Topic: GOOGLE - on September 4, 2013 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Android 4.4 Kitkat: Nestlé macht sich in Video über Apple lustig
Gestern verkündeten Google und Lebensmittel-Konzern Nestlé, dass die nächste Android-Version Kitkat heißen wird. Dazu hat der Hersteller des Schoko-Riegels ein Video veröffentlicht, welches durchaus als Seitenhieb auf Apple gesehen werden dürfte.
Das war eine ziemliche Überraschung, als gestern bekannt wurde, wie die nächste Iteration des mobilen Betriebssystems aus dem Hause Google betitelt wird. Es dauerte auch nicht lange, bis die ersten Menschen fragten, was Kitkat wohl für so einen mächtigen Deal auf den Tisch geblättert hätten.
Vertraut man jetzt den Aussagen von Google, geht es bei der ganzen Geschichte überhaupt gar nicht um Geld. Ausschlaggebend war schlicht, dass man im Android-Team gerne diese Schokoriegel verschlingt und einfach mal bei Nestlé angeklopft hat, ob man sich so eine Zusammenarbeit vorstellen kann.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 14, 2013 at 1:07:00 PM CEST
Google: “Nutzer von Gmail können keine Privatsphäre erwarten”
In einer Stellungnahme zu einem laufenden Gerichtsverfahren haben Anwälte von Google erklärt, dass Nutzer die Emails an Googles Mailservice Gmail schicken, keine Privatsphäre zu erwarten hätten. Das berichtet Consumerwatchdog, denen die Stellungnahme von Google vorliegt.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 17, 2012 at 11:09:00 AM CEST
Google's bots learn to read interactive webpages more like humans
Google feeds its search engine's index with site data from a virtual army of "bots"—Web-crawling applications that scour sites for content. But in the past, Google's bots hit a wall when they ran into interactive content that was loaded through JavaScript—especially on pages that use Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) to allow users access to additional content without reloading pages. But now, according to Vancouver-based developer Alex Pankratov, it appears Google's bots have been trained to act more like humans to mine interactive site content, running the JavaScript on pages they crawl to see what gets coughed up.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 14, 2012 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
Appeals court won’t order public release of Google-NSA communications following cyberattack
A federal appeals court has turned down a Freedom of Information Act request to disclose National Security Agency records about the 2010 cyberattack on Google users in China.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, which focuses on privacy and civil liberties, sought communications between Google and the NSA, which conducts worldwide electronic surveillance and protects the U.S. government from such spying. But the NSA refused to confirm or deny whether it had any relationship with Google. The NSA argued that doing so could make U.S. government information systems vulnerable to attack.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on May 7, 2012 at 3:40:00 PM CEST
Google Play About To Pass 15 Billion App Downloads? Pssht! It Did That Weeks Ago
Way to blow your own horn, Google. Yesterday a newspaper in the UK, the Independent, ran a short item about how Google was about to reach an app milestone — 15 billion apps downloaded. So we reached out to Google to ask about this… and guess what? It already happened.
A Google spokesperson, Gina Weakley Johnson, tells us the milestone was passed “a few weeks ago.”
The last number that Google released with more public declaration was 11 billion downloads, when the store was still called the Android Market, which it announced during its Q4 2011 earnings in January. In April, when Google reported its Q1 2012 earnings, it didn’t mention downloads on Google Play, the newly-rebranded store.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 18, 2012 at 8:33:00 AM CEST
Fight Is On Between Oracle And Google Over Java API Copyrights
Last summer, we noted that there was an interesting "sideshow" in the patent dispute between Oracle and Google -- a question of whether or not Java's APIs are covered by copyright. That "sideshow" has become the main attraction now that the trial has started and many of the patent claims have been kicked out.
