Recorded Future monitors traffic on Facebook, Twitter, news sites, blogs, and other sites to help companies connect the dots between people, places, and events.
Google Ventures and In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA, have provided funding to a company that monitors all the noise on the Web looking for connections between people, groups, and events, according to Wired.
The company, Recorded Future, offers a Temporal Analytics Engine for predictive analysis, allowing people to “visualize the future, past, or present.”
In addition, In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures both have seats ...... Read more
Amazon today sparked a mystery by running out of stock of the six-inch Kindle. In the first shortage since 2009, the reader is not only listed as unavailable but doesn’t have an estimated in-stock date. Shoppers are told only that they will be e-mailed when Amazon learns more.
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Mozilla on Tuesday posted its second beta of Firefox 4. The update brings in a new App Tabs feature that turns tabs into permanent features. Much like Chrome, it collapses the tab to an icon but makes it always available on the left to jump to a favorit...... Read more
Posted on by Dan Moren, Macworld.com
Sure, Apple made a hojillion dollars this quarter, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the tech industry has rolled over and died (they haven’t, right?). Google’s finally got some wind in its sails, Samsung wants no part of Apple’s reception foofaraw, and Microsoft is still trying to hit the moving target that is the future. Lean back, grab a beverage, and enjoy the remainders for Tuesday, July 20.
Reducing our carbon footprint with the direct purchase of renewable energy
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Google’s purchased a ton of power—they measure powe...... Read more
by Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
Nearly two weeks after rolling out a Google News redesign, Google has added a new feature to the page in hopes of placating complainers. The feature lets people opt to view news stories in two columns, unlike the initial redesign that listed all stories in a single long column.
To call the response following the June 30 release of the redesigned News site angry would be an understatement.
“Hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it, hate, it, hate it!!!!! Get my point?...... Read more
Seeing Apple’s iAds popping up in iOS apps, Google reckoned it should take a more aggressive stance in order to protect its not-so-dominant share of display adverts on the web. According to The Wall Street Journal, the search firm is hailing new interactive video adverts that pair rich media with interactive features. Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said in an interview Thursday at the Allen & Co. media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho that interactive video adverts can include a variety of content, like video, and are highly interacti...... Read more
By Neil Hughes
Published: 12:35 PM EST
Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, said this week that Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has been “rewriting history” in making claims that the search giant was responsible for the tension between the two companies.
Page, along with Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, spoke with reporters this week at the Allen & Co. conference, according to Reuters. Jobs was invited, but did not attend.
Page, on Thursday, said that Jobs’ suggestion that Google was responsible for the animosity between the two companie...... Read more
by Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
Google said on Friday it will resume collection of Street View images in four countries following the removal of Wi-Fi data collection equipment that thrust the company into the spotlight of data protection officials worldwide.
Starting next week, Street View vehicles will being roaming Ireland, Norway, South Africa and Sweden again, wrote Brian McClendon, vice president of engineering for Google Geo on the company’s European public policy blog. Google has spoken...... Read more
by Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
Google said on Friday it will resume collection of Street View images in four countries following the removal of Wi-Fi data collection equipment that thrust the company into the spotlight of data protection officials worldwide.
Starting next week, Street View vehicles will being roaming Ireland, Norway, South Africa and Sweden again, wrote Brian McClendon, vice president of engineering for Google Geo on the company’s European public policy blog. Google has spoken...... Read more
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