| You have searched for: Google |
|
 The fight against flu outbreaks consists of warning the victims in time so they can get a vaccine. Google.org is part of Google Inc. and represents its philanthropic part. They are now trying to help the U.S. authorities to track down the flu in time for the potential victims. Google.org will introduce a new tool which could spot the...
 |
|
| |
 |
|
Tokyo stocks ended Tuesday trading lower after the US market declined overnight on grim earnings outlooks and the yen's advance against other currencies.
The Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell 272.13 points, or 3 per cent, to close at 8,809.3.
The broader Topix index of all first-section issues also dropped 27.29 points, or 2.98...
|
|
|
A New Zealand judge, who is an expert on internet law, made an unprecedented ruling Monday banning publication of the names of two men on a murder charge on news websites, saying he was "concerned about the viral effect of digital publication."
Judge David Harvey said the names could be published in newspapers and on radio...
|
|
|
A Taiwanese student's hopes to set a world record for having the world's longest leg hair were in peril Monday as he accidentally pulled out the hair, news reports said.
Lin Kuan-wei, a third-grade high school student in Pingting City, southern Taiwan, displayed the 13.4-centimetre leg hair to reporters Monday, saying he hopes to set...
|
|
| |
 |
|
German book publishers on Thursday denounced this week's historic accord between Google and US authors, dubbing it "a Trojan Horse" which would make the US company the master of the world's knowledge.
Google, which has scanned 7 million books to include their contents in its internet search engine, announced Tuesday it would...
|
|
|
 A woman who poisoned her husband on their seventh wedding anniversary has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.The 28-year-old housewife, who was identified as Kate Knight, attempted to murder her husband, Lee Knight, by putting ethylene glycol in his food during their wedding anniversary. The effects of the substance ruined Lee’s life....
|
|
| |
 |
|
Jerry Yang, who helped kick start the internet revolution in 1995 as co-founder of web portal Yahoo, is stepping down as the company's chief executive.
The announcement by the ailing internet giant came after months of falling revenue, fierce proxy battles and a series of botched negotiations that scuttled what now seems to have been...
|
|
|
Google has reached a 125-million-dollar settlement of a class action lawsuit by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, which will drastically expand the availability of digitized books over the internet, the groups announced Tuesday.
The deal sets aside 45 million dollars for payment to authors and publishers...
|
|
|
Microsoft released key details Tuesday of the next generation of software that it hopes will run the world's computers.
The software giant, whose dominance is under threat, said Windows 7 will replace the disappointing Windows Vista in January 2010.
Microsoft said the new operating system was designed to function like a tighter...
|
|
|
Home from a week-long trip to Europe and the
Middle East, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama turned his
attention back to the struggling US economy and met Monday with a
collection of top economic officials. Republican rival John
McCain spoke of his own plans to combat surging energy prices at a
townhall meeting...
|
|
|
 A ruling on whether California
should legalize same-sex marriage is due on Thursday from the state’s supreme
court, CNN reports. If the court rules in favor of the gay marriage, California could become the second state after Massachusetts where gay
and lesbian residents can wed.
“What happens in California,
either way, will...
|
|
|
 According to a government study released on Wednesday, it
appears about 15% of American adults have driven under the influence of alcohol
in the past year, Reuters reports. The study also revealed that in some states,
as many as 25% did it, while another 4.7% drove under the influence of illegal
drugs, the survey by the Substance...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 Google has started distributing a patch for the Android mobile phone OS. It seems like this is an early try, to see how well the infrastructure works to distribute and install updates. The system update is announced by a simple, short message: “A system update is available” and the user can update at that time or later. The new software...
|
|
|
 California mobile video company Qik announced on Sunday that it has released version 1.0 of Qik for BlackBerry. It is a free, downloadable application that allows cell phone filmmakers stream video live from their mobile phone to Qik.com, social networks like MySpace, Facebook and to any personal blog. Furthermore, Qik also plays a...
|
|
|
 Google has officially announced that Google Earth can be accessed from the iPhone or the iPod Touch. When a good data connection is available the geographical software streams to the device with a reasonable speed and it’s really functional. Multi-touch enables users to zoom in or out of a map with ease and even rotate the map on the...
|
|
|
 A group of security researchers have found a serious flaw in the Android software from Google. This comes just after a few days from T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone launch on Wednesday. One of the researchers, Charles A. Miller, notified Google about the flaw. Furthermore, he announced the error publicly in order to show cell phone users that...
