Oh no. I hope it isn’t true.
“You hope what isn’t true?”
Someone’s saying that Google might try to kill the URL bar. I really hope not.
“Google might kill the what?”
You know, the URL bar. Or the Address Bar.
“The what?”
The thing at the top of your browser window that displays the URL, the address, of the website …
We’re kind of creepy, but not that creepy—the gist of Google guru Eric Schmidt’s public scorn-pouring on technology that’d allow a company to recognize and identify your face, or my face, or anyone’s face.
How? By storing pictures of said faces in a massive photographically encyclopedic database.
That Google would create …
Google has addressed the recently-reported security hole that potentially affected 99% of Android phones used on open Wi-Fi networks.
The issue was detailed in this post here, but the basic gist is as follows:
“[W]hen a vulnerable Android phone connects to the internet, the Google apps on that phone will attempt to synchronize with
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The Googleplex is growing. Across Mountain View’s Highway 101 in the Bay Area, that is.
Facebook may have just leased a gigantic complex, but Google’s doing some serious expanding too. The Silicon Valley-based company is expecting to add more than 6,000 employees before the end of the year. I guess they’re not too affected by …
What does Apple have that Google doesn’t have? Deals with major record labels. According to CNET, Apple’s already signed a deal with EMI so it can stream music to a device nearest you.
The report also says deals with Universal Music Group and Sony Music are almost done. Well, well, Google. It looks like Apple’s stepping up its …
Add this to the growing idea that web users are looking more for authoritative voices and less for citizen journalism from their internet these days: As part of Google’s expansion of Google News – which offers such benefits as personalized top stories, click-to-expand options and the chance to view multimedia in the search results – …
Microsoft’s search site Bing just got a whole lot more social with the addition of a bunch of new Facebooky features so you can “bring the Friend Effect to search” (Bing’s phrase, not mine).
What’s the Friend Effect? According to Bing, it’s the way that “90 per cent of people seek advice from family and friends as part of the decision
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has earmarked “$500 million to potentially resolve a case with the Justice Department” involving advertisements Google accepted from online pharmacies that violate U.S. prescription laws. The ads in question have appeared alongside search results as part of Google’s popular AdWords marketing …
I spent most of Tuesday and Wednesday this week at Google’s massive I/O developer shindig in San Francisco. And then I wrote a Technologizer column for TIME.com on the first day’s keynote, which was jam-packed with Android news. But I could just have easily written a column about day two’s keynote, which was devoted to Google’s Chrome …
As the story goes, a blogger named Chris Soghoian recently got an e-mail from a big-name PR company with a somewhat odd proposition.
The e-mail begins as follows:
“Mr. Soghoian,
I wanted to gauge your interest in authoring an op-ed this week for a top-tier media outlet on an important issue that I know you’re following closely.
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Google likes to say that Chrome OS is an operating system that lets you do everything on the web. Don’t believe it.
Until now, I’ve been pretty optimistic about Google’s web-based operating system. The idea of computing entirely over the Internet is a tantalizing taste of the future, and I’ve certainly enjoyed watching the Chrome Web
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Google’s self-driving cars may soon hit the road in Nevada if a pair of bills get through the state legislature.
The bills would make Nevada the first state to legalize self-driving cars on public roads, the New York Times reports. One bill would amend electric vehicle laws to allow registration and licensing of autonomous …
