What works and what doesn’t inside Google’s labs (photos)
Last Updated on Friday, 15 October 2010 08:20 Written by External Post Friday, 15 October 2010 08:20
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–For a familiar Internet property like Google, where billions of queries are made each day, tweaking a well-known system too dramatically can frustrate users, complicate once simple tasks, and have dramatic impacts on ad revenue and
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Twitter to focus on small business
Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 October 2010 12:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 13 October 2010 12:40
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has announced this week that the system is going to offer a new self-serve location-aware advertising system for small businesses.This is the first small step to the future of advertising. We have come a long way from the days
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Google pilots cars that can drive themselves
Last Updated on Monday, 11 October 2010 01:21 Written by External Post Monday, 11 October 2010 01:21
Google has created automated cars that can drive themselves with the help of an onboard robot and a navigation system. The seven experimental vehicles have already logged more than 140,000 miles in California. In a blog post and an advance to The New
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Amazon rivals Google with Android app store
Last Updated on Friday, 8 October 2010 05:00 Written by External Post Friday, 8 October 2010 05:00
Amazon.com will rival Google’s app store, Android Market, by opening its own app store for smartphones running the Android mobile operating system, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported. Amazon plans to take a 30% slice of app sales from developers.
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Android to share Google Goggles with Apple iPhone
Last Updated on Thursday, 7 October 2010 12:21 Written by External Post Thursday, 7 October 2010 12:21
The Google Goggles visual search application is now available on the Apple iPhone, making it no longer unique to phones running the Android operating system.Google has released the application, formerly closely associated with Android, as part of the
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Google tries for Android sequel with Google TV
Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:40 Written by External Post Wednesday, 6 October 2010 02:40
Just like it did with its Android mobile operating system, Google wants to give an industry software to improve access to the Internet, which could create new types of search.
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Lesson from latest Twitter attack: Don’t hover?
Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 September 2010 10:20 Written by External Post Tuesday, 21 September 2010 10:20
Users no longer have to click on a link to have their system hacked. Now they only have to hover over the link with their on-screen pointer.
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Google Caffeine Drops MapReduce, Adds “Colossus”
Last Updated on Sunday, 12 September 2010 11:00 Written by External Post Sunday, 12 September 2010 11:00
An anonymous reader writes “With its new Caffeineindexing system, Google has moved away from its MapReduce distributed number crunching platform in favor of a setup that mirrors database programming. The index is stored in Google’s BigTable distributed
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Oracle sues Google for using Java in Android
Last Updated on Friday, 13 August 2010 02:00 Written by External Post Friday, 13 August 2010 02:00
Oracle is suing Google over its Android mobile operating system software because it uses Java technology acquired by Oracle when it bought Sun Microsystems. A statement issued by Oracle claimed Google “knowingly, directly and repeatedly” infringed
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Google Introduces New Android Features
Last Updated on Friday, 13 August 2010 02:40 Written by External Post Friday, 13 August 2010 02:40
adeelarshad82 writes “Google introduced the next generation of interaction with its Android operating system by introducing a set of new features. The most prominent one is the voice-driven actions. Google executives outlined 12 new ‘Voice Actions for
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