2012年11月30日 星期五

news

Cassidy: Google's Vint Cerf worries about WCIT and the Internet he helped create
San Jose Mercury News
As you might guess, Google's (GOOG) Vint Cerf is watching the unfolding international debate over Internet regulation with more than a passing interest. Think about it: The guy invented the Internet. OK, ever since Al Gore, we know it's not quite so ...
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Microsoft Scroogled Site Challenges Google Shopping Honesty
InformationWeek
It's a word invented by Microsoft to describe what it says Google is doing to users of its Google Shopping tool: It rips them off by limiting search results to paid advertisers only. According to Microsoft, the unbiased relevance listings Google ...
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FTC should proceed with case against Google
Huffington Post (blog)
When you stare down a $220 billion corporation, it's hard not to blink. But if the Federal Trade Commission doesn't deliver on its ultimatum to Google that it settle its antitrust problems soon for real relief or face prosecution, then consumers will ...
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Google buys parcel storage service BufferBox
Computerworld
IDG News Service - Google has bought some more storage, but not the digital kind. The company has acquired BufferBox, a Canadian startup that offers temporary storage lockers where people can receive online purchases when they're not at home.
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Google, Twitter restart speak2tweet in wake of Syria blackout
CBS News
Google and Twitter have restarted their Speak2Tweet service to let people disseminate voice messages over Twitter as a way to sidestep Syria's Internet blackout. The Speak2Tweet service got its start during Egypt's Internet blackout in February 2011 ...
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This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs
CNET
Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs. Google's evolving database of the relationships between people, places and things gets a new dose of medicine. Casey Newton. by Casey Newton. November 30, 2012 4:45 PM PST Follow @CaseyNewton ...
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Google Counters Amazon's Storage Price Cuts
InformationWeek
Google's Durable Reduced Availability service offers the same level of latency as Google's regular storage, but availability might be delayed as the service undergoes a peak of demand. DRA might be suitable for data backup that can wait briefly or for ...
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Google Drive Gets Gmail Attachment Support, Mobile Spreadsheet Editing
TIME
Google has brought a couple of much-needed features to Google Drive, including a solution for the age-old dilemma of how to send extremely large files. Gmail users who've opted into the new compose message style may now insert files directly from ...
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TIME
Google maps island that doesn't exist
USA TODAY
The island on Google maps that doesn't actually exist: A sizable, uninhabited island shown in the South Pacific on Google Maps and other charts does not exist, according to Australian scientists. Scientists noticed an isle called Sandy Island by Google ...
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Microsoft said to speed Windows upgrades to rival Google
Washington Post
30 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. plans to overhaul how it develops the flagship Windows operating system in a strategic shift aimed at keeping pace with nimbler rivals Apple Inc. and Google Inc., people familiar with the matter said. Microsoft aims to ...
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US, Europe to Huddle on Google Probes
Wall Street Journal
The top U.S. and European antitrust officials leading separate probes of Google Inc. are set to meet in Europe next week, according to people familiar with the matter, amid indications that the two investigations may not conclude at the same time.
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Google Nexus 4 sold out again? Yes and no...
Computerworld (blog)
[Google] put their LG Nexus 4 smartphone up for sale...for the second time in two weeks, and it sold out...as fast as the first round. ... The Play Store became almost unusable...as it was experiencing a heavy load. ... Google updated their shipping ...
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Computerworld (blog)
Microsoft: Google Shoppers Get 'Scroogled'
InformationWeek
Google makes no bones about the program. "This new product discovery experience will be called Google Shopping and the transition will be complete this fall," the search giant stated in a recent blog post. "We believe that having a commercial ...
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Survey: Google Play gains on Apple App Store
PCWorld
When it comes to which mobile application store to support, developers can factor in that Apple's App Store has the edge in volume, but Google Play -- the combined Android and HTML5 app store -- is on a growth spurt. Revenues from apps sold in the ...
