#Verizon new, experimental Fios service is 10 times faster than Google Fiber Verizon's Fios network is already capable of top speeds of 500 megabits per second,
which lets you download an HD movie in about 15 seconds. But the Fios of tomorrow could be as much as 20 times faster than even those blazing speeds.
Verizon has just finished testing a next-generation fiber-optic Internet technology that allows the company to transfer data at rates of 10 gigabits per second.
For those keeping track, that's 10 times faster than even Google Fiber, which offers some of the speediest fiber you can buy today.
Here how much Comcast is charging for its answer to Google Fibercharlottesville is about to get oogle Fiber lite,
Google, Facebook, Amazon) Large, IT-intensive enterprises (e g.,, financial services companies) The emergence of financial services companies as IT providers is something that has been brewing for some time.
#Europe to slug Google with antitrust charges and open Android probe The European commission today formally charged Google with violating EU competition law by abusing its dominance in search to gain an edge over specialist rivals.
The charges could force Google to change the way it does business and pay fines of up to $6. 4bn,
or approximately 10 percent of its global revenues last year. On Wednesday the European commission commissioner Margrethe Vestager said the EC had sent formally a statement of objections to Google.
The statement says Google"abused its dominant position in the markets for general internet search services in the European Economic Area (EEA) by systematically favouring its own comparison shopping product in its general search results pages"
breaching antitrust law, according to the EC.""In the case of Google I am concerned that the company has given an unfair advantage to its own comparison shopping service, in breach of EU antitrust rules.
Google now has the opportunity to convince the Commission to the contrary. However, if the investigation confirmed our concerns,
Google would have to face the legal consequences and change the way it does business in Europe,
"Vestager said in a statement. A fortnight ago, Vestager sought permission from complainants to publish their claims,
The charges will bring to a head the EC's five-year investigation into Google's business practices in Europe
whether Google used its dominance to give its own specialised searches in shopping, travel and other categories an edge over rivals,
'as well as claims Google reused content from rivals without authorisation, and forced publishers to use Google ads.
According to the FT, some of the 28 commissioners that will be shown the charges today are concerned that Vestager has narrowed the scope of the claims against Google.
ZDNET has sought also comment from Google and will update the story if it receives one.
Google has acknowledged however the charges in a letter to staff yesterday reprinted by Recode, noting that it was"obviously very disappointing news,
"warning staff to expect"tough"criticism. As Google points out though, the statement of objections is not a final finding
and it has the opportunity to respond and have modified the claims-a process that could take two years.
in its memo, Google told staff it has a"very strong case, "that competition was alive and well,
"Google said. The EC on Wednesday confirmed it was opening a probe into Android and whether Google has been breached antitrust law here too."
"The Commission will assess if, by entering into anticompetitive agreements and/or by abusing a possible dominant position,
Google has hindered illegally the development and market access of rival mobile operating systems, mobile communication applications and services in the European Economic Area,
-whether Google hampered rivals by forcing OEMS to only use Google services; whether it stopped those OEMS from using
and marketing non-Google-controlled versions of Android; and whether bundling its services with Android has hurt competition.
Google also acknowledged the EC's investigation into Android in its memo. Google has faced a number of complaints from rivals,
including over its bundling of Google apps like Youtube and Maps as well as complaints Google has blocked third-party app stores on Android.
Here too, Google says it has a strong case, since Android had lowered prices and increased choice for consumers and pointed out that Samsung's new Galaxy S6 included pre-installed apps from rivals."
"Consumers decide which apps they use and download on Android devices. Apps that compete directly with Google such as Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft office,
and Expedia are easily available to Android users; and"Many of these apps come pre-loaded onto Android devices.
Google apps, like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Play, are also available out of the box on many handsets.
