#Google Bids to Make its Sideshows into Main Attractions Google founders Larry page and Sergey Brin seem determined to prove they gave the world more than a great advertising business.
and Internet balloons, ads on Web pages and inside apps provide over 90 percent of their company revenue.
Googleomprising the search engine, ad business, Youtube, and Android mobile softwares now just one of many subsidiaries of a conglomerate called Alphabet.
The CEO of the new Google is Sundar Pichai an executive who was most recently in charge of Google main products
and previously led work on the Chrome browser and operating system and Android. Alphabet other subsidiariest not clear just how many will bere a grab bag of attempts to shake up the world using new technologies.
the research lab Google X, where oonshotprojects include self-driving cars and delivering Wireless internet via stratospheric balloons;
and Nest, which sells connected home devices and is trying to reinvent the face-worn computer Google glass.
Brin is described president Alphabet as ostly a collection of companiesin a blog post announcing the reorganization today.
and defeating aging could become as successful and influential as Google online services are today. How long that will take is anybody guess.
And although Google X Loon balloon project for Internet access is at the point of testing with wireless carriers
Many projects inside the Google X lab, such as the self-driving car, are about as distinct and mature as other Alphabet subsidiaries named today, for example.
a way for another drug to attach to the protein at a specific site. The technology might also pave the way to new biotech drugs.
or people from making a direct line-of-site connection with the tower. On the whole, the capacity-doubling trick worked in those varying conditions,
#Google powers up highly scalable cloud-based Nosql database Google has introduced a new cloud-based Nosql database powered by Bigtable that is automatically scalable and designed specifically for large-scale implementations with an eye on the Internet of things.
Cloud Bigtable runs on Google's powerful Bigtable data storage system that already powers Gmail, Google search and Google analytics plus there's the added bonus that it's compatible with the Apache HBASE API.
The latter configuration means that it can be used with almost all existing applications in the Hadoop system whilst at the same time supporting Google's own Cloud Dataflow.
Google boasts that the solution offers its customers single-digit millisecond latency and double the performance per dollar when set against HBASE and Cassandra, according to Tech Crunch.
Cloud Bigtable is by no means Google's first trip into the cloud-based Nosql database space.
but is rather different in that it targets read-heavy workloads for mobile and web apps.
Google Cloud platform product manager told Tech Crunch, adding that many customers start on Cloud Datastore
Google is offering Cloud Bigtable in beta right now and until it is released fully there is no service level agreement or technical support available l
Researcher Kevin Mahaffey published his findings on the Lookout blog conveniently on opening day of the 23rd annual Def Con hacking conference in Las vegas
or white hats Mahaffey and partner Marc Rogers of web performance and security firm Cloudflare have worked already with Tesla to issue an over-the-air security update the week of Def Con before publishing their findings.
Mahaffey goes into exhaustive detail in his blog entry regarding the specifics of the hack.
But now computer scientists have developed software that automatically screens out low-priority emails or texts. It's called Phylter,
If you've been anxiously wondering what the future holds for Project Ara after Google became one part of Alphabet,
"so it obviously still features in Google's plans in some way. The bottom line is we'll have to wait for the promised updates next week.
Black Friday deals in 2015 will lead to the biggest day of spending the internet has seen ever It's now only 71 days until Black Friday!
On Black Friday last year, websites crashed, sales records were smashed and shoppers ravenously scooped up deals on tech, games and clothing in
while GAME's website was selling PS4 and Xbox One consoles to British gamers at a rate of 3, 600 per hour.
of which the internet had seen never before. So what's in store for Black Friday 2015? Well despite MPS having urged UK retailers to boycott Black Friday this year,
The numbers on Black Friday in 2014 were so big that websites fell over like Victorian ladies on a hot day, with HP, Best Buy, Currys, Tesco, Argos,
Boots and Game's websites all requiring smelling salts. The Currys website in the UK crashed
despite the company having implemented a system where users had to queue to use it,
And while Black Friday chaos online led to websites crashing, bedlam on the highstreet tends to be a lot more troublesome.
