Inspired by Google, Chicago pursues gigabit broadband
Quite the thriving tech community has sprouted up in Chicago’s River North neighborhood in the last year, spurred by startup hub 1871, Excelerate Labs and Google’s decision to relocate Motorola to...
View ArticleGoogle would love to bounce Bing from Yahoo
Would Google like to replace Microsoft Bing as the search engine for Yahoo.com? You bet, Google chairman Eric Schmidt said in Japan this week. Granted, this is kind of a “duh” story given the rivalry...
View ArticleThe Apple Roundup: Apple marketing’s war on language
With so many people writing about Apple, finding the best stories and reports isn’t easy. Here’s our daily pick of stories about the company from around the Web that you shouldn’t miss: The new slogan...
View ArticleSchmidt: Apple has to approve Google Maps app for iOS — if we build it
Google still won’t say definitively whether or not it is building a Google Maps app for iOS 6. But the company’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, had plenty to say about the Apple Maps flap last night. In an...
View ArticlePeek lets amateur tour guides plan a “perfect day” in their city of choice
Maybe you live in a popular city for tourism, like New York or San Francisco, and you’re used to giving your list of favorite activities to out-of-town visitors. Or maybe you took the best trip of your...
View ArticleAmerica has plenty of wireless spectrum — we just need a new way to allocate it
Wireless spectrum is one of the essential natural resources of the information age. Entire industries, and trillions of dollars in GDP, depend on access to the airwaves. And consider that spectrum is...
View ArticleGoogle should be ashamed for paying carriers to handle its traffic
The concept of net neutrality means different things to different people. Some see tiered access pricing for connectivity as the key debate point, while others are more concerned with the idea of...
View ArticleIn settlement with French publishers, Google promises $82 million fund and...
Google has come to an agreement with French publishers who wanted the search giant to start paying them for linking to their content. In a blog post Friday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced two new...
View ArticleGoogle chairman being coy about whether Google Now is ready for iOS
So is Google’s own widely praised contextual search app coming to iOS soon or not? At an event in India on Thursday, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt wasn’t very forthcoming with a definitive answer. But...
View ArticleWhere in Asia is Google’s Eric Schmidt?
Burgeoning populations and pockets of lagging technology infrastructure make Asia a prime location for IT development. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt surely thinks so with his recent stint of...
View ArticleAndroid on track for 1B total activations later this year, Google chairman says
As of today, there are now 1.5 million Android devices being activated every day, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. That’s led to more than 750 million Android phones currently in use. But he...
View ArticleSuperstar investors give Upstart $5.9M for its first birthday
Upstart, the company that hopes to encourage promising college students to get their degrees before pursuing the startups of their dreams, just celebrated its first birthday with a $5.9 million Series...
View ArticleNorth Korea asked for Android — Google chairman on good tech and bad governments
When Google chairman Eric Schmidt visited North Korea, party officials asked him to describe future updates to the company’s Android phone system. Schmidt refused but said this incident and others —...
View ArticleIs sensor journalism feasible, or even ethical? Columbia’s Tow Center hopes...
If data journalism means the analysis of and reporting on data sets that already exist, sensor journalism goes a step further: Organizations and journalists using sensor technology to create their own...
View ArticleAmprius has built a lithium ion battery that can last 25% longer than today’s...
A lithium ion battery that can power a smart phone or tablet for up to 25 percent longer between charges than current alternatives is now out in the marketplace, from a venture capital-backed battery...
View ArticleThe internet is good for the planet, and let’s keep it that way
Is the net effect of the internet on the Earth’s environment positive or negative? That’s the million dollar question that a group of about 100 people, including Vice President Al Gore and Google...
View ArticleGoogle’s Schmidt blasts NSA over fiber-optic snooping
Google, a company that’s taken some lumps itself for treading heavily on users’ privacy, is not at all amused by reports that the National Security Agency tapped fiber-optic cables running between its...
View ArticleGoogle engineers curse out NSA over data center intrusion
Outraged Google engineers are using public posts to blast the National Security Service in eloquent — and very salty — language over reports the spy service has been tapping into the company’s private...
View ArticleA long-lasting battery from startup Amprius is slowly making its way to your...
An under-the-radar startup is moving ever closer to seeing its long-lasting lithium ion batteries power a growing number of cell phones and tablets. Amprius, which was launched in 2008 as a spin-out...
View ArticleBlue River and its farm robots harvest another $10M
Startup Blue River Technology — the brains behind a weed-pulling, machine-learning lettuce robot — have raised another round of $10 million to hire new scientists and engineers and develop new robotic...
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