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Facebook, Google tech gurus to design cancer research game Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists from a British cancer charity are teaming up with technology gurus from the likes of Amazon, Facebook and Google to design and develop a mobile game aimed at speeding the search for new cancer drugs. The project, led by ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Helped Honor FTC Chairman During Agency Inquiry Bloomberg Google Inc. (GOOG) contributed $25,000 to honor the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission while the company was under investigation by the agency for antitrust violations, Senate records show. Google donated the money to Common Sense Media ... See all stories on this topic »

5 Things Every Publisher Should Know About Google Webmaster Tools Forbes Since I'm a small publisher and my resources are still limited, I tend to place the majority of my focus toward optimizing my site for Google's search engine, which according to research firm comScore holds 67 percent of the U.S. search market as of ... See all stories on this topic »

Google clings to cash for acquisitions, says CFO Huffington Post SAN FRANCISCO — Google plans to cling to its bulging stash of cash to pay for potential acquisitions and other technology investments that might boost future profits, a top executive said Thursday. Patrick Pichette, who oversees Google Inc.'s bank ... See all stories on this topic »

What Is the Point of Google's Chromebook Pixel? New York Times (blog) Google, as you've probably noticed, has become a hardware company. It's designing phones, tablets and even laptops. Its Chromebook laptop concept has some extremely compelling aspects. As I wrote in November, it's a fast, silent, light, beautiful ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)

13 Cool Things You Can Do With Google Glass PC Magazine Last June, Google co-founder and chief executive Sergey Brin pulled off what we called the most kick-a** tech demo ever, mixing skydiving, BMX biking, and rappelling all to show off Google Glass, the augmented-reality eyeglasses that Google has been ... See all stories on this topic »

Facebook Buys Microsoft Atlas Ad-Placement Tool in Google Combat Bloomberg Facebook Inc. (FB) said it will acquire Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Atlas Advertiser Suite business, adding campaign-measurement tools that help it step up competition with Google (GOOG) Inc. for online-display advertisements. The team from Atlas will ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Must Show Ex-Workers Some Documents Only Bloomberg Google Inc. (GOOG) will have to turn over only some of the documents sought by former workers of technology companies suing over claims the employers agreed to not recruit from each other. U.S. District Judge Paul S. Grewal in San Jose, California ... See all stories on this topic »

Google to be summoned over data grab 'excesses' The Guardian An inquiry by European privacy regulators, led by France's CNIL, criticised Google for its "uncontrolled" and "excessive" collection of information about internet users, in some cases without their consent. The statement continued: "DPAs [data ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Google Expands Universal Search to Include Your Calendar Wired Google has expanded the personalized search “field trial” it initiated last year, pulling in additional results from Google Calendar. Your Google Calendar appointments join your Gmail and Google Drive documents alongside traditional Google search ... See all stories on this topic » German Copyright Law Targets Google Links New York Times As originally proposed by the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel last year, the law was seen as a clear attempt by a European government to force big Internet companies like Google to share some of the billions of euros they earn from the sale of ... See all stories on this topic » Google has $48 billion cash hoard USA TODAY Although he didn't identify possible takeover candidates for the future, Pichette cited Google's $12.4 billion acquisition of cellphone maker Motorola Mobility last year as a prime example of why the company believes it needs to have lots of money at ... See all stories on this topic » German lawmakers back Internet copyright, Google critical Reuters Google launched an ad campaign in German newspapers and set up a web information site called "Defend your web" to lobby against the proposals, saying they would mean less information for consumers and higher costs for companies. The "ancillary ... See all stories on this topic » Google Scores Copyright Win in Germany Wall Street Journal Google's spokesman in Germany, Ralf Bremer, praised legislators for stopping the bill "in its most damaging form." But, he added, "the best outcome for Germany would be no new legislation because it threatens innovation, particularly for start-ups," he ... See all stories on this topic » Google Reveals Details About Its Plan To Fix Password Security Forbes At a presentation at the RSA security conference on Thursday, Upadhyay described how Google has been testing the use of token-based security to protect its own corporate systems. In addition to typing in a username and password, Googlers trying out the ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes Why Google is the biggest social network: a useless homepage San Francisco Chronicle (blog) On Thursday CNET confirmed that Google was toying with the idea of getting rid of the black bar at the top of www.Google.com that lists the search giant's other services like Gmail, Images or News. That's a good thing; it was ugly and full of bugs. See all stories on this topic » Google mulls spicing up Google Maps Engine with Google Earth Engine imaging GigaOM Google is looking into upgrading its Google Maps Engine with the large supply of satellite images available on Google Earth Engine, according to a company engineer. The move would enable businesses to perform comparative mapping analytics and show ... See all stories on this topic » Google Chrome Bug Plagues Mac Users Wired (blog) Over the past few years, people have flocked to Chrome for its speed, its stability, and the way it dovetails with Google products like Gmail and Google Drive. So facing multiple crashes a day has been particularly annoying for some longtime users. See all stories on this topic » Wired (blog) Google Muscles Into Paid Discovery Of Apps With New Click-To-Download ... TechCrunch The app stores are overrun, and there's little way to get noticed until you break into the charts. So Google just announced it's making it easier to buy an AdWords unit called “Click-To-Download” mobile ads that lead directly to iTunes and Google Play ... See all stories on this topic » TechCrunch Google Explains How Search Works, Complete With Live Spam Slideshow TechCrunch Google today updated its Inside Search site, its homepage for all things search, with a handful of educational and interactive features that explain in layman's terms how Google's Search works. Did you know the web had over 30 trillion pages, by the way? See all stories on this topic » TechCrunch

