2012年12月17日 星期一

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Big iOS 6 uptick linked to China launch, instead of Google Maps
CNET
Big iOS 6 uptick linked to China launch, instead of Google Maps. Since Google's new iOS mapping app hit Apple's App Store, adoption of iOS 6 has jumped 30 percent. But new data says the rate in North America stayed flat and that the global jump may be ...
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Google Doodle Celebrates the 200th Anniversary of the Brothers Grimm
TIME
Today's Google Doodle honors the 200th anniversary of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen (known as the Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Though six more editions followed, this iconic collection of folk ...
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Google revamps Santa Tracker after NORAD teams with Bing
PCWorld
Google has lost its traditional Santa Claus tracking partnership with NORAD – the North American Aerospace Defense Command – to Bing, but the search giant hasn't lost its Christmas spirit. Google has revamped its Santa Tracker site, loading it with all ...
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Google Launches New Experimental Search Features For Tracking Your Online ...
TechCrunch
Google has long been running a number of experimental Search and Gmail field trials anybody can sign up for and today it's launching a few nifty new search features for searching your Gmail inbox from Google.com on the desktop and your iOS or Android ...
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Google Music adds scan and match feature
TechHive
Up to now, Google has been the poor boy of online music, but that's about to change. It rolled out a scan and match feature on Wednesday for Google Music users that gives the search giant a leg up on Amazon's Cloud Player service and Apple's iTunes ...
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Microsoft lawyer: Google is an anti-democratic Internet "emperor"
Computerworld (blog)
Microsoft's assault on Google continues, with a lawyer who represents Microsoft charging in a New York Times Op Ed piece that Google is the "emperor" of the Internet with dangerous data-collection and privacy-invading policies. And it's not just any ...
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Google and antitrust
The Economist
Google has volunteered to let other websites opt out of having snippets of their content, such as consumer reviews, displayed on its pages. It has also offered to stop making exclusive deals with other sites for use of its search ads and services. In a ...
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Google sells Motorola cable box unit for $2.4 billion
CNN
Under the terms of the deal, which Google and Arris announced late Wednesday, Google will receive $2.05 billion in cash and $300 million in newly issued Arris shares. That will give Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) about a 16% ownership stake in Arris (ARRS) ...
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Citing Logistics, FTC Pushes Antitrust Inquiry Against Google Into January
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Google was prepared to start the holidays early this week, by settling its antitrust dispute with federal regulators without a harsh punishment. But in shelving its inquiry until January, the Federal Trade Commission has put stronger ...
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Google to sell part of Motorola for $2.35 billion
USA TODAY (blog)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is selling Motorola Mobility's TV set-top business for $2.35 billion, lightening the load that the Internet search leader took on earlier this year when it completed the biggest acquisition in its history. The cash-and ...
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Google puts businesses' interiors inside search results
CNET
Launched in September, Google Business Photos presented Google Maps users with 360-degree panoramas of the inside of businesses, a handy tool for scoping out the interior of a business before visiting. However, the images were often hard to find.
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Google planning cheaper Nexus 7, report claims
CNET
Google and Asus wowed consumers with the $199 Nexus 7 and now they're aiming at price points below $150, ultimately going as low as $99, according to Taipei-based Digitimes, citing sources at display component maker O-Film Tech. The lower-priced ...
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Google Maps puts iPhone back on track
Boston Globe
So thanks, Google, for serving up a fine new navigation app for Apple Inc.'s iPhone. The giant search company created the original map app for the iPhone, but was ousted when Apple decided to go it alone. Clearly Apple didn't want to get its map ...
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Google Sells Cable-Box Unit for $2.35 Billion
Wall Street Journal
Google bought Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion in May, largely for its intellectual property and smartphone hardware to boost its Android operating system. Since then it has been downsizing the unit as Motorola's deteriorating ...
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Google offers music service that rivals Apple's iTunes Match for free
San Jose Mercury News
LOS ANGELES -- Google (GOOG) is turning on a "scan and match" service for Google Music users to store copies of their songs online, offering for free a service for which Apple (AAPL) charges $25 a year. The service, which launched Tuesday, cuts ...
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As Google Health Flatlines, Drchrono Picks Up The Slack With Onpatient, A ...
TechCrunch
When Google Health first went live in 2008, the service held a lot of promise for people looking for a reliable and convenient way of centralizing their health records, and then matching them up with other resources like drug information and doctor ...
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Google to Sell Motorola Home to Arris for $2.35 Billion
Bloomberg
Google, which acquired the division through the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. in May, received multiple offers on Dec. 7, a person with knowledge of the matter said earlier this month. Google sought a buyer for the home unit ...
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Norad 'Santa tracker' drops Google Maps for Bing this Christmas
The Guardian (blog)
Google now has its own virtual Santa space , which features an animated interactive tour of Santa's village, including games and a service to offer personalized telephone calls from Santa to children. In response, Norad signed up Bing to be its ...
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根據彭博社報導,12月19 日,柯達宣布以5.25億美元的價格,將專利權出售給由智財風險管理顧問公司(Intellectual Ventures Management)以及PRX專利風險顧問公司領軍的專利權聯盟。
共有12家企業參與這個聯盟,包括蘋果、三星、宏達電、RIM、谷歌、臉書、亞馬遜、微軟、華為、奧多比、富士、相片印刷與分享網站Shutterfly等。
柯達出售的專利超過1,100項以上,涵蓋範圍包括擷取、重製、與分享數位影像等技術。不過,這僅是柯達專利資產的一小部份,目前柯達手上還握有超過9,600項的專利,將繼續尋求出售對象。
這次的專利出售計劃,也使得過去柯達與蘋果、RIM、富士、宏達電、三星之間的專利官司一筆勾銷。
這次取得柯達專利的所有科技大廠中,最引人注意的就是蘋果與谷歌。
起 初蘋果與谷歌原是分屬於不同的競標陣營,但在今年8月,兩方陣營決定合併,這次順利拿下柯達專利權,也彌補了谷歌在上次北電網路專利競標失利的遺憾。 2011年7月,由蘋果、微軟、RIM、愛立信、索尼、EMC合組的聯盟以45億美元的價格,取得北電網路6,000多項專利。谷歌9億美元的提議價格, 完全無法競爭。
這次的專利順利出售,也使得柯達更接近在2013年上半年結束破產保護的目標。(吳凱琳編譯)
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Apple, Google in Group Buying Kodak Patents

