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Google Introduces Mayan Ruins to 'Street View'
Fox News
Google introduced its "Street View" function in May of 2007 in several cities throughout the United States, and it has since expanded to cities and rural areas around the world, including parts of the Brazilian Amazon, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro's ...
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Google Play Smart Updates Save Data Costs and Time
PCWorld
Google has rolled out a new feature in the Play store that will save you time and data costs when downloading apps. Dubbed smart updates, the feature enables you to download only the updated part of the app from Google Play, instead of the entire ...
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Google Ups Bug Bounties Amid Booming Exploit Market
InformationWeek
As Google sees it, the reduction in vulnerability reports is good news. "This signals to us that bugs are becoming harder to find, as the efforts of the wider community have made Chromium significantly stronger," explained Google software engineer ...
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Google, Apple to team up and buy Kodak patents, report says
CNET
Over the last few days, Apple and Google have joined forces to bid on Kodak's patent portfolio, The Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing unnamed sources. Perhaps even more strange, the Journal claims that the consortium includes Samsung, Apple's ...
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Google Android Voice Search Expanded to 13 New Languages
eWeek
Google has made it easier for people to use its Voice Search feature for Android in native languages around the world by adding another 13 languages to the more than two dozen it already supported. "Voice Search is already available in 29 languages ...
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Google chows down on 3D-printed pasta
ZDNet
Bernard Faucher, an administrator and exhibition chef at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, says that along with the high-tech VitaMix blenders and water circulators he uses, he likes to play around with 3D printers so he can "really ...
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Facebook Joins Google Backing New York's Silicon Dream
Businessweek
West Coast companies are already helping lay the groundwork, with Google Inc. (GOOG) donating office space to the project and Facebook Inc. (FB) hosting a "hackathon" to build buzz with all-night programming binges. New York has an uphill fight in ...
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Google Ups its Video Conference Platform with "Cameraman," HuffPost ...
Huffington Post
Google Hangouts On Air, a video conference tool on Google+, which is getting traction from big publishers including The New York Times, the HuffPost Live and the NFL, has recently added a tool to allow producers to screen contributors via video before ...
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With Discover, will Google get the traction it needs for Wallet?
ZDNet
Discover Financial, the company behind the eponymous credit card, announced this morning that it has partnered with Google to offer its Wallet mobile payment service to cardmembers. The partnership will allow Discover's customers to tap and pay for ...
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Google Fiber Likely a Game-changer
HispanicBusiness.com
Our neighbors to the south were selected as the first community in the world to be given access to Google Fiber, an incredible broadband Internet network using fiber-optic communication. Home installations are expected to start in September. Google ...
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Google FAQ On Upgrading To New Local Google+ Pages
Search Engine Roundtable
As you know, about 11 days ago, Google added support to migrate over to these new socially active pages but there have recently been some documented errors when doing the migration. So Jade from Google wrote up this FAQ on when it is safe to go ...
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google's Real Time Big Data Tool Cloned By Apache Drill
TechCrunch
Google, as you might expect, has massive amounts of data and it's built many tools to handle it. Stuff like MapReduce and GoogleFS, which spawned the open source Apache Hadoop, and BigTable, which spawned Apache HBase. But Google didn't stop with ...
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SYSTEM UPDATE: Sony's new Google TV box tries to take on Apple TV ... again
New York Daily News
The first time things didn't work out. But maybe the second time will be the charm. That's exactly what Sony and Google are hoping with their new Google TV set-top box. Let's start with some background. Back in 2010, Google TV was supposed to take over ...
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New York Daily News
Did Google buy Frommer's for its search engine juice? No, there is a lot more ...
Tnooz
Similar to when Google bought ITA Software in the summer of 2010, officials are avoiding saying yet what the search giant intends to do with its purchase of Frommer's travel guides. This means it is left to everyone else to try and figure it all out ...
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Tnooz
Google, YouTube Still Dominate Online Video (GOOG, FB, YHOO, MSFT, AOL ...
DailyFinance
The YouTube division of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) drew 157000 unique viewers in July, nearly 3x the number of unique viewers of its nearest rival, Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB). The figures come from comScore Inc.'s (NASDAQ: SCOR) Video Metrix ...
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Fewer and Fewer People Want to Know About Computers, Says Google
The Atlantic
But whatever the reasons -- and with a trend this big and long, it's almost certainly many reasons -- the number of people interested enough to Google things about desktops, laptops, and other electronics has been halved since 2004. One partial ...
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The Atlantic
Google Adds Country-specific Domain Registration Options for Apps Customers
PCWorld
Google has worked with registrars for years in order to offer companies signing up for the Apps suite the option of also buying a domain as part of the transaction. However, its partners haven't offered CC domains, which, unlike generic domains like ...
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What Are PayPal, Google Wallet & Square Missing?
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Some of the largest retailers in the U.S. are launching a mobile payment application that's expected to compete directly with Google's(GOOG) Google Wallet, eBay's(EBAY) PayPal and Square, but it's not clear if their solution ...
