2012年9月4日 星期二

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Motorola Debuts Three Smartphones Under Google's Umbrella
Wall Street Journal
Motorola Mobility unveiled Wednesday its first new set of smartphones since its acquisition by Google Inc., showcasing three devices that aim to win new customers with bolder screens and longer battery life. The smallest of the trio, the Droid Razr M ...
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Google Chrome Web Browser Celebrates Its 4th Birthday
eWeek
Google's Chrome Web browser has accomplished a lot in the four years since its birth in September 2008. This past June, it surpassed Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the world's most used browser for the first time and it has added lots of useful ...
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Scientists Unveil 'Google Maps' For Human Genome
NPR (blog)
It allows researchers to look at the chromosomes and then zoom into genes and even down to individual nucleotides in the human genome in much the same way that someone interested in using Google Maps can do so." For decades, scientists thought that ...
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Google to concentrate on signing up KC's eastside as deadline nears
Kansas City Star
Those neighborhoods that don't meet the signup thresholds Google has set also are in danger of missing out on the company's promise to provide free internet to schools and other institutions in their areas, Google representatives said. “We'll have a ...
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Will Apple and Google kill any buzz created by Windows Phone 8 this week?
ZDNet (blog)
However, it is likely that Google will soon announce a new Nexus launching with Jelly Bean while Samsung, Motorola, and HTC may also announce Android Jelly Bean devices prior to the release of Windows Phone 8. Android is killing it in the mobile space ...
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Google Recovers Court Costs in Copyright Battle Against Oracle
Opposing Views
Oracle sued Google for copyright and patent infringement in 2010, weeks after acquiring the Java platform through its purchased of Sun Microsystems. Oracle had claimed that Google copied parts of Java to rush production of its Android operating system ...
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Amazon Readies Kindle Fire Update to Keep Up in Tablets
Businessweek
(MSFT) and Google Inc. (GOOG). Amazon is holding an event tomorrow in Santa Monica, California, where it is likely to announce the newest versions of its line of Kindle e-readers and the Kindle Fire tablet, according to Anthony DiClemente, an analyst ...
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Google TV Tries Again With Sony, Vizio: Rich Jaroslovsky
Bloomberg
The new Sony and Vizio units -- along with an announced Google TV set-top box from China's Hisense and a TV from LG (066570) with the software built in -- aim to differentiate themselves by not merely connecting your TV to the Internet, but by ...
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Google wins patent on face-to-unlock feature
CNET
In order for the technology to work, Google's patent requires a camera that can identify a person's face. If that face matches a "predetermined identity," then the person is logged into the respective device. If multiple people want to access a ...
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Google India launches premeir SME partner programme
New York Daily News
New Delhi, Sep 5 — Google India Wednesday launched a small and medium enterprise (SME) partner programme to maximize its reach to small businesses across the country and provide them specialised services to grow through digital advertising.
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補8.30
More than a year after Google removed the controversial Grooveshark music-streaming service from its app store for Android smartphones, the app was quietly reinstated Tuesday afternoon.

