Google, the most recognizable search engine, has just released Google Fiber, and Kansas City residents are the first to experience the advantage of its lightning speed Internet and TV service. The product has been under construction for almost 2 years and claims to provide connection speeds at 1,000Mb per second, more than doubling that of its competitor, Verizon. Google hopes … [Read more...]
Google Spends $18.7 Million for New Domains
.Com is so last decade these days. Last Wednesday, Icann, the corporation that handles domain names and addresses for the World Wide Web, unveiled that they received over 1,900 applications for new domains names. Domain names are what follow the period in an Internet address. According to Icann's top executive, Rod Beckstrom, the Internet is starting to change and this is the … [Read more...]
The Tiny Car Capturing Street Views That the Google Car Couldn’t
Do you remember where you were the first time that you heard that your house (or the house of someone that you know) could be seen on a Google map? More importantly, do you remember how you felt when you saw it for yourself for the first time? Shocked? Excited? Creeped out? When it comes to the ever-evolving transitions in technology, sometimes we just think about the result … [Read more...]
Google Glasses to Offer Text Alerts to Hearing Impaired
Google is successful for so many reasons but one of the main reasons seems that their products truly aim to help users. Google is able to remain on the leading edge of ideas while executing them using advancing technology that they themselves create. Their newest gadget is Google Glasses. Google Glasses allows users to wear a set of glasses on their face, just as they would … [Read more...]
Google’s Self Driving Car Takes Blind Man to Taco Bell
It wasn't too long ago that the cartoon, "The Jetsons", was simply a kiddie program for children to enjoy on Saturday mornings. As you saw the Jetson family push buttons in the kitchen for full-course meals and ride around from galaxy to galaxy, as adults, a lot of us probably thought, "Now isn't that cute?" Now here we are, not that many years into the future from when that … [Read more...]
Law Makers Challenge Google’s Privacy Policy Update
Law makers have recently expressed their concerns about Google’s updated privacy policy, prompting the company to respond on Tuesday in a letter addressing the concerns that merely reiterated the points they have already made in official statements and on their own blogs. Republican representative Cliff Stearns of Florida, the chairman of the House subcommittee on oversight … [Read more...]
$300 Million Google Data Center in the Works
By Evan Fischer It seems like you can’t walk outside these days without hearing about some new project that Google is working on. They’re starting a social networking site to rival Facebook and a music store that will compete with iTunes. Or they’ve created a car self-driving car and they’re working to log a million hours of driving time with no accidents or human … [Read more...]
Google Is My Friend
By Ann Update: Just a note to let readers who are viewing this post for the first time know that the Live Birth Video site has completely changed since this post was written. The graphic videos on the home page have been removed as well as the Teen category. We have screen shots of the home page as it originally appeared but we will not publish them due to the graphic … [Read more...]
Google Must Reveal Carla Franklin’s Cyberbully
Internet bullies, pay attention. Carla Franklin, 34, a New York business consultant and Columbia Business School graduate, filed documents this past August asking Google to reveal information on the cyberbully who posted unauthorized videos of her on YouTube and made insulting remarks online. On Tuesday, a Manhattan court ruling issued gives Google, who owns YouTube, a … [Read more...]