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Showing posts tagged Google
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”Google will be subjected to independent privacy audits for the next 20 years over charges that it “violated its own privacy promises”. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said that the search giant wrongly used information from Google Mail users last year to create its social network Buzz. The FTC ruled that “the options for declining or leaving the social network were ineffective”.
BBC News - Google ‘to be audited’ on privacy after Buzz complaints
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Seemingly unaware of the short, tragic history of the cheap, underpowered mini-notebook category, Google now holds up its breakthrough invention in personal computing: the Chromebook — a cheap, underpowered mini-notebook with a three-year contract.
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And while netbooks had their rampant shortcomings, Google has managed to take the trend a whole lot further.Unlike the netbooks of a few years ago that had an operating system people were familiar with, Google is…pushing a new Chrome operating system tethered to the cloud.
Google’s Chromebook Flub - TheStreet
Clouds are not so reliable that I’d let all my data be stored there. Nor will I pay full-laptop price for a stripped down keyboard and screen.
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World-Shaker: Google launches cloud-based music streaming service (beta)
Google has launched a music streaming service that will allow users to upload their personal collections and stream them back anywhere.
Except on mobile devices that don’t use Flash (sucks to be one of the 100 million+ iOS device users I guess). But if you want to drain the battery on your Android, rock on. And nothing says “open system” like using a proprietary, closed standard like Flash, right? Perhaps it was too much of a challenge for Google’s engineers to build the service in HTML5.
Oh, and Google did this without any licensing or permission from the recording industry, so like Amazon, we’ll have to see how long this goes before a lawsuit is filed.
You can request an invite to the Beta by clicking on the photo above.
Ninja Update: AND Google will be scanning your music and removing it if it believes it was illegally downloaded.
Google’s just hitting them out of the park this month.
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Facebook exposed in Google smear campaign
It has been revealed that Facebook embarked on a smear campaign against rival Google.
The social network has admitted that it hired a PR firm to plant anti-Google stories related to user privacy.
The details came to light when one blogger approached by PR firm Burson-Marsteller published the e-mail exchange.
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A list of differences between Facebook and Google+
Food for thought. Glad I’m not a part of Google+.
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Google Maps to offer 360-degree views of zoo online using new Trike system
Google is serious about getting the globe on Street View.
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Google unveils Android-based online music store
Google has launched an online music store in the US, which will allow devices running its Android software to buy, store and stream MP3 files.
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I’m having a very difficult time finishing anything lately. Post-college blues? I literally forced...
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Minimalist DC Superhero Mugshot Poster by Michael Myers
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“When The Chips Are Down”
Emmanuel O’Brien
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The Fifth Element by Paul Andrew/December Studio