Microsoft: Google blames us for all its problems | Technically Incorrect ...
CNET
Yes, open season at pinching Google's lower cheeks, tweaking its upper ones, and generally trying to suggest that it's the most evil company since, oh, Microsoft. Just how open this season is was shown by Microsoft's jefe of PR, the beautifully named ...
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Among Tech Workers, Google Is Beloved; HP, Not So Much
Forbes
In a new research report, UBS analyst Steve Milunovich takes a look at how tech industry employees rate their own companies on Glassdoor, a jobs and careers website. The information is illuminating. As you can see in the table below, employees are ...
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Come home to Google Maps
CBS News
Google Maps isn't the same app that everyone knew (and loved) in older versions of the iPhone, though. Google has rewritten the app from the ground up, creating a streamlined, elegant app that leverages the same excellent mapping data we've known for ...
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FTC's Google Anti-Trust Investigation: New WSJ Report Says Web Giant Could ...
Huffington Post
(Reuters) - Google may not face any major repercussions from the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) two-year-old anti-trust investigation into its web search business, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The FTC ...
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Google In 2013: 11 Predictions - Mobility - Smartphones -
InformationWeek
Google's backward motion will be the result of a push by regulators and corporate litigants around the world to tame the company's ability to disrupt established markets and to extract tolls for daring to subsidize what was once expensive with ad revenue.
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Google Shuts Down 11 Services - Cloud-computing - Software as a
InformationWeek
Google also is putting Google Sync out to pasture as of Jan. 30, 2013, because it has been superseded by other open protocols, specifically IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV. However, this applies only to users of Google's free services. Google Sync will remain ...
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Google trying to propel ecommerce in India
ZDNet
Under a program called India Get Your Business Online, Google India was offering free websites to interested retailers and earlier today, the company annoucned results of the initiative. Known to many Indians, also a part of several movies, Chandni ...
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Google's Gmail Outage Is a Sign of Things to Come
Businessweek
Google's (GOOG) Gmail was down for 18 minutes last week after a “routine update” (PDF) briefly broke the e-mail service. The search giant reported that it conducted an update of its load-balancing software from 8:45 a.m. to 9:13 a.m. U.S. West Coast ...
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Direct Mail Now Integrated With Google
Forbes
Google Remarketing is a program that is connected to Google Adwords, and it works like this: A business adds the Google Remarketing Code to their website; A prospect comes to the site, but leaves before taking the action the business wants them to take ...
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Daily Report: Legal Allies Against Microsoft, Divided on Google
New York Times (blog)
Two lawyers who helped build the antitrust case against Microsoft in the 1990s are playing important roles in an antitrust investigation of Google. But this time, Gary L. Reback and Susan A. Creighton are on opposite sides, Steve Lohr reports on Monday ...
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Google, FTC Close to a Deal

It's All About the Platform: What Walmart and Google Have in Common

Despite wildly different business models and customer segments, there is at least one approach Walmart and Google share: they're both building analytics platforms to help solve business issues. Digvijay Lamba, distinguished architect at Walmart Labs, and Greg Green, director of Agency Strategy at Google, spoke at IE Group's recent Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit in Chicago. Read more >>


