All Posts Tagged With: "Google"
Introducing Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Office 365
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) seems poised to take on Google in a new bid to take a larger share of the emerging market for cloud-based apps, server tools, and other work-flow sharing systems. Microsoft’s Office 365 is the latest piece in that emerging strategy. Currently, the company is in the midst of a series of testing [...]
Cloud Connect Offers Link For MS Office To Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Docs
The latest word is that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has now developed simple way for users of Microsoft Office products like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to share their documents via Google Docs. Shan Sinha, one of Google’s group product managers and one of the founders of DocVerse, put it this way: “It offers a brain-dead, simple [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Faces Challenge from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)and Facebook
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Facebook are allies. They are joining as a competitor against the supremacy of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). Microsoft, software specialist and Facebook, social networking, have recently announced a number of collaborative ventures. One is including Facebook user data into Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. Microsoft Office applications are to be used in Facebook’s [...]
What Drives Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to Protect the Privacy and Security of its Users
“Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” With this mission in mind the company regularly brings new innovations to the market place. It consistently develops new technology which is often well ahead of the existing technology currently available on the internet. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has developed a [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) the Good Samaritan
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is developing a relationship with a charity, established in the United Kingdom and Ireland. As part of their commitment to public service, Google has already introduced a support for distressed people in the US. It has been extensively tested. Icons that present contact details of helping agencies, are placed above the searches [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) To Limit Access To GMail Contact Information
Google has recently decided that GMail contacts will not be automatically given to other websites and services, such as social networking sites like Facebook. Instead, Google will now only share their user’s information if the site that wants access also provides them with reciprocal data feeds. This new policy switch for Google was mainly aimed [...]
What’s Up With The Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chrome-Powered Netbook?
In announcements made more than a year ago, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) presented plans to help in the launch of new generation netbooks, created specifically to run web-based applications using the Google Chrome operating system. The big question now is – what happened to these plans? Recently a report issued by DigiTimes, a Taiwan-based business, has [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chrome Celebrates Second Birthday
For most people, the most significant piece of software on a computer is the web browser. Version 6, the latest version of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chrome web browser, was released in September 2010. Google says it is faster and easier to use than previous versions. In two years, Chrome has become the third most used [...]
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) in Secret Talks With BOKU
The San Francisco startup called BOKU wants to bring “bank grade payments technology” to mobile phones and platforms to create the standard for online payments when using a mobile phone. According to Tech Crunch, BOKU President and CEO Mark Britto and co-founder Ron Hirson have met with Apple executives that are in charge of the [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Apps On The Android Gets Enterprise Security Support
On October 28th, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that it was adding enterprise management and sync support for its Google Apps on the Android 2.2 mobile platform. This move has been touted as boon for IT management since more Android smart phones are being utilized in various businesses. Google Apps such as Google Talk, Gmail, and [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Street View Controversy
Not everyone likes Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Street View. Street View is part of Google Maps and Goggle Earth a free online mapping service. Launched in May 2007, Street View shows a 360 degree view of streets and buildings in many towns and cities throughout the world. Street View, Google Maps and Google Earth were developed [...]
Facebook, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to Topple Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)?
This week Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) upped its partnership with Facebook in a move that may threaten Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) search standing. The announcement was made that Facebook and Microsoft plan to team up to make Internet searches more of a social event. Using the Microsoft Bing search engine will allow users to see what their [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Testing Cars That Drive Themselves
With the rise of cellphone usage in the car, maneuvering through traffic can be quite dangerous while using a phone to talk or text. Not only is it dangerous, but also illegal in most cities. Google is trying to make this become a reality, in a safe way. This can be achieved through use of [...]
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Announces Plans To Open Their Own App Store
Amazon has a reported plan to open up an applications store for the Android-operated smartphones, according to a recent post appearing on the Wall Street Journal website. This would be big competition for the existing Android Market that is run by Google. The mobile application marketplace is quickly becoming very competitive. The Apple iPhone app [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to Back Up Wind Project
Google NASDAQ: GOOG) announced its company is investing big bucks into a wind development project that would supply nearly 1.9 million homes with power. Trans-Elect Development is looking to start construction on the 350 mile Atlantic Wind Connection effort by 2013. The project would go from New Jersey to Virginia in the Atlantic Ocean and [...]