|
|
|
T-Mobile began shipping the G1 Android today, the first
production Android-based device and the carrier’s first full-touchscreen phone
set to battle with iPhone. The product went on sale Tuesday evening in San Francisco, ahead of the start of sales across the U.S. The G1 was
made by T-Mobile in collaboration with Google and...
|
|
|
 The social networking giant MySpace announced the launch of an application for mobiles optimized for Google’s Android mobile operating system and available via the Android Market virtual storefront for free. MySpace Mobile promises deep integration with the Android-based devices like T-Mobile’s G1, with features including friend searches...
|
|
|
 Motorola follows the path opened by Apple and Google with plans of creating its own smartphone just days before T-Mobile is officially launching the G1 Android. Motorola’s phones will probably be based on the open-source Linux operating system and the company will begin producing them in late 2009.People say that Motorola’s engineers...
|
|
|
 Following the model of Apple, with its iPhone, Google is controlling the Android phone’s programs. Even if users found it hard to believe that the iPhones have a kill switch built in that could destroy applications one has bought and paid for, the rumor was quickly confirmed, to the shock of the buyers. Now Google has a similar kill...
|
|
|
 On October 22, Google and T-Mobile will launch the G1,
the first hand-held computer that’s in the same class as Apple’s iPhone. You
can buy the gadget for $180 with a two year contract and that’s a reasonable
price, cheaper than Apple’s offer. Google wants to use the mobile phone in
order to accelerate the use and sophistication of...
|
|
|
 T-Mobile, the nation’s fourth-largest wireless network
operator, announced that its android, G1, has been pre-ordered by 1.5 million
people. The phone is officially launched on October 22 and it seems like the
best bet against Apple’s iPhone. HTC, the Taiwanese firm that is manufacturing
the G1, was projecting that it would sell...
|
|
|
 On Monday, Palm Inc. said its very popular Palm Centro smartphone can also be found by US residents in the unlocked version. Within the same announcement it was also mentioned that the Google Maps for mobile with My Location service is to be made available on the Centro, starting today. The unlocked edition of the Centro comes in a new...
|
|
|
 On Monday, Sense Networks came up with a new, very useful BlackBerry
application called Citysense, which can be used in order to look up information
concerning nighttime activities.
By downloading the tool from the Citysense.com website,
users will be able to receive a list of "must see" events and places.
Everything is...
|
|
|
 EBay-owned Skype has finally managed to release a beta version of its VoIP client, covering 50 different models of mobile phones from Motorola , Nokia , Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The beta version’s objective is to gather consumer feedback that will eventually lead to product improvement. The service will only be made available inside...
|
|
|
 EBay-owned Skype has finally managed to release a beta version of its VoIP client, covering 50 different models of mobile phones from Motorola , Nokia , Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The beta version’s objective is to gather consumer feedback that will eventually lead to product improvement. The service will only be made available inside...
|
|
|
 Israeli company Fring has made its VoIP application (also
known as Fring) available on the iPhone and on the iPod Touch. Users will now
gain access to Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, ICQ and SIP (both voice and
chat) plus Twitter, Yahoo and AIM (chat only).
On one hand, Skype hasn’t been able to come up with a iPhone
version...
|
|
|
 Although Google
hasn’t released yet any sales predictions for mobile phones based on its
already popular mobile operating system Android, one of the company’s
executives proved very confident already. On Thursday, Rich Miner, Google’s
group manager for mobile platforms, made public his opinion that Android-based
mobile phones will...
|
|
|
 The LiMo Foundation seems a quite
successful idea, especially now, when its tough members have unveiled an
impressive number of even more amazing Linux-based mobile phones with the
occasion of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. On Monday, Motorola,
Samsung, NTT DoCoMO, LG Electronics, and others have all revealed Linux-based...
|
|
|
 Texas Instruments announced today
that it would soon reveal a prototype mobile phone based on the Android Open
Source Platform, the highly anticipated cell phone operating system that is
being developed by Google and its partners. Texas Instruments also said that
the prototype cell phone it would demonstrate at the Mobile World...
|
|
|
 The update Google’s popular video
sharing web site made to its Mobile service brought much joy and happiness to
millions of mobile phone users, as now YouTube for Mobile can be used on handsets that can run
video streaming and are supported by any 3G operator.
