The new YouTube app for Google TV is here. Our Ant Pruitt reviewed it — and it isn’t all wine and roses. Here’s what he says, pro and con. A nice deep review for you.
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Kodak today announced it will be auctioning off its enormous collection of imaging patents, and aNewDomain.net has learned that the USPTO today issued Eastman Kodak what potentially is the mother of them all. A broad patent on facial recognition. Details here. It’s The Report with Dan Patterson and Gina Smith — the day in tech for May 2, 2012. Loren Feldman guests. Our Associate Editor Shane Brady says he isn’t a fan boy — but he sees a real opportunity for Google in Google Drive. With GD as the docs/storage hub of spokes pointing to gmail, youtube, docs, photos, etc …that’s a powerful Google offering to people who want exact same experiences on any device they walk up to. If Google can pull this off, our Shane Brady is on board. Apple makes hundreds a dollars per device compared $2 per device that Google gets, says John C. Dvorak. It’s John C. Dvorak X3: One topic, three pundits, five minutes. More or less.
Special thanks to @sethsokolow for turning me on to this graphic — it’s social media explained in donuts. Google+ made some significant changes to its interface and controls recently. I’ve collected some of the best tips for optimizing Google + for search, visibility, privacy and more. And if you want to be published at aNewDomain.net, step right up. Send in your ideas for optimizing Google + here.
Opponents are mounting a full-on attack against the Cyber Intelligence & Sharing Act (CISPA), legislation that is headed to the U.S. House of Representatives for a vote this coming week. On Sunday, #StopCISPA was the No. 2 trending topic on Twitter and Google +
Pictured above is a Tasmanian Devil. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons What is evil? What does Google know that thousands of years of philosophical and theological inquiry does not. Good should get rid of its Do No Evil credo, as outlined in its company prospectus? The term means nothing — it is relative — and the motto even hurts Google and its stockholders and customers. Here’s why. |
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Google, FCC and now DOJ Queries: Google Purposely Harvests Passwords, Emails, Info? (NYT)
The FCC had ended its investigation into privacy concerns surrounding Google Street View. Some reports of data collecting, sharing and triangulation were dismissed, by Google, as accidents. But now the full FTC report is out, the DOJ wants to see it and there’s a second engineer in there claiming data collection is quite planned. Here’s the fine the FTC has issued against Google for “obstructing” it investigation. No criminal or civil charges are filed. googlefccfine1DA-12-592A1
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