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PCWorld
Google stresses free, open Internet as Syria goes offline
CBS News
Syria has gone offline and, as of right now, the country is cut off from the rest of the world. Even as questions over how long Syria will remain blacked out loom, the future of the Internet is set to be negotiated in a meeting that could result in ...
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CBS News
Google exec rips Facebook as social net of the past
Computerworld
Bradley Horowitz, a vice president of product for Google's social network, Google+, took to the stage at Business Insider's Ignition conference in New York on Wednesday. When the conversation turned to Facebook, Horowitz came out swinging.
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Google launches new site to guide veterans into civilian work force
NBCNews.com (blog)
To arm the new site with some heavy-hitting experts, Google partnered with three leading nonprofits in the veteran-employment space: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Hiring Our Heroes program, the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, and Hire ...
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Google Resists As German Lawmakers Talk Law That Would Require It To Pay ...
WebProNews
You may recall talk of a proposed law in Germany that would require search engines like Google to pay to license content from publishers in order to display headlines (with links) and snippets of text. Lawmakers in Germany are reportedly debating such ...
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Google exec talks Amazon cloud price war: 'We are happy to compete'
VentureBeat
Amit Singh, president of enterprise at Google, is ready to fight. Amazon and Google traded blows this week, each lowering their cloud services prices in response to the other. Amazon, which held its own cloud conference this week, announced on ...
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VentureBeat
Google says it is cooperating with Italian tax audit while tax man claims ...
Washington Post
MILAN — Google says it has been working with Italian authorities on an audit of the tax it pays in the country, after financial police determined the Internet giant had undeclared earnings of €240 million ($311 million) from 2002-2006. Google issued a ...
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Google opposes German push for search engines to pay newspapers
Los Angeles Times
Google has come out swinging against German legislation that would require search engines to pay for using snippets of newspaper articles, photographs and other media content. German lawmakers are slated to debate the legislation Thursday, one in a ...
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Google-FTC settlement may be in the works
Washington Post
Google and federal officials are discussing a deal that would end nearly two years of investigation into claims of monopolistic behavior by the company without addressing the most serious charge — that it intentionally manipulates search results to ...
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Microsoft ad blitz attacks Google over policy that lets money sway shopping ...
Washington Post
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is trying to skewer Google as a lousy holiday shopping guide in its latest attempt to divert more traffic to its Bing search engine. The attack started Wednesday with a marketing campaign focused on a recent change in the way ...
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Google's Nexus 7 4G: To buy or not to buy?
Computerworld (blog)
Whew! Some month we've had in Android Land, eh? The Nexus 4, Nexus 10, Android 4.2 -- it's enough to make even the most mentally stable tech-lover turn delirious. In a good way, of course (well, more or less). Lost in the shuffle of the pre-holiday ...
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Computerworld (blog)
Google Webmaster Tools Erroneously Reactivates Obsolete User Accounts
eWeek
Google has addressed a security hole affecting Google Webmaster Tools that gave users access to obsolete accounts they should not have been able to log into. News of the situation spread across the Web Tuesday night after reports surfaced about it on ...
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eWeek
Google hacked in Romania and Pakistan? Not quite
NBCNews.com (blog)
There were reports this past week that Google's Romanian and Pakistani portals, Google.ro and Google.com.pk, had been hacked. But if you're worried about the security of your Google account info, you can relax: By most standards, this was nothing like ...
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Google buys Cambridge online marketing firm
Boston.com
Google Inc. has acquired Cambridge online marketing firm Incentive Targeting Inc., a five-year-old start-up that builds software for retailers to offer customers targeted promotions. Google confirmed the deal Wednesday afternoon, but did not disclose ...
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Google Says Facebook is 'Injecting a Monetization Agenda' Into Intimate Moments
Wired
After playing second fiddle to Facebook for a year and a half, Google's “time is now,” says Google's social VP, citing what he calls the “Like-gate” controversy and a growing distaste for Facebook's advertising practices. Google VP Bradley Horowitz ...
