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Goa may tap Project Loon to woo IT cos to state

Edit The Times of India 30 May 2016
With the state government trying its bet to woo information techonology companies and startups to Goa, the department of information and technology has initiated discussions with Google India to try and bring some of Google's offerings to the state ... "Yes we are in talks with Google on Project Loon ... According to Google, Project Loon is a research and ......

Google to tackle Android's biggest problem, but it won't be easy

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 30 May 2016
Google is angry — or at least that's what it sounds like when you read Bloomberg's look into the company's relationship with smartphone manufacturers. According to the report, Google is aggressively addressing Android's biggest problem ... Bloomberg says Google will use a two-pronged approach to try to remedy the updates problem ... "Google shared this list with Android partners earlier this year....

Will Android apps on Google's Chromebooks be a winning combination?

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 30 May 2016
The promise of tapping into Android's Google Play mobile app store on stripped-down Chrome OS notebooks aims to win more Aussies away from "real" computers. At first glance a Chromebook is basically a stripped-back netbook which only runs Google's Chrome web browser, although this isn't necessarily a bad thing in terms of performance and security compared to a traditional notebook....

The data France seized from Google in Paris tax raid could take years to analyze

Edit Venture Beat 30 May 2016
(Reuters) – Analysis of data seized by investigators in last week’s raid of Google’s Paris headquarters could possibly take years, French financial prosecutor Eliane Houlette said on Sunday ... Google, which ......

Google Scholar Users Report Badly Malfunctioning Captcha

Edit Slashdot 30 May 2016
Google's search engine for academic research materials is blocking many users with a malfunctioning captcha screen, according to complaints on a Google help forum ... Heart44 writes. A lot of researchers when using Google Scholar are being asked to prove they are not a robot ... ....

IoT over IPv6 just got interesting (for reasons of scale) (APNIC Pty Ltd)

Edit Public Technologies 30 May 2016
Recently, I chanced upon The Register's article about Google releasing the 'Threads' networking protocol to open source ... This means that if you decide to go with Google and run over OpenThreads, then you are explicitly going to have to learn how to live in an IPv6-only world....

A 'right not to be surprised' in ads would be great — good luck defining that

Edit Yahoo Daily News 30 May 2016
At the Collision conference in New Orleans last month, I heard a marketing executive defend the practice of tracking consumers across their mobile devices ... If they take off they’ll only speed a migration to news apps that will only increase the leverage of Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) over publishers ... Why you should care that Google dodged Oracle's $9 billion bullet ... Google just revealed it's 'bringing the Play Store to Chromebooks'....

Self-Driving Cars: Some American Consumers Want Them Now

Edit Real Clear Politics 30 May 2016
In the U.S., Google announced its self-driving project in 2010; in 2012, Sergey Brin, Google's founder, announced that the Google Self-Driving Car would be available to the general public in 2017 ... consumer ... With an anticipated unveiling in either 2017 (Google) or 2019 (automobile manufacturers), the window is closing fast on the potential technological reality of commercialized driverless vehicles ...  . ....

Zenfone Max won't die like that

Edit DNA India 30 May 2016
-->. The 2016 version of the Zenfone Max is a good smartphone all-around with a great battery life. In terms of its design, the 2016 version of the Zenfone Max looks identical to its predecessor. However, the new version is a significant upgrade over the previous variant ... Zenfone Max with 2GB RAM is available for Rs ... Info. <a href="https.//plus.google.com/u/0/+KrishnaBahirwani/posts?rel=author">Google</a>. ....

Illinois senator proposes gutting BIPA

Edit The Register 30 May 2016
Facebook, Google want looser controls over biometrics. The Center for Democracy and Technology is accusing Illinois senator Terry Link of planning to gut protections covering the use of biometric data by the IT sector ... ....

Memorial Day driving tips, Google vs. Oracle, and a cure for HIV

Edit Digital Trends 30 May 2016
In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. So much news goes on, in fact, that it's almost impossible for mere mortals with real lives to keep track of everything. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of the top 10 tech stories. The post Weekly Rewind. Memorial Day driving tips, Google vs. Oracle, and a cure for HIV appeared first on Digital Trends ... ....

Best Alternative Launchers for Android

Edit Twit TV 30 May 2016
Keith in Orange County has an old first generation Nexus 7, has been having issues with his Launcher. Leo recommends trying several alternative options for him to try, including Apex, Nova, the newer Google Launcher, and more. For the full episode, visit twit.tv/ttg/1292. Bandwidth for TWiT Bits is provided by Cachefly ... ....

Roundabout on the corner of Smith and Daly streets

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 30 May 2016
A Google Earth view of a roundabout in Darwin that hhas stoked community tension after the local council announced it would remove it and install traffic lights ... ....
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