Google Takeout promises radical left wing-themed data extraction for Circles, more (video)

<div><img alt="Google Takeout promises radical left wing-themed data extraction for Circles, more (video)" class="aligncenter" height="232" src="http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4599/googletakeout.jpg" style="margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;" width="360" /></div><br/>A team of khaki-clad Google engineers, calling itself the Data Liberation Front, has taken up the cause of freeing your data from the restrictive confines of El Goog's servers. Google Takeout, as the program has been billed, rips your various stashes of data from Buzz, Circles, Picasa, Contacts, and your Google Profile, and quickly bundles them in a zip file for download. The resulting booty is yours to do with as you choose. Takeout was announced the same day Google's latest social initiative sprung to life, offering an alternative to the notoriously hard to transfer data of its obvious competitor. But we're sure that was just a coincidence. Right? A hilariously nerdy promo video awaits you after the break.

Google Takeout promises radical left wing-themed data extraction for Circles, more (video)

A team of khaki-clad Google engineers, calling itself the Data Liberation Front, has taken up the cause of freeing your data from the restri...

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Tweet marks successful white space trial

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" height="90" src="http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/8936/tvaerial200200.jpg" width="120" /></p><br/>Trials to use the "white space" frequencies to carry data have been successful in the UK, with Cambridge Consultants confirming that it has sent a tweet in the unused spectrum between TV channels.<br/><br/>The White Space frequency is seen as an area of the spectrum that can be tapped into to help in the struggle to provide rural areas with broadband coverage.<br/><br/>The trial was carried out in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, and as well as showing that social media tools could run, also underlined that this kind of technology can be used without causing interference on television channels.<br/><br/><strong>Pioneering</strong><br/><br/>Richard Traherne, head of wireless at Cambridge Consultants, commented: "We believe that White Space, as a pioneering cognitive radio wireless technology, has the potential to change the way that people communicate, especially in rural areas.<br/><br/>"It has a wide range of applications, from healthcare to home working, and we expect to see these and other exciting applications emerge in the near future."<br/><br/>Apparently the village of Cottenham was picked because of a 'lack of wireless provision and availability of spectrum'.<br/><br/>"The network was tested using a range of social media tools, marking the first time White Space spectrum has been used in this way," added Cambridge Consultants' release.

Tweet marks successful white space trial

Trials to use the "white space" frequencies to carry data have been successful in the UK, with Cambridge Consultants confirming th...

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