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Why Google Employees Are Happier Than Ever
Minyanville.com
Topping this year's list is Google Inc. (GOOG), which saw its employee-satisfaction rating soar by more than a third -- 37% -- during the last year. CareerBliss says the jump in Google's score was the result of improved employee support and growth, a ...
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This Morning: Mini iPad 'Checks,' Vringo V Google Moves Forward
Barron's (blog)
Patent holder Vringo is moving forward in its suit against Google (GOOG) for patent infringement after some initial findings by a district court judge in the company's favor were upheld yesterday, according to a brief write-up by Ben Fox-Rubin of Dow ...
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Auto industry warming up to Google's driverless car initiative
San Jose Mercury News
DETROIT -- It's been more than half a century since some of the first concept cars boasting self-driving features were presented to the world and they're still not on the roads. But many auto executives say the industry is on the cusp of welcoming ...
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Google Maps for Android gets update, new icon
Los Angeles Times
Google updated its Android Google Maps app this week with new features, but the most noticeable change is a new icon for the app. The new icon, which you can see in the picture above, shows the Google "g" subtly added on top of a map that also includes ...
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Why does Google hate me?
ITworld.com
Frankly, I have never been a big fan of Google Docs. I have always found it sluggish and laggy; it changes fonts on me randomly, and sometimes simply doesn't do what I tell it to do, like delete certain words. But I decided to try it again because I ...
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Why Buying Motorola Was a Good Gamble for Google
blogs.hbr.org (blog)
Monday's announcement of massive layoffs reminds everyone that Google bought into a weak hand when it paid $12.5 billion for Motorola Mobility. Did Google's Larry Page make a poor bet in buying Motorola's seat at the global mobile device poker table?
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blogs.hbr.org (blog)
'Fattest States,' According To Google Users, Mapped By Blogger Renee DiResta ...
Huffington Post
Blogger Renee DiResta decided to use Google's autocomplete function to discover exactly which stereotypes are most applied to certain states. Autocomplete is described on Google's website as an "algorithm [that] predicts and displays search queries ...
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Blogs10 new results for Google
 
Voice Search arrives in 13 new languages | Official Google Blog
By A Googler
"Norwegian restaurants in New York City." I can type that phrase fast, but I can say it even faster—and when I'm on the go, speed is what I'm looking for. With Voice Search, you can speak into your phone to get search results quickly and easily.
Official Google Blog
Discover Partners With Google, Makes Adding Its Credit - TechCrunch
By Frederic Lardinois
Google Wallet, the company's NFC-based virtual wallet for Android, got a major update earlier this month when Google started giving its users the ability to use cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. Today, Google and ...
TechCrunch
Google's Voice Search on Android adds support for 13 additional ...
By Richard Lawler
Even though it's also on iOS now, Android is still the first love for Google's Voice Search and the company announced today it's.
Engadget
Why the Google Play experience is about to rival iTunes — Mobile ...
By Kevin C. Tofel
After months with a sub-par user experience, the Google Play store is gaining needed improvements. Application updates comprised of just changed code now helps limit mobile broadband use while gift cards and wishlists are coming soon, ...
GigaOM
New York Times to Sell About.com: Google to Blame? - Search ...
By Dave Davies
The New York Times is reportedly in talks to sell its Internet property About.com to one of its main competitors: Answer.com. So why has the New York Times chosen now to sell? The answer to that has to be the changes to Google's search ...
Search Engine Watch - Latest
Apple, Google, and Samsung Teaming Up in Effort to Acquire Kodak ...
By Eric Slivka
Following last month's report that Apple and Google were heading up separate consortiums bidding to obtain Kodak's portfolio of digital...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...
Reviving Old Laptops, Migrating Google Data, and the Communal ...
By Adam Dachis
This week on the podcast we're talking about reviving your old laptop, migrating Google data, using tablets as communal devices, and making grocery shopping suck a bit less. Also, we're answering your questions about our podcasting setup, ...
Lifehacker: Windows
Apple, Microsoft, Google and the sad state of TV — Online Video News
By Janko Roettgers
Apple set out to reinvent TV, but now it looks like all it is going to end up with is a set-top box with apps that deliver your regular cable bundle. To blame are the broadcasters, whose business model is fundamentally anti innovation.
Video
Google Street View Tours Mexico's Mayan Ruins, Adds Panoramic ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
MEXICO CITY -- Google is adding interactive images of dozens of pre-Hispanic ruins to the "Street View" feature on its Google Maps website. Google Mexico and Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announced Thursday ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Discover Hops Aboard the Google Wallet Bandwagon
By Adrian Covert
The achilles heel of Google Wallet thus far has been it's inability to forge patnerships. MasterCard and Sprint have been the company's only friends. But now Discover is also on board, which gets Google Wallet one step closer to being a thing ...
Gizmodo


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