Wireless Experiment and others

Will Apple, Google and Samsung lose the smartphone market? Computerworld Google has twice launched phone initiatives where it decided to sell Google-branded phones. The first initiative was in early 2010 when Google launched the Nexus One, followed by the Nexus S. They were manufactured by Samsung, but the fact that Google ... See all stories on this topic »

Are Apple, Whole Foods and Google Democrats or Republicans? Maybe We ... Forbes Whole Foods sells organic, locally-sourced, sustainable products. If one were to assign a philosophy or political orientation to the grocery store chain it would probably be Liberal Democrat. Surely you'd assume it was an entity concerned about global ... See all stories on this topic »

Nigerian Activists Google Map Capital City Voice of America ABUJA — More than 100 young Nigerians are teaming up with Google to add restaurants, markets, hospitals and other prominent locations in the Nigerian capital to Google Maps. Youth leaders say by mapping their city, they could boost the local economy ... See all stories on this topic » Voice of America

Why DIAL, Netflix & Google's AirPlay Killer, is Not A Killer at All Forbes This week, there was much talk about how a new technology developed by Netflix and Google would replace Apple's popular AirPlay technology. Many felt that because the new technology, called DIAL (short for Discovery and Launch), is an open standard ... See all stories on this topic »

How Android's 'Open' Nature Drives Google's Vision of The Smartphone Forbes And as far as that goes, he was right. The building blocks of an Android powered smartphone are there for everyone, but that's not what makes the Android ecosystem tick. Once you have the foundations of your device, you have to address a number of ... See all stories on this topic »

Watch Out Facebook, With Google+ at #2 and YouTube at #3, Google, Inc. Could ... Forbes A report by UK market research firm Trendstream updated its Global Web Index this week which showed how well Google's strategy is working in terms of getting users engaged in its social networks. According to GWI, Google+ is now the second largest ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

The Analysis Behind Google's Huge Upside DailyFinance (press release) Google reported better-than-expected Q4 earnings. The cost per click is going down, but Joe Magyer says it's dropping because Google is getting more clicks from mobile devices. Google's total paid clicks were up, and Joe feels good about Google's ... See all stories on this topic »

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook say they require warrants to give over ... The Verge Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook all say that they require full warrants in order to provide the contents of emails and messages to government entities, The Hill reports. That's a higher standard than currently required by US law, which as of now ... See all stories on this topic »

Zagat gets to Portland (thank you, Google) OregonLive.com It's not that Zagat was ignoring us. The restaurant-rating guide was just busy in New York, where it debuted in 1979, and in other, larger cities. But that changed earlier this year. Visit local bookstores today and you'll find rows of Zagat's burgundy ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Fiber provides faster Internet and, cities hope, business growth Washington Post KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Smack in the middle of the nation, this city is about as far as possible from the hubs of high-tech innovation on both coasts. An effort last spring to excite new Web entrepreneurs in a place better known for cattle drives and ... See all stories on this topic »

Documentary throws the book at Google scanning project CNET (blog) PARK CITY, UTAH--The most arresting moment in "Google and the World Brain," Ben Lewis' thoughtful new documentary about the search giant's effort to scan all the world's books, takes place not in Mountain View or a courtroom but rather a monastery high ... See all stories on this topic »

Yahoo, Like Google, Demands Warrants for User E-Mail Wired The Sunnyvale, California-based internet concern's exclusive comments came two days after Google revealed to Wired that it demands probable-cause warrants to turn over consumer content stored in its popular Gmail and cloud-storage Google Drive ... See all stories on this topic » Wired

Western Bloggers Use Google Maps To Expose North Korean Prison Camps NPR Melissa Block talks to Curtis Melvin, editor of the North Korean Economy Watch blog, about using Google Earth satellite images to identify the locations of North Korean prisons. Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of ... See all stories on this topic »

Tip of the Week: Search With Google on the Go New York Times (blog) Typing in keywords to search for information on a mobile phone can be awkward, but Google's mobile apps for Android and iOS let you search by speaking or by pictures taken with your phone's camera. Voice search is built into the Google Search app ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook Blocks Yandex, the Google of Russia Wired Yandex, Russia's reigning internet powerhouse, has found its latest endeavor thwarted by Facebook after Facebook revoked access to its social graph. Yandex's new mobile social “assistant” Wonder was supposed to coalesce a user's data from Facebook, ... See all stories on this topic » Wired

Google Silent About Wireless Experiment InformationWeek Google has applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to test an experimental wireless system, a possible prelude to providing mobile data service on a broad scale. Steven J. Crowley, a consulting wireless engineer, published a ... See all stories on this topic »

Google redesigns image search results for faster viewing Los Angeles Times Under the new format, when a user chooses a picture from the search results, rather than displaying a new page with a preview of the image, Google will instead pull up a larger version of the picture along with its data underneath the thumbnail when a ... See all stories on this topic »

Why it's time for a Google smart watch GigaOM Google is exploring the idea of making a smart watch according to a Business Insider source. The unnamed source suggests that Google is researching how to market such a device and BI notes certain relevant patents Google has that would support such a ... See all stories on this topic » GigaOM

Add expiration dates for shared Google Drive folders CNET (blog) There are visual indicators that show a folder is shared, but if you're busy working, or don't spend a lot of time logged into Google Drive, you may not notice them. When you come across a situation where you want to limit the amount of time that your ... See all stories on this topic »

