It looks like the slow and steady fiber-fication of Missouri is well underway, as the Gladstone City Council has voted to bring Google’s speedy broadband service to the city. This comes just a few days after the Mountain View company welcomed Gran…
Google I/O attendees will see their every move recorded in real time
During Google I/O this week, visitors to the Moscone Center will have their every movement tracked, but it’s not as creepy as it sounds. Google’s Cloud Platform Developer Relations team is spearheading a project called the Data Sensing Lab, which …
Google’s Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on the New Digital Age
The growth of the web, the developing world and digital-age career skills were all topics of discussion last Thursday night at a special fireside chat with tech heavyweights Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen at Google‘s Venice, Calif., headquarters.
The talk felt like an in-person abstract for the duo’s new book, The New Digital Age, which was finished after the two traveled to more than 25 countries to forecast the global digital evolution.
“In the next five to ten years, another 5 billion people will join the Internet,” said Schmidt, the company’s chief executive and one of the world’s richest men. Read more…
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The Daily Roundup for 05.13.2013
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all ha…
Google, BlackBerry, EarthLink and Red Hat ask DoJ and FTC to help starve patent trolls
Tired of all the patent-related stories? Especially the ones that seem like they are more about financial gain than fairness? We thought so. We’d imagine it’s even more of a frustration if you’re one of the companies regularly involved. No surprise t…
Google Fiber Appears Austin-Bound
Google Fiber’s slow rollout appears headed to Austin next
That’s the hot rumor after the city and the tech giant teased a joint announcement next week, and then a hastily-removed post to the Google Fiber site reportedly confirmed the speculation
While…
Webkit’s Chromium-specific code to be removed in effort to streamline
Now that Chromium has pledged its allegiance to Google’s new Blink rendering engine, Webkit is set to have the now-unnecessary Chrome-specific code stripped from it. Apple Webkit developer Geoffrey Garen kicked off a conversation on the project’s mai…
Is Apple Building Its Own Street View?
An Apple patent filing indicates that the Cupertino tech giant is building a Street View product of its own
Posted to the US Patent and Trademark Office website on Thursday, Apple’s filing describes a “3D Position Tracking for Panoramic Imagery Navigation” — in other words, a way to view a lifelike map of the world around you via smartphone or tablet
Sounds familiar, no? Google Maps’ popular Street View option has been around since 2007
But Apple’s patent filing says its product will do things the Google version can’t. Current street-level imaging tech requires users to navigate though, most commonly, their touchscreen or trackpad. This involves jumping from intersection to intersection before navigating further Read more…
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Rumors suggest Austin, Texas is next up for a Google Fiber rollout (update: so does its website)
The major problem most of us have with Google Fiber is that we can’t get it, but that could change soon for residents of Austin, Texas. According to reports by VentureBeat and KVUE News in Austin, invites are going out for an event on Tuesday at 11 A…
Visualized: Sergey Brin rides pink Teslamobile Model S, complete with Chromed out rims
Hello Kitty must be so jealous.Filed under: Transportation, Internet, GoogleCommentsSource: Twitter (RMac18)
