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Google's Siri-Killer Packed into Android Jelly Bean?
Tom's Guide
Google may introduce "Assistant" by the end of the year, possibly as a feature in Android 5.0 "Jelly Bean." We've seen numerous Siri clones arrive on Android Market both legit and utterly fake, but most of us are still waiting on Google to churn out a ...
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Why Google is playing games with Chrome's future--literally
CNET
Games are what's driving online innovation--just ask Google, which is embracing them as fast as it can. At the Game Developers Conference (GDC) held in San Francisco's Moscone Center today, Google showed off advances in its Native Client (NaCl) and ...
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Google reportedly developing rival to Apple Siri
Computerworld
By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Reports are circulating that Google is developing a voice assistant technology that would rival Apple's Siri. Google is reported to be working on a task-oriented voice technology, dubbed GoogleAssistant, according to ...
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Google patches 14 Chrome bugs, pays record $47K in bounties and bonuses
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Google yesterday patched 14 vulnerabilities in Chrome and handed out a record $47500 in rewards to researchers, including $30000 for "sustained, extraordinary" contributions to its bug-reporting program.
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Why I think Google's new unified privacy settings make great business sense
ZDNet (blog)
By Eileen Brown | March 5, 2012, 7:28am PST Summary: There has been lots of noise since Google announced its unified privacy settings. We are so used to getting software for free that we don't want to pay. But Google needs to earn revenue from its ads.
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Google China's Legendary Canteen
Economic Observer
Summary:At 11:30 each morning, as the sun streams in through the bay window of Google's canteen, an aroma begins to fill the room. It's time for those hoodie-and-jeans sporting IT workers to march in with identity cards hanging round their necks ...
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Economic Observer
Google Assistant reportedly will surpass Siri
PC World Magazine
The feature will apparently be personalized and make use of Google's data collection regarding how people behave online. Google is said to be working on artificial intelligence technology that could surpass the capabilities of Apple's Siri voice ...
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MIT, Google Release New Tools to Fix Android's Quality-Control Problem
Wired (blog)
By Mike Isaac As app stores compete for users, Android's improved design elements could give Google mobile loyalists a better selection. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Ask any techie about the differences between Android and iOS apps, and you'll get the ...
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Wired (blog)
MI EXPO - Google is innovative "because it doesn't try to define itself too much"
Utalkmarketing
“Part of the reason Google has been able to innovate is because it hasn't tried to define itself too much. If you have a good idea at Google, the chances are you'll be able to pursue it”. These were the opening remarks by new UK marketing director ...
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Heat turned up on Google's privacy blur
Southland Times
Privacy commissioners in Asia Pacific have clubbed together to put the heat onGoogle over its controversial new privacy policy. Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities, a body representing the privacy commissioners of New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Mexico, ...
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Google's Privacy Policy Doesn't Sit Well With European Lawmakers
Infoboom
As of March 1, 2012, Google's new privacy policy rolled out along with promises from the company that it would make for a "beautifully simple, intuitive user experience." But while that's the line the company sells, many small and midsized businesses ...
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Want to delete search data? Follow these steps
Calgary Herald
Google now combines user data across all of its services, including basic web search, Gmail, YouTube, Google+, and Google Docs (there are some 70 services, all told - and still some separate product policies among them).Google says the "updated ...
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Is Google actually evil?
Techworld.com
Yet the verb "to Google" is so commonplace it's lost its initial-cap. As journalists, we often google companies we report on to check their press releases or find biographical information on their executives. To be honest, I don't google anymore.
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Google+ Hangouts Get Furry: Now You Can Chat With Cat and Dog Masks [VIDEO]
Mashable
Remember that time President Obama met Keyboard Cat during the first White House-hosted Google+ chat? That conversation may have been a spoof courtesy of Conan O'Brien — but cat-based hangouts are coming to Google+anyway. Amit Fulay, Google Product ...
