At a Thursday event held in a Santa Monica airplane hangar, Amazon.com Inc. unveiled its new line of Kindle Fire HD tablets. Although they will offer features that are not available in previous Kindle models, the new HD Kindles are aimed at luring in consumers on the basis of aggressive pricing. Amazon’s pricing strategy is …
On Wednesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Google a patent that allows one or more users to log in to a computing device using facial recognition. This specific patent, which is called “Login to a computing device based on facial recognition,” allows a “computing device” to use its camera to determine the identity …
On Tuesday afternoon, Facebook’s anemic stock saw a small boost after a Facebook regulatory filing announced that CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not sell his shares for at least 12 months. In addition to stating Zuckerberg’s plans to hold shares, the filing also indicated that once the lockup expires in late October, two company directors, namely …
Shortly after Google began digitally scanning millions of books in 2004, the Authors Guild and various other copyright holders filed a class-action lawsuit against the search giant. Although the involved parties reached a $125 million tentative settlement agreement in late 2008, the U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin rejected the proposed terms due to the potential …
Ever since Facebook’s long-awaited IPO, the social media giant has disappointed investors and faced a seemingly never-ending wave of negative PR. Now, just as things were beginning to calm down, eMarketer revised Facebook’s projected 2012 revenue by a cool billion dollars to $5.04 billion. Debra Aho, an eMarketer analyst, said the following of the revision …
On Wednesday, Google unveiled a brand new set of tools for business customers that combines popular features from Google+ with the functionality of Google Apps. The new features, which were beta tested at several prominent companies including Kaplan and Banshee Wines, are designed to encourage employee productivity and interaction. Clay Bavor, director of product management …
Many Facebook users have noticed the recent change where some posts are now displaying the location of the user who submitted the post. This map appears as a hyperlinked location tag at the end of a wall post after the “Like . . .” and “Date.” For example, if you posted last night from your …
In early July, CNN and Facebook announced a new election year partnership that would provide voters and political junkies with metrics based on real-time conversations about the presidential candidates. Yesterday morning, the Election Insights webpage was launched and began displaying real-time data. The political social-monitoring tool, which competes directly with Twitter’s Political Index and Amazon’s …
On late Friday afternoon, a juryin a San Jose federal courtroom handed Apple a major legal victory in a landmark patent trial. The jurors, who according to the foreman believed Apple’s demand of $2.75 billion in damages was “extraordinarily high,” ultimately decided that Samsung should be required to pay Apple $1.05 billion in damages. The …
Recently, a Google job posting was discovered that reveals the world’s leading search engine is planning on creating a ‘Red Team’ to protect users’ privacy. The posting, which was first discovered by Kaspersky Lab, indicates that Google is heavily investing in ensuring its products simultaneously comply with legal requirements and market expectations moving forward. The …