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谷歌眼鏡的創造者們，從人性關懷為出發點，希望其為現實增色，而不是讓注意力匱乏的人們更分心。但誰知道呢？新科技一旦投入社會，創造者是很難控制其用途的。

Sergey Brin Explains Google Glasses New York Times (blog) James Duncan Davidson Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, on Wednesday at the $7,500-a-seat TED conference in Long Beach, Calif. Why did Google create Google Glass, its glasses with a heads-up display? To hear Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)

Richard_Dean_Mattox February 27, 2013 20:07 I thought this was about gay ... Huffington Post ShambalaMountain February 27, 2013 19:37 Will wearing Google glasses be as embarrassing as the Bluetooth guy speaking to himself in public ??? Monkeyman365 February 27, 2013 19:36 [van_Eyck], ewaste will be dumped in foreign countries or in our ... See all stories on this topic »

Key To Google Glass Success: Make It Seem Normal Huffington Post With Glass, Google has pioneered an unprecedented approach to wearable technology and a novel way to access the Internet. But having negotiated the technical challenges of building Glass, Google now faces the task of convincing people to buy and wear ... See all stories on this topic »

TED 2013: Sergey Brin talks Google Glass Los Angeles Times On Wednesday, Google's Sergey Brin took to the stage at TED 2013 wearing his pair to discuss his, ahem, vision for Google Glass. His appearance came on the day when applications were due in a contest to win the right to buy one of the $1,500 devices. See all stories on this topic »

Google Play restores paid apps in Taiwan ZDNet "Google is pleased to announce that Taiwan users can once again find and purchase paid apps on Google Play," the company said in a statement, according to a Central News Agency (CNA) report Wednesday. Taiwanese users are now able to view the "Top ... See all stories on this topic » ZDNet

Google Sports Game Shows Web Tech Power InformationWeek If you've noticed more people than usual frantically pawing at their smartphones lately, Google may be to blame. The company on Wednesday launched a multiplayer online game called Chrome Super Sync Sports to highlight ways that Web technology and ... See all stories on this topic »

Toni Morrison talks to Google about creativity San Jose Mercury News "It's like a big, metal, claw-y machine in 'Transformers,'" she said, to much laughter, during a lunchtime gathering at Google's Manhattan offices. "When they're threatened, they turn into a little radio, they turn into a little car. And then after you ... See all stories on this topic »

Google not expected to check every upload says Italian court Reuters The details of the ruling were made public 60 days after the Milan court acquitted three Google executives of charges of having violated the privacy of an Italian boy with autism by allowing a video, showing him being bullied, to be posted on the site ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Glass application period ends today: Here's how to enter Los Angeles Times Google this month announced it was letting Americans enter a contest to win the right to buy one of its $1,500 Google Glass devices. Glass is a smartphone-like computer that users wear on their heads much as they would wear normal eyeglasses. The ... See all stories on this topic »

Google And Facebook Ignore "Do Not Track" Requests, Say They Confuse ... Forbes These are increasingly tough question for Internet giants like Google and Facebook, who earn billions of dollars from online advertising. During a Wednesday session at the annual RSA security conference in San Francisco, spokespeople from those ... See all stories on this topic »