Clearly-it's much safer to stay at home and pick up your deals on the internet, and that's what the majority of people did on Black Friday 2014.
To give you an idea of just how busy the sites were, John Lewis and Currys-two of the UK's biggest retail websites-both saw their web traffic triple compared to Black Friday 2013.
Meanwhile, Techradar's own Black Friday pages attracted more than 1. 6 million page views. So it's no exaggeration to say that the pre-Christmas retail landscape was changed forever on November 28 last year.
they would lose out on footfall or website hits in a key spending weekend.""The upshot?
because they expect that we'll buy more than one item once we're on their site.
Last year in the we also saw amazing soundbar deals, Dualshock 4 game controllers for under half price, Google Chromecasts for under $23/£18, huge savings on iphones, amazing deals
send texts and manage your email, as well as respond to your questions and even recognise your face in a crowd.
After being stretched, the microcapsule is refilled by the drugs that continue to leak out of the nanoparticles. his can be used to apply drugs directly to sites on the skin
it can sometimes be pointing in the wrong direction to provide a picture of a site of concern.
physical sales of music as well as permanent downloads on sites such as itunes kept falling. The drops contributed to the overall picture for the global music industry revenue of $14. 97bn in 2014, down a modest 0. 4%from a year earlier.
Moore said that the IPFI planned a renewed campaign to press Youtube and other sites to license music consistently.
Youtube, owned by search engine giant Google, enjoys so-called afe harbourstatus under US law that lets it avoid liability for copyright infringement as it is considered an internet service provider.
The IFPI, in data released in the report, said that more than half of all internet users accessed music through video sites such as Youtube in the past six months.
The rule ompletely distortsthe market as ervices like Spotify and Deezer have to take proper licenses Moore said.
#Europe is targeting Google under antitrust laws but missing the bigger picture Google it today and youl see that the European commission has turned up the heat in its long-running probe into anti-competitive behaviour by the web most popular search engine.
EC competition chief, Margrethe Vestager, issued formal objections alleging that Google abuses its dominant position in the market of eneral internet search In particular,
the EC claims that Google artificially boosts its own products in returning Google comparison shopping results in its service oogle Shopping
even if those products aren the best or cheapest the ost relevant as the Commission puts it for consumers.
Since taking office in November 2014 Vestager has made the Google inquiry a top priority, signalling a willingness to consider court battles
and hefty fines if Google and other digital giants don fall into line with European competition law.
In this, she has displayed a distinct shift from her predecessor, Joaquín Almunia, whose multiple attempts to achieve private settlement with Google fell apart a year ago,
before descending into a political and economic boxing match. Vestager announcement comes amidst increasing restlessness by European policymakers that omething must be doneabout Google.
Identifying with precision the source of that anxiety, and the appropriate focus of action, is rather more challenging.
It focuses on the first and clearest of a number of complaints filed in 2009-10 by various Google competitors-from other giants, such as Microsoft, to small, struggling or defunct web businesses.
These complaints range from the EC current focus on Google prioritisation of its own products within vertical search services (currently,
to issues with Google scraping and fencing of datasets, often exclusively and at unmatched scale.
matched with the self-reinforcing effect of Google market share (the more people search, the better search becomes),
and it accelerates Google towards addressing some real competitor concerns, even if some of those competitors are interested now more in backward compensation rather than forward innovation.
You can Google your way out of a power vacuum Let return to the market in
which Google is dominant: eneral internet search This is a market that didn exist 20 years ago.
And it is a market that cannot be underestimated. It is the marketplace of human knowledge, queries, anxieties, ideas, journeys, hopes, sorrows and dreams.
Google is our contemporary maker and breaker of truth, commerce and the stuff of life.
The irony of the situation is that Google knows so much about us, and we know so little about it.
