Provides the latest RSS feeds for Search Engines News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Greek Herald.com http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/cat/4697f61f9fcb16f5/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 08:48:11 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 08:48:11 -0400 30 Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt and director of Google Ideas Jared Cohen have warned London School of Economics students against censorship on the internet and the dangers that 'digital ethnic cleansing' pose. Sky News quoted Schmidt, as saying that people will omit data if they want to restrict communication and information. He, however, agreed that any piece of information cannot be ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214731642/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Fri, 24 May 2013 02:30:02 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214731642/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google chairman Eric Schmidt has called for a more rational and predictable international tax system following widespread criticism over the company's failure to have a more transparent tax payment system. The move comes after Labour Party leader Ed Miliband targeted his rebuke towards Schmidt at the Google Big Tent Conference, the Guardian reports. UK Prime minister David Cameron's aides have ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214713029/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:00:03 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214713029/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 product called AutoRoute/AutoMap and I know that mapping is hard. They do good work and a new version of their Maps product is always going to be interesting. So, I signed up for an early look at ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214736035/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:13:26 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214736035/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Computerworld - While Google Glass is currently being viewed as a consumer technology, IT shops and mobile workers are likely already champing at the bit to be able to use a hands-free technology to do their jobs. "The same way that tablets followed smartphones into the enterprise on the backs of employees bearing the cost, Google Glass will also flow the same way," said Chris ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214736010/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:11:20 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214736010/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 IDG News Service - The U.S. International Trade Commission has turned down a request for a ban on Microsoft's Xbox after finding that the gaming device did not infringe a patent owned by Google's Motorola Mobility unit. The ITC's ruling Thursday has essentially confirmed an initial ruling by administrative law judge David P. Shaw in March that the Xbox did not infringe a Motorola ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214736002/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:11:18 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214736002/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Actor Morgan Freeman, recipient of the Cinema Icon Award,arrives at the CinemaCon awards ceremony at the Pure Nightclub at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 18, 2013. UPI/David ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214736491/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:46:51 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214736491/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 USA Google are among a number of companies circling Israeli mapping software company Waze after Facebook put in a $1bln takeover bid. Bloomberg reports that none of the bidders are close to clinching a deal, and the start-up might remain independent.Founded 4 years ago, Waze makes a navigation application for iPhone and Android used by roughly 45 million people. Its mapping service is powered ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214735799/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:14:08 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214735799/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google is back on the radar of federal regulators.The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary probe after, sources said, rivals complained about its display ad business.The FTC, which earlier this year cleared Google of any wrongdoing in its search business, is now being asked to look at how the search giant sells display ads, sources familiar with the inquiry said.The sources stressed ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214733178/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:11:35 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214733178/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 IDG News Service - Google plans to upgrade the security of its SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates, an important component of secure communications. SSL certificates are used to encrypt communication and verify the integrity of another party with which a user is interacting. Its strength lies in the length of the private signing keys used for the certificates. Keys that are less than 1,024 ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214732616/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Fri, 24 May 2013 03:56:03 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214732616/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google's new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers.The All Access service represents Google's attempt to grab a bigger piece of the digital music market ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214731697/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Fri, 24 May 2013 02:19:37 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214731697/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Yahoo has acquired PlayerScale, a startup developer of infrastructure software for cross-platform gaming, adding to its string of recent acquisitions.The Internet giant said ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214731204/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:30:51 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214731204/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Dwell Media, the San Francisco based publisher of modern design bible Dwell, has hired Brandon Huff as its new evp of digital media to lead a new e-commerce push. Huff, who most recently was Yahoo's vp of commerce, will be in charge of overseeing all aspects of Dwell's digital agenda, from content distribution to design to the holy grail of magazine ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214731213/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Fri, 24 May 2013 01:23:09 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214731213/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Xbox is related to the larger smartphone patent war between Apple, Microsoft and the mobile phone makers who use Google's Android software, including its subsidiary Motorola ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214730125/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:30:39 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214730125/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 -0.39% for Israeli mobile-app developer Waze Inc., according to an anonymously sourced Bloomberg News report late Thursday. Earlier news reports had tipped Facebook as conducting advanced talks to buy Waze for between $800 million and $1 billion. The Bloomberg report said Waze was seeking more than $1 billion from Google, and may decide to stay independent and raise financing instead. Waze, based ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214729996/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 22:41:23 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214729996/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 , Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Waze is seeking more than $1 billion and is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties, said Bloomberg, citing a source. Other media have reported that Facebook Inc has held talks to buy Waze for as much as $1 ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214729253/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 21:56:11 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214729253/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google is considering a bid for the mobile mapping and navigation company, Bloomberg reports. Could this be a play to keep Facebook out of its ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214729074/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 21:50:18 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214729074/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Turkish-Armenian blogger Sevan Nisanyan was sentenced on Wednesday to a year in jail for blasphemy over a blog supporting a controversial anti-Islam ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214728369/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 21:06:05 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214728369/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Though an attractive target, Twitter is likely to seek IPO SAN FRANCISCO -- More than anything, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr is about buying a new audience to better compete with Google.In that sense, it's a typical media deal, one that might have been made by one of Mayer's predecessors in the Yahoo corner office -- or a broadcast or cable ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214728267/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:57:27 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214728267/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 View Photo Reuters/Reuters - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange makes a speech from the balcony of Ecuador's Embassy, in central London December 20, 2012. REUTERS/Luke ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214728817/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:57:16 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214728817/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu May 23, 2013 8:53pm EDT * Regulators in early stages of probe on how Google handles some ad sales -source * Inquiry focuses on tools acquired with purchase of DoubleClick -source WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc , the top player in Web display advertising, breaks antitrust law in how it handles some advertising ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214729419/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:53:51 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214729419/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Salesforce.com Inc's quarterly earnings and outlook disappointed investors as costs rise following a spree of acquisitions, sending its shares lower. Under Marc Benioff, Salesforce's CEO and founder, the company's fast revenue growth has made it a favorite with investors eager to own part of the growing trend among businesses to outsource their information technology needs - from ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214728181/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:46:00 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214728181/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Doodle 4 Google contest on Wednesday, where students grades K-12 from all over the country submit their artwork to the competition, hoping to see their masterpiece intertwined ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214728819/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:30:20 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214728819/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google is about to start the first upgrade to its SSL certification system in recent memory, and will move to 2048-bit encryption keys by the end of 2013. The first tranche of changes is planned for August 1. The new requirements are laid out in ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727891/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:03:01 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727891/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 IDG News Service - Google has released a beta version of Chrome that introduces what the company describes as "richer" notifications from the browser's apps and extensions. The Chrome browser has been able to display this type of notification for more than two years, but Google has now revamped the interface and functionality for these alerts, the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727892/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:51:10 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727892/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 The U.S. government is considering an antitrust investigation of Google's handing of ad sales, Reuters is reporting.Citing an unnamed source, the news agency says regulators are looking at Google's 2007 purchase of Doubleclick, a company that facilitates Web ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727893/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:45:33 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727893/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Actor Zach Braff arrives at the William J. Clinton Foundation's Millennium Network Event in Los Angeles, California April 30, 2009. REUTERS/Danny ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727889/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:45:04 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727889/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Time Warner Cable Inc also put in bids, one of the people told Reuters. Hulu was put on the auction block this year for the second time after disagreement between ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727890/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:45:03 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727890/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Two of Google's most senior executives have used a lecture in London to press their belief in the transparency of the internet and warned of the dangers of "digital ethnic ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727033/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:42:51 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727033/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 The U.S. International Trade Commission on Thursday said it won't review a final ruling that found Microsoft to be in the clear of infringing on patents held by Motorola Mobility, which Google acquired last year. The ruling ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727035/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:40:59 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727035/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 The Federal Trade Commission may not be done with Google yet, opening a new investigation into whether the search giant abuses its market-leading position to curb competition in display advertising, according to ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727895/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:30:14 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214727895/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 An example of a spoken search; the relevant date was spoken aloud. Google has issued an update to its Chrome browser that lets you use everyday language like "how do I get there?" to interact with its search -- and lets the browser respond vocally as well. It's still an early form of what the search giant demonstrated on stage at Google I/O, but it's an indicator of features ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214726737/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:45:19 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214726737/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Yahoo’s biggest acquisition to date took place in 1999 with its purchase of internet video streaming service Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Yahoo promised to ';integrate the company's audio and video programming, business services and advertising programs into Yahoo,'; then Yahoo president Jeff Mallett told CNET at the time. Looks like that plan fell through, as ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214726738/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:40:59 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214726738/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Weiner, the candidate who infamously resigned from the U.S. Congress two years ago in a sexting scandal, unveiled a video announcing his mayoral candidacy and a campaign logo on his website on ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214725960/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:26:04 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214725960/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Last night, the City Alderman in Raytown, Missouri voted unanimously to bring Google Fiber to their city. Raytown is the tenth Kansas City-area expansion we've announced, and we hope to bring Fiber to more communities in the area, too. It will be awhile before we can hook up Raytown residents--we need to plan and build our network there first. When we have more info, we'll be sure to ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214726414/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:22:36 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214726414/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 acquisition of Tumblr has dominated the tech headlines this week, so it should come as no surprise that a panel of Web publishing luminaries discussing the future of media on Thursday weighed in on the portal's recent mega ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214725846/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:21:46 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214725846/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 YOU'RE going to need a tissue for this one. Maybe a whole box. Got the Kleenex? Here goes then. An American schoolgirl has won a competition to design a doodle for Google's homepage, with this heart-rending image of her Dad coming home from the Iraq war. Google doodles are those little pictures which appear on the Google homepage. Usually they have the letters G-O-O-G-L-E cleverly ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214729998/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:19:46 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214729998/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 David Balto is a former policy director of the Federal Trade Commission, attorney-adviser to Chairman Robert Pitofsky, and antitrust lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice. He has been a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and has worked with the International Center on Law and Economics, both of which receive funding from many organizations including Google. Mr. Balto has also ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214724514/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:38:40 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214724514/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Marissa Mayer has continued her acquisitions spree with the purchase of gaming software house PlayerScale for an undisclosed sum. "We are happy to announce the next big step toward our goal of building the best possible gaming infrastructure platform: we have been acquired by ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214725370/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:37:28 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214725370/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Tumblr founder David Karp pose for a photo during an annoucement that Yahoo acquired the Tumblr blogging site, in New York, May 20, 2013. Yahoo announced a $1.1 billion deal for blogging site Tumblr aiming to help Yahoo to tap into the younger, active online user base at Tumblr. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) I got an email on Monday from Larry Kim, ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214724244/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:26:57 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214724244/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google , which dominates web display advertising, has broken antitrust law in how it handles some ad sales, a source told Reuters on Thursday. The source said that it was unlikely that the Federal Trade Commission had sent out civil investigative demands in relation to the probe, which would be the sign of a formal and more serious investigation. The FTC wrapped up ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214724192/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:24:41 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214724192/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 crisis response map for those affected by the giant tornado that ripped through Moore, Oklahoma. Included in that is imagery of the area from Google Maps. Google posted a before/after look at the area to its Google Maps Google+ account ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214725031/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:08:42 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214725031/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Tim Parsey, Yahoo Inc.'s SVP of user experience design, will be leaving his position, according to AllThingsD. Parsey's work as Yahoo's design chief can be seen in the major redesigns of several of the company's products, including the homepage, Flickr, and email, among others. There's no telling what his next stop will be, but it may be seen as a significant loss to Yahoo. As ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214725364/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:06:41 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214725364/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Morgan Arnold poses next to a Scooby-Doo display during