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Google Drive spreadsheet editing arrives for mobile users
SlashGear
Google Drive is a pretty convenient service for those who like to keep their documents online and easily accessible amongst multiple devices. It does have some limitations, however, that reduce its usefulness for some users, one of which was the ...
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Google, Chamber of Commerce power career resource for veterans
Washington Post (blog)
The platform, called VetNet, features panels and workshops hosted through Google+ hangouts, a virtual feature of Google's social network allowing multiple users to video-chat with each other. As the hangouts are exclusively online, they can be accessed ...
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Google Starts Public Campaign Against German Legislation
Google began a high-profile campaign against German legislation that could force search engines to pay for linking to news articles.

Google Says Proposed German Law Restricts Users Searches
Businessweek
While existing law prevents copying of articles, the new proposals, sought by German news publishers, “would place restrictions on even a 'snippet' of an article,” such as is commonly found in search results, said Simon Hampton, Google's director of ...
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Google Chief Page Said to Meet FTC Over Antitrust Probe
Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page met with U.S. Federal Trade Commission officials today in Washington as the agency moves to wrap up its 19-month investigation of the company's business practices, according to a person familiar ...
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Google forcing reviewers to use real names
PCWorld (blog)
If you want to cheer or jeer for an app in the Google Play store, you'll have to do it with your real name from now on. Search giant Google has started requiring that anyone who submits a review at its online app store use their Google+ identity, or if ...
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Google bug grants access to revoked Analytics and Webmaster Tools users
SlashGear
A fairly problematic bug is affecting Google accounts, granting revoked users access to the Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics they originally had access to. For example, a business that fired an employee and revoked his or her access rights may find ...
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SlashGear
Google integrates Gmail, cloud storage service Drive
Computerworld
The feature works like Gmail's forgotten attachment detector "so that whenever you send a file from Google Drive that isn't shared with everyone, you'll be prompted with the option to change the file's sharing settings without leaving your email," he ...
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Computerworld
With Google readying its own Nexus Chromebook, will it marry Chrome OS to ...
ZDNet
The China Commercial Times (Chinese language link) reports that Google has placed hardware orders with Taiwanese manufacturers Compal Electronics and Wintek to produce a Chromebook with a 12.85-inch touch display. Could this be the start of ...
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ZDNet
Google's Name Used in Bogus Report of $400 Million Acquisition
HispanicBusiness.com
The announcement hit the news wires early Monday morning: A brief news release claimed that Google (GOOG) had agreed to buy a little-known Wi-Fi company named ICOA for $400 million -- quite a premium for a company whose stock was trading for ...
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Google Agrees With Microsoft That Apple Is Out of Touch
Motley Fool
Tech titans Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) may not see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, but here's one thing they can agree on: mutual rival Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) is out of touch. Apple may have made incredible strides over the ...
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Proposed Remedies for Regulating Google, Part 1: When Fear Turned to Loathing
Huffington Post (blog)
Online search is the most important activity on the net after email, and it is the gateway to e-commerce, to information access, and to the efficient functioning of an online economy in a wired world. Deceptive behavior by search engine operators is ...
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Google Gears Up Compute Engine for Cloud Fight
E-Commerce Times
Google is widening choices and cutting prices to take on Amazon in a battle for the cloud. "Amazon has a big head start here, but it's possible that Google can catch up," said Larry Carvalho, owner of RobustCloud. "Pricing is not going to be an issue ...
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Google's Nexus 4 launch and the land of lost opportunity
Computerworld (blog)
As you've probably heard, Google sold out of the Nexus 4 -- both the 8GB and 16GB model -- within minutes of the phone's launch earlier this month. Selling out isn't the problem; that's relatively common with hot products in high demand. There's more ...