At best, the European commission initiative may require some marginal reconfiguration of Google algorithms and presentation of results,
one of the fiercest critics of mass surveillance and tech monopolies, have a proposal for Google to make its search algorithms
While Google will likely claim that its algorithms are so complex that even its own engineers do not understand their Heath Robinsonesque machinations,
the bold French proposal recognises that Google search did not simply emerge of its own accord.
and fight atred online assivity on the internet is said over, Hollande. Teacher training will be reinforced, headteachers will be encouraged to report incidents
and pupils will be taken to visit memorial sites. There will also be tougher penalties for crimes deemed to have been fuelled by racism and antisemitism.
the site of a brutal antisemitic attack last year in which a young Jewish couple were held hostage in their home,
#Can the internet of things save us from traffic jams? Traffic is getting worse. It doesn just feel that way,
So when internet of things technology is disrupting every part of our lives, when will traffic lights be rebuilt rethought and?
Andy Stanford-Clark, distinguished engineer in IBM global internet of things team, pointed out that we can now pull in all sorts of data:
but when merged together in the internet of thingscloud processing platform, we can make sense of them
what the goal of Iot-connected traffic lights? don think the main reason is going to be racing people through intersections,
The internet? A Canadian startup wants to make the answer an Instagram for doctors. Figure 1 is an app that allows iphone
Over 10,000 texts, Whatsapps and emails with images of curious and classic cases are being sent in the US each day
nurses or other medically trained personnel can become erified In the same way Twitter blue tick verifies that a user is who they say they are,
and forms part of their adoption of social media and the new smartphone and tablet tools that are increasingly being used in hospitals,
#Google is now Alphabet (well, sort of: the internet reacts Google reign of terror is over! Well, not quite:
the preeminent search engine isn going to go the way of Askjeeves and Altavista, the company is simply rebranding itself with a new holding company called Alphabet,
Google. Desperately googling Alphabet? No need. Let Larry page and Sergey Brin, Google cofounders, explain: e liked Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity most important inventions,
and is the core of how we index with Google search. s well as being ne ofhumanity most important inventions,
Alphabet is also a really great name for a sinister uber-corporation in a dystopian sci-fi novel,
an internet domain registry company that owns a range of suffices including. college. His latest client?
The new parent company of Google, which can be found at abc. xyz. Daniel reacted with the appropriate gravitas:
To give Google credit where credit is did due, they at least manage to mock the megalomaniacal nature of their own announcement,
throwing in a link to Hooli. xyz, clearly a reference to the Google-esque Hooli from HBO Silicon valley.
though, spare a thought for the owner of twitter. com/alphabet, who must have been having an interesting 24 hours.
The internet has been reacting with confusion, horror and mockery to the announcement, as you would expect.
One user managed to explain the complex ownership structure of the Alphabet/Google nexus in Simpsonian terms:
Finally, it worth mentioning that Google have announced also a radical shake-up to their corporate management structure,
#Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman resigns after third leak of emails The chief executive of extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison has left the company after a third leak of emails
said an unattributed statement on the Ashley Madison website. ntil the appointment of a new CEO,
In July details of more than 37m accounts were stolen from the website whose tagline is: ife is short.
and dedicated employeesand that it remained teadfast in our commitment to our customer base That customer base personal information was spread far and wide across the internet earlier this month,
a Twitter user (or, as Krebs speculates, users) called Thadeus Zu posted a link to the hack before anyone else
The third and latest data dump, posted at the site that first released the user database,
appears to be a download of emails from Biderman personal Gmail account. The second torrent released by an entity calling itself the Impact Team contained emails that seemed to be from Biderman work account
and its release had done already damage to his personal reputation: the executive told the New york daily news in 2014 that he had cheated never on his wife,
the home alarm seemed ripe for an overhaul for the internet age. e were surprised...that the technology had moved not really on since the 80s,
#Google is reorganizing and Sundar Pichai will become new CEO In a blog post today,
Google cofounder Larry page announced a massive restructuring of the company, instituting Sundar Pichai as CEO and shifting himself and cofounder Sergey Brin to a larger holding company called Alphabet.
As CEO and President of Alphabet, Page and Brin will oversee Google as well as affiliated companies like the life extension project Calico and a drone delivery venture called Wing.
