Toyota Mirai, Hydrogen-Powered Car of the Future? (video)

Toyota Mirai: Hydrogen-Powered Car of the Future?: Video - Bloomberg:
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A new car from Toyota could be the blueprint of cars we’ll be driving in years to come. It’s called the Mirai -- which means "future" in Japanese -- and is Toyota's first emissions-free, hydrogen-powered vehicle...but the innovation, isn't without risks in an unproven market. (Source: Bloomberg 11/24)

USA TODAY
Apple launches massive two-week (RED) campaign
USA TODAY
... recent high-profile personal donations and corporate campaigns targeting the recent ebola crisis from companies such as Facebook and Microsoft.
Apple partners with app developers for major Product RED fundraising effort - The Verge


NPR (blog)
Marine Corps Finds It Tough To Shut Down Sexist Facebook Groups
NPR (blog)
A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Keleher soon became intimately familiar with unofficial Marine Facebook pages like JTTOTS, which are forums for ...

BBC News
Google case over online abuse settled
BBC News
A UK businessman who took Google to court over malicious web postings about him appearing in its search results has reached a settlement with the ...
Google settles online abuse court case - The Guardian


Computerworld
How Apple could exploit a forever-free iCloud
Computerworld
While Google and Microsoft are using large amounts of free cloud storage to sell inexpensive consumer notebooks, Apple has stood above the fray.

USA TODAY
Dell, Microsoft, Staples enter Black Friday fray
USA TODAY
Staples will also be offering a variety of deals throughout the week including a Google Chromecast for $25 ($10 off) and Amazon's new Fire TV Stick ...

Washington Business Journal
Supreme Court case tests the limits of free speech on Facebook and other social media
Washington Post
About a week after Tara Elonis persuaded a judge to issue a protective order against her estranged husband, Anthony, her soon-to-be ex had this to ...

TheStreet.com
How Apple Is Absolutely Poised to Win Black Friday 2014
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) –– Apple (AAPL) is poised to win Black Friday and ... and Google(GOOGL) , should help Apple "shine bright this holiday season. ... With larger screens coupled with innovations such as Apple Pay, .... using your Disqus, Facebook, Twitter, OpenID or Yahoo login credentials.

Google Glass Was Never Given a Chance to Succeed | Digital Trends: "Viewed in the larger context of the consumer electronics industry, the answer seems pretty clear. Two years is a pretty abysmal lifespan for a product line, and it seems pretty clear that we can toss it on the heap of rare, but mounting Google failures, alongside Buzz, Wave, and that overpriced movie streaming cephalopod, the Nexus Q. But should we hold all such products to the same standards? More to the point, what ultimately was Google attempting to accomplish with Glass in the first place?"

Google Introduces New Security Dashboard and Wizard for Google Apps Users:  Google’s new Devices and Activity dashboard allows Google Apps users to quickly identify and revoke access for any device that has been used to access an account and its data.

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Google Samsung Divorce Coming?

Google and Samsung’s relationship continues to worsen, this time over wearables | 9to5Google: "According to a new report out of The Information, the already tense relationship between Samsung and Google has begun to worsen thanks to both of their own lines of wearables. The report claims that Google CEO Larry Page and Samsung Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee took part in an a “tense” private meeting at the Allen & Co. conference last week in Sun Valley. The meeting reportedly centered around Page being frustrated that Samsung was investing more in its smartwatches running Tizen than the ones running Android Wear...." (read more at the link above)


Apple Insider
Google and Samsung escalate hostilities over watches, Tizen and Android's openness
Apple Insider
Back in 2010, Google similarly tried to stop Samsung from using Android 2.x to build a tablet clone of Apple's iPad, insisting that its Android licensees ...

Facebook Is Studying Your Mom, Your Makeout Buddy, and Your 9/11 Conspiracy Theories | Mother Jones: "... the mood study is far from the only example of Facebook scrutinizing its users—the company has been doing that for years, examining users' ethnicities, political views, romantic partners, and even how they talk to their children..."

Here’s why your Comcast rep is yelling at you | The Verge: "Warped employee incentives and an absence of competition make bad customer service inevitable"

Google Maps for Android update adds elevation data for cyclists, let's you talk back to Navigation
Jane McEntegart
Google is pushing out an update for Google Maps for Android that will make things a little bit easier for cyclists planning their journeys. Now, when you ...

Google To Stop Labeling Apps With In-App Purchases As 'Free'
Forbes
By the end of September, Google will no longer label apps as “free” if they allow for ...Apple has not, according to the EC, made a similar commitment.


Boston Globe
His Google Maps obsession
Boston Globe
Then my husband discovered Google Maps. Now we sit in the car while my husband hunches over his phone, tapping out our route. You'd think he ...