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Computerworld (blog)
ICOA debunks report of Google acquisition deal #thecircuit
Washington Post (blog)
Earlier this year, Google announced it will sponsor access to Boingo hotspots around the country and, as TechCrunch reported, has lent its support to the push for public WiFi networks in the past. Cellphone privacy: Courts across the country have had ...
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 ICOA Denies It Was Bought by Google
Wi-fi provider ICOA denied it had been acquired by Google, after a statement posted on PRWeb.com said Google had purchased the company for $400 million.
Google Encourages Action Against UN Internet Proposals
InformationWeek
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will be holding its World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai next month -- and Google contends that Internet censorship might be on the agenda. The Mountain View, Calif.-based ...
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Google-Branded Touch Chromebook Planned
InformationWeek
The Chinese language Commercial Times, based in Taiwan, has published reports indicating that Google awarded a touchscreen contract to electronics maker Wintek and that Compal Electronics will be responsible for assembling a Google-branded ...
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Google Joins Apple in Drawing French Tax Collectors' Indignation
Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG), Apple (AAPL) Inc. and other Internet-linked companies may soon feel the long arm of the French taxman. In what may be Europe's first such effort, President Francois Hollande's government says it will look into changing laws next ...
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Google Street View Set for Launch in Indonesia
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The latest fleet of cars to hit Indonesia's roads will carry an unusual logo, but one that the country's wired population is more than familiar with: that of Google, as the Internet giant prepares to introduce Google Street View to the sprawling ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Google goes after Amazon with cloud upgrades
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: The extensive upgrades to Google's infrastructure-as-a-service cloud computing technology heighten competition with market leader Amazon Web Services. Jack Clark. By Jack Clark for Cloud Watch | November 26, 2012 -- 18:00 GMT (10:00 PST) ...
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Model predicts flu outbreaks seven weeks out using Google search data
Los Angeles Times
The researchers, Jeffrey Shaman of Columbia University and Alicia Karspeck of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., used data from the Google Flu Trends project, which keeps track of searches for flu-related topics and ties ...
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Google Type uses image search to generate fonts
CNET (blog)
Despite the name, Google Type isn't a real Google product. The site generates fonts based on Google image search, hence the name. You type in words, the site digs through image search and regenerates your text using image versions of each letter.
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2012年11月28日 星期三

Microsoft ad blitz attacks Google over policy that lets money sway shopping search results

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Microsoft ad blitz attacks Google over policy that lets money sway shopping search results

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft is trying to skewer Google as a lousy holiday shopping guide in its latest attempt to divert more traffic to its Bing search engine.
The attack started Wednesday with a marketing campaign focused on a recent change in the way Google operates the part of its search engine devoted to shopping results. The revisions require merchants to pay Google to have their products listed in the shopping section.

In its new ads, Microsoft Corp. contends the new approach betrays Google Inc.’s longstanding commitment to provide the most trustworthy results on the Web, even if it means foregoing revenue. To punctuate its point, Microsoft is warning consumers that they risk getting “scroogled” if they rely on Google’s shopping search service.
The message will be highlighted in TV commercials scheduled to run on NBC and CNN and newspaper ads in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. The blitz also will appear on billboards and online, anchored by a new website, Scroogled.com.
The barbs are injecting more antagonism into an already bitter rivalry between two of the world’s best-known and most powerful technology companies.
Google’s search engine is dominant on the Internet, and Bing runs a distant second. Microsoft’s Office and Windows software remains an integral part of personal computers, but Google has been reducing the importance of those programs and PCs with the success of Web-based services and its Android operating system for smartphones and tablet computers.
Google doesn’t require websites to pay to be listed in its main database, the index that provides results for requests entered into its all-purpose search box. A query made there for a particular product, such as a computer, will still include results from merchants who haven’t paid for the privilege of being included.
But that’s not the case for someone who clicks on a tab to enter Google’s shopping-only section, which is designed to compare prices and offer other insights such as identifying sites that offer free shipping. Searches there are confined to paying merchants. That means results from sites, including Web retailing giant Amazon.com Inc., aren’t displayed unless they pay. Amazon has only occasionally paid to have some of its wares listed in Google’s shopping section. Zappos, a site owned by Amazon, has been more willing to pay the price to be listed in Google’s shopping results.