The recent Samsung S6 is a great example of this-there are pre-installed Facebook, Microsoft,
and Google apps
#Samsung to launch fingerprint mobile payment service Samsung SDS, the IT service affiliate of Samsung Group, has announced that it is launching a new fingerprint mobile payment service with local payment gateway firms KG
Mobilians and KG Inicis within South korea, with global expansion planned for later. The South korean tech giant has signed also a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korea Information Certificate Authority (KICA), a government-backed certificate licenser,
including Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Visa, and Paypal.""We expected previous authentication technology such as passwords, certificates,
#Google's Bigtable goes public as a cloud managed Nosql database Google is today opening up the Bigtable technology behind most of its flagship offerings,
Google analytics and Google search and is described by the company as designed for large ingestion, analytics and data-heavy serving workloads.
which Google's schema-less Nosql Cloud Datastore is built. Now available in beta Google Cloud Bigtable is accessed through the open-source Apache HBASE API,
making it natively integrated with much of the existing big data and Hadoop ecosystem, the company said.
Cloud Bigtable integrates with other Google big data products, such as messaging tool Pub/Sub, pipeline-builder Dataflow and analytics software Bigquery."
Google says the new service offers twice the performance per dollar and half the total cost of ownership of its direct competitors."
Google has 10 years of history managing Bigtable. We know very well how to manage it."
"The second area where Google expects Cloud Bigtable to find a role is in new projects in areas such as the internet of things, advertising, energy, financial services and telecoms.
the same price as Google Cloud platform object storage.""That's amazing because what you have is a very hot high-performance database running on a storage tier that's the same price as slower, colder, blob-based storage,
O'connor said the role of the HBASE API in Cloud Bigtable will help reassure companies over potential fears about finding themselves locked into Google."
"For security, Google is providing replicated storage and encryption of all data in flight and at rest.
The beta is available initially in Google's central US region, Europe and APAC, with others geographies to follow."
But even after general availability, this is something that Google believes is tremendously valuable and the features will not stop before GA
developed by Yahoo and Google after the Edward Snowden US National security agency (NSA) revelations. While Google has said previously it will include encryption services by default within the Android operation system,
the tech giant has been forced to backtrack on its decision across the board due to compatibility and performance issues in older devices.
#Google shuffles leadership structure with new CEO, Alphabet company Google made waves on Monday afternoon with the surprise announcement of a new CEO and leadership structure.
First, Google's product chief Sundar Pichai has been promoted to the top gig at the Internet giant, replacing cofounder Larry page as CEO.
Page specified Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet.""We liked the name Alphabet
and is the core of how we index with Google search, "Page exclaimed.""We also like that it means alphabet (Alpha is investment return above benchmark),
"Google crafted Alphabet to both consolidate and scale its multiple businesses, according to the 8-K form.
Basically, the top leaders of Google have shifted over to the new Alphabet leadership structure, with some overlaps.
For example, the 8-K noted Porat will also be CFO at Google. Other product leadership roles will remain the same, such as Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity. All Google shares will automatically convert into the same number of shares for Alphabet with all of the same rights.
However, both classes of shares will continue to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG.
Google plans to separate financial reporting from the rest of Alphabet businesses on the fourth quarter earnings report.
Pichai was appointed head of both of Google's operating systems in 2013, taking over Android from the unit's founder Andy Rubin,
who then moved elsewhere within Google to work on more innovative, moonshot-like projects. He was promoted eventually to oversee Google's entire product portfolio, encompassing Google maps, research, search, commerce and ads and infrastructure on top of his prior existing duties.
Page highlighted the recent launches of Google Now and Google Photos as examples of Pichai's success during his tenure thus far."
"I feel very fortunate to have talented someone as as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google
and this frees up time for me to continue to scale our aspirations, "Page wrote.
As for those aspirations, Page dropped a few hints, highlighting some recent works from the secretive Google X lab, such as drone delivery dream Project Wing,
as well as incubators tied to Google Ventures and Capital. Acknowledging that the entire shift overall--let alone the new name--might be asserted puzzling,
and Google Inc. for support of this work through a Google research grant. The University of California has filed a patent on the method and applications of frequency-referenced carriers for compensation of nonlinear impairments in transmission.
#Which city is getting Google's ultrafast Internet? Congratulations denizens of Austin, Texas, Google Fiber--the company's blazing fast gigabit broadband service--is coming to your city.
