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Google is notorious for its ambitious projects, and its latest one falls nothing short. Capitalizing on its extremely powerful Google Earth engine, the company teamed up together with the US Geological Survey (USGS) and Time Magazine to release Timelapse – a visual representation of how the Earth has changed during the past 28 years. Carefully [...]
Tue, Jan 29, 2013
For a few years now, Google has been developing what it claims to be the next generation in user interface, set to revolutionize the way to interact with the world. The project is called Google Glass and apart from a few incredible demos, these is still very little known about the product, apart from the [...]
Wed, Nov 28, 2012
Initial impressions and full-fledged reviews of the fresh LG-made Google Nexus 4 smartphone have been pretty harsh, considering the only “fatal flaw” the reviewers see with the latest Nexus phone is that it doesn’t come with LTE support. Is the omission of 4G connectivity really all that bad? We say no. LTE isn’t as Essential [...]
Mon, Nov 12, 2012
Google is making a lot of changes to its app called Google Wallet as they seek out to lower the barrier towards mobile payments. The most major change they have done with the app is that they have moved it to the cloud. A user’s key card information will no longer be stored on their [...]
Wed, Sep 26, 2012
After Nevada, California has become the second state in the US, and well the world for that matter, to legalize self-driving cars. The main developer of self-driving technology for auto-vehicles, Google, believes this to be yet another milestone in motor revolution waiting to unfold. Governor Edmund “Jerry” Brown signed the bill, SB 1298, alongside Google co-founder Sergey Brin and [...]
Wed, Nov 2, 2011
Google launched an extremely interesting native Gmail application which runs on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch today; you can get it from the iTunes App Store. Perhaps the app’s most interesting feature is the ability to do push notifications; aside from this, the application also features earch, autocomplete, support for attachments, priority inbox access, [...]
Mon, Oct 31, 2011
There’s a lot of things you have to give credit to Google for; but if it’s something you can really admire about a corporation this size – they stand up to different authorities, be it the government, China, or recently, the police. In the most recent Transparency report, Google says they had 198 different requests [...]
Mon, Oct 10, 2011
The most popular video sharing website in the world, YouTube, has teamed up with NASA and several other key figures from the scientific community to launch YouTube Space Lab, a global effort challenging students between the ages of 14 and 18 to design an experiment that can be conducted in space. I know there are [...]
Thu, Sep 15, 2011
This August bought 1,023 patents from IBM in August, according to records filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office’s website. This is in addition to the 17,000 patents the Mountain View company has gained once with its recent sealed transaction with Motorola, in the course of which Google has bought off the whole cell [...]
Wed, May 11, 2011
Twitter prides itself in connecting the world and sharing everybody’s thoughts from every corner of the world, especially when it comes to news. But is this really true, or is this just a branding and marketing stunt ? According to a study conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, Twitter accounts [...]
Wed, May 11, 2011
A senior Google executive has reportedly told Forbes, that the company will begin leasing Chrome laptops for $20 per month in a “student package” that includes both hardware and access to online services. This comes as an announcement after late last year, Google put out a call to participants to sign up to become beta [...]
Wed, May 11, 2011
This is already starting to sound like a cartoon world domination scheme; in an obvious plan to take over the world, Google plans to fill your home with electrical producs, including but not limited to light bulbs, dishwashers and thermostats which can be controlled remotely via an Android device. The plan is to create these [...]
Wed, Apr 20, 2011
In a recent event which is sure to produce a lot of controversial waves, a team of security researchers have come across a frightning discovery which puts Apple next to Big Brother. It seems any iPhone or iPad that has been updated with iOS 4 records everywhere you have been to a secret file – [...]
Mon, Apr 11, 2011
Although the Google supervised social video sharing website YouTube has been dabbling for years now with live broadcasting, most of the time with concerts (U2 events mostly) or political ralleys (the CitizenTube should be famous enough by now for you to recognize the example), it’s only recently that the company has announced that they’ve officially [...]
Fri, Apr 8, 2011
Along the years, everything that Google has touched turned to gold; everything, except for social media. But with social media being already a central piece of the internet, and with facebook growing and already threatening the search engine giant on some matters, Google will have to get that right too, and we will probably see [...]
Mon, Mar 28, 2011
Within computer geek circles it is common to find people with stuff like … I don’t know, a Java altar with maybe a large painting of its developer-father-god-cyber-entity James Gosling. Really, there are literary millions of java enthusiasts our there, your truly included, and billions more using Java under one form or another. Today, Java’s [...]
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
Besides being the worldwide dominating search engine, Google is known to have its share of various other markets, but where ever and what ever they stick their tail into, it’s usually bound for success and today the industry giant has announced that its dabbling in another field – publishing. Publishers shouldn’t worry though, as Google [...]
Sat, Mar 12, 2011
In the wake of Japan’s most devastating recorded earthquake to date, the nation of the rising sun is still left in shock. Hundreds were killed, many more left homeless, countless financial damage and entire cities left with electricity – it might even get a heck of a lot worse. Another big issue is the telecom [...]
Mon, Nov 1, 2010
Although many of us have yet to update to Android 2.2, it seems Google is increasing the pace of its smartphone and OS development, as a few days ago the search engine giant announced the follow-up to the critically acclaimed, yet poorly soled Nexus One. The upcoming Nexus Two is set to be officially announced [...]
Mon, Nov 1, 2010
After earlier the past month Motorola sued Apple for smartphone related patents, Apple has stroke back today by filling its own law suit against its competitor. As such, two suits in the U.S. District Court in Wisconsin were made by Apple, alleging Motorola handsets such as the Google Android powered Droid, Droid X and Droid [...]
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