Google defends the fee-based approach as a way to encourage merchants to provide more comprehensive and accurate information about what they’re selling.
“I think you just get a well-organized set of product information, ways to buy it, and really have a great experience there,” CEO Larry Page said during a conference call with analysts last month.
In a statement, Google said it’s pleased with the response to the new shopping system, which offers listings from some 100,000 sellers.
Google, like Microsoft, also accepts payments for ads that are triggered by specific search terms and appear to the right or on top of regular search results. Those are labeled in colored letters as ads. The same distinctions aren’t made in Google’s shopping section.

 Since its inception in 1998, Google has tried to cast itself as a force for good while depicting Microsoft as a ruthless empire.
But Google is less cuddly now that it’s established itself as the Internet’s main gateway —and a well-oiled moneymaking machine. The Mountain View, Calif., company’s search engine is so influential that government regulators in the U.S. and Europe are investigating whether Google has been stifling competition by giving special preference to its own services in search results.

Microsoft, which faced its own antitrust inquiries more than a decade ago, is among the companies that prodded the investigation of Google. This time, it’s pouncing on Google for straying for from its own principles.
Google began limiting its shopping-only results to paying merchants in mid-October. The change coincides with what is expected to be the most lucrative holiday shopping season on the Web yet. The amount of money a merchant pays is one factor that influences the order of the shopping results, although Google says it still places the highest priority on each listing’s relevancy to a user’s request.
Google discloses that it receives payments in small print at the bottom of the shopping results page. The notice is also visible if a user clicks on a link at the top of the shopping results page, under the heading: “Why these products?”
What’s left unsaid is the omission of sites such as Amazon, which tends to offer some of the best deals on the Web.
The financially driven system for determining the results in a major part of Google’s search engine breaks new ground for a company whose idealistic founders, Page and Sergey Brin, once railed against the perils of allowing money to influence which Web links to show.
Brin and Page preached about the issue in academic papers that they wrote about search while conceiving Google as Stanford University graduate students. They also delved into the topic when they outlined Google’s “don’t be evil” creed in a letter written to potential investors before the company went public in 2004.
“Our search results are the best we know how to produce,” Brin and Page wrote in the letter. “They are unbiased and objective, and we do not accept payment for them.”
Microsoft contends that Google is doing a disservice to its users with the new approach, as many users may not even realize that the results in shopping search are being swayed by money.
“We want consumers to know, in contrast to the route that Google has pursued, we are staying true to the DNA of what a good search engine is really about,” said Mike Nichols, Bing’s chief marketing officer. “We will rank results on what’s relevant to you and not based on how much someone might pay us.”
Danny Sullivan, an Internet search expert who has been following Google since its inception, believes Microsoft is highlighting an important issue. “Google deserves to take its lumps on this,” said Sullivan, who now works as editor of SearchEngineLand.com. “I have been surprised by how little attention this issue has gotten so far because it’s a 180-degree turn for Google.”
Sullivan doesn’t think Bing’s shopping results are pristine, either. He points to Bing’s partnership with Shopping.com, which also requires merchants to pay to be in its listings. Some of Shopping.com’s data is fed into Bing’s shopping section. When Shopping.com gets paid by a merchant for sale funneled through Bing, Microsoft gets a slice of the revenue.
While all that is true, Bing’s shopping section consists mostly of listings from merchants that haven’t paid for the privilege, said Stefan Weitz, Bing’s director.
That’s so, Weitz said, even though Bing isn’t currently accepting listings from new merchants that want to appear in its shopping results. The only way a new seller can get into Bing’s shopping search engine is to sign up for Shopping.com’s fee-based service. After the holiday season, Bing’s shopping-only section once again will accept free listings from new merchants, Weitz said.
