New Google Maps Sign-up Page Goes Live Briefly, Reveals All Sorts of New Details
A new version of Google Maps for the desktop was leaked last week showing a new look that provided a more full-screen experience while matching up to the Google Now-esque card style of other Google se...
Meet the new Google Maps: A map for every person and place
What if we told you that during your lifetime, Google could create millions of custom maps...each one just for you? — In the past, such a notion would have been unbelievable: a map was just a map, a...
Leaping to Conclusions on a Pilot's Speculation
An article on the Bloomberg News Web site on Wednesday noted an airline pilot's claim that an iPhone could interfere with a plane's compasses during takeoff and landing. — But the report cited in th...
Google demands Microsoft removes YouTube Windows Phone app, cites lack of ads
Microsoft updated its own YouTube application for Windows Phone just over a week ago and Google isn't impressed. The Verge has obtained a copy of a cease and desist letter that Google has sent to Mic...
Android@I/O: Just press Play
As our developer audience knows, Android is more than simply a phone or tablet. It's a platform, an ecosystem, and an opportunity for developers around the world to build exciting services and apps t...
Send money to friends with Gmail and Google Wallet
Paying back your friends is now as simple as sending an email, whether you're chipping in for lunch or reimbursing your roommate for your share of the rent. — Google Wallet is now integrated with Gm...
New Google+: Stream, Hangouts, and Photos
Technology works best when it gets out of the way, and lets people do what makes them happiest: living, learning and loving. That's why, when we started the Google+ project nearly two years ago, we a...
HP SlateBook x2 Targets iPad with $479 Detachable Android Tablet
HP is going right after the iPad with the SlateBook x2, the first Android detachable tablet with Nvidia's powerful Tegra 4 processor inside. Available in August, this hybrid slate has a full HD 10.2 ...
A multi-screen and conversational search experience
Search has always been about giving you the best answers quickly, regardless of what device you use. At Google I/O today, we gave an update on where we are in building the search engine of the future...
Google CEO Larry Page speaks at I/O about competition and negativity in innovation
“I was really lucky growing up,” said Google CEO Larry Page at the I/O conference today. “My dad was really interested in technology. One time we drove across the country to go to a robotics confere...
Meet the Con Man Who Pulled Off a Federal Sting That Cost Google $500 Million
ON FEBRUARY 25, 2009, a then 34-year-old career con man named David Anthony Whitaker left the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island, and slid into the backseat of an unmarked governm...
As of today, every major mobile competitor... also makes apps for iOS
A few minutes ago BlackBerry announced BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for iOS. With that announcement, every single one of Apple's major mobile competitors now makes apps for iOS. Google, who also has A...
Feds reveal the search warrant used to seize Mt. Gox account
The Department of Homeland Security is investigating Mt. Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, for violating laws on US money exchange and money transfers—and it's grabbing the exchange's money in the pr...
Microsoft killing off Xbox Points in favor of currency and gift cards system
Cards will work across Xbox, Windows, and Windows Phone — Microsoft is killing off its Points system that's primarily used for its Xbox console. The death of Microsoft Points has been a long time c...
Strongbox and Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz was not yet a legend when, almost two years ago, I asked him to build an open-source, anonymous inbox. His achievements were real and varied, but the events that would come to define him...
Amazon UK pays $3.7 million tax on $6.5 billion sales
(Reuters) - Amazon.com's main UK unit paid taxes of $3.7 million on its 2012 income, despite group UK sales of $6.5 billion (4 billion pounds), its accounts published on Wednesday showed. — The comp...
Angry Birds Maker Releasing Third-Party Games Via ‘Rovio Stars’
The Angry Birds franchise has been a major hit for Rovio, but now the Finnish game maker is branching out and will boost its game lineup with selections from third-party developers. — The effort, du...
Here's That Steve Jobs E-Book Email to James Murdoch
“Throw in with Apple and see if we can all make a go of this to create a real mainstream e-books market at $12.99 and $14.99.” — That's an excerpt from an email sent by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs t...
Google Chrome: 750 Million Active Users, Synchronized Web and Mobile Browsing
Chrome, Google's homegrown Web browser, has seen a pretty big uptick in users in recent months. And, increasingly, those users are coming from mobile. — That was the gist of the Chrome-focused pres...
Video Distribution Platform Brightcove Announces A Streaming Module For Live Events
I scream, you scream, we all scream for live streaming online and mobile video. Live is becoming not just an oughta-have, but a must-have, as video distributors seek to reach an audience that isn't c...
“Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Outfit Loses Company Status, Faces Penalties
During the summer of 2011 the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States, announcing their “six strikes” anti-piracy plan. — The parties founded the Center for C...
Mobile malware exploding, but only for Android
Malware targeting mobile devices is rapidly growing in both the number of variants found in the wild and in their complexity and sophistication, but the only platform being actively targeted is Google...
In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will Act as One
WELCOME TO — THE PROGRAMMABLE — In our houses, cars, and factories, we're surrounded by tiny, intelligent devices that capture data about how we live and what we do. Now they are beginning to tal...
Exclusive: EU threatens trade duties against China's Huawei, ZTE - sources
(Reuters) - The European Commission plans to send a formal warning to China that it is ready to levy trade duties against telecoms equipment makers Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp over what it...
Microsoft responds to YouTube demands, ‘more than happy’ to include ads if Google allows it
Following Google's demands for Microsoft to remove its Windows Phone YouTube app, Microsoft has responded saying it's happy to include advertising. Google sent a cease and desist letter to Microsoft ...
Live from the Google I/O 2013 keynote
We're liveblogging Google's three-hour keynote address at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. We're here and we're in line — a huge line. There's a ton of press here all fighting to get good seats ...
The New Yorker Launches Strongbox, an Open-Source Anonymous Tip Tool Built by Aaron Swartz
Technology gives journalists unprecedented power to track down information. And technology gives lots of other people the ability to follow journalists' footprints. Just ask the Associated Press.
Turning Off IPhone Critical to Pilots Citing Interference
The regional airliner was climbing past 9,000 feet when its compasses went haywire, leading pilots several miles off course until a flight attendant persuaded a passenger in row 9 to switch off an App...
Google Tops $900 for First Time Ever
The move comes on the same day of the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco …
A Cloudless Atlas — How MapBox Aims to Make the World's ‘Most Beautiful Map’
How MapBox Aims to Make the World's ‘Most Beautiful Map’ — Using open data, MapBox is taking on the big players in online maps. Now they want to fix satellite view. — In February 2013, imagery spe...
Verizon, VMware roll out Android work, life sandboxes
Summary: Verizon Enterprise will use VMware's Horizon Mobile software to segment work and life personas. The move is part of a broader effort to make Android more enterprise friendly. — Verizon's e...
Google Play Books enables user ebook uploads, Google Drive support
Google has updated its Play Books e-reader apps for iOS and Android to include support for EPUB and PDF files from outside the Play Store. The new feature has been enabled as part of Google's strateg...