YouTube announced the big thing
on Thursday; this update of its mobile...
|
|
|
 Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to
go to shopping only with your already beloved friend – the mobile phone? Not
saying that the credit card plastic-made item is hard to carry with you, but
having only your mobile phone with you when going for shopping could in fact strengthen
your relationship with the device. You two spend most of...
|
|
|
 In the recent period almost all
of the rumors that hit the market have been eventually right. But will this be
also gPhone’s case? It seems so, as more and more people and publications are
talking about the ultimate phone that Google is allegedly preparing for
release.
Engadget.com has written these
days that several trustworthy...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform – ASP lets customers have their data centre applications run in Microsoft data centres. The company joins Amazon and Google in offering cloud computing services and cites IDC, which says cloud computing will grow 16 percent a year through to 2012. Cloud computing helps users buy less storage, meaning...
|
|
|
 Opera browser has added support for widgets to the latest beta release of its Mobile 9.5 browser. This is the second Opera Mobile 9.5 beta for Windows Mobile and the first-ever beta for UIQ-based phones, officials announced on Monday. Opera Widgets are small, free programs that add extra functionality to the browser. For instance, the...
|
|
|
 Last week, the results of a study conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Google and IBM Internet Security Service were made public. The study was started back in January 2007 and lasted until last month; its purpose was to analyze how users behave online and what kinds of web browsers are usually preferred. One of the...
|
|
|
 On Tuesday, a web browser-oriented study was released. According to the information it made available, it seems Mozilla Firefox users enjoy the highest degree of protection. The study, called Understanding the Web browser threat: Examination of vulnerable online Web browser populations and the insecurity iceberg, was put together by The...
|
|
|
 On Monday, The Wall Street Journal presented readers with some rather disappointing news about the Google Android open-source software-based phones. Although it was announced they would be made available in the second half of 2008, everyone was expecting them to appear at the beginning of this time frame. Now however, according to the...
|
|
|
 Another top
executive seems to have decided to leave Microsoft. After Steve Berkowitz,
Pieter Knook and others, it is now time for Microsoft’s MSN media network’s
executive Joanne Bradford to leave the company. Microsoft announced Bradford’s departure on Thursday.
Joanne Bradford
was said to leave Microsoft for a Los
Angeles...
|
|
|
 Microsoft
announced on Friday that it decided to buy the ad software maker Rapt for an
undisclosed amount of money. San Francisco-based Rapt is a company developing
yield management software programs and services for online publishers; some of
its main products are Business Advisor, Price Director and Inventory Manager
and others....
|
|
|
 Yahoo revealed
on Tuesday a brand new mobile phone tool that will allow people to keep up with
topics they are interested in using dynamic bookmarks. Called OnePlace, the new service was
set to be launched in the second quarter of the year.
Thanks to this
new tool that Yahoo developed for its mobile users, people will be able to...
|
|
|
 Office Live Workspace is a free online tool which allows users to view, share and store their Office documents online. Still, they are not be able to edit them. Editing is only offline, and during offline editing, the file appears "checked out" so that others are informed about the ongoing process.Microsoft has allowed,...
|
|
|
 Google is powerful! The search
engine is both users’ best virtual friend and web site administrators’
“lawmaker.” But Google seems to have made friends also with …hackers, as a new
tool called the Goolag Scanner is using Google’s tough search powers in order
to help hackers become better pros.
The Goolag Scanner was launched
by...
|
|
|
 Jonathan Cobb filed a lawsuit against Google, claming that
the search giant stole his idea for a program like Google Sky. Unveiled in
august last year, Google Sky is an addition to Google Earth, which functions
like a virtual planetarium.
To access Sky, users need only click "Switch to
Sky" from the "view"...
|
|
|
 Google announced on Tuesday that
it had plans to introduce a new pack of email security services for its
business customers. The pack will include Google Message Filtering, Google
Message Discover and Google Message Security, that is security, encryption and
archiving services.
Through this plan, the tough
Internet company seems...
|
|
|
 The long awaited for IMAP feature
has eventually become available also for the Gmail users! Starting yesterday,
the 24th of October 2007, Google Inc. has started rolling out the
popular feature for its Gmail’s users for free. IMAP allows the users to
synchronize their email across multiple devices and accounts.
