Topic: GOOGLE - on September 27, 2008 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
Google Offers $10million Prize Fund for Ideas that will Change the World
This week, as part of their tenth birthday celebrations, Google have announce the launch of project 10^100 (ten to the 100th), an innovative scheme designed to inspire and fund the development of ideas that will help to change the world.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 27, 2008 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Google Patent Could Kill Off Cellphone Contracts
Google's keyword auctions redefined web advertising. Now, a patent filing reveals, the search company wants to do the same thing for wireless services.
Google's patent filing describes "devices, systems and methods" that would automatically poll nearby wireless services to find the best price for a voice or a data connection for a "portable communications device." That connection might come via a cellphone carrier, a WiMax provider, or even a Wi-Fi hotspot. According to the patent, users can either manually select the bid they like best or they can allow the device to connect automatically with the lowest-cost provider.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 27, 2008 at 11:59:00 AM CEST
Google umgeht Mobilfunkanbieter
Google erfindet mal wieder das Offensichtliche: Ein Handy, das von sich aus die günstigste, beste Mobil-Verbindung herstellt. Außerdem beschweren sich Indies über MySpace Music und Briten verlieren die Daten von 11.000 Lehrern. Das und mehr im Überblick.
Google beweist wieder einmal Souveränität und erfindet das Offensichtliche: Ein Handy, das von sich aus die günstigste Mobil-Verbindung herstellt – abhängig von der jeweiligen Situation; sei es per Handy-Netz, WiMax oder über einen drahtlosen Internetzugang für Voice-over-IP. So zumindest steht es in einem Patent-Antrag, den Google-Schnüffler ausfindig machten.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 16, 2008 at 12:46:00 PM CEST
Scroogled
Geg landed at San Francisco International Airport at 8 p.m., but by the time he'd made it to the front of the customs line, it was after midnight. He'd emerged from first class, brown as a nut, unshaven, and loose-limbed after a month on the beach in Cabo (scuba diving three days a week, seducing French college girls the rest of the time). When he'd left the city a month before, he'd been a stoop-shouldered, potbellied wreck. Now he was a bronze god, drawing admiring glances from the stews at the front of the cabin.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 16, 2008 at 12:45:00 PM CEST
Google search finds seafaring solution
Google may take its battle for global domination to the high seas with the launch of its own “computer navy”.
The company is considering deploying the supercomputers necessary to operate its internet search engines on barges anchored up to seven miles (11km) offshore.
The “water-based data centres” would use wave energy to power and cool their computers, reducing Google’s costs. Their offshore status would also mean the company would no longer have to pay property taxes on its data centres, which are sited across the world, including in Britain.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 9, 2008 at 1:26:00 PM CEST
Is Google Turning Into Big Brother?
The Debut of Chrome, Google's New Browser, May Have Been Quiet for a Reason
While we're transfixed by the presidential election, in the world of high tech another duel between two well-funded, take-no-quarter candidates has just emerged & and in the long run the impact on our daily lives may be nearly as great -- and perhaps even sinister.
As you probably heard, on Monday -- that is, on a national holiday, when business announcements are almost never made -- Google rolled out Chrome, its new Web browser.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 9, 2008 at 11:29:00 AM CEST
Google to ‘anonymize’ user IPs after 9 months - EU pressure? What EU pressure?
After continued pressure from EU regulators, Google has once again revised its data retention policies, saying it will "anonymize" user IP addresses after 9 months.
On Monday, Google deputy counsel Nicole Wong announced the change during an online privacy panel discussion in Mountain View, California – though she initially avoided mention of the EU.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 9, 2008 at 11:25:00 AM CEST
Google Wants to Index Millions of Old Newspapers
Remember the days before the Internet when you would go to the library to browse old microfilm of newspapers and magazines for research? I don’t either, but in any event, Google’s latest initiative looks to bring all of that content online and make it searchable. The company is adding digital archives to Google News, allowing you to see full scans of original newspapers from the pre-Web era in addition to being able to search the text of them.
To use the new service, you can either go to the Google News Archive, or search Google News and switch to the “timeline” view. When a story is viewable in its original format, the search result will list “Google News Archive” next to the name of the source.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 5, 2008 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
A decade on: Google's internet economy
It's the success story to beat all internet success stories.
Ten years ago, on 7 September 1998, two young graduate students at Stanford University incorporated a company with the (then) odd-sounding name "Google".
Today, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are billionaires. Their company is hugely profitable; between April and June this year alone, it reported a turnover of $5.7bn (£3.2bn) and generated a net profit of $1.25bn (the first quarter was even more profitable).
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Topic: GOOGLE - on September 3, 2008 at 1:55:00 PM CEST
Google's Austro-Hungarian ambitions laid bare - Hapsburg
Our shock revelation yesterday that Google had redrawn the map of Europe to apparently cede several European nations to a Greater Germany provoked a flurry of comments suggesting what on God's Green Earth the search monolith was up to:
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 26, 2008 at 2:15:00 PM CEST
Why Google has lost its mojo -- and why you should care
Google has gone from innovative upstart to fat-and-happy industry leader in what seems like record time. Put simply, the search giant has lost its mojo. That's good news for Microsoft, and it could affect how you use Google's cloud computing services.
Mojo (pronounced /ˈmoʊdʒoʊ/) is a term commonly encountered in the African-American folk belief called hoodoo. A mojo is a type of magic charm, often of red flannel cloth and tied with a drawstring, containing botanical, zoological, and/or mineral curios, petition papers, and the like. It is typically worn under clothing.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on August 19, 2008 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
Google minus Google
Inspired by an article in NYT about Google becoming a media company, I (Timo Paloheimo from Finland) dediced that something had to be done. So I created a way to Search with Google without getting results from Google sites such as Knol, Blogger and YouTube.
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