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Something that’s “custom” is usually rare; it’s often, in fact, unique.  Yet the Google Custom Search platform is available to just a lot of folks, as a new announcement states that it’s accessible in 40 languages and roughly 80 countries.

AOL announced a program that will help Internet users understand behaviorally targeted advertising, along with providing mechanisms for opting out of such targeting.

Four days ago, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel wrote a blog post about Street View and respecting other countries’ laws.  At the time, we believed his comments were directed at Canada.  But they may also apply to England; what appears to be one of Google Street View’s camera cars has been sighted in London.

It’s fun to “ooh” and “aah” over Google’s most interesting products and services, but it’s also frustrating to note their limited availability.  Street View, for example, doesn’t picture a road within 600 miles of my home.  But Google Transit has just added coverage in a handful of areas.

SMM is of course Social Media Marketing. Social Media is the latest buzzword to describe the phenomenon whereby almost everyone is talking to almost everyone else via Internet websites such as YouTube, Flickr or MySpace. Now the marketing for the 2007 Volvo S80 from Volvo Cars is tapping into such media.

The search advertising company has added several features from the wish lists of Google Spreadsheets users to the service.

Symbol Technologies has plans for the alphabet soup of wireless formats: mix them all together with Wireless Next Generation (Wi-NG), an RF switching architecture that enables the consolidation of WiFi, RFID, VoWLAN (Voice over Wireless LAN), mesh and WiMAX networks.

Sven Jaschan admitted to wrecking computers worldwide when he confessed to creating last year's Sasser computer worm. The worm devastated hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe. In the process, he's bought himself some real jail time for his computer terrorism.