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Ballmer Discusses Future Of Mobile, Search, And More
As Windows gears up to release a new mobile phone as well as a dynamic motion sensor device for the Xbox 360 for the holiday season, there are plenty of questions floating around about long term plans and the direction of the company. They hope to cater to those who enjoy apps with the Windows [...]
WebP Image Format from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Increases Loading Time By 40 Percent
Google recently announced a new image format that is specifically for use on the Web. The new image format is known as WebP and has the goal of increasing the loading time and overall performance of websites by 40 percent (or more). As stated in eWEEK Richard Rabbat, a Google product manager announced Google has [...]
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) one of U.S. technology companies to end ban on recruiting workers from competitors
Apple and Google were among the six companies that have agreed to end practices that limited the recruiting and hiring of one another’s employees. The six companies involved include: Apple, Google, Adobe Systems Inc., Intel Corp., Walt Disney Co.’s Pixar animation unit, and Intuit Inc. The U.S. Justice Department said that these companies have halted [...]
FTC Announces Approval of Super Wi-Fi, Move Championed by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST)
The Federal Communications Commission has voted unanimously to allow unused airwaves in the broadcast TV spectrum to be used for unlicensed mobile broadband operations, creating a Super Wi-Fi. The decision will enable both greater bandwidth and longer range than present-day Wi-Fi signals. Both Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) have long been proponents of [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Announces Winners of Project 10^100 Contest – $10 Million in Prizes
In 2008, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced a contest called Project 10^100. More than 150,000 ideas were submitted from individuals and companies from more than 170 countries. Google selected sixteen themes from the submissions, and the general public were given the opportunity to vote on the themes they felt were most worthy of Google’s funding. Five projects [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Filing Civil Suit Against Online Rogue Pharmacy
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has learned that one of the companies buying advertising is not really a drug store but a front for an illegal pharmacy. Google noted on its official blog that they will be “taking rogue pharmacies to court”. The company has taken the necessary steps to file a federal lawsuit against some advertisers that [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Advertises Display Advertising in Times Square
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) rarely advertises, so what’s with their new 35-foot-wide, 13-foot-tall billboard in Times Square featuring a Google advertisement about their display advertising? Google’s entire success has been built around text ads appearing within their search engine’s search results, but hasn’t been recognized as much for it’s display advertising. In addition to the text [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) quiet on the issue of resubmitting voice app for iPhone
Apple recently revised their App Store review polices. This revision now allows services such as Google Voice, although Google has not yet announced plans to resubmit their own application. Google recently reported to AppleInsider that iPhone users are still able to use the Web-based Google Voice dialer. This app allows users to activate a call [...]
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Makes Emails a Priority
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is aiming to make checking your inbox easier. The company has added a new system that allows Google users to decide which incoming email is the most important and allows the ‘good’ emails to remain at the top of the pile while the not-so-important emails stay at the bottom. The Priority Inbox [...]
Verizon FiOs (NYSE: VZ) Bringing TV to Apple’s iPad (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Other Tablet Computers
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Chief Information Office, Shaygan Kheradpir, announced at a press conference yesterday that within the next few months, subscribers to the Verizon FiOS service could be watching their favorite television shows via an application on tablet computers like Apple’s iPad (NASDAQ: AAPL) and maybe even Android powered phones. The application which makes it [...]
Google’s Influence on Web Policy Feared (NASDAQ: GOOG)
The new Internet Policy governing high speed Internet is being prepared for the White House by federal officials. Andrew McLaughlin built Google’s public policy operation and also helped craft their government lobbying strategy. Now that he is working for the White House, Google rivals are saying this is bias and fear what will be implemented [...]
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Questioned Over Private Data Collection
An ongoing investigation that involves 37 states places Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) in the direct line of questioning in regards to a collection of personal consumer data that was gathered for the intended purposes of Google map software. The Connecticut attorney general, Richard Blumenthal is taking the lead on an investigation backed by 37 other states [...]
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