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Judge orders Oracle to pay Google $1M for court expert fees
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Google wins some and loses some while the federal judge in the case gives up on trying to track down any more paid commentators in the case. Rachel King. By Rachel King for Between the Lines | September 4, 2012 -- 20:15 GMT (13:15 PDT) ...
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New gadgets expected shortly from Nokia, Apple, Microsoft, Google ...
Fox News
Think of it as the opening act at a concert: Nokia, Motorola and Amazon are expected to unveil new mobile devices this week before attention turns to a new iPhone and possibly a smaller iPad from Apple. Makers of consumer electronics are refreshing ...
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Google Updates Chrome for IOS, Fixes Bugs
PCWorld
Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser for iOS devices that stamps out some bugs, including one that interfered with Yahoo Mail. Similar Articles: Chrome for iOS: Not So Fast, Cool Features · Google Revamps New-Tab Page in Chrome ...
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Opinion: Google at 14 is better than ever
CNNMoney
Sure, Google (GOOG) doesn't officially recognize its anniversary until September 27. That's when you'll see the celebratory doodle. But the search engine leader was incorporated on September 4, 1998. So as far as I'm concerned, today is the day that ...
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Apple, Google Patent Bloodbath May Be Indefinitely Postponed
TechNewsWorld
09/04/12 5:00 AM PT. Despite the acrimony that has grown between Apple and Google over patent infringement allegations -- mostly related to Android -- the companies apparently are open to talking through some of their differences. Or perhaps they're ...
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Google Wants To Be Your Cable TV Provider, Sources Tell Analyst
Business Insider
In July, Google became an Internet service and cable TV provider in Kansas City, rolling out a product called Google Fiber. Now, Capstone Analyst Rory Maher reports that "people close to the situation in Kansas City" say Google Fiber is moving beyond ...
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Letters | Google Fiber, taxicabs, Clint Eastwood
Kansas City Star
Although we also have a fair number of absentee landlords, those who live here and are aware of the Google Fiber initiative need to step up and do the right thing. Unlike the rest of us, landlords can recover their low-risk investment from their tenants.
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Google: Monopoly Of The Internet?
Seeking Alpha
Google (GOOG) appears to have its sights set on controlling a user's total Internet experience, from mobile devices, browsers and applications to Internet and cable TV service. Basically, Google would love for Internet users to see its brand at every ...
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Google answers ECB's bond conundrum
Financial Times
Google searches, it turns out, might hold the key to how much the European Central Bank can spend on the bonds of troubled eurozone countries. Mario Draghi, ECB president, is expected tomorrow to expand on his plan to buy short-dated bonds of Europe's ...
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Google Folding Its Google TV Ads Effort
eWeek
The shuttering of Google TV Ads was announced in a post on the unit's blog by Shishir Mehrotra, vice president of YouTube and video at Google. "In 2007, we launched Google TV Ads in AdWords to bring digital buying and measurement technologies to ...
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 Rivals Try to Beat Apple to the Punch
Amazon.com, Motorola Mobility and Nokia are crowding this week with announcements for new hand-held devices in an effort to get ahead of Apple's introduction of its next iPhone.

beat someone to the punch and beat someone to the draw
Fig. to do something before someone else does it. I wanted to have the new car, but Sally beat me to the punch. I planned to write a book about using the new software program, but someone else beat me to the draw.

yank, mess up, takedown

Russia Yanks Google From Android Tablets
PCWorld
Google collects a considerable amount of information from Android users, including personal information and usage data in order for the company to serve ads. This is also one of the reasons Android is offered free to manufacturers. But Russia is wary ...
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Google Rival Foundem Seeks Disclosures to Users in EU Deal
Businessweek
An Internet company that filed a European Union antitrust complaint against Google Inc. (GOOG) said the company should tell users when it inserts its own products into search results as part of any settlement with antitrust regulators. Foundem, a U.K. ...
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Google's biggest mobile enemy has been itself
CBS Moneywatch
(MoneyWatch) COMENTARY Google (GOOG) Android, the company's popular mobile operating system, faces big challenges. Apple (AAPL) continues its legal press against Samsung in a drive to prevent the most popular Android devices from entering the ...
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CBS Moneywatch
Nokia, Microsoft, and Google Try to Steal Apple's Thunder
DailyFinance
However, not to be outdone, Google's Motorola and Verizon (NYS: VZ) are teaming up for their own New York City press event on the same day. Oh, and let's not forget that Amazon.com has announced an event for Sept. 6 to presumably unveil a new Kindle ...
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3G Version of Google's Nexus 7 Is Coming Soon [REPORT]
Mashable
Google launched the Nexus 7 at its developer's conference in June. The 7-inch tablet has a 1280 x 800 display, NVIDIA quad-core Tegra 4 processor, and is one of the few devices on the market running the latest version of Google's operating system ...
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GPS, Google bring quiet desperation to a trip to Walden
Minneapolis Star Tribune
But some 21st century conveniences -- namely Google maps and some GPS devices -- have been leading travelers to the wrong Walden: an identically named reservoir, next to a golf course, in this old industrial center on Massachusetts' North Shore. "I ...
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Four years with Google Chrome, and I'm never going back
BetaNews
Every year, the Labor Day holiday falls very closely to the anniversary of Google's launch of the beta version of the Google Chrome Web browser. Released on September 1, 2008, Google Chrome is now four years old, and I am taking the opportunity on this ...
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Google To Sell Motorola's Home Business To Focus On Smartphones
Trefis
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is planning to sell Motorola Mobility's home division, according to a Bloomberg report. Sources say that the company has hired Barclays to help it find a suitable buyer. If Google goes through with the transaction, it would be in ...
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Microsoft updates service terms; follows in Google's footsteps
ZDNet
Microsoft has updated its services agreement to include minor changes to its terms of usage for its online services, including a clause that may allow Google-like data sharing across its cloud and desktop services. The agreement, which governs Windows ...
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