The announcement...
|
|
|
 A Flickr representative has
announced on Friday that the Yahoo! web site is planning to make the big step
from photo sharing to photo editing. And this brave move will take place thanks
to a new deal that Flickr plans to have with Picnick, a start-up. "We are
working on a relationship with Picnik, which will be available in the...
|
|
|
 Adobe has recently launched the beta
version of its brand new media player that will use the same streaming technology,
as well as the same format that YouTube and other video sharing web sites feature.
Yahoo! Inc., CBS and PBS, as well as several other important Internet companies
have already pledged their support for Adobe’s new...
|
|
|
 Although this is not quite a nice
move, Google Inc. has express its support for ISO’s decision of rejecting
Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML as a standard. The popular company has not
seemed till not very interested in showing its opinion on the recent rejection,
but on Friday it has appeared to agree in fact with the...
|
|
|
 It seems that not only soap
operas have the fabulous characteristic of featuring surprising sudden changes,
such as the hero’s befriending his or her worst enemy or so. The high tech
industry appears to be a similar territory, where immediate interests are much
more important than long, well-known wars between rival companies....
|
|
|
 This represents neither the
beginning, nor the end of the competition between the two giant and powerful
tech companies. Microsoft and Google are smart business competitors; they seem
to know when to join forces and when to strike one against each other using
important partnerships, emergent ideas and new services.
So, although...
|
|
|
 The famous software making company
Microsoft Inc.’s most recent priority is to convince the United States’
Federal Communications Commission that the vacant TV airwaves can be actually
used for wireless services. This way the company will dispute the Federal
Communications Commission’s recent finding that claimed Microsoft’s...
|
|
| |
 |
|
 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 5 to 0 to approve the new use for the unlicensed frequencies, also known as white spaces. This comes after the objections of TV broadcasters and other groups and it should lead to low-cost, high-speed Internet access and new wireless devices. Even if the TV broadcasters, Broadway theater...
|
|
|
 The Harvard University Library was one of the first to sign Google’s academic book scanning project, but it was also the first to say it won’t take part in the copyright portion in response to Google’s $125 million settlement with authors and publishers. Even so, the library might still take part in the settlement if the terms are more...
|
|
|
 A new marketing scheme will be applied by MySpace and MTV Networks. Instead of triggering the usual take-down notices, copyright-infringing footage of select MTV Networks uploaded by MySpace subscribers, the companies have decided to use a technology that allows them to automatically redistribute the videos with advertisements that would...
|
|
|
 Google has announced that it will begin including scanned documents in its search results. This means that Google has developed an advanced image recognition technology and that’s because scanned files do not contain any text data that Google’s spiders can index. Google has employed Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology,...
|
|
|
 Google has recently announced that it will become a single sign-on provider using OpenID solutions. Google users will login with their Google account information when signing up from new accounts on other sites. The giant company is not the first one to proceed in this way. Microsoft and Yahoo have already adopted the same strategy of...
|
|
|
 Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft, along with several human rights groups have announced the launch of the Global Network Initiative: Protecting and Advancing Freedom of Expression and Privacy in the Information and Communication Technology Industry (GNI). The agreement comes after giants as Google and Yahoo faced criticism for working with...
|
|
|
 Microsoft representatives announced on Tuesday, at the Professional Developers Conference, that it will put Office apps Word, Excel and Power Point online. These offer several advantages over software apps. For example, documents can be opened up for sharing and collaboration very simply. On the other hand, online apps have less robust...
|
|
|
 Google Labs announced last night two gadgets that integrate with Gmail. These will help users have a quick look at their Google calendar appointments and recently accessed documents from within their Gmail inbox. The announcement comes after many have asked publicly for this feature, one that can be activated from the Settings menu in...
|
|
|
 Google has been blocked by Russia’s antitrust authorities in the attempt of acquisitioning online advertising firm ZAO Begun from Rambler Media for $140 million. The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service has yet to give an official reason behind this decision. A statement from the agency referred to a regulation designed to preserve...
|
|
|
 Wikia has confirmed that about 30 percent of its workers have been laid off, but points out that it is still trying to hire for open positions. Co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, officially launched at the beginning of this year an attempt at a human-powered search engine (Wikia Search). It looks like the experimental search engine is...
|
|
|
 Google has solved a problem that affected the functionality of the Start pages of its Apps hosted collaboration and communications suite. The bug only appeared when Apps administrators had customized their organizations’ Start page. The problem arose Thursday afternoon U.S. Eastern Time and it was solved at around noon on Friday. The...
|
|
|
 iGoogle, Google’s personalized home page, was updated on
Thursday. The homepage lets users customize it with gadgets and that puts you
in a position from where you can access various web services from a single page.