a 2012 trip to California with her mother, Cindi Arnold. Morgan, 14, now stands accused of orchestrating a plot with her boyfriend, Jason Bulmer, to kill her father, Dennis Lane, in Ellicott ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214724867/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:04:13 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214724867/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr on Monday has been the talk of Internet Week in New York, with many such as venture capitalist Eric Hippeau praising the purchase as a victory for the New York tech community. Now comes the hard part as founder David Karp integrates ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722782/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:12:34 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722782/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google continues to struggle gamely with pushing the technology out there, but struggle, unfortunately, is a pretty apt word in this case. The company couldn't ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214724094/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:10:37 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214724094/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 In this May 2013 photo provided by Google, Daniel Orellana of the Charles Darwin Foundation crosses a rocky lava field to reach a land iguana restoration area in Bahia Cartago, Isabela Island in the Galapagos. Bahia Cartago is a protected area not accessible to tourists ­but the Street View Trekker was invited to collect imagery there. Few have laid eyes on many of the volcanic islands of the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214723880/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:02:10 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214723880/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Businesses overwhelmed with social medias buffet of current options can ignore at least one dish, a Kansas City social media professional advised Thursday. Not having a full-time social media staffer means focusing resources where the customers are, said Alisha Templeton, social media manager for Ameristar Casinos Inc. To be the most efficient, she recommended beginning with Twitter and Facebook ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722748/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:56:36 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722748/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google announced that you can now find photos, and connect with friends, places and events from your Google+ photos from Google Search. To do so, go to Google, sign in, and search for ';my photos'; or ';my photos from new york last year,'; or something to that effect. ';For example, now you can search for your friend's wedding photos or pictures from a concert you ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214723882/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:53:05 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214723882/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 (Credit: Google) Looking for a picture you took at your sister's bridal shower? Google's search engine will now help you find it -- so long as you've posted the shot to the company's companion social network. The company announced Thursday that Google+ members can log in to Google.com ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722785/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:51:37 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722785/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 SAN FRANCISCO | Thu May 23, 2013 3:10pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO May 23 (Reuters) - Khosla Ventures said on Thursday it is adding another new hire to its investment team: Ben Ling, who brings additional consumer-Internet expertise to Khosla, known for investing a substantial chunk of its portfolio in cleantech companies. Ling, who has held senior roles at YouTube, Google, and Facebook,, joined ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214723881/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:10:44 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214723881/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Amazon doesn't care much about profits and both Google and Microsoft have monopolies that give them deep pockets. And so it is no surprise that the three companies will be engaged in a cloud price war that will very likely leave a lot of smaller cloud providers dead by the side of the road in the coming years. ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722376/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:07:23 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722376/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Beliebers follow Justin?" I deadpanned. Unamused, he continued, "I think Google plans to get into our space. They could put us out of business." As I talked him down from a mild case of Googlephobia, I flashed back to a dozen similar conversations with executives and entrepreneurs. It's easy to get caught up ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214721155/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:56:03 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214721155/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 TMZ reports that the actress and former child star tried to board a private jet recently with no identification and no passport, and when she was refused she tried to use Google to prove her identity. Of course, even a cursory glance at Google once her name is typed in will bring up thousands of articles, but they’re probably not what one wants to use when trying to validate themselves. ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722377/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:36:07 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722377/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Reuters If you're not paying for a product, the saying goes, then you're the product being sold. Another way of saying this is that you and Google -- and you and Twitter, and you and Facebook -- do not enjoy an egalitarian relationship. The digital world, given its crazy capacity to scale, inverts the core, crusty logic of the consumer/producer relationship ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722378/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:35:54 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722378/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Overture Networks, a North Carolina-based company with operations in Westford that designs, manufactures and markets networking and telecommunications equipment, said today it has secured an initial $8 million investment, with an opportunity to raise up to $11.7 million, to support new software, hardware and service development initiatives.The company added it has opened two new development ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722380/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:22 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722380/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Is Google Glass the next revolution in post-PC computing? Perhaps and perhaps not, but the use cases for hands-free wearable computing—whether Glass or something else—are ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214721214/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:34:13 