How Google Glasses Could Create 'Augmented Reality' by Year's End
From a technical standpoint, a pair of commercially available, augmented reality glasses by Google are very possible by the end of the year. The display might look pretty good, too. So says Blair MacIntyre, a computer scientist at the Georgia Institute of ...
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msnbc.com
Google Seen Poised To Overtake Facebook In Display Ads
Google Inc.’s display-advertising business is growing faster than anticipated and is on track to surpass that of Facebook Inc. next year, according to research published Wednesday. According to data from eMarketer, Facebook’s U.S. display-ad ...
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Wall Street Journal
Microsoft Slams Google Apps In New Ad (VIDEO)
Microsoft has taken yet another blatant stab at Google, this time in relation to its cloud collaboration and productivity software, or Google Apps. The computer software company posted this anti-Google video February 20 on its YouTube account in ...
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Huffington Post
Google sugarcoated privacy policy changes to mislead users, group charges
Summary: The Center for Digital Democracy says Google’s real reason for changing its privacy policy is to grow its business, not make life easier for users. It wants the Federal Trade Commission to enforce a consent order, fine, penalize and seek remedies.
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ZDNet
Apple, Google and Others in Agreement on App Privacy
4:14 p.m. | Updated Adding Google statement. 6:00 p.m. | Updated Adding comments from Ms. Harris. California’s attorney general, Kamala D. Harris, said on Wednesday that the state had reached an agreement with Amazon.com, Apple, Google ...
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New York Times Blogs
Google Glasses Coming to an Eyewear Stand Near You?
Glasses that function like a smartphone? If you’ve been following Google news recently, you know it’s not out of the realm of possibility. Google plans to introduce what appear to be the glasses of the future by year’s end, The New York ...
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ABC News
Google Docs app now lets you collaborate in real time on Android
This morning, Google announced some added features to its Google Docs app for Android that will surely make frequent users of the online office suite happy: most notably, the updated version will now allow collaboration on documents from Android phones or ...
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Ars Technica
Google’s Augmented-Reality Glasses Confuse and Frighten Inhabitants of Regular Reality
Despite the current temperature in New York, it is not April 1, and we therefore have no reason to suspect that the following New York Times article about Google’s imminent augmented-reality glasses is a joke. And yet, there is so much we do not understand.
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Privacy concerns flare with Google, Facebook
Online privacy issues jumped to the forefront Wednesday in Maryland as the attorney general challenged Google Inc.'s new privacy policy, a few days after a pair of Baltimore attorneys filed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook Inc. for ...
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Baltimore Sun
Apple, Google, Microsoft Agree To CA Mobile Privacy Protection
Apple, Google and Microsoft are among a half dozen mobile application platform providers that have agreed to privacy principles established in California to protect consumers, state Attorney General Kamala Harris said Wednesday. The companies, which also ...
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