Google doodle by Ithaca College Professor Jack Wang and his twin brother, Holman.(Photo: PROVIDED PHOTO) Story Highlights Visit mycozyclassics.com/books to see the work of Jack and Holman Wang Laura Ingalls Wilder was born Feb. 7, 1867 ITHACA – The Google homepage on Saturday will have a touch of the prairie thanks to an Ithaca College...Read More
Larry Page, right, and Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founders at the official opening of Google’s new European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, Wednesday, October 6, 2004. Photographer: John Cogill/Bloomberg News. First it conquered search. Then it was online video and advertising. Now Google is turning its attention toward telecom — and it’s no experiment. In recent months,...Read More
Well, they started it. Google Street View allows people to crawl virtually along your street and look at your house. Google Earth offers global intrusion from above. The web giant has done its bit to abolish privacy. Now an artist has out-Googled Google, offering a sneak peek at its less than beautiful underbelly. The joy...Read More
Ever wonder why a doctor wears a white lab coat? Or a surgeon wears scrubs? Take a walk around any medical or laboratory environment and you’ll see a lot of people wearing silly-looking outfits like these. But it’s not just the medical environment. Utility workers and machinists wear oversized protective goggles. Environmental crews put on...Read More
Google Earth Pro, the premium version of Google’s popular Google Earth service, is now free. Google sliced the price from $400 a year, so this is a pretty solid deal. If you like to make 3D measurements or create HD videos of virtual trips around the world, I’d jump on this. You can download the...Read More
A Google sign at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.(Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP) SAN FRANCISCO — Google reports fourth-quarter financial results after the close of trading Thursday. The Internet giant is expected to post profits of $7.08 a share on sales of $14.61 billion. Google rules the most lucrative business on the Internet:...Read More
Google Fiber announces expansion to southeastern United States including Nashville.(Photo: Stephen Sugg) SAN FRANCISCO — Google is bringing speedy Internet to 18 cities in four metro areas in the southeastern United States, the latest expansion of its Fiber project. The Internet giant is promising speeds up to one gigabit per second, about 100 times the...Read More
Earlier this week, the last of the Google Play edition Android phones in Google’s online storefront were listed as “no longer available for sale.” When contacted for comment, Google had nothing to say, but it’s not hard to read between the lines here. The last new Google Play phone was introduced in the spring of...Read More
Last week, Google Google announced that it’s shuttering its consumer-end operation for Google Glass. As of this week, the product is no longer available for purchase by consumers. For startups using Google Glass to revolutionize healthcare, that poses a problem, right? You’d think. Not so, insist the entrepreneurs. They claim it’s good news. There’s still...Read More
I’ve been having a lot of fun with the “Ok Google” feature of my Android phone. In fact, I’ve been adding new commands to it (I’ll describe how that’s done in future articles). But once I enabled “Ok Google” on my laptop, and my wife enabled it on her Android phone, and then I went...Read More
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