Scroogle May Have Been a Victim of Hackers, Not Google
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The plot thickens! Yesterday we wrote about Scroogle, a nonprofit search engine that delivers Google results to a user without also collecting information for Google as the same time. Scroogle has been down for two days now, and an error page points a finger at the GOOG. "Google treats...
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Google and Adobe beautify fonts on Linux, iOS
www.pcworld.com
Users of Android, Chrome OS, Linux, and iOS devices may not realize it, but FreeType open source software is used to render fonts on more than a billion such devices. Not only that, but the FreeType project this week got a significant update from none other than Adobe and...
Google Search App With Google Now Breaks Into iTunes Top 10
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When Google first released its updated Google Search app last October, it never made the iTunes top ten and, last week, wasn’t even in the top 100. But the addition of Google Now helped the app make the top ten in less than a week. Google relaunched its app last...
Apple wins right to appeal Wisconsin FRAND dismissal case
www.electronista.com
In the ever-more-complicated legal wrangles between Apple and Google (through its subsidiary Motorola), Apple has won the right to proceed with an attempt to appeal a case between Apple and Motorola in which the iPhone maker was suing Motorola for failing to adhere to FRAND guidelines, while Motorola was suing...
Fullscreen BEAM app sends Google Glass videos directly to YouTube
www.engadget.com
Sure, using Google Glass to record a video is a pretty neat trick, but how about uploading it to YouTube without a computer? Thanks to Fullscreen's BEAM video sharing app for Glass, you can do just that. After setting up an account with the company's website, Glass owners can...
Facebook roundup: iOS apps, media, Windows Phone, Dublin HQ and more
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Facebook is No. 1 most downloaded iPhone app of all time – Celebrating 50 billion total downloads across the App Store this week, Apple released new all-time most downloaded apps with Facebook at No. 1 of the free iPhone downloads list. Instagram is No. 3 and Messenger is No. 16....
Bejeweled jumps to Android, Weatherbug helps wanna be Benjamin Franklins
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veggiefrog The Android app market saw a few well-known applications get some major updates last week. Amazon’s Kindle app for Android now features a new user interface, while Air Droid 2 has exited beta and brought those features over to apps in the Google Play store. We’ll take a...
Comscore: Apple continues to gain share in US market
www.electronista.com
Though the combined sales of Android smartphones continues to best Apple as a platform, Google's mobile OS continued to lose marketshare in the US in the latest quarterly comScore survey, as Apple solidified its position as market leader despite the lack of any new iPhone model in since before the...
Business Insider Thinks the 'Google Glass' Revolution will Fail
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Boy, Business Insider's Jay Yarow doesn't mince his words; he really doesn't like Google Glass and goes out of his way to slap it around. In short, Yarow points out that Google Glass has terrible battery life, it's disorienting, it doesn't work in a brightly lit environments, you can't tweak...
Google Glass Users Can Now Upload Directly To YouTube With Fullscreen BEAM
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Fullscreen, a media company founded in 2011 and built entirely on YouTube, announced Friday afternoon the first Google Glass YouTube app, letting users seamlessly upload video directly to the service. The app is called BEAM and it also gives users the option to share the URL via Twitter with...
Today's Scuttlebot: Internet Cats Sue, and Google Games
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The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. For Friday, selections include a suit against Warner Brothers by the developers of two sites based on cat memes, what Google is up to with game development, and a text service aimed...
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