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New 3D imagery for Google Earth for mobile
Since 2006, we've had textured 3D buildings in Google Earth, and we're excited to announce that we'll begin adding 3D models to entire metropolitan areas to Google Earth on mobile devices in the near future. Thanks to new imagery rendering techniques and computer vision, we're able to create 3D cityscapes, complete with buildings, terrain and [...]
Google is globally switching its search to HTTPS by default
Google has announced on its Inside Search blog that it is enabling SSL encryptionby default on its global search pages. The US site google.com has been switching users to the secured HTTPS protocol since last year and now, to improve security and privacy for all its users, the company is rolling the behavior out to its international properties [...]
The risk of using apps that access your Gmail account
Andy Baio, in an opinion piece for Wired News... "Since Gmail added oAuth support in March 2010, an increasing number of startups are asking for a perpetual, silent window into your inbox. I’m concerned oAuth, while hugely convenient for both developers and users, may be paving the way for an inevitable privacy meltdown." Source
Google+ App for BlackBerry
Google Plus for BlackBerry applications are now available on BlackBerry App World. Google + , the more the application is ready to use on your BlackBerry, and you can download Google applications and the BlackBerry BlackBerry App World. Google applications are free and BlackBerry App World. So you can google with BlackBerry Messenger, plus [...]
“Enterprise expert finder” gplus.com mistaken for Google+, stupid user hijinks ensue
I pity the moderators at gplus.com. The site is a forum for Gerson Lehrman Group, "the premier enterprise platform for connecting to experts and their insights." But countless Stupid Users trying to find Google+, the search giant's new social network offering, think Gerson Lehrman's G+ is Google+'s G+. Maybe it's just me, but I found it hilarious. [...]
Ads visible from space
Fifty years of weather have worn it down, but this image depicts the first advertisement visible from space, the Readymix logo. KFC tried to claim in 2006 that their one square mile Colonel Sanders portrait in Nevada was the “world’s first brand visible from outer space”, but the bloggers at Google Sightseeing dispelled that myth. NPR has a [...]
Google+ Hits 10 Million Users: Should Facebook Freak Out?
You know what's cool? A BILLION users. In just two weeks, Google+ has reached the 10 million user mark. For a tech company so used to losing the social media game, this could be its moment. Those numbers look like peanuts compared to Facebook's 750 million users, many of whom check in every day. But the site is expected to double in size by [...]
Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter Mortally Wounded?
A lot of people are joining because it's "new" and it's the "in thing" for the hipsters to have a Google+ invite, but let's wait a bit and see if it has any staying power, shall we? Anyone remember Google Wave? Yeah, that was hot for a few minutes once, too. I've spent the last week playing with the new Google+, and I´m here to tell you the [...]
Using clickfraud on Google ads to amass shares of Google
Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI) is an art/economics project/prank/criminal enterprise that uses a network of hidden sites that register fraudulent clicks on Google Ads. The revenue from these ads is used to buy shares of Google. At the present rate, the organizers estimate that they will own all of Google in about 200,000 years. They pledge to [...]
Google bets $20K that Chrome can’t be hacked
It's not $20k to bet against themselves, it's $20k paid for keen hackers to fix their browser's security further with PR to fuel the fire of interest. Google will pay $20,000 to the first researcher who successfully exploits its Chrome browser at this year's Pwn2Own hacking contest. The award is the largest ever for the annual challenge, [...]
Phone-to-Twitter bridge for use in an Internet-less Egypt
Over the weekend, engineers from Google, Twitter and SayNow (a recent Google acquisition) built a phone-to-Twitter bridge to allow Egyptians to transmit and receive #jan25-related tweets without accessing the Internet: We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired last week, to make this idea [...]
Google Drops More Than $1.8 Billion On Newest NYC Office
It's an entire NYC city block in the meatpacking district, sitting on top of 2 main transcontinental fiber highways, more square footage than the empire state building, and they bought it in cash. Wowsers! Today, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve closed a deal with the partnership of Taconic Investment Partners, Jamestown Properties and [...]
Google CEO Sees Android Phones Replacing Credit Cards
One step closer to Skynet... Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that the forthcoming Android 2.3 operating system will support near-field communication chips for mobile payments, a development that he expects will lead to the launch hundreds of mobile payment startups. "This could replace your credit card," said Schmidt in an interview at the [...]
Infographic: is Google a Monopoly? A Historical Perspective
Information designer Jess Bachman tackles the history of Google, and the ever-frequently asked question: is Google a monopoly? Google has a dominate market share of a very important gateway; internet search. Can they stay impartial when they have their own products to pitch? Whether or not they are a monopoly is up to the government and the [...]
HOWTO: Use Google AdWords to prototype and test a book title
Here's a fascinating case-study on how Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, prototyped and tested various titles and covers for his book, by buying various Google AdWords (for the title), and sneaking dust-jackets onto various business-books at the local Palo Alto Borders and [...]
Google has secretly developed self driving cars that have logged over 140,000 miles on public roads
If this isn't a joke it is a tremendous advance. I for one would trust robotic cars more than drunk or texting drivers on the road. How cool would it be to have an autopilot feature to take you home when you had a few too many? So we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves. Our automated cars, manned by trained operators, [...]
HOWTO: Find anyone’s address from their router MAC address using undocumented Google Maps API
Here is a proof of concept on obtaining *accurate* GPS coordinates of a user sitting behind a web browser via router XSS. The router and web browser themselves contain NO geolocation/GPS data. This is also not IP based geolocation. I'm not so amazed that a router firmware could be vulnerable to an XSS attack on the WAN facing GUI. Really [...]
Microsoft using anti-Linux tactic against Google’s Android
The lawsuit Microsoft filed against Motorola and its use of Google's Android phone software is awfully familiar. Microsoft used the same tactic against Linux when the open-source software reached critical mass in the data center and threatened to derail the growth of Microsoft's server business seven years ago. After name-calling failed to [...]
