When Tesla CEO Elon Musk announces he's opening up Tesla's But not Tesla, not anymore. Now we know where Musk was going with the offhand comment he made over the weekend (at the unveiling of the Tesla Model S in the United Kingdom) about
The new Google app gives businesses easy access to communicate with customers or edit how it's seen on Google services.
The U.S. government has lifted a long-standing restriction that meant companies like Google and Microsoft didn’t have access to the most accurate pictures taken by imaging satellites. Until this week, satellite operators like DigitalGlobe were prevented by law from selling images to foreign or commercial organizations in which features smaller than 50 centimeters were visible. The restriction was meant to ensure that foreign powers didn’t get access to satellite images that were too good. But now that’s changed. DigitalGlobe said it has received approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce to sell sharper images to its clients. That immediately unlocks pictures from its GeoEye-1 satellite, with a resolution of 41 centimeters, and Worldview-2 satellite, at 46 centimeters, but much better pictures will soon be available.
Advanced Micro Devices has combined product groups and promoted two executives for the next phase of its planned multiple-year strategy to maintain profitability. The company is combining products into two groups as a way to improve operational efficiency. The company has struggled financially in recent years, with a loss in the most recent quarter after two consecutive quarters of modest profits. As part of that restructuring, Lisa Su is being promoted to chief operating officer, solidifying her role as second-in-command to CEO Rory Read. She will head up the Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom Business Group. Su is currently senior vice president and general manager of global business units and will take on her new role July 1.
The PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS are more marginalized than ever at gaming's biggest expo.
If the eye-popping visuals of 4K video appeal but the price is putting you off, Panasonic is offering the recording resolution in a camera with a suggested price of US$899. The Lumix DMC-FZ1000 is being billed by Panasonic as the world’s first digital compact camera that can record 4K video. It can shoot at 3840 x 2160 pixel video in MP4 format at 30 frames per second. “Compact,” however, is probably not a term most users would associate with the FZ1000: At 137 millimeters by 99 mm, and 131 mm deep with the zoom closed, it’s about the size of a small digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera. Like many other bridge cameras, it spans the divide between point-and-shoot cameras and more robust DSLRs. It has a long zoom lens and weighs 831 grams including the battery and memory card.
Facebook is changing the way it shows and tells you about ads in two major ways that seem to be at complete odds with each other. The first change gives you the option to see why a specific ad is being shown to you. You can click through to your interest profile and make changes so you’ll see less irrelevant ads and more appealing ones. If you’ve liked a bunch of restaurant pages in your city, you’ll probably see a lot of restaurant ads. You can change your settings to stop seeing those ads by removing restaurants from your list of interests. You’ll soon start seeing blue arrows on the ads that appear in your News Feed on the Web and in the Facebook app. Tapping that arrow will display a dropdown menu with an option to see why Facebook is showing you that ad.
Hewlett-Packard has kicked off an ambitious project that aims at nothing less than reinventing the basic architecture of computers. It looks like servers are its initial target, but HP is also working on an Android version that it says could lead to smartphones with 100TB of storage. HP It’s still a research project in HP’s labs, and its not certain when—if ever—The Machine will make it to market. But HP is throwing a lot of resources at the problem—as many as three-quarters of its labs staff are working on it—and its estimates for delivery range from three years to the end of the decade.
Intel lost its appeal against a €1.06 billion (US$1.44 billion) antitrust fine on Thursday when the General Court of the European Union upheld a 2009 ruling by the European Commission that the company had abused its dominant market position. The Commission had found that Intel had abused its dominant position by offering rebates to customers on the condition they buy all their x86 CPUs from the company. The General Court dismissed in its entirety Intel’s appeal and ordered the chip giant to implement conditions imposed by the Commission in its original ruling to rectify the market situation. According to the Commission, with 70 percent or more of the worldwide market, Intel was an “unavoidable supplier” of CPUs, an essential component of any computer.
After promising it in March to Office 365 business users, Microsoft has finally taken the wrapper off a The navigation screen in OWA for Android.
