#Why Google Project Fi could be the beginning of the end for Verizon and AT&T Google made an exciting announcement Wednesday,
confirming plans to launch its own wireless service, Project Fi. The service will leverage existing Wi-fi networks
Google announcement is a great thing for the wireless industry the Wi-fi First industry and ultimately, a great thing for consumers.
and Google is the company to pave the way (and do so quickly). Given its size and influence in the device space,
Google Project Fi could help accelerate the adoption of Wi-fi First through a couple of key moves.
Google has the opportunity to speed up this adoption by creating standards and device requirements that would make Wi-fi connections more mainstream,
At the same time Google ushers in Wi-fi First to the masses, its wireless vision could fundamentally transform the role major carriers play in the market.
When you buy a phone through Google, Google will manage the relationship with Verizon instead of you.
When Wi-fi isn available, your device will automatically select which network it should connect to based on availability,
Youe buying the phone from Google, youe paying Google, and youe calling Google support if you experience any issues.
If Google move means consumers now have billing relationships with only Google, Verizon brand (which the company spends more than a billion dollars promoting each year) is diminished.
This model commoditizes the wireless carriers while simultaneously putting downward pressure on their margins. As such, the Wi-fi First business model eliminates erizonfrom consumersvernacular,
Based on Google track record, if there is any player that can take down Verizon and AT&T, who have been upselling consumers on wireless service that isn efficient
or cost-effective for decades, it Google. And it only a matter of time before carriersrelevance to smartphone subscribers everywhere is diminished.
Stratos will also have to contend with digital wallets like Google Wallet Apple Passbook, and Paypal,
#Google Alphabet: Where the brand vision? This week, Google grew up. Taking many in the business world by surprise,
the tech giant restructured itself under a new holding company, Alphabet. The shake-up means many of the oonshotprojects Google picked up over the years have been spun off into separate and independent companies,
while Google retains the most profitable side: search and advertising. To many, Alphabet will make a lot of sense.
Google had started to seem like a mega-conglomerate that was too powerful for its own good
and this will help change that. But there is a problem. Google is an exciting and innovative brand.
The company has spawned belief statements learned by heart by brand strategists and copied by businesses across the world.
more accountable and more management scalemakes Google sound more like a financial services firm than the innovative tech company we know and love.
Finally, Google vision, or the way it sees its position in the world, has always been core to its brand,
and increased Google market cap by $20 billion overnight, but how will Google employees, some of the brightest,
most creative people in the world, react to this new, corporate focus? After all, these are the same software engineers who are encouraged to design their own desks
People work for Google because it exciting, but the messaging wee heard this week has been anything but.
and could be a brilliant way of bringing order to Google complexity, the language surrounding the announcement also hints at new limitations,
Alphabet must still include the spirit of Google brand values within the new company and concede less to the financial markets
#Hackers dump data from cheating website Ashley Madison online: reports (Reuters) Hackers have followed through on a threat to release online a huge cache of data,
that was stolen a month ago from cheating spouses website Ashleymadison. com, several tech websites reported on Tuesday.
Reuters was not immediately able to confirm the authenticity of the posting. The data was posted onto the dark web,
meaning it is only accessible using a specialized browser, although lists of email addresses have sprouted
since up on other sites. A group calling itself Impact Team had leaked snippets of the compromised data in July
and threatened to publish names and salacious details about clients unless Ashley Madison and Establishedmen. com,
another site owned by Toronto-based parent company Avid Life Media, were taken down. Tech website Wired said 9. 7 gigabytes of data was posted,
and appeared to include member account and credit card details. vid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,
have did an affair not immediately respond to emails and phone calls seeking comment s
#Google becomes part of a new company, Alphabet Google chief executive Larry page on Monday announced that the tech giant is undergoing a major restructuring
and will become a wholly owned subsidiary of a new conglomerate known as Alphabet. The move, Page said,
will allow Google to focus more on its core products, including its search engine, while Alphabet manages a variety of different businesses,
including driverless cars and drones.""What is Alphabet?""Page wrote.""Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies.
The largest of which, of course, is Google. This newer Google is slimmed a bit down, with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main Internet products contained in Alphabet instead."
"Other companies within Alphabet will include Calico and Life sciences, the parts of Google that focus on health products.
