Judging You By the Online Company You Keep
Last Updated on Sunday, 5 September 2010 06:20 Written by External Post Sunday, 5 September 2010 06:20
theodp writes “Network analysis uses data about your social network interactions to make assumptions and predictions about your behavior. The Economist notes the upside for companies looking to sell products. But don’t forget about the downside, warns
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Google Describes Wi-Fi Sniffing In Pending Patent
Last Updated on Saturday, 29 May 2010 04:00 Written by External Post Saturday, 29 May 2010 04:00
theodp writes ‘After mistakenly saying that it did not collect Wi-Fi payload data, Google had to reverse itself, saying ‘it’s now clear that we have been mistakenly collecting samples of payload data from open (i.e. non-password-protected) WiFi
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Amazon Kindle Fails First College Test
Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 May 2010 10:40 Written by External Post Tuesday, 25 May 2010 10:40
theodp writes ‘If Amazon hoped for honest feedback when it started testing the Kindle DX on college campuses last fall, writes Amy Martinez, it certainly got its wish. Students pulled no punches telling Amazon what they thought of its $489 e-reader. But
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Are Googlers Too Smart For Their Own Good?
Last Updated on Friday, 21 May 2010 05:20 Written by External Post Friday, 21 May 2010 05:20
theodp writes ‘If you’re a mere mortal, don’t be surprised if your first reaction to Google Storage for Developers is ‘WTF?!’ Offering the kind of ‘user-friendly’ API one might expect from a bunch of computer science Ph. D.s, Google Storage even manages
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Google Voice Now Gives Priority to Students
Last Updated on Saturday, 15 May 2010 02:40 Written by External Post Saturday, 15 May 2010 02:40
theodp writes ‘Holy Logan’s Run, Batman! Google on Friday began giving students priority access to its Google Voice service, which has remained in a closed beta since its transition from GrandCentral in March of last year. Typically, invites for the
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Ex-Googler Obama Appointee Gets Buzz’ed
Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 03:00 Written by External Post Monday, 12 April 2010 03:00
theodp writes ‘Hillicon Valley reports that Rep. Darrell Issa of the House Oversight Committee is pressing White House Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin to explain his relationship with Google, where McLaughlin was employed as Google’s chief lobbyist. ‘The
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Google Makes Apps Script Available To All
Last Updated on Sunday, 14 March 2010 05:15 Written by External Post Sunday, 14 March 2010 05:15
theodp writes ‘Formerly only available to Apps Users, Google has made Apps Script available to everyone (sample script), including you Google Docs low-lifers. Apps Script lets you automate actions across spreadsheets, sites, calendars, and other Google
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Google, Apple Call Workers’ Race & Gender Trade Secrets
Last Updated on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 06:00 Written by External Post Wednesday, 17 February 2010 06:00
theodp writes ‘The Mercury News reports that Google, whose stated mission is to make the world’s information universally accessible, says the race and gender of its work force is a trade secret that cannot be released. So do Apple, Yahoo, Oracle, and
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Mum’s the Word On Google Attack At Davos
Last Updated on Monday, 1 February 2010 12:00 Written by External Post Monday, 1 February 2010 12:00
theodp writes ‘BusinessWeek reports that the cyber attack on Google was the elephant-in-the-room at the annual meeting of world leaders in Davos. ‘China didn’t want to discuss Google,’ Josef Ackermann, CEO of Deutsche Bank AG and a co-chair of this
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USPTO Grants Google a Patent On MapReduce
Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 January 2010 08:45 Written by External Post Tuesday, 19 January 2010 08:45
theodp writes ‘Two years ago, David DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker deemed MapReduce a major step backwards (here are the original paper and a defense of it) that ‘represents a specific implementation of well known techniques developed nearly 25 years
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