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Google Transparency Report Shows Rising Trend Of Government Surveillance
Each year, Google receives thousands of demands from governments around the world seeking information about its users. People who use any of the search engine giant’s free online services – such as Gmail, YouTube, Google+ or Blogger – leave digital footprints behind, and information relating to their accounts is increasingly sought out by law enforcement agencies. [...] Read More »
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Google Trends Data Highlights Medical and Healthcare App Growth
Google Search continues to be the dominant internet search engine. Trends in internet keyword searches over time monitor the growth (and waning) of products and topics. Google provides a keyword search tool called Google Trends that allows users to map relative keyword searches over time and compare multiple keyword search trends. I recently examined the trends related to the search term medical app on Google Trends. I found some expected and unexpected findings in this analysis. This is the first post in a series highlighting interesting insights from this untapped source...
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Google's Grand Plan For Nest Goes Way Beyond The Internet Of Things
Physical devices are becoming just as important as digital services in achieving Google's know-everything ambitions Read More »
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Google, Business, And Open-Source Patent Protection
Google has just pledged that it won't sue other companies over open-source patents if they don't sue Google first, but this is actually a long established policy. Now if it could only stop the patent wars. Read More »
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Google, Facebook, Amazon: Algorithms Will Soon Rule Our Lives So We'd Better Understand How They Work
One of the most interesting announcements in last week's Budget – well, for me at least, as someone who has no savings and doesn’t play bingo or drink much – was the new Alan Turing Institute: £220 million of government support will be invested into "big data and algorithm" research.
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Google, PwC Bidding for $11B DoD Health System Modernization Project
When Google and PricewaterhouseCoopers announced a business partnership last October, they described the move as an effort to jointly compete for large projects leveraging PwC's consulting experience and Google's Cloud Platform technologies. Last week, the two companies followed through on that announcement with PwC including Google in a team that is bidding for a massive $11 billion health system modernization effort at the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Google: 'Government Surveillance Is On The Rise'
It's not just Petraeus. Google is seeing ever greater efforts by governments to monitor citizens' online activity. Read More »
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Google: It's Time To Take Action Against Patent Trolls, Privateering
Google bands together with BlackBerry and Red Hat as it continues its offensive to defend itself against patent suits. Read More »
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Google: Non-Gmail Users Have No Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy (Updated)
Here's some more bad news to add to the pile of concern over email vulnerability, a brief filed by Google's attorneys has just surfaced and revealed that Gmail non-Gmail users who exchange emails with a Gmail user should have "no legitimate expectation of privacy"—ever. Read More »
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Google’s Boss Eric Schmidt Projects Kenya As Africa’s Tech Leader
After a week’s visit to sub-Saharan Africa that included meetings in Lagos and Nairobi, Executive Chairman and former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt has labelled Nairobi as the ‘maybe’ silicon valley of Africa. Read More »
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Google’s Iron Grip On Android: Controlling Open Source By Any Means Necessary
Six years ago, in November 2007, the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) was announced. The original iPhone came out just a few months earlier, capturing people's imaginations and ushering in the modern smartphone era. While Google was an app partner for the original iPhone, it could see what a future of unchecked iPhone competition would be like... Read More »
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Google’s Mind-Blowing Big-Data Tool Grows Open Source Twin
[Mike] Olson is the CEO of a Valley startup called Cloudera, and [John] Schroeder is the boss at MapR, a conspicuous Cloudera rival. Both outfits deal in Hadoop — a sweeping open source software platform based on data center technologies that underpinned the rise of Google’s web-dominating search engine — but in building their particular businesses, the two startups approached Hadoop from two very different directions... Read More »
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Google’s Motorola And Dutch Designer Developing Open Source, Modular Smartphone Hardware
Motorola’s been Googlified. It didn’t take long. The firm’s advanced technology projects team (ATAP) is perhaps the most obvious symptom. ATAP is to Motorola what Google X is to Google. The team says they’re pirates who like “epic shit,” and like their parent company, they’re suitably obsessed with open source. Read More »
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Google’s New Coding Champion Is a 17-year-old Cameroonian Whose Hometown Has Been Cut Off the Internet
In Nov. 2016, Nji Collins Gbah, a tech enthusiast from Bamenda, Cameroon, started participating in the Google Code-in competition, the global online contest which introduces pre-university students aged 13 to 17 to the world of open source. Despite his tenacity, the odds seem stacked against Gbah...During the seven-week program, Gbah completed 20 tasks using the Open Medical Record System, or OpenMRS, a platform that focuses on improving healthcare service in developing countries.
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Google’s New “Moto X” Superphone Will Spy On You 24/7, And You’ll Like It
Dennis Woodside, CEO of Motorola, Google’s wholly owned phone-making subsidiary, walked onto a stage yesterday with the company’s rumored new superphone, and while he refused to take it out of his pocket, he confirmed that it’s real and that it’s launching in October of this year. Read More »
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