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The Google Glass team has moved to defend their creation against privacy concerns, saying that it was a top priority from the moment they conceptualised it."Privacy was top of mind as we designed the product," Product Director for Google Glass Steven Lee said during a fireside chat with developers during Google I/O.According to Lee, early prototypes of Glass covered the eye but the team quickly realised that eye contact was incredibly important. That's why the display on Google ...
Things are stirring in the house of Yahoo! According to multiple sources, the Silicon Valley veteran is in talks to buy popular social blogging platform Tumblr for a staggering US$1-billion.Yahoo! CFO Ken Goldman, is cited in AllthingsD as expressing the need for the company to be "cool again". Goldman was speaking at JP Morgan’s Global Technology conference earlier this week. The CFO was very explicit about the company's shortcomings and how to fix it, reports AllthingsD."One of our ...
Kai, the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker who shot to viral fame after saving a woman from her attacker, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.The internet star, whose real name is Caleb McGillvary, was arrested at a Philadelphia bus station after allegedly beating a lawyer to death inside his home, reports the Associated Press.McGillvary was charged with killing Joseph Galfy, Jr, a New Jersey attorney who was found dead two days after authorities said he met McGillvary in New York City. ...
A map is a map is a map, right? Except maps change and evolve, based on our knowledge, all the time and Google is looking to make the next big step in their evolution.The internet giant's mapping division says it's trying to build a future in which Google can "create millions of custom maps...each one just for you." These maps, it claims, will always be "adapting to the task you want to perform right this minute".The first steps ...
Stimulating the money-making part of your brain, the South African Protea Hotels try to give you a taste of what it's like being in their shoes. So watch out Railroad Tycoon, Protea Hospitality Group just launched its own business simulation app. This is to see if we've got what it takes to successfully manage a hotel.This iOS app runs like a game and is meant to be "simple and entertaining" while teaching you financial skills. This is done by ...
There were always going to be questions around BlackBerry's decision to open up its BBM messaging platform and some of the loudest came from the stock market.Shares in the Canadian smartphone maker dropped four percent following CEO Thorsten Heins' keynote at the BlackBerry Live conference yesterday.During the keynote, Heins announced a new mid-range Qwerty phone for emerging markets, channels for BBM and the launch of BBM for iOS and Android.While the Q5, a 3.1-inch touch and keyboard ...
Google reportedly wants to take on Spotify. The news, which was first reported on The Verge, says that the internet giant is planning on rolling out a subscription music streaming service as early as this week at the company's I/O event.The news is hardly surprising as Google signed a deal with Warner Music for two streaming services last year, one tied to YouTube and the other to Android Music.Citing people familiar with the matter, the New York Times ...
This is interesting. Outlook.com users will now be able to chat with their Google friends from within the webmail service.Since launching its revamped email service in mid-2012, Microsoft has done a number of things to try to get people to make the switch from Gmail. These include baking Skype-functionality into it, the ability to chat with your Facebook friends and an Android app (talk about going into the heart of the enemy's territory).When you open the Messaging pane ...
Anyone attending this year's Google I/O developers' conference is set to be part of a massive experiment from the internet giant's Cloud Platform Developer Relations team.Google will be planting Arduino sensors all around the conference venue, measuring everything from ambient temperature to noise levels.In an official blog post Michael Manoochehri, a developer programs engineer at Google, says that altogether, the sensors network will provide over 4 000 continuous data streams collecting and visualizing ambient data about the ...
Scared about your online identity being compromised through Facebook or Google's clingy online presences? You'd probably be less happy about those you don't know about. I'm referring to those who used to spam your inbox or infect your PC with trojans and the like. Those are old school though. With the tech scene moving at such a fast pace -- becoming more device and cloud-orientated, malware and cyber-thieves are doing well in trying to stay ahead of the curve.As ...
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