US Inquiry of Google Is Expected to Press On
New York Times
Published: December 18, 2012. WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission is unlikely to finish until January its investigation into whether Google abused its power in the search market, people briefed on the investigation said on Tuesday.
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New York Times
The Emperor of All Identities
New York Times
For that, arguably, is what Google has become. Its search engine accounts for nearly 80 percent of all Web searches in the United States — and a remarkable 98 percent of searches from mobile devices. In that role, Google is not just an eponymous verb ...
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Google Maps for iPhone Returns Better Than Ever
Wall Street Journal
However, the biggest news here is that the new iPhone version of Google Maps isn't just better than Apple Maps. For now, at least, Google Maps is better in most respects on the iPhone than it is on Android phones. It has been redesigned with a cleaner, ...
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Wall Street Journal
Google extends Vault availability for e-discovery
ZDNet
Google has made its e-discovery service, Vault, available to more Google Apps users. Google Apps Vault, launched back in March, lets users preserve and search through emails that could be relevant in the case of a lawsuit. At the time, it was made ...
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Google Music gets iTunes-like 'match' function - but free
NBCNews.com (blog)
Google has updated its music storage and streaming service with a handy new song-matching feature pioneered by Amazon and Apple — but unlike those companies' services, Google's is free. Apple launched its "iTunes Match" service just over a year ago, ...
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Google, Zimbabwe, Tattoo Art: Intellectual Property
Bloomberg
EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said he expects “Google to come forward with a detailed commitment text in January” that would allow the Brussels-based authority to end the probe into allegations that the world's largest search engine ...
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FTC to delay Google anti-trust probe decision: source
Yahoo! News (blog)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which had been expected to wrap up an anti-trust probe into Google within days, will now delay its decision for weeks, a source said on Tuesday. Google has been accused of giving ...
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Yahoo! News (blog)
Google Antitrust Decision by FTC Delayed Until Next Year
Bloomberg
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)'s final decision on how to resolve its 20-month antitrust investigation of Google Inc. (GOOG) will be delayed until next year, said two people familiar with the situation who asked not to be named because the ...
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Keep Track of Santa Claus With These Google Tools
TechCrunch
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) may have decided to ditch Google in favor of Microsoft for its official Santa tracker, but the search giant is still keeping tabs on the fat man. On Christmas Eve, kids and anyone else with a vested ...
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Google, FTC Close to a Deal
Google is close to emerging largely unscathed from a two-year federal probe of its Web-search business, a result likely to disappoint rivals that were hoping the Internet giant would become mired in antitrust litigation.
Anti-Google Crusader Slams Possible Deal in Antitrust Probe
Wired
A federal probe into Google's search results could soon end with a settlement that largely keeps the U.S. government out of its business. But one of the search giant's most vocal critics says that however toothless the potential deal, Google will not ...
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Google Maps tops 10 million iOS downloads
USA TODAY
Google exec Jeff Huber revealed through the search giant's social network that the long-awaited app topped 10 million downloads within the first 48 hours after its release. The return of Google's map application ends a three-month absence from the ...
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'Gossip Girl' Secret: Don't Google It
New York Times (blog)
'Gossip Girl' Secret: Don't Google It. By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER. The cellphones in Photo Eric Liebowitz/The CW The cellphones in “Gossip Girl” are now Windows phones. Monday night's mystery is whether “Gossip Girl,” in the series finale, will finally...
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New York Times (blog)
Facebook and Google Benefit From Mobile Ad Surge
New York Times (blog)
Making big money from advertisements on a small screen has been a challenge for many media companies, including Facebook and Google. But mobile ad spending grew significantly this past year, according to a new report. A research report by eMarketer ...
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The Bull Case on Google Explained: Mobile Isn't the Problem -- It's the ...
Forbes
What's wrong with Google's (GOOG) ad business? It looks like something serious, considering that reports about it in October set off a sustained share price drop and at least three downgrades on the shares, marring what had been a lovely stock chart.
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Google Fiber spreading to more neighborhoods
Kansas City Star
Google Inc. on Monday announced the beginning of signups for five more Kansas City, Kan., neighborhoods that will get Internet and TV service over its fiber optic lines early next year. The company said the five neighborhoods had deadlines ranging, ...
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Google focuses on mobile videographers
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Google today unleashed YouTube Capture, a mobile video app that allows people to record and upload to YouTube, in a move that could steal the stage from a pack of startups. YouTube Capture is designed so that people can shoot and ...
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Searching Google Old Skool Style
Forbes
If you ever drove an old mainframe where the input was on punched cards, the storage on mag tape, and the output on green bar paper, you'll love Google60 Search Mad Men Style. The Google60 site explains that it is “an art project to explore distances ...
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Google-FTC Probe, CFTC-Audio Rule, JPMorgan: Compliance
Bloomberg
Google, which has been under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, is preparing a letter promising not to copy content from rival websites without permission and to allow advertisers to compare Google's ad-campaign data with performance on ...
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