Google has released version 1.0 of its new programming language today. The new language, entitled Go, is designed to replace the multitude of existing languages that it says do not provide developers everything they need in a single package. The release was made today along with a new app SDK for Google marking the first [...]
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November 19th 2011 | Posted by Keshav
“It has become one of the places where students and most of the rest of us now are getting much of our core information,” said analyst Rob Enderle. “It is a crowdsourced kind of effort and it is not advertiser-supported. The only way it survives, much like any public effort, is through public support.” Even [...]
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August 16th 2011 | Posted by Keshav
Google just announced that it is acquiring Motorola Mobility. The search and online advertising company is buying the company for approximately $12.5 billion (or $40 per share), in cash. The price represents a premium of 63 percent to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares last Friday. Google had about $39 billion in cash at [...]
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July 1st 2011 | Posted by Keshav
Google+, Google’s ambitious project to redefine the future of social media, has created a huge buzz. Google+ has posed threat to different groups in numerous ways – it has attacked boldly on the present social network king Facebook, while China immediately blocked the access to Google+ with its “great firewall”, and Google’s unpreparedness to face [...]
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May 18th 2011 | Posted by Keshav
Buenos Aires, Argentina – An Argentine court this week granted an injunction that blocks Internet giant Google from “suggesting” searches that lead to certain sites that have been deemed anti-Semitic, and removes the sites from the search engine’s index. The injunction, filed by DAIA, an umbrella organization of Argentina’s Jewish community, also prohibits Google from [...]
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May 18th 2011 | Posted by Keshav
No Android security flaw is good news for Google, but the recently discovered ClientLogin issue that left the OS vulnerable to impersonation attacks is surely at least a bit more welcome than some of the alternatives. That’s because the flaw can be fixed at the server-side level (rather than on millions of Android phones), and [...]
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December 5th 2010 | Posted by Keshav
An app store can be accessed by Google’s newest browser, Chrome 8. The upgrade includes a Chrome PDF reader sandboxed for security and 800 improvements. Chrome held 8.02 percent of the global browser market in November but appears to be gaining on Firefox. The Chrome Web Store will include apps for other browsers. Google Relevant [...]
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December 1st 2010 | Posted by Keshav
Google Earth is “a beautiful, user-friendly site to help us gain better awareness of our neighborhoods and our planet,” said Jonathan Askin, a Brooklyn Law School professor. Among the new features of the latest release are “3D trees” that let users examine dozens of native species in detail when strolling through parks and forests at [...]
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November 16th 2010 | Posted by Keshav
Google has introduced a new two-step process for account verification and access. The system is similar to that employed by some banks for online account access. The extra protection initially will be offered to companies and government agencies subscribing to a Google service that provides e-mail and other office applications. Google Relevant Products/Services Inc. is [...]
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