Google just revamped the look of Latitude, its location-aware service akin to Foursquare. According to a post by Google’s community manager for Google Maps, Danial Mabasa, the new Google Latitude interface can be now accessed on desktop browsers at www.google.com/latitude. As you can see from the above screenshot, it is not much different from Google+. However, [...]
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Google Latitude on desktop gets a facelift
January 20th, 2012 
Christian Zibreg 
Posted in News 
Tags: google, Google Corporate, google latitude, Google Maps, latitude, location, Search 
No Comments »Google+ lets users ‘join discussion’ from social network’s search results
January 18th, 2012 Élyse Betters While conducting a search on Google+, a user can only comment on an existing post or share a found item, however, the Google+ team announced a new feature today that lets users start a conversation directly from search results. Until now, options for interacting with a certain phrase or interest was limited to commenting and posting. The newly [...]
Posted in News Tags: google, Google Corporate, join discussion, Search, Search plus Your World No Comments »Google slows web crawlers to help blackout websites during protest effort
January 18th, 2012 Élyse Betters Google and many other websites went black today to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate, but now the globally popular search engine has taken the protest one step further. Pierre Far, a Webmaster trends analyst at Google, announced on Google+ today that the Mountain [...]
Posted in News Tags: blackout, google, Google Corporate, pierre far, pipa, protest, Search, sopa, us anti-piracy bills, web crawlers No Comments »Clay Shirky talks SOPA/PIPA
January 18th, 2012 Seth Weintraub Everyone has their SOPA/PIPA things today (and that is good!). Here is ours. My former professor, Clay Shirky, explains what SOPA and PIPA are, what will happen if these are passed and why it is bad. He’s good at this stuff. Yes it’s Flash (original version here).
Posted in News Tags: Arts, Clay Shirky, Crafts, Flash, google, Google Corporate, Modeling Compounds, Search, Wikipedia No Comments »Google tests new QR-code secure login, experiment quickly taken offline
January 18th, 2012 Élyse Betters Google is experimenting again —but this time, with a QR-code login. Apparently, a few Web surfers discovered a new QR-code account that served as an authentication tool to help Google users login securely while at a public computer. Keylogger programs are an eminent threat and may snatch and store passwords when people use public desktops [...]
Google protests against US anti-piracy bills and issues campaign promoting online privacy
January 17th, 2012 Élyse Betters Google Inc., announced it will insert a link and censor its logo on the search engine’s home page tomorrow to emphasize its opposition to U.S. anti-piracy bills in conjunction to rolling out a new campaign that promotes online privacy awareness. Business Week reported the globally popular search engine is among many Internet companies that criticize the measures, [...]
Posted in News Tags: Ads, advertisements, anti piracy, byzz, FTC, Google Corporate, goolg, personal information, pipa, privacy, Search, security flaws, sopa No Comments »Google is No. 4 top global brand, pummels Apple value by over $20B
January 16th, 2012 Élyse Betters Interbrand assesses brand value across the world, and the consultancy recently released its “2011 Ranking of the Top 100 Brands” with Google sitting tight at the No. 4 spot. “With a 27 percent increase in brand value in the past year, Google’s position as one of the world’s preeminent brands is growing and nothing seems capable [...]
Posted in News Tags: brand value worth, google, Google Corporate, google vs. apple, interbrand, Search, top global brands No Comments »Google Maps game coming soon to Google+ (video)
January 16th, 2012 Jake Smith Launching on the Google+ Games platform, Google is showing off a new game involving its Google Maps product. The game, as you can see demonstrated in the video above, involves rolling a blue ball around a map. The game is set to launch sometime in February.
Report: FTC includes social network Google+ in antitrust probe; EPIC urges FTC to watch search changes
January 13th, 2012 Élyse Betters The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is expanding its antitrust probe of Google to include the inspection of social network service Google+, according to Bloomberg. The publication sourced two people “familiar with the situation,” and cited ”competition issues raised by Google+” as the primary aspect of the FTC’s investigation into whether the globally popular search engine gives [...]
Posted in News Tags: antritrust, Bing, Epic, facebook, FTC, google, Google Corporate, google plus, probe, Search, Search plus Your World, Social network No Comments »Google and LG may partner on Nexus TV
January 13th, 2012 Zach Epstein LG had a number of gorgeous HDTVs on display at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and apparently we aren’t the only ones who noticed how strong LG’s next-generation televisions are. Mere rumors of an HDTV in the works from Apple has set the industry aflutter, eying apps, voice and motion controls, and the Android OS in an effort to recapture consumers’ interest ahead of whatever Apple may be planning to announce as soon as this summer. Now, a new report from Bloomberg suggests Google may be in negotiations to enter the TV space as well. Unnamed sources speaking with the business news site claim Google is currently in talks with LG to create a Google TV-powered HDTV
