Do No Evil? Google to Pay $17M For Privacy Violations
Google Inc. will pay 37 U.S. states, and the District of Columbia for violating, "consumer privacy." The violation seems to have been confined to Apple's Safari Browser from 2011 to 2012.
Google’s Opening Up Holiday Pop Up Shops Complete With Snow Globes
Google loves to go all out on location. Throughout my tech writing career of experienced an Android slide in Barcelona, an amazing Google blogger lounge at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, a takeover of an entire street at SXSW 2012 and several Google conference parties with robots, sphero balls, crazy photo booths and of course [...]
Google’s Play Music With All Access Music App Now Available For iOS
After five years of writing and reporting about Android some consider me an authority on platform debate. While I've never (and I'll repeat this again), in 35+ years I've never owned a PC (only Apple) I was quite the Android and Google loyalist for a long while. In fact there are some Google products that [...]
AVG Hits 100 Million Downloads In The Android Google Play Store
Protecting Android phones is serious business. Unlike iOS, Android devices are prone to malware and viruses similarly to the way that PCs are. Mobile security providers like NQ Mobile, LookOut and AVG are protecting millions upon millions of Android users worldwide. AVG, one of the leading providers of internet, computer and mobile security, with over [...]
Steve Jobs: Andy Rubin Is A “Big, Arrogant F**K”
I spent many a day and night writing about Andy Rubin during my thedroidguy days. Rubin was the brains and man behind Danger and the HipTop and then Google's Android operating system. It's been widely believed that Android was a derivative of the founders name. Apple founder, the late Steve Jobs' distaste for Google's Android [...]
Reading Rainbow’s Levar Burton Disturbed By Google Glass
Levar Burton, the actor made famous by his show Reading Rainbow and then Star Trek, has been spending a lot of time in the techsfphere lately. His Reading Rainbow app for iTunes he considers a "Netflix For Kids" it allows users to download new books and keeps the content fresh. The Reading Rainbow app is [...]
Google Highlights Hiring Vets For Technology At Veteran’s Day Weekend Event
Got Your 6, an organization that unites the entertainment industry with top veteran-focused nonprofit organizations held an event at Google's New York Headquarters on Friday. At that event, several technology leaders, including Google, made the case for hiring vets in the tech sector. "130,000 soldiers will leave the army every year," said Brig. Gen. David [...]
Is Google Easing Up On Their Crazy Interview Questions For The Social Graph?
"You're in a car with a helium balloon on a string that is tied to the floor. The windows are closed. When you step on the gas pedal, what happens to the balloon—does it move forward, move backward, or stay put?" That's one of the legendary Google interview questions that have been circulating across the [...]