After some speculation, Google officially announced today that Austin would indeed become the second metropolitan area to get the service after the company first built up the infrastructure in Kansas city and surrounding communities,
where homes are already enjoying Internet speeds that are 100 times faster than the average broadband service.
Google will offer the same service to Austin as it does for Kansas city residents. They have the option for gigabit Internet
or a combination package that includes Google Fiber TV. Slower Internet service is also available with no monthly fees
Google plans to begin installing the service in Austin homes next year. Public institutions will also get connected to the super-fast Internet free of charge.
By offering Google Fiber, which costs $120 a month for high-speed Internet and TV and $70 a month for just Internet, the company may show cable operators it can work around them, if needed.
It could also get Google greater say in future industry regulation including issues of net neutrality,
Also among Google Fiber's offerings is slower Internet access that is free after a $300 fee.
With an aspirational service, Google could be trying to demonstrate how the Internet would look in an ideal, consumer-focused, world.
At least one other company is up for Google's challenge. Not long after the Google announcement, AT&T also announced an investment in a gigabit network in Austin.
Why are drawn these companies to Austin? It s a mecca for creativity and entrepreneurialism, with thriving artistic and tech communities,
Google said in a statement. We re sure these folks will do amazing things with gigabit access.
Google Prepares for Fiber Warfare Wall street journal Photo: Flickr/atmtx Related on Smartplanet: Silicon Prairie: Google broadband spurs Kansas city startup village Silicon Prairie now prime startup territory Can Kansas city transform into#Silicon Prairie?
Google Fiber: the big gigabit reveal and what it means New theory on Google s fiber experiment-a utility revolutio t
#White house launches nationwide broadband testbed The White house made two big announcements yesterday in an effort to boost broadband development in the United states. The first was an executive order by President Barak Obama calling
on federal agencies to simplify the process for allowing private companies to lay new network infrastructure.
#Who will fill the Google Reader vacuum? Google Reader retires next week, and the Great RSS Gold rush of 2013 is reaching fever pitch.
Bloomberg Businessweek reports. An RSS reader pulls in feeds of articles from various websites. Created six years ago,
Google Reader had taken over the market. When the company announced the decision to power down Reader,
For Google, RSS was small beans. Reader had several million followers, but the company is focused on obvious markets that serve hundreds of millions of people,#according to Reader creator Chris Wetherell.
which are quickly developing their own readers to fill the Google Reader vacuum. It s not that they believe everyone wants to immerse themselves in an endless sea of headlines.
With Google out of the way, RSS might finally develop to its full potential. Via Businessweek Image:
880m euros'worth of wind power orders since July Google invests $75 million in U s. wind far r
#Why more U s. companies are generating their own power From technology companies like Google and Apple powering their data centers with solar panels
#Why people need robot journalism in the Google era Kristian Hammond quit artificial intelligence 10 years ago,
but also Google, AT&T and others. It's still early to consider this a platform war,
#Google maps goes underground"in Japan's radioactive zone"This is not a place you'd want to hang around for too long Google is producing underground street maps of Japan's nuclear exclusion zone.
but that hasn't stopped Google's Streetview from entering one area of the forbidden'zone.
Google has catalogued also the interiors of over 70 flood-damaged buildings in the region. The panoramic images are an update to ones taken shortly after the disaster.
Google says that it has a higher social purpose. Our digital archiving project aims not only to make a record of the disaster's wreckage,
and Miyagi Prefectures for the first time since we#published the first panoramas back in 2011, Google's group product manager,
By releasing this new imagery on Google maps we hope people in Japan and from all around the world can virtually explore what these towns currently look like
Google is not the first nongovernmental entity to enter the exclusion zone. Organizations including#Animal Friends Niigata
Google maps, David Worthington) Related on Smartplanet: What the NRC really knew about Fukushima Fukushima ocean radiation could pose sleeper threat Nuclear meltdowns nearly made northern Japan uninhabitable do need we to worry about radiation in our milk?
#Google unveils deforestation monitor to combat climate change The philanthropic arm of Google, Google. org, introduced on Thursday a deforestation monitor that could be a useful tool to combat climate change.