If you just see that side of it, you might be convinced, but the details suggest a much less convincing story. First off, there are serious concerns about whether or not an API even can be covered by copyright. In fact, before Sun was acquired by Oracle, Sun's own CTO had said that "internet specifications are not protectable under copyright," which (you might think) gives Google an implied go ahead to make use of the API. Furthermore, many of the email snippets that Oracle presents are taken out of context -- they show little snippets of big emails and pull from very very different time periods -- ranging from 2005 to 2010, when different factors applied. Oracle also scrubbed a blog from former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz in which he warmly welcomed Google to the Java family when the company launched Android.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 16, 2012 at 11:05:00 AM CET
Cookie-Skandal: Google drohen hohe Strafen
Google droht nach Informationen des „Wall Street Journal“ neuer Datenschutz-Ärger. Demnach nehmen Regulierer in den USA und Europa die Umgehung der Datenschutz-Einstellungen im Safari-Browser durch Google unter die Lupe. Vor allem in Amerika könne es teuer werden.
Der technische Trick, mit dem Google die Datenschutz-Einstellungen des Safari-Browsers von Apple umgangen hat, wird von Regulierern in den USA und Europa untersucht. Im schlimmsten Fall könne dem Internet-Konzern eine sehr hohe Strafe drohen, schrieb das „Wall Street Journal“ am Freitag unter Berufung auf informierte Personen.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 16, 2012 at 11:04:00 AM CET
Super-secret Google builds servers in the dark
Just how far will Google go to hide its custom-built data center hardware from the rest of the world?
In one Silicon Valley data center, the company is apparently so paranoid about competitors catching a glimpse of its gear, it’s been known to keep its server cages in complete darkness, outfitting its technical staff like miners and sending them spelunking into the cages with lights on their heads.
“Many [companies] try to keep things covered up. There’s a lot of valuable intellectual property in here,” says Chris Sharp, general manager of content and cloud at Equinix, as he walks through the company’s data center. “But we were always amazed by Google and the helmets.”
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 16, 2012 at 11:03:00 AM CET
Google Flushes Heat From Data Center With Toilet Water
Google is using toilet water to cool its data center in western Georgia.
In 2007, when Google first opened its massive computing center in Douglas County, Georgia, it cooled the facility’s equipment using the same water that’s pumped into the pipes of local homes. But at some point, the search giant realized that the water used by its evaporative cooling system needn’t be clean enough to drink.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 14, 2012 at 10:32:00 AM CET
German Law To Make Google Pay For News Snippets
Google and other search engines may be forced to pay publishers for even short snippets of news articles displayed on their websites under a planned German copyright law that was given the green light last week.
The plan introduced last week by Germany’s governing coalition, led by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), authorises the German ministry of justice to begin developing a bill for the new copyright law, the CDU said.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 13, 2012 at 2:17:00 PM CET
Darpa Director Bolts Pentagon for Google
Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon’s premiere research shop to take a job with Google. Dugan, whose controversial tenure at the agency lasted just under three years, was “offered and accepted at senior executive position” with the internet giant, according to Darpa spokesman Eric Mazzacone. She felt she couldn’t say no to such an “innovative company,” he adds.
Dugan’s emphasis on cybersecurity and next-generation manufacturing earned her strong support from the White House, winning her praise from the President and maintaining the agency’s budget even during a period of relative austerity at the Pentagon. Her push into crowdsourcing and outreach to the hacker community were eye-openers in the often-closed world of military R&D. Dugan also won over some military commanders by diverting some of her research cash from long-term, blue-sky projects to immediate battlefield concerns.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 2, 2012 at 12:33:00 PM CET
'We don't know if Google is operating outside EU law Plus: 'It's within our lifetime. It's going to happen'
This was the week in which Mobile World Congress landed in Barcelona, producing reams of smartphone and fondleslab news, views and shiny gadgets - including waterproof mobes, which are of particular use to Brits since apparently nearly one in ten of them take their phones into the shower.
These featured alongside new Sony phones, emerging after the firm's divorce from Ericsson, and a glimpse into the mind of top Googler Eric Schmidt, which included a near future of robot cars and Star Trek-esque holodecks.
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