Google yesterday released an add-on that lets users view Microsoft Office documents within its Chrome browser, another small step in the search giant's encroachment on Microsoft's lucrative business productivity turf. Two months ago, ...
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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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Google has purchased news streaming provider Wavii, the start-up's CEO has confirmed, as it immediately shut down its service before being incorporated into the world's number one web firm. The deal, worth an estimated $30m (£18m), ...
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NASA has launched three smartphones into space in what scientists hope will be the lowest-cost satellites ever tested. The smartphones, Google-HTC Nexus Ones running the Android operating system, launched aboard the maiden flight of ...
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The cyber attack Friday on the Internet deal site LivingSocial that forced it to reset the passwords of some 50 million users has elements of what's becoming an all too familiar storyline. Along with the names, birth dates, and email ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Friday started shipping its US$169.99 Slate 7 tablet with Android 4.1, which signals the company's reentry into the consumer tablet market after the TouchPad imploded in 2011. The tablet became available first in the ...
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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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The number of government requests that Google has received to remove certain types of content, often politically charged, reached its highest level ever during the second half of 2012, the company reported Thursday. For the period between ...
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Google has lost yet another intellectual property case after a court in Microsoft's home city of Seattle ruled largely in its favour in a patent case. US District Judge James Robart ruled that Microsoft owed Google just $1.8m ...
GOOGLE co-founder Sergey Brin has outlined a vision for the future in which self-driving cars whisk care-free friends to verdant parks that were once paved lots. It's these kinds of ideas - which have the potential to transform lives and ...
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NOKIA has signalled it will lift the lid on future additions to its Microsoft Windows-based smartphone range in mid-May. The Finnish phonemaker will hold a May 14 press conference in London and issued invitations to journalists this ...
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GOOGLE has released data showing that requests by governments to censor the internet giant's content have hit new heights, with Brazil and the United States leading the way. Google received 2285 government requests to remove content from ...
GOOGLE co-founder Sergey Brin has outlined a vision for the future in which self-driving cars whisk care-free friends to verdant parks that were once paved lots. It's these kinds of ideas - which have the potential to transform lives ...
Google's rivals have been given one month to assess the search giant's proposed antitrust remedies, the European Commission announced Thursday. The Commission, the E.U.'s regulatory and executive body, has published Google's proposals to ...
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Motorola Mobility Android phones infringe on a Microsoft text messaging patent, the Higher District Court of Munich ruled on Thursday. The German court ruled that Motorola infringes on a Microsoft patent that allows a phone to break up a ...
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