2012年9月27日 星期四

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iOS Maps: 5 Reasons Apple Broke With Google And Built Its Own App
Huffington Post
Google Maps For Android Was Getting Better Than The iOS Version. http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/25/3407614/apple-over-a-year-left-on-google-maps-contract-google-maps-ios-app">Chris Ziegler of The Verge
recently reported that Apple ...
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A New Google App Gives You Local Information — Before You Ask for It
New York Times (blog)
Google, along with other companies and researchers, dreams of so-called ubiquitous computing or ambient intelligence — computers woven into the texture of life as opposed to being separate machines. Eventually, the theory goes, computers will be part ...
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New York Times (blog)
Google obeys Brazilian court order, blocks YouTube political video
Reuters
Appeals exhausted, Google obeys censorship order. * Google Brazil chief faced arrest for non-compliance. * Court decision violates free-speech ideal, Coelho says. RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Brazilian unit of Google (GOOG.O), the world's No.
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Google Street View dives into the deep blue sea
Los Angeles Times
Google Street View has taken us on virtual trips to the South Pole, the Amazon forest, inside some of the world's greatest museums, and to the Kennedy Space Center -- but it has never taken us underwater, until now. This week Google debuted 360-degree ...
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Google's Schmidt Horses Around With Psy
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Evan Ramstad. Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt came to South Korea to meet executives at the biggest makers of Android smartphones – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Co. – but wound up also getting a dance lesson from Psy, whose ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Brazil Detains Google Chief over Anti-Islam YouTube Clip
Fox News
The arrest of Google executive Fabio Jose Silva Coelho was announced in Säo Paulo. A press release issued by the federal police said he was not expected to remain in jail and should be released later in the day after signing a document promising to ...
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Google Autonomous Cars Get Green Light In California
InformationWeek
At Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters Tuesday, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that allows driverless cars to operate on the state's roads. Google is perhaps the highest profile company working on cars that drive themselves ...
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Google and Asus rumored to be working on $99 Nexus Tablet
CNET
The problem is that Google would likely have to be losing a pretty penny on the cost of each tablet to sell them at such a price, or the specs would have to be scaled down to a point where they could risk sullying the good name of Android Jelly Bean, ...
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Google's 14th birthday: 14 years to a cultural phenomenon
Los Angeles Times
In the time it would take to raise a teenager with a mouthful of braces, Google has managed to single-handedly transform our culture. We use it to research our business competitors, settle bar bets, bookmark recipes, check our email, plot driving ...
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Google Apps drops download support for older Office formats
PCWorld
Google announced Wednesday that Google Apps users will no longer be able to export word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents as files using older Microsoft Office formats, such as .doc, .xls and .ppt. Users of the search giant's consumer ...
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Google's Brazil chief detained in YouTube case
CBS News
(AP) RIO DE JANEIRO - Google Inc.'s head of operations in Brazil was detained by the country's federal police Wednesday after the company failed to heed a judge's order to take down YouTube videos that the court ruled violate Brazilian electoral law.
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CBS News
Apple-Google deal took a wrong turn over directions, report says
CNET
Apple executives also wanted to include Google's turn-by-turn-navigation service in the iPhone -- a feature popular with Android users because it lets people treat their phones as in-car GPS devices. Google wouldn't allow it, according to people on ...
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Google Maps Shows Underwater Sights
InformationWeek
On Tuesday, Google introduced the first underwater panoramic images to Google Maps. Brian McClendon, VP of Google Maps and Earth, characterized the occasion as "the next step in our quest to provide people with the most comprehensive, accurate, and ...  世界四五處
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Driverless cars now street legal in California
UPI.com (blog)
To put that more plainly, Google — one of the largest and most innovative companies in the state, and now the fifth largest in the US – used its considerable wealth and charm to nudge the state legislature in Sacramento into letting it test its fleet ...
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UPI.com (blog)
Samsung, Google execs to meet amid Apple patent wars
CNET (blog)
Samsung's Shin Jong-kyun will meet with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt in Seoul tomorrow, and it's a safe bet the topic of Apple will come up. The Samsung mobile chief confirmed today that he will meet with Schmidt on Thursday in Seoul, ...
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Google Play Store Downloads Surpass 25 Billion
InformationWeek
The Google Play Store, which is Google's equivalent of the Apple iTunes App Store, has reached a significant milestone: 25 billion total downloads. Google announced the achievement Wednesday, and said the total number of apps available for download ...
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Google's wind-powered data center
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
The amount of electricity sucked down by data centers has been one of the tech world's dirty little non-secrets for years. Packed with equipment running nonstop, data centers can use more energy than many small towns. And they're only as green as the ...
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Google patches 24 Chrome bugs, pays out $29K to bounty hunters
Computerworld
Although Google announced a Windows 8 version of Chrome -- one that will include not just a desktop browser for that traditional UI, but also one for what was formerly called the "Metro" environment -- in mid-June, it has not shifted the latter from ...
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O'Brien: Apple and Google stock price explosion reflects their dominance
San Jose Mercury News
You've been hearing a lot about Apple's stock-smashing records. But with far less fanfare, Google's stock has also begun to roar, reaching an all-time high this week. We may think of Google and Apple as fierce competitors, but investors have made ...
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Google Maps for Android: 4 hidden features
Computerworld (blog)
With all the talk over Google Maps and iOS right now, I thought it'd be a good time to take a look at Google Maps for Android and a handful of hidden features you might not know exist. Google Maps Labs As it does with many products, Google maintains an ...
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