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
Larry Page and Sergey Brin have long had the dream of a hands-free, mobile Google, where search was a seamless process as you moved around the world. As the years progressed the vision did, too, expanding beyond search to persistent connections with the people in your lives. In other words, Google’s view of the world...Read More
Google … guilty of engaging in conduct likely to mislead. Photo: Andrew Quilty Google has been found guilty of allowing numerous Australian businesses to post misleading and deceptive advertisements on its search engine after a court upheld an appeal by the competition watchdog to have an earlier decision overturned. The judgment, handed down in the...Read More
You can, of course, use Google on your tablet device and your phone — but sadly, you’ve never been able to use it on your Nintendo. No longer! On April 1, Google debuted its newest product, Quest, which uses Google Maps to take you on an 8-bit video game adÂvenÂture. Of course, the date is...Read More
Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:20pm EDT * Oracle rebuffs offer as too low * Trial in patent case due to begin April 16 By Dan Levine March 28 (Reuters) – Google proposed to pay Oracle a percentage of Android revenue if Oracle could prove patent infringement of the mobile operating technology at an upcoming trial,...Read More
(click image for larger view and forslideshow) Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, is a sellout. But it’s not necessarily a hit with developers, many of whom are complaining about the way tickets were allotted. Google SVP Vic Gundotra on Tuesday published a Google+ post noting that tickets for Google I/O sold out 20...Read More
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