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Senator Schumer Puts Android and iPhone in His Privacy Crosshairs
PCWorld
By Matt Peckham, PCWorld Mar 5, 2012 8:24 AM Worried that Apple orGoogle might grab your photos or contact info, in view of recent revelations that certain apps on the iPhone or Android-based mobiles can? So is Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
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Google+ Hangouts, now serving Furry fandom
msnbc.com
While Facebook and Twitter do their darndest to reach the masses, Google+is tapping into the heretofore unrealized market -- lazy Furries. Roleplaying members of the fandom of fictional anthropomorphic animal characters who can't be bothered to pop on ...
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Android Key Lime Pie after Jelly Bean?
msnbc.com
Google's naming construct for its mobile operating system, which started alphabetically with 1.5 Cupcake, could fill a virtual sweets shop with Android updates. And now, the first pie could be joining this often-fragmented family: Key Lime Pie.
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Google Faces “Innovator's Dilemma” As It Prepares Response To Siri
Search Engine Land
However in a mobile context the phrase has more meaning: a page of Googlesearch results is ill-suited to the mobile use case. While Google has done many things to make it easier to get data and queries into smartphones with voice search, visual search ...
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Google Assistant: Android to Launch Siri Alternative in 2012
Search Engine Journal
Now, Google is reportedly developing a Google Assistant that will compete with Siri. Move away from the returning search results model and towards the Assistant model. Instead of simply returning 10 results, the end user needs information related to a ...
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Google Partners Evolve to Carve Cloud Territory
Channelnomics (blog)
When it comes to partnerships in a still complex and evolving cloud computing market, Google finds itself in a strong channel position based on its ability to host applications, provide cloud-based services and partnerships in applications.
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Google Assistant, Majel Rumor Par For the Course
Google Watch (blog)
Far be it from me to throw cold water on the prospect of exciting new software from Google, but the Google-is-building-a-Siri-rival meme is wearing thin on me. I noted last year how the smart speech recognition service would be called Majel.
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Will Google Assistant Work Better than Siri?
International Business Times
Google is well aware of the threat Siri could cause, and is hard at work on releasing a competing product known as “Assistant.” Not much is known about Google Assistant (codename Majel?), but what we do know is that Google is setting it up to go beyond ...
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International Business Times
Google Reportedly Set To Release Siri Competitor By Year's End
RedOrbit
Google is planning to reveal 'Assistant' — their answer to Apple's popular voice recognition platform Siri — by the fourth quarter of this year, an unidentified source told TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis. The development of Assistant is being ...
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RedOrbit
Google 'Assistant Reportedly Will Surpass Siri
IDG News Service
Google is said to be working on artificial intelligence technology that could surpass the capabilities of Apple's Siri voice assistant, a development that comes as Apple prepares for a media event at which it could launch the next iteration of its ...
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Funzio spreads out with games for Google+, Chrome Web Store, and Android
VentureBeat
But now it is spreading out by launching its new game Kingdom Age as an exclusive on Google+ and taking Crime City to Android. The Kingdom Age game will also be available on the Chrome Web Store. The move shows that even smaller social game companies...
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VentureBeat
Google+ Hangouts Get Furry: Now You Can Chat with Cat and Dog ...
By Joann Pan
The Google+ Hangouts roll out new mask options for virtual chatters.
Mashable » Social Media
Google Talks Gaming Efforts, Presence At GDC 2012 | WebProNews
By Chris Crum
Google Talks Gaming Efforts, Presence At GDC 2012. Google is at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), and Google+ Engineering Director David Glazer is talking about the company's efforts in gaming on the GoogleDevelopers Blog.
WebProNews
Google Watch - Hello, Android - Google Assistant, Majel Rumor Par ...
By Clint Boulton
If Google manages to build an effective assistant, which it's certainly capable of, it will need to balance its delivery of "answers" or trans-actionable responses (e.g., the OpenTable scenario) with its continuing need to monetize mobile.
Google Watch
6 Pros And Cons Of Google+ For Small Business -
By Lior Levin
Has your business started using Google+ for content distribution and networking? Should your small business make plans to integrate Google+?