Cinema Blend
Microsoft Catches Ire From Advertisers Over Xbox Entertainment Studios Shutdown
Cinema Blend
There's been some recent shakeups going on at Microsoft that has caused the major enterprise ... The marketplace is stiff, however, as the programming end is occupied by the likes of Amazon's new Fire TV, Netflix, Hulu and other ...


IBNLive
Did Facebook's Slingshot Miss Its Target?
Mashable
The app briefly cracked Apple's list of top 50 free apps in the United States the ... 100,000 and 500,000 times, according to Google Play store numbers.


Hindu Business Line
Facebook to challenge Amazon soon?
Hindu Business Line
After making billions connect socially on its network, Facebook is testing a new feature designed to let users buy products directly from ads and posts ...

Google Blocking Some Downloads of uTorrent in Chrome
PC Magazine
Google, it seems, would disagree. According to a recent article from TorrentFreak, the search giant has allegedly placed the uTorrent installation ...

Google mulls transforming NYC pay phones into Wi-Fi hot spots
Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK _Google is among several technology companies considering a plan that uses pay-phone locations to give New Yorkers free wireless ...

NASA's Orion Spacecraft: 9 Facts
InformationWeek
The Orion spacecraft gives NASA a ticket to deep space. Here's how NASA is preparing the spacecraft for a mission to visit an asteroid in 2025. Previous. 1 of 10. Next. NASA has big plans to send humans to an asteroid by 2025. The mission, however, will not ..

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Why Google Is Integrating all Android Platforms (video); Amazon Phone a Flop

Why Google Is Integrating all Android Platforms: Video - Bloomberg:
Google unveiled a new version of its Android software for smartphones and other devices as it battles Apple to be the foundation for mobile technology. Evernote CEO Phil Libin and Wired Deputy Editor Joe Brown speak on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg, June 25)

Google unveils products, updates that tie everything together
Los Angeles Times
Google wants to be everywhere in your life, all the time. ... Broadly, it's similar to the message offered earlier this month by Apple at its own annual ...

Amazon: Fire Phone Is A Flop - Seeking Alpha: "Summary: Fire Phone is overpriced with lower specs than the iPhone 5s and Galaxy S5. Some features are gimmicky and some are useful but nothing compelling over other high-end phones. Restriction to one carrier, AT&T, and lack of Google core services will turn off potential customers. Sales volume slower than Apple TV...."

Google I/O condensed: The 33 most important things to know
Computerworld (blog)
Google IO 2014 The big G kicked off its annual Google I/O developers' conference with a massive two-and-a-half-hour keynote this morning -- and this ...

Status update: Facebook not so diverse
USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook, the world's most popular social network, ... He appeared at the shareholder meetings of Google and Facebook to ...

Google Starts Removing Search Results Under Europe's 'Right to be Forgotten'
Wall Street Journal
Google engineers overnight updated the company's technical infrastructure to start implementing the removals, and Thursday began sending the first ...

Google reacts to Office 365 momentum with beefier Apps suite
PCWorld
Under pressure from Microsoft's Office 365, Google has launched a premium edition of Apps with unlimited cloud storage and extra IT controls, and ...

Google Fit service to compete with Apple Health
SFGate
In the race to dominate the fast-growing digital health industry, Google unveiled a service Wednesday that collects users' fitness data in one place.

Google Glass beta 'Explorer' edition goes on sale in the UK for £1000: Will you ...
Tech Times
Google Glass is available in the UK for the first time, with updates enabling to understand British English. The price for the product is set at £1,000. (Photo : Jeff Blackler). Google Glass is expanding outside the U.S. for the first time. The devices are now ...

Trio Of Supermassive Black Holes Found
WallStreet OTC
The galaxies we see in the present day Universe were built through the merger of smaller ones. Almost all of the galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their cores. Basic logic would suggest that the mergers would also have placed supermassive black ...

Balloon space flight company completes small-scale test flight
Reuters
(Reuters) - An Arizona start-up company says it has successfully completed its first small-scale test flight of a stratospheric balloon and capsule being developed to show tourists a space-like view of the Earth from 19 miles (30 km) above ground. Privately ...

Aereo's use of TV fare found to break copyright law
Boston Globe
The Internet streaming service Aereo is acting illegally when it retransmits television shows that its tiny antennas capture for free, the US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday — a major victory for broadcasters at a time when consumers are rapidly moving away ...

US And German Astronauts Play Soccer In Space
Forbes
U.S. and German astronauts playing a friendly game of soccer to prep for Thursday's match. (Credit: NASA). Like the gravitational pull of a black hole, the World Cup is so powerful that you can't escape it even if you're in orbit. When the astronauts haven't ...

Improved communication between experts and the public key in winning battle to ...
The Independent
Scientists need to become more humble and to completely re-think the way they communicate if the battle to curb climate change is to be won, one of the world's leading climate experts has warned. Lamenting what he calls a “mismatch” between the state of ...