Like Google, Sullivan said Microsoft isn’t doing a good job disclosing the role that money plays in its shopping-only results. He thinks that issue could undermine the effectiveness of Bing’s anti-Google ads.
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Online:
Microsoft’s attack site: http://scroogled.com
Google shopping site: http://www.google.com/shopping

2012年11月25日 星期日

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IBM: Apple's iOS dominated holiday shopping, 330% greater than Android
Apple Insider
According to a report on holiday shopping by IBM, published by Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal "All Things D" blog, Apple's iPad "generated more traffic than any other tablet or smartphone, reaching nearly 10 percent of online shopping." IBM's ...



Casey Anthony detectives overlooked 'fool-proof suffocation' Google search
Newsday
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Florida sheriff's office that investigated the disappearance of Casey Anthony's 2-year-old daughter overlooked evidence that someone in their home did a Google search for "fool-proof" suffocation methods on the day the girl was last ...
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Newsday
How to sync your Google calendar with your iPad
USA TODAY
To fix that, you need to disguise Google as a Windows server. No, really, that's Google's own advice. In a tech-support note, the Mountain View, Calif., company advises setting up your Google account as a Microsoft Exchange account in iOS's Mail ...
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Google Nexus 10: Fastest and most impressive Android tab yet, but feels cheap
ZDNet
From an industrial design standpoint, it looks like Samsung and Google decided to make the most unexciting, most low-key looking device possible in order to avoid potential lawsuits with Apple, while stuffing it full of cutting-edge electronics. It's ...
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ZDNet
Google vs Nokia vs Apple Maps: Which One is the Most User Friendly?
International Business Times AU
Another printed paper product was recently sidelined with the introduction of online maps offered by competing tech firms. The value of these online maps was again highlighted when a former soldier walked 5,000 miles in over one year, aided largely by ...
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International Business Times AU
I Spent A Week In Google's Mailroom
Business Insider
When you think of Google, you probably think of Gmail and search. These two products are almost absurdly pervasive—if you don't use the former, you surely use the latter. And if you use neither, you probably don't have Internet access. (How are you ...
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Business Insider
Google Nexus 7 back in stock on UK Play store
TechRadar UK
... and Match feature · New Google Nexus devices hit UK Tuesday, with Google Play music store · Google Nexus 7 with 3G orders en route now via Google Play. The Google Nexus 7 3G tablet is once again available for sale from the Google Play online store.
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Casey Anthony Detectives Overlooked 'Fool-Proof Suffocation Methods' Google ...
Huffington Post
Angelo Nieves said Sunday that the office's computer investigator missed a June 16, 2008, Google search for fool-proof suffocation methods. The oversight was first reported by Orlando television station WKMG. It's not known who performed the search.
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'Don't be evil' and other Google-isms
Philippine Star
That's Google's mantra in the headline. It pushes the members of the team to do the best way they know how for their users, for their customers, and for everyone. “Don't be evil” is a catchphrase that acknowledges that large companies often exploit ...
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Google's 'gallery for everyone' lets you take over Times Square, say thank you ...
Engadget
What would be a neat trick to round off a perfect holiday with friends, family, and -- if you're lucky -- some bargain-priced tech? How about getting your smug, contented face up on the screens in Times Square? Not got the big corporate budget? No ...
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Google Maps' Indoor Floor Plans Hit the Web
PC Magazine
However, a few shoppers might have also been taking up Google on its brand-new implementation of a well-known feature. Specifically, Google's recent introduction of its indoor maps – via Google Maps, of course – into the browser-accessible version of ...
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Google's new Internet service banishes buffering
New York Daily News
Forget Usain Bolt: Google's new Internet service might be the fastest surprise of the year. Google Fiber may banish buffering if it travels as quickly as early reports claim. The service is allegedly 100 times faster than the average Internet ...
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New York Daily News
Google Makes A Pre-Holiday Marketing Push For Chromebooks With New ...
