Google’s famed self-driving car got into its first fender-bender this week. The project is aimed at creating less traffic accidents and improving transportation safety and productivity, which makes the event a bit embarrassing. But before you start discounting the advancements in computer capabilities, Google says that the incident was actually caused by human error. We’ve...Read More
Google and Microsoft are at it again. The battle between the two tech giants has once again spilled into public view on Twitter, this time over mobile patents. It started Wednesday, when David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, wrote a blog post that accused Microsoft, Apple and other companies of trying to take down Google’s...Read More
As far as experiments go, Google Hotel Finder (Experiment) is a successful one, but don’t expect it to shake up online travel booking any time soon. Hotel Finder highlights popular areas using a Google Map overlay; however, compared to Hipmunk’s heatmap layers, that illumination doesn’t shed much light on a city. As with Bing Travel,...Read More
Google has today acquired Dealmap, a start-up whose main function is to aggregate discounts from hundreds of group-buying sites. This acquisition may well prove to add on to Google’s recently launched service in Google Offers or may stay a completely separate entity tied in to Google through simple check-ins. The terms of the deal have...Read More
Microsoft is pouring millions of dollars into its campaign to become a serious player in Internet search, a market utterly dominated by rival Google. The campaign is having an impact, but at a pace that’s so glacial and costly some skeptics wonder whether it’s worth it. Microsoft’s share of the U.S. search market grew 11%...Read More
Google has acquired more than 1,000 patents from IBM in order to pad its portfolio. Patent litigation is a theater of the absurd in most cases, but it has evolved into a standard business practice among tech companies, and Google needs more fodder to defend itself. Once upon a time, a patent had a purpose....Read More
It may be a good time to bring Chrome to your living room HDTV if you haven’t already. That’s because Logitech, a maker of mice, webcams and other computer peripherals, is slashing the price of its Revue Google TV set-top box to just $99, down from $249. The Revue lets users search for things they’re...Read More
(Credit: Paul Ford) Google, banging its make-the-Web-faster drum again, announced a new service today to rewrite and host others’ Web pages so browsers can load them faster. But this time, the service isn’t free. The company’s earlier moves in this area haven’t cost a cent, but Google will charge for the new Page Speed Service...Read More
Miriam Salpeter If you have an ear to the online sphere, you know Google+, Google’s newest social platform, is all the rage. While Google+ is still in invitation-only mode, early results indicate it could be a keeper. The Wall Street Journal estimates Google+ had 20 million visitors in three weeks. (Google declines to comment, and...Read More
Computerworld – Early reaction was mixed to the 2,000 layoffs announced Monday by BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, as several analysts said RIM continues to face problems from aggressive smartphone and tablet competitors such as Apple and Google. The job cuts amount to more than 10% of Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM’s 19,000-person workforce. “Those 2,000 jobs,...Read More
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