VIRALBLOG.COM » Viral ideas.Trends....
AKB48 announces 'Google+' senbatsu members
By ustar
Takajo Aki, one of the senbatsu members for 'Google+'. On March 4th, popular idol group AKB48 announced their 'Google+' (Gugutasu) senbatsu members. 16 members whose activities stood out on the social networking site, 'Google+', were ...
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Inside Dateline - Join our Google+ Hangout with Chris Hansen
Do you have questions about day care centers for your child, as featured in Dateline's The Hansen Files report from Friday, March 2nd? Join Chris Hansen and other experts in a live Google+ Hangout to answer your questions beginning today ...
Newsvine - Inside Dateline - Articles
Improve your SEO by sharing to Google+ | Intranet Future – Social ...
By Jonathan Pollinger
How to improve your SEO by sharing to Google+ aka Google Plus.
Intranet Future - Social media...
GROGNARDIA: Dwimmermount on Google+
By James Maliszewski
Last Friday, I participated in my first-ever session of Google+ gaming. Tavis Allison convinced me to give it a whirl, which resulted in a three-hour session on the first level of Dwimmermount with him, Zak S, and Ryan Browning as players.
GROGNARDIA
Google Partners Evolve to Carve Cloud Territory | Channelnomics
By Marie Lingblom
A variety of strengthened channel partnerships is adding competitive market muscle to the already partner-popular and expanding cloud world of GoogleApps. CloudLock is one of the most recent, with expanded features to its cloud-based ...
Channelnomics
Should you use Google differently now that it has a new privacy ...
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Andy Rubin - Google+ - Walking around Mobile World Congress ...
Walking around Mobile World Congress and seeing the ...
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The Mounting Minuses at Google+ - WSJ.com
Google has registered 90 million users for its new social network, but it is a virtual ghost town compared with rival Facebook. Users are spending on average just ...
online.wsj.com/.../SB10001424052970204653604577249341...
Android@Mobile World Congress: It's all about ... - Google Mobile Blog
Each and every day, we are humbled by the trajectory of Android and our partners. With a year-on-year growth rate of more than 250%, 850000 new Android ...
googlemobile.blogspot.com/.../androidmobile-world-congress...
Why Google+ Doesn't Care If You Never Come Back | TechCrunch
Google+ is designed to power ad targeting, and for that it only needs you to sign up once. This lets it combine the biographical information you initially enter such ...
techcrunch.com/2012/.../no-more-no-more-no-more-no-more/
Your Circles, now in Google Voice | Google Voice Blog
To help make it even easier for you to organize your contacts, today we're adding Google+ Circles to Google Voice. Circles give you more control over how you ...
googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/.../your-circles-now-in-google-...
Google Adds Kitty, Puppy Masks to Google+ Hangouts | News ...
Google Plus users might only be spending 3.3 minutes on the site on average, but at least they can now look cuter when doing so.
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401126,00.asp
Google+ Local Marketing Pilot Programs for Large Brands Show ...
Opportunity abounds for nimble brands that embrace Google+. Local marketers have a new but challenging opportunity to tackle. Here's why brands should ...
searchenginewatch.com/.../Google-Local-Marketing-Pilot-Pro...
How Google's +1 Button Affects SEO
Since the days of Google Buzz, the +1 button has been a mystery to users and content producers alike. It's different from Facebook's “Like” button, in that it ...
mashable.com/2012/02/21/google-plus-1-seo/
The Reasons Google+ Is Still a Ghost Town - Technology - The ...
The Wall Street Journal has boiled down the failure of Google+ to make a dent in the social network dominance of Facebook, which we have noted for months to ...
www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/02/.../49238/
Google's New Privacy Policy: What Has Changed and What You ...
Today's the day Google's new privacy policy takes effect. It's too late to pull out your data now, but there are still some not-completely-foolproof ways to hide from ...
www.webmonkey.com/.../googles-new-privacy-policy-what-h...
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