Page said the company's X lab, which focuses on moon-shot projects such as Google's drone delivery service,
also will be part of Alphabet, as will its investment arms, Ventures and Capital. The move comes as Google struggles to maintain focus as its portfolio grows
and its interests spread across various industries. That sprawl has attracted recently criticism from investors, who wondered whether the company could remain innovative with so many distractions.
Page will be chief executive of Alphabet while Google cofounder Sergey Brin will become president. Sundar Pichai, who is Google's senior vice president of Android,
Chrome and Apps, will become Google's chief executive. Page said, "Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity
and all shares of Google will automatically convert into the same number of shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights."
"The company's two classes of shares will continue to trade on the Nasdaq as GOOGL and GOOG,
he said. So what stays a part of the core Google business? According to the company's Securities and exchange commission filing, the main Google business will include"search, ads, maps, apps, Youtube and Android,
"as well as the technical infrastructure for those departments. Most of the top Google executives will become Alphabet executives,
the filing said. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, Chief Financial officer Ruth Porat and chief legal officer David Drummond will take up corresponding positions within Alphabet.
Porat will also remain the CFO of Google. Google, one of the few companies to actually become a verb, hardly needs introduction.
The firm was started by Larry page and Sergey Brin in 1997 after the two met as students at Stanford university.
Before Google, the two worked together on a search engine called Backrub, which they operated on the servers at Stanford for more than a year.
The pair registered the domain name"Google. com"on Sept. 17,1998, with the mission to organize all of the world's information.
The company went public in 2004. It is worth $443. 9 billion and handles an estimated 67 percent of the country's desktop searches and 83 percent of its mobile searches, according to Comscore.
Internationally, Netmarketshare puts Google's global desktop search share at 70 percent. While the company has held always search at its core
it has expanded into several different areas. Investors and analysts have criticized Google in recent years for spending so much on these"side projects
"and have called repeatedly on Page to streamline Google's purpose. Google shares were up more than 5 percent in after-hours trading on the news, at $665. 99 per share. p
#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.
Verizon believes its new technology called NG-PON2 hort for"next-generation passive optical network"ould eventually grow to support speeds of 80 Gbps. That's thousands of times faster than
what most average U s. households get today. Fiber-optic cables work by sending data that's been encoded as packets of light.
even if it did the demonstration shows just how fast the Internet will someday become. That capacity will be used to accommodate new technologies like driverless cars,
Here how much Comcast is charging for its answer to Google Fibercharlottesville is about to get oogle Fiber lite,
thanks to this small wireless carriergoogle ultra-fast Internet service expands to San Antoni p
These signals travel through walls just as Wireless internet signals do. Data from body parts that curve away from the device won be recognized
These signals travel through walls just as Wireless internet signals do. Data from body parts that curve away from the device won be recognized
Alexandria University agricultural and biosystems engineering associate professor Ahmed El-Shafei was quoted by Yahoo News as saying:"
and in which internet penetration while still low (46 percent) compared to Western europe standards (though ahead of many other countries in the MENA region)."
then, was following the footsteps of ebay and Amazon, with the hope of sooner or later being acquired by an established company.
In 2011, ebay bought auction marketplace Gittigidiyor, essentially a clone of the American multinational, for $22m.
and innovation is confined longer to auction sites, the wave of online retail websites is still rampant:
recently, celebrity-endorsed fashion shopping site Lydiana. com now serves over 90,000 customers per day,
while Yemeksepeti (also known as foodonclick), an online food delivery platform which employs more than 200 staff serving over 1. 2 million registered users in eight countries.
"Most common companies we see are based internet ones that do need not to much initial funding to thrive.
Not to mention the effect that bans on sites such as Twitter and Youtube have, like those repeatedly ensued by prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
have to rely on social media for their marketing efforts. Other common complaints concern the difficulties of securing work visas for international employees and some negative cultural aspects
, 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.
"and Bank of america planning"to have 80%of its workloads running on software-defined infrastructure inspired by Web companies."