Google applies for wireless spectrum #thecircuit Washington Post (blog) Google applies for wireless spectrum: Google has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for wireless spectrum in a band that Clearwire uses for mobile broadband. That's set off speculation that Google — which has deployed a ... See all stories on this topic » Government data requests to Google continue to rise PCWorld Governments continue to ask Google for more data about its users, with more than two-thirds of requests in the U.S. made through a subpoena, which usually doesn't require asking a judge for a search warrant. User data requests of all kinds have ... See all stories on this topic » How Google's Jeff Dean became the Chuck Norris of the Internet San Jose Mercury News Nevertheless, on April Fool's Day 2007, some admiring young Google engineers saw fit to bestow upon Jeff Dean the honor of a website extolling his programming achievements. For instance: Jeff Dean (Courtesy: Google). Compilers don't warn Jeff Dean. See all stories on this topic » Cassidy: Will Big Data turn us into Google-driven drones? San Jose Mercury News I'm down with Big Data. I am. Who isn't? Big Data is everywhere. Not only are we all down with Big Data, we all are Big Data, voluntarily or not providing an unfathomable amount of information to the big cloud in the sky, which tracks our needs, wants ... See all stories on this topic » Google Should Thank Holiday Shoppers for Boosting Cost Per Click All Things Digital Google completely overhauled its shopping experience this summer, which required merchants to pay if they wanted their products to appear on the site. 10468219-aj-shopping-cart-software While the move was controversial — and still ruffles some ... See all stories on this topic » All Things Digital Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution The Verge Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps. Great design is not something anybody has traditionally expected from Google. Infamously ... See all stories on this topic » Google creating wireless network, but for what? Fox News Google is trying to create an experimental wireless network covering its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, a move that some analysts say could portend the creation of dense and superfast Google wireless networks in other locations that would allow ... See all stories on this topic » Google Is Building An Experimental Wireless Network Perfect For High-Density ... TechCrunch When Google experiments, it can have earth-changing consequences. That might be the case with its latest project: the building of a wireless network on-campus at its Mountain View headquarters, reported by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. See all stories on this topic » Google redesigns image search for faster results PCWorld “Based on feedback from both users and webmasters, we redesigned Google Images to provide a better search experience,” Hongyi Li, an associate product manager at Google, said in a blog post. The improved image search will arrive “in the next few days” ... See all stories on this topic » Biden to hang out on Google Plus this afternoon Washington Post (blog) Vice President Biden addresses the final session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. in this file photo taken Sept. 6, 2012. (Eric Thayer - Reuters). Vice President Biden will host a hangout on Google Thursday. Fresh from Monday's ... See all stories on this topic » Google Tells Cops to Get Warrants for User E-Mail, Cloud Data Wired Google demands probable-cause, court-issued warrants to divulge the contents of Gmail and other cloud-stored documents to authorities in the United States — a startling revelation Wednesday that runs counter to federal law that does not always demand ... See all stories on this topic » Wired Google updates image search to be faster, more reliable CNET (Credit: Google). Google announced today that it is revamping its image search to make it speedier and more reliable. Soon, people will be able to simultaneously see images and image information while searching for photos, illustrations, and graphics. See all stories on this topic » Sundance Review: 'Google and the World Brain' Huffington Post There's a killer moment in Ben Lewis' fascinating documentary Google and the World Brain where the filmmakers, after traveling to the Monastery of Montserrat in Catalonia, ask the library's guardian Damià Roure what would happen if all this priceless ... See all stories on this topic » Google Adds Salt and Pepper to Tiny Smartphone Chips Wired Write once, run anywhere. For software developers, that has long been the dream. From Java to Flash to HTML5, many platforms have promised to make this a reality, by giving developers a way of writing an application that will run on virtually any ... See all stories on this topic » Wired Google Earnings: Ad Revenues Jump Helped By Mobile Push Forbes Google reported earnings for Q4 on January 22. The company's stock rose 5% after market as the company reported consolidated revenues of $14.4 billion, up approximately 36% year-over-year. However, Google's core revenues (revenues ex-Motorola) only ... See all stories on this topic » Now work on presentations offline with Google Slides ZDNet A common complaint about Google Docs, now accessed via Google Drive, is the requirement of being online. Previously Google gave offline capability to the word processor app, Docs, to allow Chrome and Chrome OS users to work without connectivity. See all stories on this topic » Facebook zooms past Google Maps to become the most used phone app in the US Christian Science Monitor 23, which ranked the top mobile application in the US by audience. Results from Android and iPhone show that Facebook has taken the No.1 spot as the most used mobile app of 2012. Google Maps has slid into second place. The rankings use data from as ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor Google shares surge on jump in Q4 profits USA TODAY (blog) In its traditionally strongest quarter, the Internet search giant hauled in $2.89 billion, or $8.62 a share in its fourth quarter, compared with $2.71 billion ($8.22 a share) a year ago. Excluding certain items, Google reported a profit of $10.65 a ... See all stories on this topic » Two Out Of Three Cases Where Google Gives User Data To Government Don't ... Forbes But the new wrinkle in Google's data is a breakdown of how many of those requests approached Google with a search warrant: Just 22%, according to the company. By contrast, 68% of requests were issued only with a subpoena, which unlike warrants don't ... See all stories on this topic » Google: US again leads world in requests for users' information Los Angeles Times The United States again leads the world in official requests for Google users' personal information. That's according to Google's "transparency" report released Wednesday. In the second half of 2012, Google received 8,476 requests for information, up 6 ... See all stories on this topic »