What a rush! Google has hidden a new Easter Egg on its homepage that’s bound to get gaming geeks hyped. Type the words “zerg rush†into the search bar on the Google.com site and you’ll see your search result on what seems like a normal page — until the “Oâ€s from the Google logo start...Read More
Amid the excitement over Google Drive, the search giant’s new Dropbox competitor, Microsoft recently improved a similar online sync and storage service, SkyDrive. Microsoft added the ability to store files online and sync across multiple devices right from your Windows or OS X desktop. That puts SkyDrive squarely in competition with Dropbox and Drive, five...Read More
Computerworld – The long-awaited Google Drive is a simple, useful, straightforward cloud storage and syncing service that offers a full 5GB of online storage for free, with no surprises along the way. Utilitarian rather than flashy, it makes storing files to the cloud and syncing them among multiple devices as simple as saving a file...Read More
The oft-rumored and delayed data-storage service made its debut today, joining a growing list of high-tech players serving consumers and small businesses. Drive lets people store photos, documents and videos on Google’s servers so that they are accessible from any Web-connected device and easily shared with others. If you wanted to e-mail a video shot...Read More
With developer interest in its android operating system trailing Apple’s iOS, Google is turning on the charm. By Alex Konrad, reporter FORTUNE — Consumers love Google’s Android operating system: Some 50% of U.S. smartphone subscribers now use a device that runs on the Android platform, according to a recent Comscore survey. But software developers? Not...Read More
Computerworld – Just as with an Apple product launch, Google has had to do next to nothing to create buzz around its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage service. The latest: Google Drive will launch next week. Of course, prognosticators have predicted much the same thing numerous times in the past, predictions that turned out to...Read More
Google pulled no punches in its defense of Android against Oracle’s Java accusations, painting Sun and Oracle’s attempts at a smartphone alternative as one huge failure after the other. While Oracle argues that Google knowingly used Java technology without licensing it for Android, Google claims its foe is trying desperately to cash in on the open-source...Read More
Hard on the heels of being fined $25,000 for allegedly blocking a federal privacy investigation, Google (GOOG) is enmeshed in a second federal probe into its privacy practices that could soon bring a more painful hit to the search giant’s pocketbook, this newspaper has learned. The Federal Trade Commission is deep into an investigation of...Read More
The Federal Communications Commission censured Google for obstructing an inquiry into the Street View project, which had collected Internet communications from potentially millions of unknowing households as specially equipped cars drove slowly by. But the investigation, described in an interim report, was left unresolved because a critical participant, the Google engineer in charge of the...Read More
Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG)’s shares fell the most in almost three months after its latest bid to preserve control for founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin raised concern among corporate-governance watchdogs. The stock (GOOG) declined 4.1 percent to $624.60, the biggest decrease since Jan. 20, weighed down in part by results showing slower sales growth...Read More
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