Google=NKVD?

A lot has been posted this week about the Google Maps application for mobile phones and how it can approximate your location anywhere in the United States. This is reasonably troubling. Recently I jumped into the world of Blackberry and downloaded the Google Phone app which had one button links to Gmail, Google News, and Google Maps. The most troubling thing about this app is that my phone was alerting me several times a day that Google was attempting to DOWNLOAD MY PHONE RECORDS! I'm not exactly sure what this means but I assumed it meant they wanted my calling records. After repeatedly denying the request I deleted the program altogether. Personally I don't think GPS is the gateway to a beter life/consuming future. Just learn how to read a map people.

Google Strays Solar

WTF is Google thinking by varying their business and moving into the solar energy game? I'm not an MBA and know that this is one of the cardinal tenets of poor strategy. It's right up there with don't compete against your clients.