Alphabet will also direct Google's early-stage funding operations, dubbed Capital and Ventures. Under the new organization, each of those operations will have its own CEO and leadership
while Pichai and Google retain control of search, ads, maps, the Google Play Store, Youtube, and Android.
The reorganization also involves significant financial restructuring, as detailed in an associated SEC filing. All Google shares will now be traded as shares of the larger Alphabet holding company, news that drove the company's share price up more than four percentage points in the wake of the announcement."
"Wee long believed that over time companies tend to get comfortable doing the same thing,
the former CHROME OS and Android chief who has played an increasingly central role in Google's day-to-day operations."
and our board that it is time for Sundar to be CEO of Google, "Page said in the post."
"I feel very fortunate to have talented someone as as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google
it's an extension of a shift that's been ongoing within Google for some time, with Brin and Page increasingly interested in ambitious projects launched through Google X or outside funding.
Alphabet formalizes that division, separating Google's traditional products from the more ambitious ventures that critics have accused of distracting from the company's core strengths.
It remains to be seen how the new divisions will play out in practice, but the intention seems to be renewed a focus on both Google's current products
and the moonshots that aim to replace those products as Alphabet's focus in the decades to come."
In addition to the streams, Apple says the album also sold half a million downloads through itunes a solid performance that was not quite enough to push it to number one in the US charts.
hip-hop's current kings are already old hands at disseminating their music to a huge and internet-literate fanbase.
Both artists used Twitter, Instagram, and other social networks to build suspense for their newest records,
and released them on multiple streaming services, securing more listeners than Compton could with its Apple-first approach a
#Google has a new logo Google is introducing a new logo today. Just a month after unveiling a major restructuring of the company,
Google is updating its image, too. The new Google logo is still a wordmark, but it's now using a sans-serif typeface,
making it look a lot more modern and playful. The colors are also softer than they used to be.
The logo bears a bit more resemblance to the logo of Google's new parent company, Alphabet, as well.
As Google's video introducing the new logo notes the wordmark has been evolving ever since it was created in 1998.
when Google first cleaned up the lettering and settled on its four colors. Since then, the logo has just been flattened out more and more,
Google is also changing the tiny"g"logo that you see on browser tabs. It's now going to be an uppercase"G"that's striped in all four of Google's colors.
Google says that the new design will be rolling out across all of its products soon in fact
it's already on Google's homepage, with a cute animation that wipes away the old logo and draws in the new one.
So why did Google decide to make the change? In a blog post, Google discusses how much technology has changed how we interact with its products and with the internet at large.
It doesn't really settle on a specific reason that a redesign was needed, but it says that this logo should better reflect the reality that Google is no longer a site you visit on a desktop computer it's a huge collection of sites, apps,
and services that you visit on PCS, Chromebooks, smartphones, and anywhere you can find a web browser.
Google writes that its new logo is meant to reflect"this reality and show you when the Google magic is working for you,
even on the tiniest screens.""Making the logo look good on small screens seems to have been a major consideration.
The new, simpler lettering is supposed to scale better to smaller sizes, making the wordmark more distinct and easier to read.
It's also supposed to be easier for Google to display on low-bandwidth connections:
Google says that it's made a version of its logo that's"only 305 bytes,
compared to our existing logo at 14,000 bytes.""Given that one of new Google CEO Sundar Pichai's big goals is to bring the internet and Google,
of course to areas of the globe that don't already have it, that small difference is definitely going to be an important one r
who chose the occasion to launch a new web destination called Makerbase. Dash described it as cross between Wikipedia and Internet Movie Database,
but for the app economy. Innovators can add themselves to Makerbase or others can add them to the current database of projects.
#How do you laugh on Facebook? LOS ANGELES-How do you express laughter in a Facebook post?
