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Sony just announced one of the products it will be showing off at the upcoming 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, and it is pretty surprising. Sony has made a bet on a Google Glass type wearable. But Sony's device has a little twist, it clips on to existing eye-ware. This is Sony's Single-Lens Display Module: The clip [...]
Piracy is definitely on the rise. Everywhere you turn there are more and more stories about how piracy is effecting just about every media industry in the world. Recently we ran a story about a new startup company called DemandFlicks that hopes to curb movie piracy. Back in December we reported that pop songstress Beyonce [...]
Gmail API, Google Opens Gmail To Developers On Thursday at Google I/O, the Mountain View company made a huge announcement concerning Gmail. Google announced a new Gmail API. For years, the only way that developers have been able to access the huge amounts of data within Gmail was via IMAP. However, the only thing that [...]
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 [...]
On Monday, Google announced a new "Google Apps Referral Program," wherein users will receive a $15 referral bonus for each new Google Apps user they refer.
One Wednesday, April 23, Google announced a new feature for Google Maps. In what is really quite remarkable, Google is allowing users to access old street view images, essentially opening up a time capsule. "Starting today," the company announced in a blog post, "you can travel to the past to see how a place has [...]
(photo: San Jose Mercury News) It appears that Google meant no ill will when a satellite image of a San Francisco area street showed an image of a man's slain son. The Associated Press reported on Monday that Jose Barrera told KTVU-TV that he wanted Google to remove a satellite image from [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google "plans to spend more than $1 billion on a fleet of satellites to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the globe, people familiar with the project said, hoping to overcome financial and technical problems that thwarted previous efforts."Alistair Barr and Andy Pasztor, The Wall Street Journal, "Google Invests in [...]
Google has been known for it's bonuses that it pays for real world hackers who find exploits in their products and services, reports them and then replicates them. Bonus payments have often ranged between $1000 and $10,000 with the $10,000 prizes being saved for what Google calls "particularly significant contributions." Google initially debuted the bug bounty [...]
San Francisco's Mission District is bustling with startups. With converted, wide open office spaces, co working spaces and incubator programs, The Mission is roaring with activity. Now, despite the outrage San Francisco residents have been showing Google's private employee buses, the company has decided to take up residence right in the mission district. According to [...]
When Kansas City became the second city in America with 1gb fiber ethernet (Chattanooga was the first), the rest of the company started chomping at the bit to hopefully get a piece of the new internet service provided by Google called Google Fiber. While some people look at Google as evil, we know that they've [...]
Google's acquisition of DeepMind got us thinking - speculating is actually more appropriate - about the company's past acquisitions, and what they might be building towards...Google is becoming more active in robotics and AI. What this means exactly, however, is hard to say. It will be an interesting few years.
When Google sunset their RSS reader, Google Reader, many people didn't know what to do. Luckily for me I found that Digg's new RSS component was actually much better than Google Reader. Shortly after the announcement that they were shutting down the Google Reader service the company acquired news reader startup Wavii for around $30 [...]
Google may not have been able to get their NFC based Google Wallet off the ground due to carrier restrictions and plenty of other obstacles, but that hasn't stopped them. Instead of keeping Google Wallet as solely an on device application Google has branched it out and they are now offering Google Wallet cards, a [...]
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 [...]
As though navigating to Google's home page and then typing out what you were looking for was a terribly difficult task, Google has gone ahead and made it even easier to use. Google has added the "OK, Google" hotword detection to their own Chrome browser via a very easy and free extension. Currently Google offers [...]