Using a new platform, its"high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine, "the company can crunch the massive amounts of data stored on Google's servers to instantly produce,
using satellite images, detailed maps showing changes in forests over time. The platform, unveiled at the International Climate change Conference in Copenhagen, could be used as a tool for nations to comply with the United nations-proposed REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation in Developing Countries) program
"Google. org wrote in a blog post.""Emissions from tropical deforestation are comparable to the emissions of all of the European union,
but Google. org plans to make it available within the year, perhaps as a"not-for-profit service"for only scientists, governments,
and uploaded the data to a Google spreadsheet. We sent Evan to day care with a small laptop equipped with the receiver.
and upload it to our Google spreadsheet via the cellular network. In my excitement, I tweeted my discovery.
They subjected a Google Nexus smartphone and a commercial GPS module to displacements ranging from 10 centimeters to 2 meters.
Fraunhofer Mobile World demonstration did that using apps on Google Nexus 5 phones. With no need for network upgrades, Baumeister says,
Finally, at the end of the rainbow, the Google self-driving car. The first step toward a robotic pancreas came in 1964,
Prominent billionaire backers include Hollywood director James cameron and Google executives Larry page and Eric Schmidt. But the exact mineral wealth of the asteroids most easily accessible from Earth remains unknown.
#Google s Unified Privacy Policy Draws Threat Of $15m Fine In The netherlands The national data protection authority in The netherlands has warned Google that it could be fined up to $15 million
Google January 2012 decision to combine the privacy policies of some 60 different products in order for it to be able to gather more intel on webs users for targeting ads quickly triggered a data protection review in October 2012
launching probes into Google handling of personal data in April last year. The Dutch data protection authority, the CBP, has evidently run out of patience with Google.
In a statement earlier this week, the CBP said it requires Google to gain unambiguous consent from users to combine multiple privacy policies across its products specifying that this consent cannot be gained by a general agreement to a privacy policy
but must be done ia a clear permission screen Google must also clearly explain what personal data is being obtained by which of its services and for what purpose,
and this information must be clearly and consistently conveyed in its privacy policy, it said.
The CBP is concerned also that Youbube be labeled clearly as a Google service albeit the Dutch DPA notes that Google seems to have taken already action on this point.
Commenting in a statement, CBP president Jacob Kohnstamm said: oogle captures us in an invisible web of our personal information without telling us that
The CBP does add that Google has sent a letter to the six data protection authorities which launched reviews namely France, Germany, Italy, Spain,
whether Google proposed measures would resolve its privacy violations. Responding to the Dutch threat of a fine a Google spokesperson told Techcrunch via email:
ee disappointed with the Dutch data protection authority order, especially as we have made already a number of changes to our privacy policy in response to their concerns.
because Baidu Maps will be able to integrate Uber This is similar to Google maps Uber integration after Google Ventures invested in the car-calling app.
This is important because Google Play isn t available in China and 91 Wireless runs some of the largest alternative app stores in the country.
Also participating in the round are Freestyle Capital, Upside Partnership, Google Ventures, Operative Capital, Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, Aaron Harris, Rick Berry, Nate Bosshard, Eric
Another key item that was revealed by journalists reporting on the Sony leak was that of Hollywood war against Google,
in that it not a direct competitor as Google might be and works cross-platform in a way that Apple does not.
Here has announced just an update that will make its mapping apps available across all Google Play markets and Android devices,
A mere 17 percent of Google tech workers are women. It 15 percent at Facebook.
Adobe, AIG, Akamai, AOL, Appnexus, AT&T, BSA, ebay, Electronic arts, Expedia, Facebook, GE, Goldman sachs, Google, Groupon, IAC, IBM, Lockheed martin, Massmutual, Microsoft
which was acquired by Google in 2013. Waze uses user-submitted traffic data to recommend the fastest driving route,
The commercial real estate industry lost sight of one important fact the Internet has made kings of us All in a Google world,
#Google translate Adds 10 More Languages Including Burmese Google s translation tool is constantly adding new languages
because it ties into Google s efforts to get more Indian users onto its services.
Earlier this month for example Google launched the Indian Language Internet Alliance which seeks to increase offerings for Hindi speakers as well as Hindi voice search.
