Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb Demo Slated at the Googleplex
Google has penciled in a big Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet demonstration at its Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. for Feb. 2. Expect the Motorola Xoom and other tablets. Google Feb. 2 is taking the unusual step of offering a media preview of its new Android 3.0 operating system, the next-generation build of its popular mobile [...]
Google preps Android newsstand as Apple makes trade-offs
Google is readying a newsstand for Android devices even as Apple is racing to make important concessions on its iTunes news subscription plans, multiple sources said Sunday night. The search engine is reportedly hoping to race Apple to a central periodical platform and would aggregate phone- and tablet-optimized magazine or newspaper apps in a central [...]
Google Says It’s Testing Vehicles That Can Drive Themselves
owner of the world’s most popular search engine, said it’s testing vehicles that drive themselves to help improve road safety and address environmental concerns. The self-driving cars have traveled more than 140,000 miles (225,308 kilometers) in the experiments, according to a posting on Google’s blog today. The vehicles navigate by maps and use cameras, radar [...]
Google Denies Selling Out Network Neutrality with Verizon
Despite scorn from Amazon, Facebook and the Media and Democracy Coalition, Google denied dashing network neutrality principles and selling out in its broadband policy proposal with Verizon. Google denied flouting network neutrality principles and selling out in its broadband policy proposal with telecommunications giant Verizon. The search engine sought to defend itself from attackers from [...]
Net neutrality lost in Google-Verizon deal
What we said: “Google and Verizon insist that what they’re working on is not a backroom deal for their own benefit but instead a legislative proposal about how Internet content should be managed. All of this may be true – but it still doesn’t look What happened: Google has turned its back on its promise [...]
Google Slides away from Wave FAIL with social network buy
Google has bought social network tech outfit Slide for an undisclosed sum in its latest effort to tackle Facebook’s Web2.0 dominance. The buy came just 48 hours after Google killed its Wave tool, which made a splash landing in May 2009. But within a year of its birth, the email-IM-and-everything-else-Web-2.0-splatter-gun platform had proved itself to [...]
Google AdMob iPad SDK Beats iAd to Market
Google’s AdMob mobile ad unit June 2 released a software development kit to let developers insert advertisements into native iPhone OS applications on the Apple iPad. This is surely a preemptive strike against Apple’s iAd platform, which is expected to launch June 7 with latest iPhone. iAd is Apple’s first stab at mobile advertising, an [...]
Google Pac-Man trashes US economy
Never, ever apply for a job at RescueTime. They’re hard taskmasters. You may have thought that the online version of Pac-Man that appeared on the Google search page on Friday was just a bit of harmless fun. But not a bit of it, according to Tony Wright, CEO of RescueTime. It was a dreadful distraction [...]
German official doubts Google’s story on illegal data gathering
Google has come under fire from the German government after admitting it has been collecting Wifi data as part of its Street View program for four years. gathered as much as 600GB of data from Wifi networks in more than 30 countries, including the websites people were viewing and the contents of emails. In a [...]
Google ends WiFi collection after personal data captured
Google is halting the collection of WiFi network information for its controversial “Street View” mapping service after admitting it mistakenly gathered personal data sent over unsecured systems. The Internet giant had insisted previously that it was only collecting WiFi network names and addresses with the Street View cars that have been cruising cities around the [...]
