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
Google Inc. reported a 61 percent increase in its net income for the first three months of the year and announced plans to split its stock 2-for-1 to preserve its leadership’s control over the company in the long term. Skip to next paragraph Horizons Google stock soars on good news from Mountain View Larry Page,...Read More
“Our meetings today indicate that Google glasses (a.k.a., Project Glass) already has competitors working on similar initiatives to improve consumer’s mobility around Internet access,†White wrote. “We expect to be hear more about projects such as this and others in the coming years. This could drive a new wave of innovation across the mobility space.â€...Read More
Google Inc. (GOOG) (GOOG) has expanded its virtual tours to more than 150 of the world’s major museums, featuring putting high-resolution close-ups of masterworks by Van Gogh, Rembrandt and Botticelli — but not the Mona Lisa. The latest additions that went online this month include the Musee d’Orsay in Paris and Jerusalem’s Israel Museum. The...Read More
“Sergey wouldn’t let me wear the Google Glasses but I could see they were flashing info to him,†Scoble tweeted. He said that the glasses are “many months, if not years†away from becoming a consumer product. That lines up with the little information that’s come from Google on the product. According to the project’s...Read More
Robert Scoble (left) with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who was spotted sporting a prototype pair of the Web giant’s augmented reality eyeglasses. (Credit: Robert Scoble) Sergey Brin was spotted this evening sporting a pair of Google Glasses, the augmented-reality specs the Web giant is working on. Brin was photographed wearing a prototype pair of the...Read More
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