Facebook used its annual developers conference to make your mobile experience better—and not just on Facebook.
The jury deciding the$2.2 billion patent-infringement lawsuit between Apple and Samsung began its first full day of deliberations trying to tackle the question of what Steve Jobs said when he decided to sue Samsung and whether he also wanted to go after Google. The insight into the jury’s secret deliberations was revealed in a note sent to the federal judge in the case a little over an hour into its work Wednesday morning. While deliberating, the jury must ask any questions it has, no matter how important or trivial, through such notes that are also made available to attorneys and entered into the public record. “What did Steve Jobs say at the moment he directed or decided to prosecute a case against Samsung? Was Google mentioned and/or included in that directive or subsequent directives to be included in any way in the case?” read one of the notes.
A press event in London next month will likely debut the rumored Moto E.
After bringing its Google Apps apps into its Drive cloud storage, Google has decided to separate them again.
The new login tool means you don’t have to sign up for countless apps you might never use again.
Samsung ships twice as many smartphones as Apple, and everyone else is fighting for scraps.
The $300 high-end phone should be fairly easy to get in June, OnePlus says.
Google will no longer scan the email messages of students and other school staff who use its Google Apps for Education suite, exempting about 30 million users from the chronically controversial practice for Gmail advertising. Apps for Education is used by students at all levels, from kindergarten to university, so a portion of the user base is made up of minors. “We’ve permanently removed all ads scanning in Gmail for Apps for Education, which means Google cannot collect or use student data in Apps for Education services for advertising purposes,” wrote Bram Bout, director of Google for Education, in a
What do you get when you combine an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, a Kinect motion tracking sensor, multiple computers and a video game from the 1980s? PaperDude VR, a project presented at the Computer Human Interaction conference in Toronto that combines a real bicycle and a virtual world where gamers gain points by delivering newspapers. It’s a take on the 1984 arcade game where players rode through a course on a bicycle and earned points delivering papers and avoiding obstacles. The research project has players don an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset while sitting on a bike. A Kinect sensor tracks players’ upper bodies, generating a virtual and arms.
That converts to about $275, keeping one of the world's most anticipated smartwatches in pricey territory—unless LG adjusts its "barrier to entry" for the U.S. market.
It's hard to beat the value proposition of Google's Chromecast. For just $35, the itty-bitty TV dongle turns any dumb TV into a smart TV chock full of apps like Netflix, YouTube, HBO Go, Hulu Plus, Aereo, Rdio, Plex, and As
It's big. It's thin. And you can tweak every nook and cranny.
If smartwatch development can be thought of in terms of dance crazes, the next phase might become the Twist. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a prototype smartwatch that expands user interface possibilities with a tactile face that can be rotated. Instead of just scrolling through a touchscreen, talking or pushing buttons, users can manipulate the face of the prototype to interact with the display in more ways. Exhibited at the ongoing ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Toronto, the prototype is being billed as a way to overcome the small form factor and input limitations on standard smartwatches, unlocking their powerful computer potential.
I’m not completely sold on the 2-in-1 hybrid concept. A laptop that becomes a tablet when detached from its keyboard? Who really needs that? But if you’re smitten by the idea, Toshiba’s Portege Z10t is the best execution I’ve seen. It’s not too big, it’s not too heavy, and it packs some serious computational horsepower. The eval unit Toshiba sent for review (the top-shelf Portege Z10t-A2111) is powered by a dual-core Intel Core i7-4610Y processor (with vPro support), 8GB of DDR3/1600 memory, and a 256GB SSD. It came with Windows 8.1 Pro, which adds some management features that business IT departments will appreciate. The Portege Z10t’s keyboard dock is supremely thin, but its display half is a bit chunky.
Get your mobile device to a DryBox Drying Station within 36 hours of its unexpected dunk in the drink, and you stand a 75 to 80 percent chance of reviving your phone. And now the company is looking to expand into self-service units.
You may have read this week that some paid ads by pro-life oriented crisis pregnancy centers have been removed by Google after pro-choice political advocacy group NARAL claimed credit for getting the ads banned, as reported by the Washington Post. In reaction, outlets on the pro-life side have...
Despite the buzz going through the SEO industry today, we don’t believe that Google is specifically targeting links that are earned via the popular Help a Reporter Out service. That’s one of the claims from SEO consultant Bill Hartzer, in an article he published yesterday, Google...
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a fun video where fellow Googler, Michael Wyszomierski, cropped out his body in the video to make a point. The statement Matt made was that there is importance of content in the body of a page and not just the header, such as the title tag. If...
Marketing is now a technology-powered discipline… a new world of experience-enhancing capabilities that challenge marketing organizations to reinvent their strategies, operations, technologies and talent. Join us for MarTech: The Marketing Tech Conference August 19-20 in Boston and we’ll help...
Investment firm Piper Jaffray has started tracking and comparing Google+ and Yelp reviews. For its inaugural report, the firm looked at a “snapshot of 950 places in 20 major cities” and compared review counts and depth across categories. The firm says it will continue to do so on a...
A few years ago, I did some work for a comparison shopping/coupon website. Curious about how well the site was doing in regard to their SEO, I did a few search queries for some of the terms I remembered being big traffic drivers. I didn’t see my former client on page one for the first few...
In the Greater Seattle area, you never know what spring weather will bring — cloudy at 8 a.m., sunny at noon, pouring down rain at 5. I always start the day with a check of the forecast, so I know what to expect. In the same vein, anyone planning a search advertising campaign should know...
Google announced on their Webmaster blog that they have updated two of their guideline documents to improve the clarity around what sneaky redirects are against Google Webmaster Guidelines. Google has expanded their guidelines to ensure webmasters are aware that using sneaky redirects through...
After opening its “Doodle 4 Google” contest to kindergarten through twelfth graders in February, Google has released its list of state winners, and started a public voting forum to help select this year’s national winner. Asking students to create a Google logo based on something...