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214721214/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Yahoo! pressed on with its shopping spree on Thursday with the acquisition of a startup that powers games played on smartphones, tablets, consoles or personal computers.Word that Yahoo! has bought Northern California-based PlayerScale came three days after the aging Internet pioneer announced a $1.1 billion deal to buy hip blogging service Tumblr as part of a move to woo a ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722381/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:30:02 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214722381/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google likes to remind us just how much they know about the things we like, the things we're interested in, and the people we'd like to see experience some sort of wardrobe malfunction. Earlier this month, Google's YouTube released a data map which ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719551/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:45:12 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719551/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google is looking to take flight. On Thursday the search giant, through its secretive Google X division - which is responsible for research and development - acquired Makani ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720787/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:45:11 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720787/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 While we don’t expect it to attract as much attention as the Tumblr acquisition, Yahoo announced that it has acquired gaming platform PlayerScale. That’s not to say it isn’t a big one. ';The team has built an incredible gaming platform that is used by over 150 million players worldwide,'; a Yahoo spokesperson tells WebProNews. ';We intend to continue to support ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720795/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:19:17 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720795/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Chrisophe Bailhache of the Catlin Seaview Survey, a Google partner, navigates the underwater camera through a group of sea lions. (Google/Catlin Seaview Survey) On Sunday, a team of Googlers returned to Mountain View with a special, digital cargo: hard drives loaded with 360-degree imagery taken during a 10-day adventure around the Galapagos Islands, covering both the islands' lush terrain ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720792/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:19:09 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720792/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 What happens when a reader hits the paywall? Only a small percentage slap their foreheads, say ';Why didn’t I subscribe earlier?'; and pay up. Most go away; some will come back next month when the meter resets. A few will then subscribe; others just go elsewhere. So what if there were a way to capture some value from those non-subscribing paywall hitters -- people who plainly ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720793/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:18:32 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720793/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.Soon it will take only the click of a mouse or finger swipe on a tablet to explore some of the Galapagos Islands' most remote areas, surrounding waters and ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719812/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:16:44 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719812/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Overture, a networking and communications equipment company headquartered in Research Triangle Park, has secured an initial equity investment of $8 million with an opportunity to raise up to $11.7 million. The company says the funding will support new software, hardware and service development initiatives. The new funds will accelerate the introduction of its Ensemble Open Service Architecture ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720796/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:15:46 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720796/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Google has followed in the footsteps of Charles Darwin to gather images of the beauty and biological diversity of the Galapagos Islands for the Internet titan's online maps.A Google Maps team toting 360-degree cameras sticking from backpacks hiked trails, hills, and even into a live volcano to take Street View pictures of the precious environment where Darwin gleaned ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720794/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:13:40 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720794/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google swapped out its traditional logo today for an emotional piece of art. The drawing, part of the company's annual Doodle 4 Google competition, shows a daughter racing into the arms of her soldier father. It's poignant, smart, and did not come from Google's team of professional artists. This one came from a ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720455/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:05:42 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214720455/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Wisconsin teenager Sabrina Brady's reunion with her military father has the nation abuzz now after she won Google's popular and prestigious fourth annual national doodle competition. Yet military family reunions like hers, which will be featured on Google's home page all day Thursday, have won smiles for ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719166/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:30:15 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719166/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Eighteen-year-old Sabrina Brady won the Doodle 4 Google contest with a touching and heartfelt drawing showing her dad, Army veteran Bryce Brady, coming home. Brady tells Kathie Lee and Hoda he was "shocked" that Sabrina's drawing was picked from more than 100,000 entries, but says she is a talented artist. Google asked students across the country to submit artwork showing off what ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719168/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:37 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719168/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Eighteen-year-old Sabrina Brady won the Doodle 4 Google contest with a touching and heartfelt drawing showing her dad, Army veteran Bryce Brady, coming home. Brady tells Kathie Lee and Hoda he was "shocked" that Sabrina's drawing was picked from more than 100,000 entries, but says she is a talented ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719169/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:37 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719169/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has said that banning employees from working from home is an ineffective way of preventing slacking on the job. At the Citrix Synergy conference in Los Angeles this week, Citrix made a slew of product announcements, designed to enable "mobile workstyles", including the launch of XenDesktop 7 and XenMobile Enterprise, building on the company's acquisition ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719172/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:12:49 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719172/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 SPARTA, Wis.