Google 和Facebook還有很多需要改進之處

  

Google's Oct. 29 Android event: 'Nexus 4,' 'Nexus 10' and still more Nexus NBCNews.com (blog) Google's got an Android event scheduled for Oct. 29, about a year following the announcement of the Galaxy Nexus smartphone and Android 4.0 (better known as Ice Cream Sandwich). As with every event of this magnitude, there's a host of rumors about ... See all stories on this topic »

Yahoo's Mayer Embraces Mobile, Content, Yahoo Answers Wall Street Journal (blog) The company in the past has entered into deals with companies like Nokia to preload Yahoo mobile apps onto smartphones, and Mayer hinted she would look to enter into more such deals and that Yahoo should be able to challenge Google in mobile search ... See all stories on this topic »

Apple set to unwrap mini-iPad to take on Amazon, Google Chicago Tribune SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc is expected to make its biggest product move on Tuesday since debuting the iPad two years ago, launching a smaller, cheaper tablet into a market staked out by Amazon.com Inc and Google Inc. Apple hopes to beat ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Wallet hooks up with MetroPCS, promises update CNET Amid mounting competition in the mobile payments space, Google announced today that a second carrier will support Google Wallet: MetroPCS, the 9.5 million subscriber company that recently announced a merger with T-Mobile. The news, which was on ... See all stories on this topic »

Google and Motorola: Destroying Larry's Fuzzy Math Schaeffers Research (blog) Right here, right now, even the most ardent Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) bull should be questioning the wisdom of the company's acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The $64,000 question is this: Do Motorola's patents hold enough long-term strategic and ... See all stories on this topic »

European Union Protests Google's New Privacy Policy NPR (blog) Parisian dance professor Charlotte King says she needs Google for her job and life, but she doesn't trust the world's top Web search engine. "When I'm doing some research, the day after I have some proposition of products, of stores, of places, and it ... See all stories on this topic » NPR (blog)

In Mobile World, Tech Giants Scramble to Get Up to Speed New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Intel made its fortune on the chips that power personal computers, and Microsoft on the software that goes inside. Google's secret sauce is that it finds what you are looking for on the Internet. But the ground is shifting beneath ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Google News search introduces expandable results, multimedia CNET (blog) It's been more than a year since Google introduced expandable results into Google News, clustering related articles under a single headline and letting users expand the link to see more. Today Google said it will roll out expandable results, along with ... See all stories on this topic »

Mobile: The new frontier in claims against Google Politico A coalition of rivals prodding regulators in the U.S. and Europe to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google is raising a series of new concerns with the search company's business practices — this time claiming that Google is using Android to squash ... See all stories on this topic » Politico

Coolpix: An Android-based Camera That Shares Like a Smartphone

It's a good idea but the quality of the pictures could be better, says Lauren Goode

Google to unveil Android 4.2, Nexus 4 phone, Nexus 10 tablet CNET Google will also be showing off the first devices to run on Android 4.2, including a high-end tablet, the Nexus 10, from Samsung Electronics, and LG Electronics's first Nexus phone, the Nexus 4, CNET has confirmed. Also shown off will be an updated ... See all stories on this topic »

Google threatens to drop links to French media sites CNN Google executives met with French government officials on Friday to discuss the company's threat to drop French media sites from its search results if France goes through with a proposal to make search engines pay commissions for links to news content. See all stories on this topic »

The Google Chromebook, Suddenly, Is An Enterprise Contender ZDNet Google has also improved the Chromebook's offline capabilities so that you can read and write e-mail and Google Docs while disconnected from the cloud. Besides the 16 GB of local storage on the SSD, you also now get 100 GB of Google storage, too. See all stories on this topic » ZDNet

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) Earnings: Early Release Adds To Company Woes Market Daily News Diane Alter: Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) found out the hard way recently (Thursday) that the only thing worse than having earnings released prematurely is when those earnings are disappointing. A human error by financial printer R.R. Donnelley ... See all stories on this topic » Market Daily News

Google pushes way into mobile advertising China Daily Advertisement requests in the mobile sector through Google's products increased by 120 percent from July 2011 to July 2012 in China, and the country has become one of Google's top five countries by advertising request volume, according to the company. See all stories on this topic » China Daily

