A year before Google's futuristic-looking, computerized eyeglasses are expected to hit the market, they have been banned -- again. A Caesars Palace casino spokesman today told Computerworld that people wearing the Google Glass technology ...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that the "lack of a delete button on the internet is... a significant issue". In an interview by economist Nouriel Roubini at New York University's business school, Schmidt was asked what he believed ...
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Now that developers have Google Glass in hand, the first apps are starting to come out. An early app that's already getting lots of attention is called Winky. Aptly named, the app enables Glass users to take a picture simply with the wink ...
Apple has avoided over $9bn (£5.8bn) in US taxes through a debt deal, investors have estimated. The firm recently sold $17bn (£11bn) in Apple bonds, the largest offering of this sort in corporate history, with the idea of the ...
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Google has been recalled to give evidence about its UK tax arrangements to parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for a second time. Google's auditor, Ernst & Young, will also be required to provide further evidence. It comes after ...
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Google's executive chairman acknowledged yesterday that using Glass, the company's computerized eyeglasses, can be at times a bit "weird" and "inappropriate." Speaking at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Google's Eric ...
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Worldwide shipments of computerized smart glasses are expected to hit nearly 10 million units by 2016, largely driven Google's Glass project, a research firm said. That's an impressive number considering that Google's Glass eyewear, the ...
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Google's Eric Schmidt said the company's wearable computer, Glass, is about a year from reaching the market. "We've just started distributing it to the first developers," Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, told a BBC reporter. "It's ...
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Google won't do anything to thwart Facebook's recently launched Home software for Android devices if it becomes explosively popular, according to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Home, which became available for download April 1, ...
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Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has gathered technology luminaries to start an advocacy group focused on immigration and education. In an op-ed piece he wrote for The Washington Post, Zuckerberg announced the formation of ...
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a new political action group he is spearheading to press for reforms in areas including immigration and education. "To lead the world in this new economy, we need the most talented and ...
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A court in California declined to certify as class action a lawsuit by workers alleging an illegal cartel formed by seven technology companies including Apple, Google and Intel. The judge, however, raised the possibility that she may ...
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is scheduled to join a number of other high-profile tech players to testify in a private antitrust suit brought against seven California-based technology companies by former employees. ...
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The Chinese media have accused Apple of treating the nation's consumers as second-class citizens over its policy for replacing or repairing damaged iPhones under warranty. While Apple insists that its policies are broadly equivalent ...
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Chrome OS and Android will remain as separate operating systems, each addressing specific requirements, Google's executive chairman said Thursday. There will be more commonality between the two OSes, but they are going to be separate for ...
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