#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,
People can use Bing, Yahoo, Quora, Duckduckgo, and a new wave of search assistants like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana,
as well as more specialized services like Amazon, Idealo, Le Guide, Expedia, or ebay. In addition, users increasingly turn to social networks like Facebook
and Twitter to find news and suggestions-where to eat or which movies to watch,
"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,
"the EC said. There are three areas the Commission will investigate -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,
and will later launch other authentication services based on biometrics, the company said.""Going forward, we plan to not target hardware manufacturers that make smartphones,
including Samsung, Google, Microsoft, Visa, and Paypal.""We expected previous authentication technology such as passwords, certificates,
which it will start test running on its in-house intranet. It will later expand it to Samsung affiliates and clients,
and tune in live at 11 AM EST. You can also follow the conversation on Twitter via#SAPRADIO o
activists and hackers often target a website or company with a flood of traffic, bringing their systems to a halt.
#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."
For Bigtable you're literally going to pop into a website and the UI and you're going to say,
Google has 10 years of history managing Bigtable. We know very well how to manage it."
whether it's web data or sensor data. They have these instances, they have these databases
"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
#Yahoo launches password-free logins Yahoo If remembering passwords is too much of a chore, Yahoo will make them for you.
During a session at the South by Southwest festival hosted in Austin, Texas, as reported by sister site CNET,
the tech giant launched"on-demand"passwords, which takes remembering your security password to access accounts of the equation.
Yahoo's vice president of product management for consumer platforms Dylan Casey said during the event that the service is the"first step to eliminating passwords."
"Available now in the US, on-demand passwords work by users first logging into their Yahoo accounts normally.
While Casey said the service was designed after Yahoo put itself"in the shoes of the people using our products"
which is slowly being adopted by web services worldwide. Two-step verification services rely not only on the traditional password--which is often easily crackable,
or stolen--Yahoo's new scheme could be viewed as a lax security protocol designed to appeal to the general public,
Yahoo chief information security officer Alex Stamos confirmed that end-to-end encryption will be introduced to Yahoo Mail by the end of 2015.
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.
Interestingly, Microsoft's blog post on the new bundling deals is authored by Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's Executive vice president of Global Business Development,
including Bing, the voice-powered Cortana digital assistant, the Onedrive cloud-storage system, Skype and Outlook, into Cyanogen's devices."
TRU-D's system analyzes the variables of the room and floods the space (both line-of-site and shadowed spaces) with the proper dose of UV light energy.
and simultaneously uploads the information to the hospital's web portal, meaning it integrates well into a new health care paradigm centering around data collection and analysis."With rising issues around health care-associated infections,
#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.
or a"collection of companies,"according to Page's blog post. Page specified Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet."
"We liked the name Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity's most important innovations,
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.
Pichai is slated to takeover the company when the deal goes through. Google plans to separate financial reporting from the rest of Alphabet businesses on the fourth quarter earnings report.
But the decision to promote Pichai is perhaps the least surprising bit of news in all of this as his status at the tech behemoth has risen dramatically in the last two years.
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,
#Twitter lifts 140 character limit on direct messages, further enhancing DM functionality There are plenty of services available that allow you to carry out private conversations across platforms.
With today's announcement, Twitter makes it easier to serve as your messaging service. Previously, direct messages were limited to the same 140 character limit as a public Tweet.
You may recall back in January 2015 Twitter also added support for direct messages for up to 20 people.
when you know they are on Twitter, but may not be connected in another service. I use direct messaging a couple times a week,
Do you use Twitter for carrying out private conversations? If not, do you use text messaging or another service e
IBM will also create a special cloud for independent software providers (ISVS) hosted at IBM sites in Dallas, Beijing,
With this you can have a Linuxone Emperor or Rockhopper on site but, like a public cloud, you'll only pay for the resources you use.
and attaches to specific DNA sites to initiate the entire replication process. The second study revealed how the ORC recruits cracks open
#Computerized surveillance system quickly detects disease outbreaks among preschoolers A web-based system that allows preschools
To assess the durability of this intervention the researchers followed antibiotic prescribing across intervention and control sites after termination of audit and feedback.
We've already learned that the histone proteins found at the sites of genes can be modified chemically with a variety of small chemical tags that either promote
The research team carefully selected 30 different grassland sites--three of which are used already for small-scale bioenergy production--and 11 cornfields in southern Wisconsin.
The team found that the presence of grasslands within one kilometer of the study sites also helped boost bird species diversity and bird density in the area.
But the rash persisted and a few years later a rare form of skin cancer known as Marjolin's ulcer developed at the surgical site.
The researchers showed that contact allergy brings inflammatory cells and molecules to the site of the allergic reaction.
and molecules become active at the site of the reaction. The new mix of cells and molecules promotes the development of skin tumors.
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