I'm walking around E3 looking for boxes with little green lights on them. This fever dream is what I get for daring to take on both of the new Borderlands games back-to-back during E3. Both 2K's Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and Telltale Game's story-centric Tales from the Borderlands are on display at the show, and both launch by the end of this year. How did I feel after eating a double helping of Borderlands? A bit empty, to be honest. When it comes to canon, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel takes place between the original Borderlands and Borderlands 2. After fans fell in love with the villain of Borderlands 2, the egomaniacal Handsome Jack, Gearbox and 2K sought a way to incorporate him into another game. The result: This prequel, which chronicles some of Jack's earlier activities.
Google has started an open-source project for a PDF software library, which developers will be able to incorporate into applications designed for a variety of platforms. The project, called The Chrome browser is mostly open source code, but parts of it have been closed for licensing reasons, such as Adobe Systems’ Flash plugin and a plugin for PDF files, wrote Peter Kasting, senior software engineer for Chrome’s user interface team.
Starbucks is taking incremental steps, yet again, as it plans a national rollout of Duracell Powermat wireless charging stations.
Am I zigging or zagging? Do I offer full support to the wearables industry, or do I want to harass, hector and browbeat wearables manufacturers into creating better products? You really won't know until you watch Susie Ochs toss me a wearables-related proposition, and then observe how I react. In Episode 5 of
With better device-to-device syncing, smooth group messaging features, and a brand new design, Skype for iPhone finally catches up to competitors.
The rumors were true: In the wee hours of the night, Amazon launched Prime Music, a streaming music service with more than 1 million tunes, zero ads, and zero additional cost to Amazon Prime subscribers. (There's a 30-day free trial available for non-subscribers who want to give the service a spin.) Signing into the service reveals that it seems largely centered around playlists—the usual genre-, mood-, and artist-based collections found in similar form on other streaming music services, like Spotify. As it stands, however, Prime Music is no true Spotify rival—though that doesn't make it any less of an interesting value-add for current and would-be Amazon Prime subscribers.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Launching Payday Loan Algorithm 3.0 Targeting Spammy Queries This Week Google’s head of web spam, Matt Cutts, announced at SMX Advanced tonight that...
Join us Tuesday, June 24th at 1:00EDT (10:00PDT) to hear Maria Whatley and Elena MacGurn of Covario and Lenovo’s Donna Bedford discuss the latest trends, international search engine updates and country-specific expectations to be considered in this year’s global marketing campaigns. During the...
Google is introducing a revamped flight and hotel travel search experience. To date both products have been mostly underwhelming. The big promises of Google’s ITA acquisition have yet to bear fruit but that may change with the new Google Flight and travel search experience. Previously the...
We are pleased to announce the new Google-sponsored AdWords Best Practices Center on Search Engine Land. This page provides best practices that are authored and curated by the search company – including checklists, guides, white papers, and webinars – all geared toward improving proficiency with...
Rejoice, the Bing Ads team has finally rolled out one of its most-requested features — auto-tagging for ad destination URLs. When UTM tags are added to destination URLs on ads, the performance metrics can flow into Google Analytics. Until now, advertisers have had to manually add tag URLs or...
We’re ready to get started on day two of SMX Advanced, and today’s opening keynote promises to talk about the future of search. Microsoft’s Marcus Ash (Group Program Manager for Windows Phone) and Rob Chambers (Group Program Manager, Applications and Services Group) will be here...
To kick-off today’s 2014 FIFA World Cup, Bing has launched a number of features around the tournament, including using its Bing Predictions technology to forecast World Cup winners. “On the heels of our recent foray into predictions, where we forecasted which contestants were most...
Last month, MetaFilter, a news and discussion site from back in the old days, told us they got hit by a Google penalty years ago that had a major impact on their business. We posted our theories and details on this penalty in our post named On MetaFilter Being Penalized By Google: An Explainer....
There are a hundred and one tasks in today’s marketing world designed to improve your online visibility: social media, PPC, content marketing, retargeting, blogging, email marketing, on-site and on-page optimization, content strategy, contests, partnerships, etc. etc. Why bother with link...