REPORT CARD: How Good Are Google's Other Businesses?
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Google needs to diversify. After 14 years, more than 95% of its money still comes from online advertising, and most of that comes from search. This is not for lack of trying. Over the years, Google has launched a many new products beyond search. Most of them don't contribute...
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Hacker successfully 'jailbreaks' Google Glass within two hours
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The Google Glass headset has been rooted, shortly after it has started being issued by the search giant to developers. Jay Freeman, a hacker that goes by "Saurik" and creator of the Cydia app store for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, gained access to a level that he could theoretically prevent...
Reeder for iPhone now supports standalone RSS and Feedbin, Google Reader no longer required
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One of the side effects of Google's decision to shut down Reader on July 1st is that numerous mobile and desktop apps are now scrambling for a new way to provide value to their users. Reeder, one of the most popular Google Reader appsfor iOS, had previously announced plans...
Living with Google Glass, Day Three: Security Checkpoint
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You might be inclined to think that airport security is not the best place to wear Google Glass. You'd probably be right, but given the amount that I travel it was pretty-well inevitable that I'd cross through some security checkpoint before the course of this testing would be through....
Look Out Google Fiber, $35-A-Month Gigabit Internet Comes to Vermont
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Heads up Google Fiber: A rural Vermont telephone company might just have your $70 gigabit Internet offer beat. VTel’s Chief Executive Michel Guite says he’s made it a personal mission to upgrade the company’s legacy phone network, which dates back to 1890, with fiber for the broadband age. The company...
iPlayer for Android update brings improved experience on Galaxy S III, Note 2 and Nexus 4, tablets to follow
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Excuse us while we interrupt your episode of The Archers, but we thought users of BBC's iPlayer might like to know about the latest Android app update. Amongst the usual bug fixes, the update promises to offer a "much improved" viewing experience on big hitting devices such as Samsung's...
iPlayer for Android update brings improved experience on Galaxy S III, Note 2 and Nexus 4, tablets to follow
LivingSocial, Netflix and the Galaxy S 4 Reviewed -- 10 Things You Need to See on AllThingsD This Week
allthingsd.com
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick weekend roundup of the news that powered AllThingsD.com this week: Daily-deals site LivingSocial was hacked, compromising the names, emails, birthdates and encrypted passwords of 50 million users. In an essay, Reed Hastings laid out his predictions for the future of streaming...
LivingSocial, Netflix and the Galaxy S 4 Reviewed -- 10 Things You Need to See on AllThingsD This Week
Of course hackers have already cracked Google Glass -- Google wanted them to
venturebeat.com
Google Glass may only be in the hands of a few people, but some of those few people have already found a way to crack it. Jay Freeman, a hacker who goes by “Saurik”, says he tested a known exploit in Android 4.0 that allowed him to get root...
Chrome Office Viewer: this is how Google goes head-to-head with Microsoft
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Google has released a beta version of an extension for its Chrome browser that lets you read Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents directly within the browser. The Chrome Office Viewer, which requires the use of Chrome's beta or dev channels, has long been available as part of Chrome OS...
Mark Zuckerberg Joins The $1 Salary Club
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Facebook confirmed in a filing that Mark Zuckerberg, the social network's founder and CEO, is taking a $1 salary this year and foregoing any bonuses, as well. But he's not exactly taking a vow of poverty. When Facebook went public last year, Zuckerberg exercised 60 million stock options, then worth...
Economies Of Scale As A Service
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Credit where it’s definitely due: this post was inspired by a Twitter conversation with Box CEO Aaron Levie. Don’t look now, but something remarkable is happening. Instagram had twelve employees when it was purchased for $700 million; all of its actual computing power was outsourced to Amazon Web Services. Mighty...
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