-A Wisconsin teen is the winner of Doodle 4 Google's national contest with her art called "Coming Home." Google says millions of votes were cast on 130,000 submissions in its annual contest to design the logo on Google's home page. Sabrina Brady is a senior at Sparta High School. Brady says she created the art in honor of the day her Dad returned home from Iraq ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214718873/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:06:58 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214718873/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 eleased a video discussing the upcoming SEO menu earlier this month, he mentioned that Penguin 2.0 was getting closer. Now it’s here. Have you been affected by the new Penguin update? Is this update good or bad for Google ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719170/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:03:02 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719170/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide, Mr. Isao Iijima — a former secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi — to North Korea last week in an effort to make progress on unresolved bilateral issues, including the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents. Japan has made it clear to North Korea that the abduction issue as well as the issue of the North’s ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719173/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:02:03 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719173/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 (Credit: PlayerScale) Yahoo's at it again. The online giant has made another acquisition only days after reaching a deal to buy Tumblr. This time around, Yahoo is expanding in the gaming arena with the purchase ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214718018/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:01:29 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214718018/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) A picture depicting a girl's reunion with her father returning from war has won the top award in a Google Doodle contest. On display Thursday ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214718021/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:01:27 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214718021/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 The Galapagos Islands are some of the most biologically unique ecosystems in the world. Explorers and scientists alike have long studied and marveled at these islands—made famous ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719174/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:01:04 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214719174/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google and Samsung both made gains on rival Apple in two separate rankings released Tuesday, signaling the Cupertino, Calif., tech giant's grip on the electronics industry is loosening. Apple still held on to the top spots in both rankings but saw its ratings drop or barely grow while both Google and Samsung made significant gains. In Millward Brown Optimor's ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214717543/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:09:46 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214717543/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 with the three recently returned International Space Station astronauts from 3-4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 23. This event will connect the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214717542/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:09:46 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214717542/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google may be most readily associated with the Internet, apps and mobile devices, but the company has many more strings to its bow. Google X -- the secretive research and development division best known for Project Glass and the driverless car -- has ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214717544/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:04:06 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214717544/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., testifies at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing in Washington. European leaders on Wednesday met to discuss how global firms such as Apple Inc. and Google Inc. have managed to pay nearly no taxes on sales revenue generated on the continent, the Mercury News reports. The meeting took place as the U.S. Senate this week looked ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214716822/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:26:29 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214716822/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and Tumblr Chief Executive David Karp speak during a news conference Monday, May 20, 2013, in New York. Yahoo edged up 31 cents, or 1.2 percent, to $26.83 after the Internet company said it was buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715982/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:04:46 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715982/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 LOS ANGELES - Google Inc.'s new music service offers a lot of eye candy to go with the tunes. The song selection of around 18 million tracks is comparable to popular services such as Spotify and Rhapsody, and a myriad of playlists curated along different genres provides a big playground for music lovers. The All Access service represents Google's attempt to grab a bigger piece of the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715063/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:03:38 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715063/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Receipt scanning and a new interface, heavily influenced from the Cards look of Google Glass and Google Now, greet you in an update to Google Drive for ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715047/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:42:45 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715047/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 opened up their 2013 Doodle 4 Google contest and asked kids aged K-12 to give their best shot at constructing a Doodle based on the prompt ';My Best Day Ever.'; And today, after nearly 130,000 submissions and millions of votes, Google is displaying that contest’s winner on their homepage. The Doodle, from 12th-grader Sabrina Brady of Sparta, Wisconsin, is titled ';Coming ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715980/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:36:49 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715980/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 A Taiwanese supplier of integrated circuitry for electronics known as Elan Microelectronics began shipping touchscreen controllers for the next generation Nexus 7 tab, according to a new report from DigiTimes.Elan's