People sending email to any of Google’s 425 million Gmail users have no “reasonable expectation” that their communications are confidential, the internet giant has said in a court filing. Consumer Watchdog, the advocacy group that uncovered the filing, called the revelation a “stunning admission.” It comes as Google and its peers are under pressure to...Read More
As technology stocks that carry three-digit price tags, Google Google and Apple Apple are part of a fairly exclusive fraternity. This summer, after the former missed quarterly earnings expectations and the latter beat the Street’s estimate, some wondered if Google’s run of outperforming Apple could finally start to reverse. In a recent conversation with a...Read More
If the $1,500 price tag for Google Glass is a budget buster for you, don’t give up hope just yet. When the wearable gadget arrives on the consumer market it could cost as little as $299 according to Topology Research’s Jason Tsai, as reported by The China Post and Phone Arena. Obviously, that would be...Read More
The one truly huge, magnificent, radical idea of the iPhone, back when it was introduced in 2007, was to get rid of buttons. Make the whole phone a black rectangular touch screen. By now, every company and its brother has done that. Everybody’s added voice recognition, GPS and navigation. Everybody’s sharpened up the screens to...Read More
Question: How do I get directions for a route with multiple stops in the new Google Maps? Answer: The snazzy redesign that Google unveiled at its I/O developer conference in May, and is now inviting users to try, took away this feature. I didn’t realize it myself until I was trying to calculate mileage expenses...Read More
The news is out. Starbucks Starbucks is replacing ATT ATT as its customer wireless provider. And Google Google is the new sheriff in town. This is important for a lot of reasons. While Starbucks emphasized that it expects Google’s network to be faster, given Google’s classic model I also expect it to be disruptively cheaper...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — It was bound to happen: Google Play downloads of apps jumped ahead of those at Apple’s App Store. Google Play app downloads were 10% higher than at Apple’s App Store in the second quarter, according to researcher App Annie. Shares of Apple fell 0.2% to $452.53 in regular trading Wednesday. Google dipped...Read More
 (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Earlier this month, Google Google announced disappointing earnings, and its stock immediately dropped 5% (Disclosure: I own Google stock through a fund).  Most disturbingly, the company’s core revenue driver, the revenue it gets for each click on an ad, decreased 6% while traffic acquisition costs increased. Ordinarily, rising costs...Read More
It looks like Google is about to unleash a new wave of more powerful applications for Google Glass. Currently, Glass developers can only build apps that are essentially web-based services that talk to the user’s hardware through a set of relatively limited APIs. At its I/O developer conference earlier this year, Google announced that it...Read More
Article Excerpt Google Makes Another TV Push With $35 Chromecast Device BY AMIR EFRATI AND GREG BENSINGER Google Inc. on Wednesday made another attempt to embed itself into living rooms, after several false starts. The search giant unveiled a $35 device to wirelessly connect TVs to mobile devices so that people can view and listen...Read More
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