2013年3月7日 星期四

Facebook Gets More Visual to Keep its Users Engaged ; Why Google stock's going great and Apple ain't


Facebook Gets More Visual to Keep its Users Engaged

The social network is adapting to the popularity of image sharing and mobile devices.
 http://www.technologyreview.com/news/512341/facebook-gets-more-visual-to-keep-its-users-engaged/


 Why Google stock's going great and Apple ain't
CBS News
Google (GOOG) shares are on a tear at more than $838. Apple (AAPL), on the other hand, was supposed to be the golden child -- the first trillion dollar company -- until Wall Street perceived problems and investors cut the stock price down to size. So ...


Google Takes a Field Trip To iOS
Wired (blog)
When Google's city guide app Field Trip launched on Android in September, the company promised a version for Apple's iOS was “coming soon.” Evidently, that means “in six months” at the Googleplex, because Field Trip finally landed on iOS on Thursday.
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Google Maps facing ban in Germany as trial advances
CNET
Judge Dr. Matthias Zigann of the Munich I Regional Court just told Google and its Motorola Mobility subsidiary in no uncertain terms that his court is at this point (prior to counsel's argument on claim construction, infringement and validity) inclined ...
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Google reaches deal with MPEG LA over its VP8 video codec
CNET
MPEG LA logo. Google has reached a licensing agreement with MPEG LA over patents that cover video compression, clearing the way for wider adoption of the Web giant's VP8 video codec and its streaming-video platform WebM. The deal grants Google the ...
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Cheaper Google Glass Competitor Vuzix Ships Developer Units
Forbes
Google may have captured people's imaginations with its Google Glass Project, but it could have a few competing devices to contend with when it ships later this year. Vuzix, the maker of competing “smart glasses” called the M100, has said it will soon ...
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Apple and Google: The tables have turned
Fortune
Google (GOOG), meanwhile, was just muddling along. After doubling during 2009, its stock had been treading water around $600 a share for three and a half years. Apple (AAPL), too was trading around $600 a share, but the iPhone 5 was coming and the ...
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Fortune
Google's Lunar Fixation
Daily Beast
ROBERT MICHAEL/AFP/GettyImages. Google has announced that it will offer $20 million to the first privately funded company to land a robot on the moon. By 2015, the robot must travel 500 meters (roughly 1/3 of a mile) and send high definition images ...
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Daily Beast
Recon 2: The Google map of the human body
CNET
The idea is to eventually be able to browse the metabolic system as if using Google maps. Enabling this kind of intra-network view of genes and their products -- enzymes, hormones, nutrients, etc. -- could give researchers an up-close view of a wide ...
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Microsoft's Patent Lawsuit Against Google Could Shut Down Google Maps In ...
TechCrunch
Microsoft and Google are currently involved in a patent lawsuit in Germany that could, according to FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller and a number of German reports, lead to an outright ban of Google Maps in the country. Microsoft's EP0845124 patent in ...
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Why Google stock's going great and Apple ain't
CBS News
Google (GOOG) shares are on a tear at more than $838. Apple (AAPL), on the other hand, was supposed to be the golden child -- the first trillion dollar company -- until Wall Street perceived problems and investors cut the stock price down to size. So ...
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Amazon Cloud Revenue Heads Higher as Google Plays Catch-Up: Tech
Bloomberg
The marketplace gives Seattle-based Amazon and its 7-year- old cloud-computing division an added advantage over Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. (GOOG), which are racing to catch up after a late start. Analysts at Macquarie Securities estimated in a Jan.
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