revenues have increased in May and June thanks to these new Nexus 7 controllers. This information points to the device being manufactured in June in preparation for a July ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715084/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:35:41 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715084/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Facebook for infringing copyright on a security measure he invented. Dotcom, who is on bail in New Zealand as US authorities seek his extradition in the world's biggest copyright case, said he invented "two-factor authentication", which many major sites have adopted as a security ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715979/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:31:33 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715979/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Mike Aquino, president and CEO of Overture Networks, said the company's recent round of funding will enable it to drive innovation. Overture Networks, a developer and manufacturer of high-speed carrier ethernet and other products, has secured $8 million in new funding. The Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based ethernet-based broadband services provider received the Series A equity financing ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715657/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:32:20 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214715657/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 (Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Yahoo is clearly aware that many Flickr users are unhappy about the photo-sharing site's new look and layout. On Monday, ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214714561/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:30:29 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214714561/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. The city approved Google Fiber on Tuesday night, according to the Google Fiber blog, and it becomes the tenth Kansas City-area expansion. Google didn't disclose when the network would go live, saying ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214714407/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:37:28 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214714407/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. Raytown, Missouri, is the latest Kansas City suburb to get approval for a Google Fiber expansion. The city on Tuesday approved Google Fiber, according to the Google Fiber blog. This is the company's tenth Kansas City-area expansion. Google didn't say when the new service would go live in ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214717234/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:37:28 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214717234/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- On the same day that it unveiled a mega-costly $1.1 billion deal to buy Tumblr, Yahoo Inc. also revamped its Flickr photo-sharing service in a really big -- and possibly costly -- ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214712273/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:14:33 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214712273/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), based in Mountain View, Calif., is also drawing scrutiny for its tax practices. Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook may have been singled out on the hot seat this week over the tech giants tax practices, but Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) and other corporate heavy-hitters are skirting the system as well, Bloomberg reports. For example, Google funnels profits through ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214713185/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:13:00 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214713185/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 promises a better experience than Apple's Siri , plans to beat Google at its own game on Google Glass. Sherpa CEO and co-founder Xabier Uribe-Etxebarria unveiled the company's plans for the new app on Thursday in Spain, at ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214712278/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:11:53 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214712278/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Google's disclosures of overseas subsidiaries have dropped from 100 in 2009 to 2, and both of those are in Ireland, according to the Wall Street Journal. Google Inc. and Oracle Corp. are among companies taking advantage of a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that allows companies to not disclose overseas subsidiaries unless their operations are "significant." For a ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214712221/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:30:43 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214712221/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Computerworld - A Google security engineer accused Microsoft of treating outside researchers with "great hostility" just days before posting details of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows that could be used to crash PCs or gain additional access rights. Microsoft acknowledged the vulnerability late Tuesday. "We are aware of claims regarding a potential issue affecting Microsoft ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214711931/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:19:54 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214711931/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Yet more advanced search features are being killed off by Google. With the move of the search tools from the left margin to the top, and requiring an extra click to get to most of them, Google has been removing those that get little use. We used to have a full translated search function at Google, but the ';Translated Foreign Pages'; search tool option gave some of that functionality ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214711929/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:03:27 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214711929/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 BRUSSELS | Thu May 23, 2013 4:18am EDT BRUSSELS May 23 (Reuters) - Large companies should disclose how much tax they pay in each country where they operate, the European Commission's top regulatory official said, in the text of a speech to be delivered on Thursday. Michel Barnier, the European commissioner in charge of drafting business regulation, said large banks will already be ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214710219/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:18:40 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214710219/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Yahoo!'s Australian outpost, a joint venture with the Seven Television Network dubbed Yahoo!7, has teamed with a local supermarket chain in a scheme that pays punters to use its search engine. The supermarket outfit is Coles, which has for years operated a loyalty scheme called Fly Buys that was doing Big Data before anyone had thought of the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214707952/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5 Thu, 23 May 2013 01:55:16 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214707952/scat/4697f61f9fcb16f5