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Google Targets Uber and Lyft with New Ride-Sharing Service
Sep 6, 2016Google is reportedly planning to launch a ride sharing service in San Francisco, California later this year in order to compete with Uber and Lyft. If this pilot project is successful, Google could expand it further. In May this year, ...
Tags: Google, ride sharing service, Uber and Lyft.
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Waze Is Tackling The Worst Thing About Inner-City Driving
Jun 20, 2016The Waze app, now owned by Google, is really quite spectacular. The crowd-sourced data allows drivers to avoid speed traps, accidents, and will re-route you around traffic. Now the makers are testing another new feature in Los Angeles ...
Tags: Waze app, intersections, speed traps
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Logi ZeroTouch to Turn Any Car Into Hands-Free Connected Car
May 13, 2016Logitech announced the launch of Logi ZeroTouch Air Vent and Logi ZeroTouch Dashboard smart car mounts for Android smartphones that can trigger a voice-controlled app when you dock your phone in the car. With this combo you can hear and ...
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Microsoft Announced an Roster of Smartphone Vendors Supporting Its Windows Phone OS
Feb 27, 2014Related microsoft NPD: PS4 Sales Topped Xbox One In January microsoft Nadella Named Microsoft CEO microsoft Microsoft See Surface Sales Surface In Q2 microsoft Microsoft Posts Record Fiscal Q2 Revenues Barcelona, Spain — Microsoft ...
Tags: vendors supporting, Consumer Electronics, Bolster Windows Phone
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Top 10 Devices in 2013
Dec 30, 2013Wearable gadgets, curved smartphones and new game consoles defined technology in 2013. That's why it's no surprise they make up the bulk of our top 10 devices of the year. Some of these devices are essentially much better versions of ...
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Big Data Is Mostly a Buzzword Created by Analysts and The Press
Oct 25, 2013Big data is mostly a buzzword created by analysts and the press with the most literal examples of big data being restricted to machine data, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight has claimed. Goodnight made the comments during the opening keynote of his ...
Tags: Big Data, Computer Products, software
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Microsoft Wants to Build a Better Mobile Phone
Sep 5, 2013Microsoft wants to build a better mobile phone through its acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business. One way it hopes to do that? By improving its maps applications to better compete against Google's. "An effective alternative to ...
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Tech Companies Are Hanging Onto Record Amounts of Cash
Sep 4, 2013Tech companies are hanging onto record amounts of cash, and industry watchers want to see more of it reinvested in the companies or distributed to shareholders. FactSet, a financial research firm, tallied all the cash and marketable ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, webservice
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Google Must Do More to Allay Fears That It Is Attempting to Squeeze Rivals
Jul 23, 2013Google has once again been told by the European Union that it must do more to allay fears that it is attempting to squeeze rivals from the web search market, after competitors - including Microsoft - voiced concerns that the concessions ...
Tags: Computer Products, google, web search
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Apple Is Reportedly Looking to Purchase The Company Behind The Kinect Sensor
Jul 18, 2013Apple is reportedly looking to purchase the company behind the Kinect sensor, the motion controller for Microsoft's Xbox 360. PrimeSense, a semiconductor chip manufacturing company based in Israel, licensed the hardware design and chip ...
Tags: Sensor, Apple, Computer Products, Kinect sensor, Xbox 360
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Google's Eric Schmidt Has Set Tongues Wagging Yet Again
Jul 16, 2013Google's Eric Schmidt has set tongues wagging yet again, but this time it's not about?what he said?but what he?didn't?say. The search giant's Executive Chairman was?spotted at the Allen and Co. media conference?on Thursday using ...
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There's So Much New Web-Based Stuff
Jun 19, 2013CEO of business analytics and intelligence firm Jim Goodnight is glad his company does not have to C"strange world of the internet", and is mystified by Google's recent decision to spend $1bn for crowd-sourced GPS app Waze. Goodnight told ...
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Google's Waze Acquisition Should Not Need an Antitrust Probe
Jun 17, 2013Google's Waze acquisition should not need an antitrust probe, according to the chairman of research and analysis firm TechMarketView, Richard Holway. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) had been urged to block Google's $1.3bn (£830m) ...
Tags: Google, Waze Acquisition
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Google Confirmed Weeks of Rumors That It Is Buying Waze
Jun 14, 2013With Google set to buy app-maker Waze, the question is whether Google actually needs the crowd-sourced traffic app or is simply trying to stick it to its competitors. On Tuesday, Google confirmed weeks of rumors that?it is buying Waze. ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products
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Consumer Watchdog Called on to Block Google's Proposed $1 Billion Acquisition of Waze
Jun 14, 2013Consumer Watchdog today called on federal regulators to block Google's proposed $1 billion acquisition of Waze, developers of a mobile mapping application, on antitrust grounds. The nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest group made the ...
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