SAN FRANCISCO — Several years ago, when Google was making a strong push to boost search traffic and ad sales in China, one of its competitors there reportedly had a cunning idea. The company was said to have compiled a list of alleged violations of China’s censorship laws committed by Google, a list it then...Read More
Instead, she was nervous about color. The current palette for the frames of Glass, the Internet-connected eyewear, is limited: cotton (white), tangerine (orange), sky (blue) and two shades of gray. Although wearing a pop of turquoise or coral on your face might fly in Silicon Valley, Ms. Olsson worried they would clash on the runway....Read More
Here’s another reason to covet Google Glass: It can serve as your personal tour guide. One of the early “Glassware apps” to arrive on the search giant’s high-tech eyewear, Field Trip becomes available today to the 10,000 or so Google Glass Explorers. Those early adopters paid $1,500 to get the first pairs; final consumer models...Read More
Google Glass has lots of potential applications beyond just making it easier for people to check out their Twitter feed without taking their phones out of their pockets. Mutualink is demoing one such app today at APCO, a conference for public safety communications, with its Glass App for police, firefighters and first responders. The app...Read More
Just two days after Microsoft relaunched its YouTube app for Windows Phone smartphones and thanked Google for its “support”, Google has once again blocked the app from working. The app had originally been removed from the Windows Phone store in May after Google complained to Microsoft about its ability to download videos to the device,...Read More
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
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