITWhirled: $19 million a bargain for space toilet


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Google offers site search for small businesses
Google Inc. introduced a new service for small businesses that allows visitors to search within their Web sites on a customized search page.


Security firm: Don't use iPhone Web dialer
Security researchers at SPI Labs Inc. are warning iPhone users not to use a special feature that lets them dial telephone numbers over the Web using the iPhone's Safari browser.


Microsoft Research explores location technologies
Microsoft Corp. researchers are working on a variety of location-based tools, some of which could turn into interesting commercial applications.


RELATED READING: Microsoft researchers show off wireless projects
Microsoft Research workers showed off some of their projects, including several that find new uses for mobile phones, on Monday at a summit in Redmond, Washington.


Lenovo makes India its marketing hub
Lenovo Group Ltd. has moved worldwide marketing services such as creative development to a new hub it has established in Bangalore, India, with marketing communications firm Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide Inc.


Hundreds weigh in on net neutrality
Hundreds of groups and individual Internet users sounded off to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on net neutrality in comments filed Monday, the deadline for responding to the agency's inquiry into the proposed regulation.


Vodafone denies plan to buy Verizon
Vodafone Group PLC has denied a Monday report by the Financial Times that it was considering buying Verizon Communications Inc. in a huge US$160 billion deal.


HP recycles a billion pounds of e-waste
HP has recycled half a billion pounds of e-waste in three years, and plans to recycle another billion by the end of 2010 -- but is the figure just be a measure of the size of HP's ink cartridge mountain?


Intel improves dual-core chip to protect its notebook share
Intel Corp. launched a dual-core notebook chip for high-end users on Monday, continuing an effort to defend its share of the fast-growing notebook PC market against Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD).


ITWHIRLED

$19 million a bargain for space toilet
NASA has agreed to pay the Russians $19 million for a new toilet for the International Space Station. That might seem like a lot, but it's apparently less than it would have cost NASA to build the thing.