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Google Chromebook Pixel is a cloud-computing showpiece USA TODAY Here's what you thought you knew about Google's Chromebook laptops: They're designed for Internet computing and are known for plain designs and bargain-basement prices. The former is still true. You're supposed to be connected to the Internet when ... See all stories on this topic »
Defense Department opens contracts for Apple, Google CNET Of the more than 600,000 mobile devices used by the department, 470,000 are currently BlackBerry, 41,000 are Apple products, and 8,700 are running on Google Android. The department has said that eventually it wants to handle as many as 8 million ... See all stories on this topic »
Google patches 'loophole' in two-factor verification system NBCNews.com A security firm found it could bypass Google's two-step login verification process, reset a user's master password and gain full control of the account "simply by capturing a user's application-specific password." Application-specific passwords are ... See all stories on this topic »
Google and Spain wrestle over EU privacy law Reuters The issue before the European Court of Justice boils down to this: If a person fails to make social security payments and their house is auctioned as a result, do they have the right to force Google to delete such damaging information from search results? See all stories on this topic »
Google offers social log-in feature Washington Post Google is increasing the rivalry between its Google+ network and Facebook, announcing Tuesday that it is introducing its own social log-in feature. Many Web sites let Facebook and Twitter users sign into their sites with the username and password from ... See all stories on this topic » By Hayley Tsukayama, Google is increasing the rivalry between its Google+ network and Facebook, announcing Tuesday that it is introducing its own social log-in feature. Many Web sites let Facebook and Twitter users sign into their sites with the username and password from the social network. Now Google has made some partnerships that allows its Google+ users to do the same. OpenTable, FitBit, USA Today and the Guardian are among the feature’s launch partners. Log-in security features, such as two-factor authentication, can be carried over when signing into these sites. The company is also adding in some features that allow those signed into an app through their Google+ account to share information with certain friends on the network using its built-in “Circle” friend groups. That means that you can opt to only share workout data with your exercise buddy or the tracks you’ve listened to with people who won’t make fun of your musical tastes. In a blog post outlining the new features, Google product director Seth Sternberg took direct aim at the automatic sharing features implemented by Facebook, calling it “social spam.” “Google+ doesn’t let apps spray ‘frictionless’ updates all over the stream, so app activity will only appear when it’s relevant,” Sternberg wrote. Once users have shared content, Google said, the company is also offering different ways for your friends to interact with the content. For example, when your friends click on a song you’ve shared, they’ll hear the song in the app from which you shared it. Friends will also be able to buy goods and services this way, the company said. Finally, in an effort that may also help Google boost downloads to its mobile devices, users who sign into a Web site with Google will also have the option to install its corresponding mobile app on Android devices. (The Washington Post Co.’s chairman and chief executive, Donald E. Graham, is a member of Facebook’s board of directors.)
Google Glass is an all-knowing virtual assistant — is your head ready? NBCNews.com You may have recently spotted some goofy-looking headgear gracing the brows of the Google founders — and a few supermodels, too. While it may seem like a cyberpunk fashion statement that just got too literal, Google's Project Glass, a wearable ... See all stories on this topic »
Google And Samsung: The Honeymoon Is Over For Tech's Odd Couple Forbes For my money today's Wall Street Journal report on tensions in the Google-Samsung relationship will probably rank as the high-tech news of the month – if not the year. According to reporter Amir Efrati, Google executives are becoming increasingly ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes
Google Teams With Prodigal Son to Bust Data Sort Record Wired The result is particularly telling because MapR ran the test using commercially available software — its version of Hadoop, a tool that crunches data across a sea of ordinary computer servers — but also because it used virtual servers provided by ... See all stories on this topic »
Yelp: We compete with print -- not Google or Facebook CNET Chief Financial Officer Rob Krolik said, however, that Yelp is uniquely positioned to attract tens of millions of local merchant customers. Currently, the conversations the company has with would-be advertising business owners are not about Google at ... See all stories on this topic »
Sweet! Google Chrome may get noise indicators on tabs CNET ... of increasing desperation, trying to find the culprit. I ending up shutting down most of my tabs before pinpointing the guilty party in a haze of epithets. There has to be a better way, I thought. It looks like Google Chrome developers are one step ... See all stories on this topic »

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Google Glass should be for our eyes only CNN Just 48 hours later, Google potentially struck a new blow against privacy when it posted a video preview of its new "Glass" technology -- high-tech spectacles featuring a revolutionary digital interface that enable its wearers to not only view the ... See all stories on this topic »