New Chromebook features show up at Google I/O
CNET
At the Google I/O keynote in San Francisco, the company showed off new features for Chromebook laptops running the Chrome OS. Most notably, a phone running the new Android L mobile OS can unlock your Chromebook and even log you into Web ...

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Microsoft Partners Uproar, Some Prepare to Sell Google Apps

Editor's note: Everyone should have seen this coming, Microsoft has abandoned not only its Windows PC users (e.g., dueling OS Windows 8), but has openly scorned "partners" -- from OEMs to Channel reps --

Microsoft Partners In Uproar Over Cloud Sales Commission Cuts
CRN
Some partners are so angry about having their fees cut that they're prepared to sell competing products, like Google Apps. One partner told CRN he's planning to change his business to be less dependent on Microsoft partner fees. "Based on this ...(read more at link above)

Microsoft Shares Could Sink to Low $30s

Barron's
We maintain a Neutral rating and $30 fair-value estimate on Microsoft. ... that run both Windows and [ Google (GOOG)] Android on the same device, ...

Business Standard (blog)

Google launches ferry service for employees between Redwood ...

San Jose Mercury News
It may not be as fast as a Google search, but a new ferry service launched this week between San Francisco and Redwood City is helping to take ...

Times of India

Google linking of social network contacts to email raises concerns

Chicago Tribune
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A new feature in Google Inc's Gmail will result in some users receiving messages from people with whom they have not ...

The Verge

Google Misses India Contract on Data Concerns

Wall Street Journal (blog)
Internet giant Google has lost out on a contract in India amid concerns about... Google confirmed in a statement that its discussions ended with the ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Microsoft promises Xbox One fixes in major update

CNET
Fixes are on the way for Microsoft's Xbox One. (Credit: CNET). Yes,Microsoft does plan to fix some of the bugs and quirks in the Xbox One in an ...

Hot Hardware

Ban Amazon Prime?

San Jose Mercury News
If the French Senate gets its way, retail giant Amazon and its online peers won't be able to offer free book deliveries in France anymore. In an unusual ...

CTV News

Apple Devices Flow Into Corporate World

Wall Street Journal
The popularity of the iPhone and iPad among employees is prompting corporate tech managers to rewrite policies and change traditional buying ...

Financial Express

Google X Staff Meet With FDA Pointing Toward New Device

Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG) sent employees with ties to its secretive X research group to meet with U.S. regulators who oversee medical devices, raising the ...

Apple's Siri goes to the movies to check 'Her' out

San Jose Mercury News
Is Siri getting a little bent out of shape over Samantha, the leading lady in the new Spike Jonze movie, "Her"? With the film opening nationwide Friday ...

New York Times

Google privacy chief: Proposed EU privacy law 'dead'

CNET
Peter Fleischer, Google's top global privacy counsel, says a "much-flawed" proposed EU privacy law is "dead," while praising whistleblower Edward ...

InsideCounsel

Apple Wins Patent Appeal Against Motorola
PC Magazine
Apple's iPhones do not infringe on patented technology from Google's Motorola technology, according to an appeals court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today upheld an April 203 decision from the International Trade Commission's (ITC...

AT&T Sponsored Data: FCC ready to intervene if necessary | BGR: " . . . some lawmakers are skipping the wait-and-see stage and moving directly into attack mode. California Congresswoman and net neutrality supporter Anna Eshoo recently said that AT&T’s new program is a huge threat that should be eliminated. “The announcement of a sponsored data program by AT&T puts it in the business of picking winners and losers on the Internet, threatening the open Internet, competition and consumer choice,” Eschoo said..."

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Google Apps Moving Onto Microsoft’s Turf

More and more are going Google--

Google Apps Moving Onto Microsoft’s Business Turf - NYTimes.com: ". . . . In a recent report, Gartner, the information technology research company, called Google “the only strong competitor” to Microsoft in cloud-based business productivity software, though it warned that “enterprise concerns may not be of paramount importance to the search giant.” Google is tight-lipped about how many people use Google Apps, saying only that in June more than five million businesses were using it, up from four million in late 2011. Almost all these companies are tiny, but in early December Google announced that even companies with fewer than 10 employees, which used to get Google Apps free, would have to pay. Google’s revenue from Apps, according to a former executive who asked not to be named in order to maintain good relations with Google, amounted to perhaps $1 billion of the $37.9 billion Google earned in 2011. Shaw Industries, a carpet maker in Dalton, Ga., with about 30,000 employees, switched to Google Apps this year for communication tools like e-mail and videoconferencing. Jim Nielsen, the company’s manager of enterprise technology, calculated that using Google instead of similar Microsoft products would cost, over seven years, about one-thirteenth Microsoft’s price. . . ."


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