By saying LOL, Haha or Hehe? The folks at Facebook recently crunched the numbers of the billions of daily posts to see how its members expressed their humor,
and they found that 15%use laughter of some kind in a post. At one point, the acronym surely would have been LOL,
Facebook looked at posts in May to come up with these conclusions and also researched specific cities,
A quick note that the desktop version of Facebook doesn offer many opportunities to attach digital laughs,
you need to go to the Facebook Messenger mobile app, where not only are there tons of way more emoji syymbols available for your posts,
Google shares jump off Alphabet announcement Here's a surprise that shareholders seemed to like: Google shocked Wall street Monday afternoon after suddenly announcing the creation of Alphabet, its new publicly traded parent company.
Shares of Google were up more than 6%during Tuesday morning trading. Let's take a look at the tech stocks to watch Tuesday:
Google (GOOG: Google's new overlord will contain its zany experimental ventures, such as its driverless cars,
and 3g-beaming balloons, while Google (now a subsidiary of Alphabet) will"slim down "and exclude companies that are not a part of its core internet business.
Sundar Pichai will be the new CEO of Google, while Google cofounders Larry page and Sergey Brin will head Alphabet.
Twitter (TWTR: Twitter's stock was back down to red Tuesday morning after bouncing back Monday.
Interim CEO Jack Dorsey showed a bid of confidence in the lagging company Monday, buying more than 31,000 shares of Twitter for about $875, 000.
Following Dorsey's purchase, shares jumped 9%to close at $29. 50 on Monday. The company also pleased investors after announcing an expanded deal with the NFL,
which will streamline more of the leagues content on the platform. Company shares were down more than 1%Tuesday morning.
Symantec (SYMC: Symantec announced plans to sell its data storage business, Veritas, for $8 billion cash.
According to Reuters, the company will sell Veritas to a group including Carlyle Group and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC.
Company shares were down more than 1%during Tuesday morning trading. Apple (AAPL: Apple shares have been quite volatile lately.
#Tinder goes on Twitter rant over'Vanity fair'article Popular dating app Tinder erupted into a storm of angry,
#Twitter drops character limit for direct messages witter users will no longer be confined to 140 characters
The social network says it has removed limits on the length of a direct message, allowing users to send tweets at whatever length they choose.
However, Twitter says the standard public tweet will remain 140 characters.""Today change is another big step towards making the private side of Twitter even more powerful and fun,
says Twitter product manager Sachin Agarwal in a blog post detailing the changes. The change rolls out starting today across Twitter's mobile apps, desktop and web clients and Tweetdeck,
and continue rolling out globally over the next few weeks s
#Virtual reality comes into the store VENICE BEACH, Calif. elcome to this reality-a store where you can buy shoes, eyewear and coffee,
and also take a 360 degree immersive video trip to Peru. Shoppers at Toms flagship store here can don Samsung's Gear VR virtual reality goggles,
Facebook bought tech start-up Oculus, which works with Samsung on the Gear VR system, for $2 billion in 2014.
and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.
Facebook bought tech start-up Oculus which works with Samsung on the Gear VR system, for $2 billion in 2014.
and cites a comment from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that VR will potentially be as disruptive as the smartphone.
Facebook and Google operate overseas. The European Court of Justice examined the case of an Austrian citizen who claimed that his data,
wasn't being protected adequately by Facebook. No appeal is possible as the European Court of Justice is the equivalent of the U s. Supreme court. The ruling comes as European leaders
when users post on social media, search the web, buy items online and other activities. Companies use this information to direct ads
and promote products. Without the Safe harbor rules, in place since 2000, each country in the European union could potentially set is own privacy rules
That could change because of the lawsuit brought last year against Facebook by Austrian law student and privacy advocate Max Schrems.
Schrems filed the case in Ireland, Facebook European headquarters. The irish court rejected the suit and Schrems appealed to the European high court."
"Schrems said in a statement posted on his Twitter account after Tuesday's ruling. In a statement, Facebook said Europe's Advocate General had been very clear the issue was not Facebook per se,
but the mechanisms that European law provides to enable essential transatlantic data flows. The company said it was imperative that the EU
including Oculusparent Facebook, in envisioning VR for shopping. That vision is still fluid for vretail,
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