Rumor: Google Debuting New Nexus Tablets and Phones at Oct. Event PC Magazine Google and Microsoft are going to be squaring off with competing product announcements on October 29. And if the rumors are true, Google's going to be wading a little into Microsoft's "smartphone turf" by possibly showing off a new Nexus phone, among ... See all stories on this topic »

NYC sees progress in quest to become tech capital Businessweek Tech titans including Google and Facebook have ramped up their presences in New York in recent years. Some big-name newcomers are headquartered here. Plans for an elite technology graduate school, attracted with city money, are getting enough ... See all stories on this topic »

Brazilian press to Google News: pay up or leave our content alone Ars Technica Brazil's National Association of Newspapers decided to deny Google News the ability to re-post headlines and the first few sentences of articles from newspapers around the country. The 154 member newspapers make up 90 percent of Brazil's newspaper ... See all stories on this topic »

Beyond Their 10 Blue Links, Google's And Bing's Search Strategies Diverge TechCrunch Not too long ago, Google and Bing seemed fully focused on adding as many social features to their search engines as possible. For Google, that meant adding lots of Google+ features and for Bing it meant making the best out of its exclusive relationship ... See all stories on this topic »

Google joins Apple, Microsoft in three-way love in The Australian Financial Review As if this week's celebrations from Apple (the probable launch of an iPad Mini) and Microsoft (the launch of Windows 8) weren't enough, Google has joined the party with what's said to be the launch of a new phone, a new tablet and a new operating ... See all stories on this topic »

FT社評：谷歌應調整隱私政策英國《金融時報》 社評
在日新月異的互聯網世界，在保護用戶隱私與鼓勵企業創新之間很難取得恰當平衡。但歐洲監管當局有正當的理由對谷歌(Google)施加更大壓力，要求其必須調整備受爭議的隱私政策，即使此舉可能影響到所有提供互聯網服務的企業。今年3月，歐洲監管當局要求谷歌暫緩推行新的隱私政策，但谷歌錯誤地未予理會。根據現行隱私政策，谷歌將把從60項互聯網服務中收集到的用戶數據匯聚在一起，從而能夠向廣告商提供更有效地尋找目標客戶的途徑。不過，谷歌將必須對現行隱私政策做出巨大調整，否則就會面臨處罰，這很難說得上是對谷歌服務的最佳宣傳。谷歌必須證明，自己在整合​​數據之前已取得用戶“清楚明白的”同意授權，並且對其將管理這些信息的方式、原因以及擬儲存時限做出更令人信服的解釋。這才是正確的數據管理方式——通過匯聚的數據得到了哪位用戶的詳盡資料，這些數據就應被視為該用戶的財產。這一原則應當適用於一切收集個人信息的企業，不論其是否借助互聯網開展業務。谷歌現行隱私政策並未被裁定為完全不合法，但若谷歌願意改用上述更恰當的做法，則同樣令人欣慰。谷歌在研發上投入了巨額資金，接受谷歌服務的消費者留下的個人信息則是一筆寶貴的資產。用戶們必須清楚，使用便捷的免費服務需要付出相應代價，無論服務提供方是互聯網服務公司還是Facebook等社交網站。但鑑於數據濫用的範圍之廣，用戶必須信任那些收集並儲存數據的企業。在這一方面，谷歌和Facebook還有很多需要改進之處。這兩家公司過去都曾因為對隱私保護不夠上心而受到指責。要想建立起用戶信任，需要以更加透明和審慎的方式在隱私問題上進行取捨。簡單地說，清楚告知用戶收集信息的目的僅僅是最低要求。一個積極的信號是，互聯網行業已開始承認自己在隱私管理上存在多種隱患。微軟(Microsoft)的新版IE瀏覽器安裝包中將“自願退出”設置為默認選項，因此只有在消費者主動選擇的情況下才會參與信息共享。這一點值得稱讚。監管當局同樣也有責任，需要拿出合理而明確的規則來指引企業行為。歐盟(EU)各成員國應當繼續推進使各自五花八門的隱私法律融合一致的進程。但互聯網是一個沒有國界的世界。各國應當加大合作力度。否則，隱私保護和互聯網創新這兩方面都可能受到打擊。譯者/馬拉