Widgets on the page can support a new “canvas view”, which expands the widget
to the full iGoogle window. There are...
|
|
|
 Republican presidential candidate John McCain is accusing video site YouTube of acting too quickly in the problem of his campaign videos, suspect of copyright infringement. McCain’s campaign sent a letter on Monday to YouTube’s parent company Google, protesting against YouTube’s removal of some campaign videos after receiving take-down...
|
|
|
 Judge Louis Stanton ordered Google to hand over the user log data of its YouTube website to Viacom, in a lawsuit that the entertainment company has filed against the search giant asking $1 billion for infringed intellectual property.Viacom declared that YouTube hosts a lot of its copyrighted shows, and that users can see them for free,...
|
|
|
 On Tuesday, Google launched the beta version of its online tool called Lively. The application can be used for creating personalized 3D social spaces on various websites. According to Niniane Wang, Engineering Manager at Google, Lively enables users to put together their very own characters (avatars) and to create rooms, that can later...
|
|
|
 According to The New York Times, Google is working alongside Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, in order to produce a new animated series that would be distributed online through the former’s advertising system (AdSense).AdSense is to be used for syndicating the program (Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy) to numerous...
|
|
|
 On Thursday, Yahoo Inc. officials talked about the two new e-mail domains the company has launched: ymail.com and rocketmail.com. Although it may seem hard to believe, good account names are getting more and more difficult to find, especially on the big domains. As John Kremer, Yahoo Mail vice president, said, the company is well aware...
|
|
|
 Almost three and a half million people have viewed the YouTube clip showing a girl in her underwear, hula hooping on the Wii Balance Board. This wouldn’t have been considered news if something else hadn’t followed. The video, called Why every guy should buy their girlfriend Wii Fit, was made by 30 year-old Giovanny Gutierrez. This is...
|
|
|
 On Thursday, Google launched its GMail Labs application, that puts together a series of experimental features. According to Google product manager, Keith Coleman, users are allowed to choose which features they want to keep through Gmail's Settings page. After a while, the ones that turn out to be the most popular will be incorporated in...
|
|
|
 On Wednesday, CBS Corp announced that it had reached a deal with Yahoo Inc., according to which its web videos will be carried by the latter. This means that Yahoo would be part of the CBS Audience Network and would join a rather special group that brings together some of the biggest names out there, including Google Inc's YouTube,...
|
|
|
 At a search advertising conference in Seattle, Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platforms and services division, stated that, in order to gain in on Google, considerable effort is being put by the company’s marketing team into "fixing Microsoft's search image." This comes after Microsoft’s decision at the beginning of...
|
|
|
 On Monday, Facebook announced that a "significant part" of its platform code will be released as open-source. This comes one year after the launch of Facebook Platform, which gives third party developers the chance to write programs that work inside the social-networking site. More than 400,000 developers have taken advantage...
|
|
|
 The city of North Oaks, Minnesota kindly asked Google to remove all images of the local houses from its Google Maps Street View application. The demand came in the form of a letter that was sent to Google in January. Although the company has the right to capture images on public streets, it seems that this city’s roads are privately...
|
|
|
 On Wednesday, during the Google I/O conference, VP Engineering Vic Gundotra emphasized the browser’s supremacy over all the other internet-related platforms. This was said right before the announcement that the 3D mapping technology of the company’s desktop application, Google Earth, was ported into the browser. The one thing users need...
|
|
|
 It seems that AOL has decided to support OpenSocial. This piece of information came out on Wednesday, at the Google I/O conference, during the speech of Google Director of Engineering David Glazer. OpenSocial was first announced by Google in October as a response to the multitude of already existing networks and future strategies...
|
|
|
Friday, May 23 – Google has made
a new step in the US$ 1 billion lawsuit against Viacom, by submitting new
documents in New York
court. Their defense strategy is based upon the fact that “Viacom threatens the
way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news,
entertainment and political and artistic...
|
|
|
| | |
