Sebastian Thrun, a software engineer at Google, posted on the company’s official blog over the weekend that they have been developing technologies that will allow vehicles to drive themselves. Thrun states that some of the very best engineers have logged over 140,000 miles in the self-driving cars; traveling on the Pacific Coast Highway, across the …
At the end of September I posted that it looked like Google had acquired Plannr, a mobile planning startup that lets friends message each other with plans so everyone stays in-sync. This service, dubbed the “Outlook for hipsters” by TechCrunch, is now confirmed to have been purchased by the search giant. However, that is not …
3 years ago Google launched a directory assistance service that helped to connect users with business in the U.S. and Canada. This voice-powered tool was the first of Google’s many speech recognition services and was followed by Voice Input, Voice Search and Voice Actions, all of which were built from the foundations of GOOG-411. Google …
This Saturday would have marked the 70th birthday of legendary icon and member of The Beatles, John Lennon. To honor his memory Google has created an extra special Doodle for its logo, which is on the homepage today. Replacing the brightly colored letters that we are use to, is an ink drawing with the famous …
Mozilla posted on their blog yesterday that the new Firefox 4 for mobile beta was available for download and testing. It is built to be a seamless transition from the desktop experience to users mobile devices. Aiding in this is the inclusion of Firefox Sync. This feature allows you to bring passwords, form-fill data, bookmarks, …
Yahoo is bringing its instant messenger service to iPhone and Android devices with a major bonus: built-in video calling. Although the iPhone already has the FaceTime video calling feature, with the Yahoo app users will be able to not only be able to utilize this technology over Wi-Fi, but also over their carrier’s network. When …
Yesterday on Yahoo’s search blog they announced the launch of the first series of search features that integrate news and entertainment results in one area. On the new results page topics are split up into vertical tabs, such as: Overview, Videos, Twitter, Stories, etc. For things like movies, there is now a Netflix application that …
Even though they have had their new search out for a few weeks now, Twitter’s new real-time search engine is just now starting to get noticed…which the micro-blogging site thinks is great. The previous back-end was powered by technology based on Summize, but the engineers behind Twitter say that keeping up with all the traffic …
Mozilla will soon be releasing the newest version of their popular open Web browser, Firefox and will be adding an option for users that prefer to NOT have Google as their default search engine. With Firefox 4 will come the ability to make Microsoft’s Bing you’re go-to choice for conducting searches. Users will be able …
Looking to not only maintain its rank as the “most successful force in display advertising”, Yahoo has a signed a deal to acquire Dapper, a technological platform that assists in display ad creation. The deal that is said to be completed by the fourth quarter this year, will help to make display ad creation and …