At that time Google India MD Rajan Anandan said at a press conference that#to reach our goal of 500 million Internet users by 2017 in India we need to make the Internet accessible to those who don t speak English.#
According to Google India currently has about 200 million Internet users with five million new users added every month
so it s important for Google to increase its roster of offerings in different Indian languages
Meanwhile Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has stressed the importance of free speech in Myanmar. Last year in a speech he called for the Myanmar government to stay away from regulating the Internet saying#The answer to bad speech is more speech.
#Schmidt also added that Google s first priority in Myanmar is to improve access to information with its search engine and tools such as Google translate and Maps.
According to Google its latest additions brings Google translate s total number of supported languages to 90 and mean that 200 million more people will be able to use it to translate texts to and from their native languages.
Dashlane Password Changer works with over 50 top U s. sites including Amazon, ebay, Facebook, Google, Linkedin,
At a Facebook, Google, or Amazon data center, replacing hundreds or thousands of fans with ones using 35 percent less power could yield significant cost savings.
##The number of apps on the store will doubtless intentionally remain##far fewer than on major app stores such as Google Play.
An early mover the firm has seen increased competition from younger firms like Dropbox and older companies like Microsoft and Google.
#We ve built a type of search engine that indexes every tool/service you connect with Chatgrape (so far we ve got Github Bitbucket Google Drive Google Calendar
Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop and Google Kubernetes, or customers can add internal software packages. DCOS is compatible with several versions of Linux including Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu,
and Coreos, as well public cloud infrastructure services from companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Finally, you can use it with private cloud infrastructure services including virtual machines, bare metal and Openstack.
When Google and Twitter receive legal threats from countries to censor controversial content or have their services shut down locally,
Google and Twitter both have large archives of notices theye shared on Chilling Effects. But Facebook abstains from this transparency practice.
#Google Joins Apple Others Cutting off Crimea Blocks Adwords Adsense Google Play Yet more developments around how U s. sanctions on Crimea in retaliation against Russia annexation by Russia are being adopted by tech companies:
Google is the latest to start complying with the orders to block import and export of tech products and services among other things.
According to multiple reports out of Russia Google has started now to block Adsense and Adwords accounts in the region
and from February 1 it will also cease Google Play services but it will continue to allow access to free Web-based services like Google search Google+Gmail
and Maps. anctions have recently been imposed on Crimea by the US and the EU. We are complying with thema Google spokesperson confirmed to Techcrunch.
The move comes after Apple expanded its own implementation of the sanctions from developers to products
In a way the Google block is a bigger deal than Apple considering that Android devices are far more prevalent among users
and Google is a key player in other web services. It also come up more than once against authorities in restrictive countries concerned about
While Google has yet to specify to us which services are impacted Russian press reports that Google is paid initially cutting off services specifically B2b products like Adsense and Adwords.
And even if Google did decide to circumvent U s. laws (which it is not) it wouldn be able to collect money for services
and out of the country. oogle prohibited from providing paid services in the Crimeaa source at Google told Lenta. ru. n addition Google cannot make payments to anyone in the Crimea.
It is now technically impossible as almost all international banks have ceased to make payments. ater the block will extend to apps via Google Play
The Russian agency ITAR-TASS reports that Google will be ending Google Play services both paid and free in the region from February 1 as they fall under the restrictions on the import
and export of services. rom February 1 we will start to limit access to apps in Google Play
Access will continue to free services Google such as search Gmail and Google Mapsa Google source told the agency.
The backstory here is that Crimea a peninsula with less than 2 million residents is effectively a pawn in a chess game between much bigger powers the U s. and Russia.
you can sync all of those notes to the team Dropbox or Google Drive for easy record keeping D
While Google has made various wind energy investments over the last few years this is Amazon first (or at least the first one it is publicly talking about) s
#Microsoft Outlook Hacked In China New Report Finds Only a few weeks after Google Gmail service was blocked in China a new report from online censorship monitoring organization Greatfire. org released this morning
It also one of many recent MITM attacks in China including those affecting services from Google Yahoo
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