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Today is the first anniversary of the Scientific American Blog Network!!! Over almost eight years of blogging (after a couple of years commenting on other people’s blogs and campaign forums, I finally started my own blog in August 2004) this blog has changed styles and directions a number of times. I started with straight-out politics, [...] ...
AFP Relax News – Wed, Jul 4, 2012 The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has announced it has discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson. Google+’ers have been following the live announcement on the web and are excitedly discussing the ramifications of the huge discovery.“It's official: the Higgs boson, aka the God particle, has been [...] ...
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A Taiwanese judge has used a Google map showing an unleashed dog to hold a man responsible for his neighbor's bicycle accident. A defendant surnamed Lee denied being the dog's owner and causing injury through negligence. The victim surnamed Peng testified that he became scared after the dog began pursuing him [...] ...
David Clarke is CEO and co-founder of , a 2010, 2011 and 2012 Ad Age honoree. BGT creates interactive marketing and technology solutions for global corporations that strengthen brands, develop more engaging relationships, and transform businesses. Social media has radically transformed the way we search, buy, and consume content online. has not only taken advantage [...] ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Google Inc decided to build its Nexus Q home entertainment device in Silicon Valley rather than in China, it was not fretting about the bottom line. It was fretting about speed. "We wanted to innovate fast. This is the first end-to-end hardware product that Google has ever put out," said [...] ...
What is Google+ History and how could this new feature from Google help bring some life to the struggling social network?Austin, Texas (PRWEB) June 29, 2012 Google announced it was releasing a new feature designed to allow you to add past statuses, updates, pictures, and more to you personal Google+ timeline from a variety of [...] ...
Beautiful to Look At Colorful LED lights separate the base of the device from the movable front. [More from Mashable: ] Google is calling the “world’s first social media streamer.” When connected to your TV, this $299 ball can be used to stream tunes and videos from your favorite (Gingerbread or higher) Android device. [More [...] ...
Google glasses that overlay the Internet on daily lives should hit the market within two years -- technology the tech giant hopes will someday make fumbling with smartphones obsolete. Google co-founder Sergey Brin offered the estimated timeline after a project update that included sky divers dropping in with a new version of "Glass" wearable computers. [...] ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google's Chrome browser can now be used to surf the Web on the iPhone and iPad. The Chrome application released Thursday is the latest volley in the escalating rivalry between Google Inc. and Apple Inc., which makes those two popular mobile devices. The announcement highlighted the second day of Google I/O, [...] ...
Google on Wednesday unveiled the Nexus 7 tablet during its keynote presentation at the annual Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, California. The company’s first own-brand tablet is intended to help Android take a bigger bite out of the consumer tablet market Apple’s iPad revived in 2010, but it may also end up pushing [...] ...
Wondering who Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney will choose as his running mate sometime in the next few weeks? Google might be able to help you out -- or at least show you which candidates are getting the most search requests and online buzz. Google's " ," embedded below, tracks digital buzz around a handful [...] ...
Help save the world's cultural identity, one word at a time In an effort to help preserve some of the world's rarest languages, Google has teamed up with various universities and cultural diversity organizations to form the Endangered Languages Project. The company is providing assistance to these groups to build a vast database of information on thousands [...] ...