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Google Maps capture all sorts of things -- like people getting on with their daily lives blissfully unaware of the fact that something is watching them. Sometimes it also captures the more grizzly and questionable things some of us get up to.Although the people at Google Maps Street View maintain that they respect people’s privacy and explain that “individuals and license plates are blurred. We have developed cutting-edge face and license plate blurring technology that is applied to all Street ...
Google Glass has a promising future -- although not in the markets that Google thinks it's targeting: urban early-tech adopters -- they are a fickle bunch at best.Where Google Glass will make its mark and find a large and loyal customer base is in helping families and communities deal with the ravages of old age.We have a very large population of Baby Boomers. This is Generation A -- Aging on a massive scale, a population that's on a collision course ...
It's official: Google Now is available on iOS.The news comes after the internet giant effectively let the cat out of the bag with a leaked video back in March (after which Apple tried to say that it wasn't about to let its rival's intelligent assistant onto the app store any time soon).The iOS version of Now, which comes bundled into the internet giant's iOS search app, is compatible with the iPad and the iPhone and is pretty much ...
A moment of silence, please. The Google graveyard has just gained another resident.Ok, so technically it's not a Gproduct, but it was the flagship tool that got social startup Meebo noticed by major publishers and advertisers, before it was acquired by Google in June last year. But it seems the Meebo bar is destined for a short life span: the team announced that it would be discontinuing the social media and sharing bar on 6 June, as it shifts ...
Wondering how many complaints from governments Google has to deal with on a daily basis? Well, if its latest transparency report is any indication, it's quite a lot -- and it just keeps increasing.The company revealed the latest batch of statistics designed to show its user how many take down requests it receives from governments around the globe. From June to December last year, the search giant says it received 2 285 government requests to remove 24 179 pieces ...
After grabbing some 90% of the search market in Europe, you'd think the last thing Google would offer to do is promote the services of its competitors. But that's what it's proposed, telling European legislators that it is willing to display links to competing services in search results in as prominent a place as it gives to its own G-products.The proposal comes as a response to the European Commission's investigations into the tech giant, which started in 2010 after it ...
I'm not a fan of Google Glass because I am absolutely certain it won't be socially acceptable to be video or audio recording people around you without their permission, or to be online constantly without others knowing. It's just creepy and people won't put up with people that wear them in their company.Andrew Chen, a San Francisco based entrepreneur, believes Google Glass will be a failure, he compares it to the Apple Newton. But he's more concerned about the tech ...
As the executive chairman of one of the biggest tech companies on the planet, Eric Schmidt seems well-placed to do some crystal ball gazing. So what does he think will be major trends in the future? Self-driving cars, Google Glass and mobile operating systems named after desserts? Not quite.In the run up to the launch of his new book 'The New Digital Age', co-authored by Google Ideas director Jared Cohen, the two Googlers gave CNN a few predictions about ...
It seems in the process of doing research for his upcoming book, Google chairperson Eric Schmidt took at trip to the UK to have a chat with Julian Assange. Today Wikileaks published the transcript of a five hour interview conducted with its founder, claiming the "secret meeting" occurred in June 2011 while Assange was under house arrest.It's billed as a meeting between Assange and Google's CEO, but that isn't technically true -- Schmidt handed the reins back to co-founder ...
Crowdfunding charities has never been this fun. By using transparency and social elements, Google’s new One Today app tries to create a novel way to stimulate the charitable urges of its Android users.The app was launched this week with the idea of people donating US$1 each at the same time keeping track of how and where the donations are being spent. This transparency feature is one of the advantages the app tries to bring compared to other donor sites ...
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