Tag: GOOGLENEWS

There are many, many awesome Google maps mashups out there. There seem to be so many out there now, and so many people are easily creating there own, for business, and personal uses. The Virtual Video map is another one of those great Google map mashups. However, this one integrates YouTube videos. The purpose for this creation is the advancement of distance education. It was put together for ...

In an effort to create a transparent system that is open to competition, Windows has announced that if computer manufacturers like Toshiba, or IBM want to use Google search as the default engine, it's ok with them. Microsoft's VP and general counsel said that the company is open to competition, and to create an open transparent system that will allow competition amongst developers and ...

Dennis Hwang is the webmaster from Google that designs those wicked little Google logos that seem to be changing all the time, depending on the season, and special occasion. Dennis is getting some huge PR, as CNN is actually profiling him. Millions of people each day see this guys work when they visit the Google search page. Hwang started mucking with the Google logo way back in 2000 when he ...

Google dropped its video ads in the UK, as well as dropped a little pressure on television networks. Outsiders see this move from Google both as a great step to more intuitive ads, and a pressured move towards the television networks space. The ads are currently being run in Canada, the US, and Japan, and have had great success in early testing. Since the ads are click to play, users have the ...

Ever wondered where Google has its free wifi access points in the Mountain View California area? Randy points us to this nice special site of highlighted areas where the Google wifi signals are located. The map has detailed views, and addresses of the access points, as well as holes in the coverage areas. I wonder how many of these wifi connections are placed quite close to areas frequented by ...

Back in the day when a young Eric Schmidt (with rather large glasses) was a manager at Sun Microsystems, his employees thought it would be rather hilarious if they were to exchange a VW beetle with his office furnishings. Giraffes showed up at his house, and gave him papers to a car. Thinking it was a weird joke, Schmidt left for work. Upon arriving at work, there was the car. It had been ...

Imagine walking down the street, and whoa, all of a sudden you're really not sure where you are, so you pull out your magic Google Mobile search stick, take a picture, and Google provides you with your exact coordinates. Now say you are shopping at the local Best Buy and you want to see if some other store has that iPod accessory listed cheaper. Take a picture and Google checks their database and ...

Google bought dMarc Broadcasting a while ago. They specialize in connecting advertisers and agencies with radio stations, using an automated advertising platform. Google is planning on turning this tool into a highly targeted and measurable advertising medium. Google has been working to meld dMarc and AdWords together, and the fist few signs of this union are starting to get out. techtoolblog ...

Microsoft has a job opening for a Google Compete Lead. What exactly does this person do? Well, this person drives the competitive landscape on Microsoft's Google Compete initiatives across all of the MSN organizations. This MSN position requires the individual to maintain a close relationship with the Google Compete team, and gain competitive intelligence for Google's local and regional ...

A new plug-in has just been released that lets network engineers look at the active internet nodes that are communicating with local nodes like web, email, wireless, voip, WAN and application server nodes. The tool was built so that engineers could get better grips on their data including troubleshooting, faults, restoring services, and network uptime. Through this new plug-in that accesses a ...

Have you ever thought about looking for a long lost love, And not known where to turn to first? WFAA news in Dallas has provided a heart warming story about a mother who placed her newborn child up for adoption 31 years ago. Praying for him every Sunday, she always wished to meet her son. And her son never really knew if he truly wanted to meet his birth mother. With the power of Google, The son's ...

Using Google Earth as a gaming environment is a great strategy. What better place to game than in a real environment? No need to create new environments, and obstacles. Julian is in the process of ripping out a Battleship game utilizing Google Earth! Juian has been playing around with Google's newly acquired Sketchup application, and modeling some ships and pegs for use in the online game. Users ...

Googles want YOU to attend its conference on Test Automation in London. This is the first conference for Google on this topic, and will he hosted in London in September 7th and 8th. Google's goal with this conference is to create a colleague based atmosphere where participants can discuss the challenges, and discover solutions of test automation. Google has 13 presentations lined up, on topics ...

In its famous cast against Google, claiming that Google dropped its PageRank down to zero, Kinderstart is out in the alley. They lost their case against Google claiming that Google manipulated search results, and took them out of the Google search results since they were a competitor. It's over, and from now on we never have to hear about Kinderstart again. Maybe next time they will try to get ...

Apparently there was a little chatter around the blogosphere lately about how Google supports click fraud. Well, then business product manager for trust and security over at Google cleared some things up on Google's corporate blog. Shurman Ghosemajumder, the business product manager for trust and security at Google spoke up about the issue at hand, and stated that a blogger quoted Eric Schmidt a ...