Samsung Sparks Anxiety at Google Wall Street Journal Google executives worry that Samsung has become so big—the South Korean company sells about 40% of the gadgets that use Google's Android software—that it could flex its muscle to renegotiate their arrangement and eat into Google's lucrative mobile-ad ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Google 'Doodles' Reflect Company's Culture of Innovation Voice of America From a marketing standpoint Google, the enormously profitable Internet search engine, separated itself from the competition early on with its homepage, the iconic Google logo on a blank white screen. The stark design emphasizes the company's view that ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Said Developing Subscription Music Service Bloomberg Google Inc. (GOOG), developer of the Android mobile-phone platform, plans to start a subscription music-streaming service to challenge Spotify Ltd., said two people with knowledge of the situation. Negotiations are under way with major record labels to ... See all stories on this topic »

It's Official: Google Glass Is Here! Forbes While Apple iWatch rumors continue to slog their way through the blog-o-sphere, Google has upped the ante. Google's Glass is not a rumor, it's real. In addition (according to Google) you can get one by the end of 2013 by entering and winning a special ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Google Nexus fired into space to see if screams are audible CNET ... to test the "Alien" tagline firsthand. They've launched a satellite into orbit equipped with a screaming smartphone. Billed as the first of its kind, the Strand-1 nanosatellite was launched from India today and will test how well a Google Nexus ... See all stories on this topic »

Say what?! 3 major misconceptions about Google's Chrome OS Computerworld (blog) Chrome OS Google Docs As a cloud-centric operating system, Chrome OS is focused primarily on Web-based applications. So, no, you can't install Microsoft Word on a Chromebook, as Chrome OS doesn't use traditional local PC software -- but you can use ... See all stories on this topic » Computerworld (blog)

Google Glass: The Dork Look Isn't All That Popular Right Now Forbes Which is one of the problems that Google has over Google Glass. The idea of a mini-Android computer in your spectacle frames has any number of people salivating. I will admit that I won't be one of them until prescription lenses can be put into them ... See all stories on this topic »

Amazon May Seem Unstoppable, But Google Is Powering the Counterattack Wired Google's increasingly aggressive effort to steal online retail from Amazon is turning into one of the most intriguing business battles of the year, and not just because of the sight of two behemoths pounding on each other. Google's unique position in ... See all stories on this topic » Wired

Google raises privacy fears as personal details are released to app developers The Guardian Google could face a third privacy row in a two years, after a leading campaigner called for the US government to investigate the fact that the names, geographic region and email addresses of people who buy apps from its Play store are passed on to the ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

 

 

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Samsung Sparks Anxiety at Google
amsung Electronics Co. and Google Inc. together have stemmed Apple Inc.'s dominance in smartphones, but there is new tension in their partnership. Google executives worry that Samsung has become so big—the South Korean company sells about 40% of the gadgets that use Google's Android software—that it could flex its muscle to renegotiate their arrangement and eat into Google's lucrative mobile-ad business, people familiar with the matter said.
Now, as top executives from the world's mobile industry gather in Barcelona, Google is meeting with other companies in hopes that their Android devices can keep Samsung's leverage in check by providing legitimate ...

巨頭蓋大樓 Firefox OS, Leaves Door Open for Motorola Nexus Device

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Google Glass V2 Could Be Binocular, And Even Double As Stealth Hearing Aids Forbes Now that the first version of Google Glass is out in the wild (in very limited numbers) it is time to turn our gaze to what's next. Certainly that's what Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the lead inventor on the project, is doing. A patent application by ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Firefox OS Will Take On Apple And Google In The Smartphone Wars, Starting ... Huffington Post Google's Android software, which the company distributes free to phone vendors from Samsung to HTC, had roughly 70 percent share of the worldwide smartphone market in the fourth quarter, according to industry research firm Gartner. Apple, which created ... See all stories on this topic »

Intellectual property rights: Google vs. publishers Deutsche Welle They argue that they're the ones who develop the content that Google and other search machines list. The pages linked from a search result get traffic, as Google does leads the multitudes of users to them. However, publishers don't see a cent from ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Glass Is As Much About Working With Our Past As Our Future TechCrunch Google Glass is here but its reality in the workplace is not quite here yet. What it will eventually do to the way we live and work reminds me of Steampunk illustrations of a person with a mechanical eye, who works according to what appears in the ... See all stories on this topic » TechCrunch

