Google is looking to be a vigilante and has announced a new algorithm change. From now on, Google will be able to “look” at your page layout and if the ads are found to be excessive, you could end up being fined and downgraded in search results. Auch!
Google App Inventor was an application designed by Google that allowed users to create software applications for the Android operating system. It used a graphical interface similar to Scratch and StarLogo TNG, allowing people to drag-and-drop visual objects to create an application targeted to run on Android systems. But Google App Inventor was terminated on December 31st, 2011. But MIT Center for Mobile Learning is planning to bring it back again.
Users have been very anxiously awaiting the launch of the flagship Android device, Galaxy Nexus, to launch on Sprint. It had been confirmed earlier that Nexus will definitely launch with Sprint but we weren’t given any definite schedule. However, Google recently put online a sign-up page for users who may be interested in the device as soon as it launches with Sprint. With Sprint, Galaxy Nexus will be coming with nearly all the features it has with Verizon, and some additional cookies too. Read further to know what are these.
First there was SOPA. And now the European Union might go down the same road. A new data protection act due to be released officially this week. Reuters has managed to get its hands on a draft and stated that the rules are tighter and very rigorous. The act targets big companies like Facebook, attacking the much debated privacy issues. If the big boys won’t bow its head to the new laws imposed by the European Union, the act ensures that fines will be cashed in, for every rule violated.
Worker poaching is a norm in nearly every field around the globe. And as a matter of fact, it is very legal because it keeps the competition high and makes companies compensate workers with salaries they deserve. However, a suit has been filed against Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit and Pixar. This has been filed by five engineers who accuse these companies of clandestine compromises over not poaching each other’s workers. Now, an email has surfaced during the proceedings of this suit which is from Steve Jobs to Google’s former CEO asking to stop poaching Apple’s workers.
Ever since Google Search plus Your World launched, a lot of voices were raised against it. More importantly those coming from the Twitter quarters. Summarizing all the posts and the debates, the bottom line is that Google Search plus Your World is bad for everybody. That includes you, organizations, publishers and everyone you could ever think of.
Even the president of the U.S. has to be hip and keep up with the trends right? Well following this spirit, Google just posted information regarding an exclusive post-State of the Union interview with Obama in Google+ Hangout. The interview will take place on the 30th of January and will be streamed live on YouTube.
Green energy is coming back in the front line. Since when? Well since Google and the U.S. Department of Energy decided to fund a $43 million project that will bring 24 million gallons of water into the entrails of a dormant volcano in Oregon, with the intent of generating a powerful stream that one day may be used to power turbines. They in turn, will produce clean electricity.