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Starting yesterday if you logged into a Gmail account you would find a new feature in your Gchat box: the ability to place or receive calls. This is an expansion of the Google Voice service, the phone service of Google which previously was confined to just phones. Now if you are in a area of poor phone reception or if you’re travelling internationally and don’t want to incur expensive roaming charges you can simply use your computer to place or receive calls.

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Desperate dad Leroy Smith resorted to Google with the request “how to deliver a baby” when his wife went into labour

If you’re out walking around and see something new and interesting — but kind of hard to figure out — do you take a moment to phrase a Boolean-friendly query to unleash on passersby?

Of course you don’t. You just point and say, “What’s that?”

The trouble is, sometimes nobody knows. Well, now you can ask Google.

The case illustrates a clash of cultures between Switzerland’s legal system — which places a heavy emphasis on protecting privacy best illustrated by its strict banking secrecy laws — and the increasing use of new technology to gather and distribute information and pictures online. Other countries have taken a dim view of Street View.

The official newspaper of China’s ruling communist party has accused Google of seeking “malicious revenge” after a malware warning appeared by one of its Web sites in Google’s search results.

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