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Using Steve Jobs's 'final vendetta' to make people give you money

Posted February 14, 2012 - 1:23 pm

Investment site Motley Fool says an "irate" Steve Jobs's willingness to destroy Google over Android somehow could "make a few in-the-know investors some major profits." Of course, it's all nonsense.
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Even at $500 a share, Apple is not the most expensive tech stock

Posted February 14, 2012 - 11:37 am

Apple shares are above $500 for the first time, and the iPhone maker is the most valuable company in the world. But its shares are not even the most expensive in the tech sector.
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Google Maps help you find love at the Mall (of America)

Posted February 13, 2012 - 2:12 pm

I've never been to the Mall of America, but I hear it's pretty big. So big that you might need GPS on your phone in order to find anything, instead of going up to the giant kiosk and looking for the "You Are Here" sticker and remembering that you're in standing in front of the Orange Julius.
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Google "Drive" could step on cloud partners' toes

Posted February 12, 2012 - 7:51 am

Google is preparing to launch a long-rumored cloud storage service that tramples a bit on products and services offered by Google partners. A Wall Street Journal report citing “people familiar with the matter” says the new “Drive” service will be launched by Google in the coming weeks or months. What does that mean for other companies that Google works closely with?
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Four crazy tech ideas from Google's Solve for X project

Posted February 11, 2012 - 7:45 am

Google promised radical technology proposals would be a part of its Solve for X project and its initial offerings so far haven't disappointed.
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Google pulls 'Atlantis' from Google Earth

Posted February 11, 2012 - 7:18 am

An update to the Google Earth ocean-floor-mapping algorithm eliminates what some suspected might be the mythical Atlantis
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'Intrigued' Kleiner Perkins mulls $100 million cloud services fund

Posted February 10, 2012 - 7:27 pm

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is considering a $100 million fund specializing in cloud services start-ups.
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Will Google or Facebook buy LinkedIn?

Posted February 10, 2012 - 3:31 pm

LinkedIn reported a 30% increase in fourth-quarter profits, but the social network site's success and small size make it an attractive takeover candidate.
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Google regaining lost search market share

Posted February 9, 2012 - 6:26 pm

It's becoming clear that Microsoft and Yahoo are doing nothing to eat into Google's lead in the U.S. search market.
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Report: Google building home-entertainment system

Posted February 9, 2012 - 4:57 pm

Google is planning to enter the home entertainment market with a Google-branded wireless device that streams music within a house, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Google offers travel grants for women in IT

Posted February 9, 2012 - 2:57 pm

Google is offering a travel grant to female computer scientists in a bid to encourage more women to attend and participate in conferences.
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RIAA chief hits new heights of hypocrisy in pro-SOPA NYT op-ed

Posted February 9, 2012 - 12:43 pm

Confusing censorship of digital content with import of fake pharmaceuticals? Saying site owners wouldn't be responsible for policing copyrights even though they could lose their sites because of it? RIAA's CEO twists reality in sour-grapes parting shot at lost SOPA/PIPA fight.
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Now that they've helped ruin Yahoo, Bostock, 3 other directors step down

Posted February 8, 2012 - 10:26 am

The chairman of Yahoo's board and three other directors are stepping down as the struggling Internet pioneer attempts to reverse its sagging fortunes under a new chief executive.
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Google Chrome for Android: What you need to know

Posted February 7, 2012 - 9:41 pm

With the arrival of Chrome Beta for Android, the convergence of Google's desktop and mobile browsers has begun.
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Something fishy about Google Chrome's Safe Browsing API, lab says

Posted February 7, 2012 - 9:21 pm

A research firm that measures the security effectiveness of browsers noticed something it thought might be fishy with the way Chrome was doing things. Turns out, there may currently be a privacy concern about Google's use of end user IP addresses as part of its Safe Browsing API.
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Atlantis disappears again!

Posted February 6, 2012 - 3:52 pm

The lost city of Atlantis just can't catch a break. First, as legend describes, it sinks to the bottom of ocean some 10,000 years ago. Now Google is making it disappear.
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Google 'ready to lay fiber' in Kansas City

Posted February 6, 2012 - 3:06 pm

Google's grand fiber network experiment is now one step closer to becoming a reality as the company announced that it is "ready to lay fiber" in Kansas City, Kan.
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Retrieve your entire music library from Your Google Music account

Posted February 4, 2012 - 7:26 am

For a while now I've been using Google Music as a kind of cloud-based backup for my music library. Except that it wasn't really a backup, because I couldn't easily retrieve all the songs I'd uploaded. In the event of a system failure, I'd have to download tunes in batches of 100. Bleh.
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Google aims for higher government security accreditation for Apps

Posted February 3, 2012 - 2:09 pm

Google is looking to gain higher security accreditations that would enable wider use of Google Apps by the UK government.
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Beware the power of Google?

Posted February 3, 2012 - 11:08 am

Given the influence Google has in ecommerce, shouldn't we be a bit careful on how they can also affect free and open source software?
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Reddit makes gross mistakes trying to write bill to replace abusive SOPA, PIPA

Posted February 1, 2012 - 10:14 am

Unlike most successful factions in American politics, on the heels of success in opposing the Internet-censoring SOPA and PIPA bills, members of Reddit are developing a solution they can propose to address the content piracy problem without SOPA's no-rights-for-pirates approach to enforcement.
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In letter to Congress, Google defends privacy changes

Posted January 31, 2012 - 1:03 pm

In a letter sent to eight members of Congress, Google yesterday defended its move to consolidate its privacy policies and users' personal information.
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Google helps translate JavaScript to its Dart alternative

Posted January 30, 2012 - 4:48 pm

The company's JavaScript to Dart Synonym application maps common idioms
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Chromebooks are the electric car of laptops

Posted January 27, 2012 - 12:41 pm

The Chromebook looks right now to the average laptop buyer like an all-electric car looks to the average car buyer: full of what-if questions and untested theories of living
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Quantcast unveils mobile web rankings

Posted January 27, 2012 - 12:11 pm

Internet traffic measurement company Quantcast now allows clients to see visits from mobile browsers.
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