TechCrunch
We don't know much about how successful Google's Chromebooks really are. Outside of talking about their adoption in schools and businesses, Google has never released any detailed sales figures. Most analysts assume they aren't exactly a run-away hit.
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Sandy Island Doesn't Exist: Google Maps Showed Isle In South Pacific
Huffington Post
"It's on Google Earth and other maps so we went to check and there was no island. We're really puzzled. It's quite bizarre," said lead researcher Maria Seton, a geologist. "How did it find its way onto the maps? We just don't know, but we plan to ...
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Google Launches Groups Migration API To Help Businesses Move Their Shared ...
TechCrunch
Many businesses use shared mailboxes, public folders and discussion databases that, over the years, accumulate a lot of institutional knowledge. Most cloud-based email services don't offer this feature, though, making it hard for some companies to move ...
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Hacking For The Sake Of It: 'Eboz' Downed Google, Apple, 300 Other Pakistani ...
TechCrunch
Pakistan's internet-using population was slammed today with a systematic take-down of local versions of some of the world's biggest names in tech, and several hours after first going down, Google.pk, Google.com.pk, Yahoo.pk, Apple.pk, Microsoft.pk ...
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TechCrunch
Google Nexus, Barnes & Noble Nook HD+ ? There's choice this year in full-size ...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
The choice used to be pretty limited, with the iPad dominating over the latecomers. But this year, the field is more even, as tablets from Apple's competitors have matured. In addition, Google and Microsoft have dived in with their own tablets ...
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Ingress, Google's Breakthrough Augmented Reality Game
iProgrammer
Ingress, Google's augmented reality multiplayer game is still in closed beta. Even so it is already becoming the most talked about, and perhaps even desired, AR app so far. But is it just a game or something more sinister? Augmented reality is still in ...
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Google Fiber Should Have Cable Companies Terrified
Newser
(Newser) – A few lucky neighborhoods in Kansas City already have access to Google Fiber, and the cable industry better take notice, writes Henry Blodget at Business Insider. Subscribers get lightning-fast Internet for $70 a month, and, if they want ...
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Google's '100000 Stars' project brings the stellar neighborhood closer to home
CultureMap Austin
Google recently released their latest science project, a galactic visualization simulator they call “100,000 Stars.” The web application developed by the search engine company's research division, Google Labs, allows the user to explore our stellar ...
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Google Shopping Becomes More Amazon-Like
New York Times (blog)
These updates came after Google made a big change this fall, for the first time including retailers in Google Shopping only if they pay to list their products there. Google said this would make the listings better, because retailers would have an ...
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Updated Google Map Service Offers Museum Floor Plans
New York Times (blog)
Google has updated its browser-based map service to include a new feature that should help visitors to museums navigate the sometimes-confusing maze of wings and galleries they often confront. The amplified service, announced on Wednesday, ...
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Google Play, developers slash prices on apps and media for Thanksgiving ...
Engadget
If you've taken advantage of the myriad Black Friday deals on mobile devices and PCs, you're probably looking for content to feed the technology beast. Google and app creators are pulling out all the stops to make sure that beast stays full: Google ...
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Google Maps Adds Indoor Floor Plans for Desktop
Mashable
Now, Google wants to make it easier for you to map and plan out your holiday travel and shopping expeditions too, with indoor floor plans you can view on your web browser. Until now, indoor maps were only available on Android devices. “Before heading ...
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Google takes over Times Square, just to prove its Chromebook is for everyone
The Next Web (blog)
Google has taken over Time Square, or at least four screens on a marquee. As part of its “For Everyone” campaign that rolled out with the release of the Samsung Chromebook last month, the company has decided to help prove to people why it is so useful ...
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The Next Web (blog)
Two Analysts Just Went To Kansas City To Check Out Google Fiber—And They ...
