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On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that next month Google is planning on producing some 4,000 prototype tablets with sensors and cameras that allow for 3D tracking and mapping.Lorraine Luk and Rolfe Winkler, The Wall Street Journal, "Google Developing Tablet With Advanced Vision Capabilities," 22 May 2014 (Paywall) The prototype tablets utilize the same technology found [...]
Apparently, Google is weighing the idea of launching its own wireless network. This proposed network would only cover the ares that already have access to the Google Fiber network. Although there are not many details around the proposed wireless network, it would be of the "mobile virtual network operator or MVNO," variety. Meaning that Google would buy access to a larger network, like Verizon or AT&T, and resell access to customers.
On February 20, 2014, Google's Advanced Technology and Projects team announced a wildly innovative new smartphone prototype: Project Tango. What makes Project Tango so remarkable is the use of a new chip that allows for 3D tracking and mapping. In Google's words: Our current prototype is a 5” phone containing customized hardware and software designed [...]
"It would seem almost natural for Google Ventures to exit its portfolio companies to its parent company. However, in its five years of prolific investing, Nest Labs is only the second portfolio company to be sold to Google. Google Ventures has sold an equal number of portfolio companies to Google as it has to Yahoo and Cisco Systems. Is this the norm for corporate venture capital firms or is Google Ventures an outlier?"
If you prefer Google's goo.gl url shortener over the recently DDoS attacked Bit.ly shortener than we've got some good news for you. Android Central reported on Sunday that a developer, Thomas Devaux, has created and released a new app to the Google Play Store that makes it a cinch to shorten url's on the go [...]
Smartwatches are finally taking off. For a while now, Pebble has been leading the pack in popularity since their initial Kickstarter campaign back in 2012. Now though, more and more companies are releasing smart watches and it looks like Google's Android Wear is starting to make an impact. Tomorrow, we're halfway expecting an announcement from [...]
Google continues on it's quest to develop the world's first autonomous, self driving car. The driverless cars already have over 700,000 miles of testing under their belts, but they're faced with more and more problems. Google sees a future where driving time turns into riding time, giving more time back to people to be productive, [...]
Earlier this month we reported that the highest court in Europe had basically made a ruling which would create a process where people could have things removed from their Google results. This all came about because someone in Spain felt that their privacies had been violated when sensitive personal information came up in a Google [...]
People are very concerned about privacy these days, but what about when it comes to information that Google gathers from it's crawlers across the web? Well the highest international court, the European Court of Justice, has ruled that people can ask Google to delete sensitive information from it's search results, making a landmark ruling in [...]
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.
A few days ago, on May 6, Google released a massive update to Google Maps. This update comes packed with a ton of new features. Among these features is one that users have been requesting for a long time, lane guidance. The Google Maps app now shows you which lane to stay in or move [...]
On the heels of Monday's massive gaming announcement, Google just dropped another massive bomb on us. On Tuesday, the Mountain View company announced a new project: Android Wear. In Google's own words: "Today we’re announcing Android Wear, a project that extends Android to wearables. And we’re starting with the most familiar wearable—watches."[
USA Today is reporting that Google is currently working on technology that will increase internet speeds up to 10x. While Google Fiber is already incredibly fast, the Sunnyvale company wants to increase it by an order of magnitude
Google Project Tango Is Coming Google dropped some major bombs at their annual developers conference - Google I/O - this week. However, one of the most exciting announcements was sort-of glossed over by many. On Thursday, during a session about its ATAP - Advanced Technology and Projects - group, Google announced that it is working with LG [...]
It appears that we have reached the end of an era. A short-lived era, but an era nonetheless. On Thursday, A Google representative told TechRadar that production has stopped on the Nexus 5: A Google spokesperson has confirmed to us that Nexus 5production has stopped, warning that "once they are gone, they're gone, so we'd suggest people [...]
Google's annual developer's conference, Google I/O, kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco. Consequently Google holds their annual conference in the exact same location that Apple does, the Moscone center. Google is also holding satellite I/O sessions across the country and around the globe. This is the third year in a row that they've offered people [...]
Until last week, it was unclear how Google managed to create the 'Indoor Maps' feature. However, last Thursday, March 27th, Patent Bolt pointed out that Google's patent application for "for Generating an Indoor Map Model," had been posted by the U.S. Patent & Trademark office online.
Google has released a lot of geo-located data over the past year. You could see for instance what cookies were the favorite of each state, what toys were hot in each state and so on and so forth. Now Google has compiled the data on what the most popular gifts were for some of the [...]
On Thursday, Lenovo finalized the $2.91 billion deal to acquire Motorola Mobility from Google. The deal has been in the works for some time, it was first announced way back on January 29 of this year.Larry Page, Official Google Blog, "Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility," 29 January 2014 It is important to note, however, that Larry [...]
Earlier this year Google and the European Union came to an agreement that Google would have to block certain search results in European countries. These blocked results come from the "right to be forgotten" which basically says that any citizen in a country represented by the EU can fill out a form and request that [...]
