Recent partnerships by Google Inc (GOOG) with hotel chains have raised concern among others in the travel industry that the search giant is trying to grab more advertising dollars. “To the extent that the travel industry is spending advertising dollars with Priceline (PCLN) or Expedia (EXPE) or TripAdvisor (TRIP), Google is well aware of that...Read More
Emails between National Security Agency (NSA) director General Keith Alexander and Google’s Google’s Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt have been published by Al Jazeera, showing that the agency was working with the company two years ago. The emails, says Al Jazeera, “suggest a far cozier working relationship between some tech firms and the US government...Read More
According to new reports, Google is developing a new version of its Android operating system for smart phone manufacturers that will put an emphasis on Google apps, called Android Silver. By Karis Hustad, Staff Writer / May 5, 2014 A Google sign at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. New reports say Google is developing...Read More
I hate it. It shouldn’t be this way. I’m a tech reporter. I like new technology. And I admire the vision of technology that Google promises Glass could offer: a device that lets you keep track of e-mails, texts and other messages and seamlessly allows you to discern which beeps and buzzes from your smartphone...Read More
Photographs by Harald Franzen/ZUMA (Jobs); Pete Marovich/ZUMA (Schmidt)Behind this week’s cover Steve Jobs wouldn’t appear to have been an emoticon guy, but history will show that on at least one occasion, when words failed to convey his delight, he resorted to one. It was March 2007, and Jobs had received an e-mail from Eric Schmidt,...Read More
Google has fleet of Lexus SUVs retrofitted with lasers, radar and cameras The fleet has done 700,000 accident-free miles (1.1m km) on motorways Google has been focusing on improving city driving for the past year So far, tech giant has focused street driving in Mountain View, California It predicts that the public could get hold...Read More
An overzealous lover? TED 2014/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The relationships human beings have with brands are little different from the relationships they have with lovers. Some are keepers. Some are one-night stands. Some grow on you. Some are merely friends with benefits. Some, though, just don’t take the hint. They bombard their lovers with...Read More
(From Google Street View) The year 2007, when Google first began driving those ridiculous camera-topped cars around U.S. cities, doesn’t feel so long ago. But seven years is a lifetime on the streets of a rapidly changing city like Washington. So much in the District has changed so quickly that it’s almost hard to remember...Read More
Street View images from different periods can now be compared to see how places have changed over time. (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) Google Maps Street View gained a new feature on Wednesday: a way to travel through time. Street View has always offered time travel of a sort: Its images show the...Read More
Apple and Google are supposedly battling for exclusive games on their respective mobile platforms, but we haven’t seen many fireworks. A story by the Wall Street Journal claims that Apple and Google have staked out a new battleground over mobile games, as both companies try to grab exclusives for their own platforms. Citing unnamed sources,...Read More
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