According to a recent New York Times article, Google is planning to launch technologically advanced glasses with a heads-up display later this year. The futuristic glasses, which will appear similar to Oakley Thumps sunglasses, will continually stream real-time information to the lenses using a 3G/4G connection. The project, which is being led by Google’s co-founder …
When Cuil launched in July of 2008, they claimed to be the world’s largest search engine and to have figured out a more advanced method of generating web results than Google’s PageRank. The search startup, which was founded by industry veterans from Google and IBM, claimed that they could crawl the web at 10% of …
Due to recent changes, Google’s privacy policies have been closely scrutinized by industry experts, government regulators, and consumer advocacy groups over the past several months. On Friday afternoon a Stanford graduate student and tech researcher, Jonathan Mayer, discovered that Google was using a special computer code to bypass the privacy settings of millions of Safari …
On Wednesday, the Secret Service seized the JotForm.com domain and left hundreds of thousands of websites with “broken” forms. Although it was the Secret Service that initiated the investigation, it was Go Daddy (JotForm’s domain registrar) that suspended the domain without warning. JotForm, which provides a WYSIWYG web form creator and hosting for the forms, …
Facebook, which has been built on the premise of people using their birth names rather than pseudonyms, will soon allow prominent public figures and celebrities to use a nickname instead of their real name. In the past, Facebook has had a “real name policy” that has required users to only use their real birth names. …
When Facebook announced the Open Graph at the f8 conference last September, marketers immediately realized that the additional Facebook actions would eventually lead to new marketing options as a result of increased social context. Now, Inside Facebook is reporting that Facebook is testing a new type of Sponsored Story that is based on Open Graph …
Google Wallet, which initially launched in September of 2011, has decided to temporarily suspend its provisioning of prepaid cards as a result of two newly discovered security vulnerabilities. Recently, a security research team uncovered a potential threat to the overall security of the Google Wallet. The initial issue, which revealed that a brute-force attack could reveal a …
Reportedly, Google is in the process of completing over $120 million worth of renovations and projects for its Mountain View headquarters. The latest project, which includes building a “secret lab” to test new hardware and devices, is being headed up by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and has been named “Project X.” According to news reports, …
Several days ago, Google filed FCC paperwork to test a prototype of a new Google device. According to filing, the test will take place in the homes of 252 employees and take approximately six months. The official FCC filing said the following: “Google is developing an entertainment device that requires testing outside the laboratory environment. …
Although rumors have been flying since 2007 about Google offering a hosted storage solution, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is finally set to launch its new storage service in the next several weeks. The service, which is named Drive, will utilize Google’s cloud-based storage to allow users to easily store and share …
