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Google Drive Ready to Take On Dropbox Next Week
SiliconANGLE has been keeping its eyes on Google Drive, or GDrive, since the first rumor of the company releasing a cloud storage service surfaced. This year, rumors about the Google cloud service reemerged and more speculation about its release and features came to light. Early this month, news stated that Google will be launching the service ...
Oracle Says Google E-mails Prove Guilt
Yesterday marked the first day of the Oracle-Google intellectual property battle. Oracle’s lawyer, Michael Jacobs, was first to give the opening statement, demonstrating how Google took Java copyrighted “blueprints” to develop Android applications, never acquiring any license to legally use them in Android’s framework. “You can’t just step on someone’s IP because you have a ...
Samsung Unveiling Official 2012 Summer Olympics Device On May 3?
Today’s mobile news roundup features Samsung’s Olympics phone, Apple’s e-book lawsuit, Microsoft’s secret weapon, product launches and more. Samsung to unveil official Olympics phone It was reported yesterday that Samsung is to unveil a new Galaxy device or a set of Galaxy devices on their May 3 event in London’s Earl’s Court. And as the launch ...
Carpathia Seeks Government Help In Retaining Sized Megaupload Files
When the file-sharing site Megaupload was taken down by US authorities back in January, a lot users were dumbfounded. The site and all their files were inaccessible. Fortunately, Megaupload used hosting sites like Carpathia Hosting Inc. and Cogent Communications Group Inc. to keep their files alive, but this wasn’t accessible to users. The worst part ...
Foursquare Celebrates 20M Users – Here’s 10 Best and Worst Check-Ins
It was in June 2011 when Foursquare, the location-based social networking site, reached 10 million users. And in under a year, Foursquare proudly announced that their user base has doubled to 20 million active users. Also, to mark the third 4sqDay (April = 4, 4 squared is 16), anyone who checks in today will receive ...
Sergey Brin: The Scary State Of Freedom On The Internet
“I am more worried than I have been in the past. It’s scary.” That was what Google co-founder Sergey Brin stated about the state of Internet freedom during his interview with The Guardian. Brin recalled how the openness of the internet decades ago enabled them to build Google into what it is today. But the ...
Pentagon Taps Innovega For Multifocal Contact Lens
Innovega, the company that brings the digital world closer to your eyes, has been tapped by The Pentagon to deliver a fully functioning prototype of contact lenses that uses their iOptiks system. Super lenses The contact lens features two different filters to allow the wearer to focus on two things at the same time. It ...
Day 1 of the Oracle vs. Google IP Case
The World Series of intellectual property infringement cases is set to start today, and could run for eight weeks. Google Inc. and Oracle Corp. are set to battle it out in a San Francisco court today. Oracle aims to prove in court that Google infringed on their Java patents and used them in building the ...
Samsung to Unveil New Galaxy on May 3
Today’s mobile news roundup includes Samsung’s May 3 product launch, Apple’s failed ACCC settlement, an app for people with visual and hearing impairment, and more. Come and meet the next Galaxy That’s what the Samsung event invites had to say. Pretty intriguing huh? Well it is in the sense that they didn’t elaborate as to ...
Facebook Acquires Tagtile, Building Arsenal of Merchant Tools
Fresh off their Instagram acquisition, social networking giant Facebook acquired the team of developers behind the customer-loyalty application Tagtile. “We’re happy to confirm that TagTile’s founders are joining Facebook, and that Facebook is acquiring substantially all of the company’s assets. We’ve admired the engineering team’s efforts for some time now and we’re excited to have ...