Speaking in Japan yesterday, a Google spokesman confirmed that the giant search-engine company wants to offer social-networking style search results. It's Google's latest tweak, and it comes as Microsoft launches its rival Bing ...READ»
Is Google SkyNet? In a word: Yes. In fact, in some ways, it's even smarter. SkyNet didn't assume worldwide domination until 2029, while Google has already effectively monopolized search and it's only 2009. Sure, one uses a giant Web ...READ»
New patent applications from rivals Google and Apple show that the companies are swiftly moving to occupy the same smartphone application arena--one in which your phone adapts to your surroundings and personal routines.
Back in ...READ»
Google first revealed plans for the PowerMeter, a smart meter-connected Google gadget that displays personal electricity consumption data on home computers, in February. Yesterday the company announced partnerships with multiple ...READ»
That's not a title I toss out lightly, but Glympse deserves it. Since smartphones first made Google maps mobile, no single application has offered so much practical functionality. Not only that--Glympse might be the only one that ...READ»
Stephen Wolfram's new knowledge engine, Wolfram Alpha goes live today, providing a new kind of search for Internet users. As a result, the Internets are alive with comments about how Alpha compares to Google. But that's something ...READ»
It's been widely rumored that Archos, maker of a line of high-end personal media players, will reveal an Android-powered smartphone at a June 11 press event. And unlike the numerous Android phones already out there and due soon, ...READ»
The public launch of Google's new Voice service is imminent, and it's going to change the way you use the Web (to sign up for an invitation, click here). If you're currently a beta user, you already know how flexible and robust the ...READ»
Google unveiled a suite of new functions for its search engine yesterday, and there's some evidence that the company is chasing down live data for its search query responses. There's also a new functionality that seems designed to ...READ»
In the May issue I wrote about how the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center is making efficiency sexy as an investment to Silicon Valley VCs and big companies alike. Now The New York Times has caught on, reporting that Sequoia ...READ»
It's clear that smartphones are going to pull market share away from dumbphones, and that Google's Android operating system is going to appear on many more handsets in the months ahead. But a new report is predicting 900% growth in ...READ»
Twitter has some very interesting plans for its newly-unveiled live search function: soon it will activate crawlers that will index the links users include in their Tweets. In one fell swoop that turns Twitter into an even more ...READ»
Apple and Google may have more in common than the Federal Trade Commission would like.
The companies share two members of their board of directors, Eric Schmidt and Arthur Levinson. According to antitrust laws, the presence of ...READ»
Apple and Twitter sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I... well, you know the rest of that rhyme. There's a fascinating little rumor that recently surfaced on the Internet: Apple is interested in acquiring the hot little social ...READ»
The folks at Google Maps decided it'd be fun if they added a historical map of Tokyo onto the site's existing map and satellite layers. They were wrong.
The centuries-old woodblock maps, which are already available online, show ...READ»
First we learned that Bayer Health rented 1,450 sheep to graze grass on its Richmond, California campus. Now Google has informed us that they are taking a similar approach to landscaping by renting goats from California Grazing to ...READ»
Eric Chu, 46
Mobile Platform Program Manager, Google
Apple's only competitor in the mobile-excitement market is Google's Android platform. Chu ran the developer challenge to create apps for its store.
"We ...READ»
You know instant messaging has reached a tipping point when appliances get it on the action. Smart grid software company EnerNOC is bringing instant messaging to air conditioners with PowerTalk, a system that uses the XMPP protocol ...READ»
This week, eagle-eyed reporters spotted a big fish in a flood of new patents: Google just won a patent for a sustainably powered, floating data center. It would sit 3 to 7 miles offshore in seas about 200-feet deep, and rely ...READ»
Google has made GPS-based search for mobile phones a reality, but what if you want to search near the location of your computer? Just last week, the company's Toolbar team answered the question by announcing a "My ...READ»
Taking an apple to class for teacher could soon take on a whole new meaning. There's a plan underway to overhaul the curriculum in U.K. primary schools--nothing special there, since there's always some attempt underway to improve ...READ»
Ask any giant: being big means being slow. But some new information shows that cellphone giant Nokia is finally getting what smartphones are all about. For its future phones, the company is copying the works of the smartphone ...READ»
It won't cut into Google's traffic any time soon, but the reegle search engine could be a boon to renewable energy information addicts. The search engine, provided by the Renewable Energy and Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) and ...READ»
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) launched a Google Earth mash-up map earlier this month to show alternative energy installers where they might run into trouble with legal restrictions or endangered wildlife advocates. ...READ»
The biggest question in the technology world these days is who will buy Twitter? The leading contender is probably Google, since the search giant has what seems like an unlimited amount of money and a history of scooping up ...READ»