Business Insider
The Google installers promise to come to your house at the time of your appointment, not in some vague "window" that requires you to be home for 4 hours at a stretch (or much longer, if they don't show). For anyone who has ever screamed in rage at the ...
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Business Insider
TUAW Smackdown: Google Chromebook vs. Apple iPad, MacBook Air
tuaw.com
When the Google Chromebook, built by Samsung, appeared on the market about a month ago, the TUAW newsroom erupted in discussions about whether it would make a good low-cost computer or not. Several bloggers were attracted by the price, which at ...
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Google's Nexus 4 Coming To Three In The U.K. December 13 On Contract And ...
TechCrunch
Google is bringing the Nexus 4 to another carrier in the UK, expanding availability to Three after debuting the device with O2 as its initial partner in that country. The Android 4.2-powered smartphone will be available starting December 13 on Three ...
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Yup, Google Has Christmas Sales on Ads, Too
All Things Digital
Google's ad business generated some $11.5 billion last quarter. This quarter should be even better, because everyone spends tons of money selling stuff online during the holidays. So Google is the last company that needs to engage in holiday promotions ...
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How To Enable 4G LTE On The Google Nexus 4
TechCrunch
Reports surfaced this morning that the Nexus 4, Google's latest flagship Android smartphone, supports LTE via a relatively easy software hack. After testing, it turns out that's definitely true, so I'll show you exactly how to enable it on your device ...
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Scientists say Google Earth island in Pacific doesn't exist
CNET
It and Google Earth, as well as marine maps and charts, show a feature west of New Caledonia that Australian scientists say is a phantom island. Sandy Island looks like a gaping hole in the Coral Sea. About 16 miles long, north to south, it could make ...
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'Happy Thanksgiving' Google Logo Spreads Turkey Day Cheer
Huffington Post
Google on November 22 wished all its U.S. users a Happy Thanksgiving 2012 by transforming its search engine's home page logo into a holiday parade homage, complete with giant balloon letters that spell out "Google" and floats that resemble a turkey, ...
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Google Nexus 4 review
ZDNet
If you want an Android smartphone that's unencumbered with vendor or mobile operator skins and bundled apps, and receives timely OS updates, Google's Nexus range has been available to fill this role since January 2010. The latest in a line stretching ...
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Google rolls out indoor maps to desktops
ZDNet
Summary: Google Maps has extended its indoor maps, until now only available on Android devices, to desktop computers, allowing people to pinpoint their gate in an airport, for example. Sam Shead. By Sam Shead | November 22, 2012 -- 15:45 GMT (07:45 ...
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Why Australia Might Be Able To Tax Google In A Way The UK Cannot
Forbes
There's a possibility that Australia might be able to tax Google in a way that the UK, or other European countries, cannot. The basic structure of what the company is doing is pretty similar in every case. But Australia still might be able to tax in a ...
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Black Friday Shoppers Treated to Google Maps New Indoor Floor Plans
ABC News (blog)
Just in time for Black Friday, Google has added a new feature to Google Maps to help shoppers and travelers plan their trips in advance. Now, users can access the indoor floor plans of more than 10,000 locations around the world using Google Maps on ...
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Google Homepage Ad Pushes Google+ Hangouts, Other Google Properties
TechCrunch
Along with the Thanksgiving-themed Google doodle gracing the Google.com homepage in the U.S. today (this year, it's a Thanksgiving Day parade with Google's letters as balloons), Google is also using the valuable advertising space below the search box ...
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Google adds Indoor Maps just in time for Black Friday
PCWorld
Google updated its Maps service for desktop browsers adding floor plans for over 10,000 indoor locations, just in time for Black Friday deal hunters and directionally challenged holiday travelers. The indoor floor plans were available only on Google ...
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Google enters debate on UN internet control
Aljazeera.com
Google has jumped into the debate over a UN telecom gathering set to review regulations affecting the internet, claiming it is "the wrong place" to make decisions about the future of the web. In a posting on its "take action" website on Wednesday ...
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