Firefox Takes On Both Apple and Google With Yet Another Smartphone OS Forbes The system will allow developers to produce apps based on HTML5 – the main computer language used for the internet – which it says will require considerably less effort and investment than producing apps for the Apple and Google-owned systems. See all stories on this topic »

Check Out Google's Russian Offices In Moscow Business Insider When Google designs the interior of its offices, it doesn't just make a bulk acquisition of bean bags, a slide, and some ping pong tables, drop them in the space and call it a day. First it talks to its employees about what they want in an office. It ... See all stories on this topic » Business Insider

Inside the Google-Samsung Tussle for Future of Mobile AdAge.com In moving to Google from Samsung, Mr. Wallace found himself in the middle of one of today's most complicated business relationships: the "frenemy." The two mobile titans are the latest to be branded with the term, a well-worn one in the tech industry. See all stories on this topic » AdAge.com

Google's plan to eat Amazon's lunch and dominate retailing GigaOM This particular move, though, is a not-so-subtle signal to the marketplace that Google intends to become the dominant player in global ecommerce – which in the U.S. alone is already a $186 billion goldmine. Yes, for Google this is not just about going ... See all stories on this topic » GigaOM

Apple Maps Flap Caps Google Apps' Domination AdAge.com iPhone users found themselves in a peculiar position last September. The release of iOS 6 -- the latest iteration of Apple's iPhone operating system -- meant Apple was replacing Google Maps with a map app of its own. Apple Maps was a total disaster ... See all stories on this topic »

Disruptions: Data Without Context Tells a Misleading Story New York Times (blog) Kelly Mason, a public affairs spokeswoman for Google, said the company's Flu Trends site was meant to be only one source in addition to the C.D.C. and other flu surveillance methods. “We review and potentially update our model each season,” she said. See all stories on this topic » Google Android Exec Leaves Door Open for Motorola Nexus Device By Amir Efrati Google’s recently-acquired hardware manufacturer, Motorola Mobility, is in a free-fall. But there’s a tie-up with the parent company’s brand that could be an option. While Motorola’s share of the market for smartphones and tablets powered by Google’s own Android mobile operating system plummets, it is pinning its hopes on a smartphone known as “X Phone” that will be released this year, which The Wall Street Journal first wrote about in December. If that doesn’t work out, might Google’s Android unit work with Motorola to develop a co-branded “Nexus” device? “Anything can happen,” said Hiroshi Lockheimer, an Android engineering executive, when asked by the Journal during the first day of Mobile World Congress, a mobile-industry conference in Barcelona. He didn’t imply that such a device was already in the roadmap, but he added that Android has worked with several other manufacturers, and that “we like to cycle it around.” A Motorola spokesman declined to comment. So far, Google has created four Nexus-branded smartphones and two tablets with HTC, LG, Asus and Samsung, which was involved in three of them. Android has put a greater emphasis on selling Nexus devices over the past year and currently has three for sale through its website and in some retail stores. The devices have helped LG (Nexus 4) and Asus (Nexus 7) to establish a higher profile among Android manufacturers, though in terms of sales, Nexus devices haven’t been major blockbusters like Samsung’s own line of Galaxy devices. Still, working closely with Android on a Nexus device can be tremendously beneficial to the selected manufacturer, giving them greater insight into working with Android software, according to people familiar with the process. However, a Motorola Nexus device might upset other manufacturers who were promised by Google that it wouldn’t play favorites with Android device makers after its acquisition of Motorola. Motorola could use a boost. During the fourth quarter of 2012, the handset maker grabbed just 1.9% of the market for smartphones powered by Google’s Android mobile operating system, down from 6.2% a year earlier—meaning it sold 2.3 million fewer devices in the most recent period, according to research firm IDC. Taiwanese tablet maker Asustek did get some traction with the Nexus 7, saying it was selling about a million per month. Google has marketed the Nexus 7 through TV commercials and other ads. Of course, that’s still small potatoes compared to Apple, which sold 10 million iPad mini devices during the last six weeks of 2012. When asked about reports, including one by the Journal, that Google is developing plans for physical retail stores, where it could sell Nexus devices and many others, Lockheimer only said that he’s focused on “coming out with more products people like.” Why Bad News Keeps on Coming for Apple Analysts are failing to accept changing sentiment and reality and so are late to break bad news on Apple. MarketWatch's Mark Hulbert discusses on Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images.