Search giant Google is buying phone company Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion in cash, making this its biggest acquisition yet, if approved. The deal will boost Android, Google’s operating system for mobile devices. The deal was announced Monday morning by Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page in a blog saying it will “supercharge the [...]
Remember way back in February of 2010, when Google introduced a social media service called Google Buzz, and all the bloggers marveled that Google was so boldly taking on Facebook? Well, that didn’t work out so well. Now Google is really taking on Facebook, and not just in a half-hearted kind of way. Witness the [...]
Bing, Microsoft’s little search engine that could, has taken 30 percent of the U.S. search market share, posing a serious threat to Google’s dominance in the field. According to Hitwise, Bing raked in 30.01 percent in March, with 14.32 percent of those searches coming from Bing.com and the remaining 15.69 percent from Yahoo Search, which [...]
You may have seen Google’s Gmail Motion April Fool’s joke this year, which promised to get rid of the mouse and keyboard for email and implement a new system based entirely on body movements. As jokes go it wasn’t bad, but the team at ICT MxR made it into a reality using Kinect. The same [...]
In the 10 years since the last time Larry Page was Google’s chief executive, the company has changed a bit. It has gone from an ambitious startup to a publicly-listed giant of the internet which generates cash and has 24,000 employees (and will probably have 30,000 by the end of the year); it has a [...]
It’s April Fool’s day and Google has pranked its users yet again. Google.com’s homepage boasts a small link under the search box that reads “New! Gmail Motion: Turn your email into a true body of work.” The link takes users to a blog post introducing a supposed new product, Gmail Motion Beta, that Google says [...]
Into fonts? Then you’ll probably appreciate one of the pranks cooked up by Google this year on the internet’s biggest holiday, April Fools Day. If you’re not a typography nerd, you may be unaware that Helvetica has a bit of status as a revered, serious and well-respected font among fans. (For instance, it’s used on [...]
Green Parrot Pictures makes software to improve footage by reducing camera shake, reducing graininess and increasing sharpness, among other enhancements. “Take, for example, videos of recent protests in Libya,” Jeremy Doig, Google’s director of video technology, said in blog post last night. “Although emotionally captivating, they can be jerky, blurry or unsteady. What if there [...]
ALL of Nelson Mandela’s personal archives will be digitised and will be publicly available online, while a 46664 clothing line will raise funds for the global HIV/Aids awareness and prevention campaign. The two partnerships are with Google, the internet giant, and Seardel, the local clothing and textile manufacturer. As part of its partnership with the [...]
Google says a major update to its search algorithm filters out many of the “low-quality” sites we’ve all grown to loath: content farms. Since the beginning of the year, Google has made it an expressed mission to hide the “shallow” and “low-quality” sites (i.e. content farms) that have come to litter the search giant’s valuable [...]
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