On the heels of putting Street View into its data centers, Google is hitting the trails of the iconic Grand Canyon. Since a car can’t fit down those trails and because a mule would be too cliched, Google rigged up a backpack-mounted camera. “Any of these sort of iconic, cultural, historical locations that are not [...]
Technology companies that rely on data centers as their secret sauce — Google, Facebook, etc. — are pretty secretive about them. Until now. Google just launched a massive effort to peel back the curtain a bit on the physical location where the internet lives. There’s a photo series by Connie Zhou of the people, places, and technology [...]
1. “Google isn’t taking the step of asking developers to make separate phone and tablet versions of their apps, as Apple has done, but this effort is still notable and long overdue. While Apple proudly touts that more than 250,000 apps have been built specifically for the iPad, Google has declined to say just how [...]
Google’s market valuation surpassed Microsoft’s today, making the search giant the second-largest technology company on the planet ($249.5 billion value). Why is this significant? On the whole, it’s probably not. But, like Apple’s rise to becoming the largest company on the planet (market value of $632.7 billion) during the past decade, it does signal a [...]
Google has released an app, called Field Trip, for Android (coming soon for iOS) that attempts to uncover the hidden gems in your neighborhood. Essentially, it’s a recommendation engine, which is what Foresquare should be doing. Field Trip can help you learn about everything from local history to the latest and best places to shop, eat, [...]
Ben Popper has a deep-dive into Google’s acquisition history for The Verge. It’s long, but worth a read to get a glimpse behind the curtain. In Silicon Valley, the natural order for founders who are acquired is to work in a company for a short period of time while their stock options vest, then leave [...]
The first footage of Steven Spielberg’s highly-anticipated (at least by me?) Lincoln is really just a commercial for the trailer, which drops Thursday followed by a Google+ hangout with the director and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who plays Robert Todd Lincoln. Spoiler alert! RTL takes over the cowl and axe after Honest Abe dies from a vampire bite. The [...]
Google released this awesome data visualization for all the known arms trade between the globe’s countries since 1992. You can rotate the globe to get basic info for each country and break that down between imports and exports by civilian or defense spending. It’s really well done and highly informative, but super resource intensive. Just be [...]
If you were to ask me what the most important project Google is currently working on, I would say Google Fiber. Not those silly computer glasses, or the Nexus Q, or even the Nexus 7. Kansas City (both sides of the state divide) is the first city to get Google Fiber, which offers a 1Gb [...]
Apple is great at covering the entire umbrella for any market it enters. What that means is for the iPhone and iPod the company offers a range of products across a range of prices (inexpensive to costly) to appeal to everyone. With the iPod, Apple created new products in the iPod Shuffle and Nano. With [...]
