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Late this afternoon I saw an announcement that Google might be preparing to launch a mobile payment service that uses near-field communications (NFC). Olga Kharif and Greg Bensinger wrote about it at Bloomberg Businessweek. The new system would use Google’s Android operating system and would require specially equipped phones to operate. Bensinger and Kharif said three sources said Google will begin service in five cities: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.
Earlier today, Marshall Brain blogged about the uproar about privacy. It’s been in the news a lot recently. The Epsilon e-mail hack gave attackers access to millions of names and e-mail addresses. Sony has had a pair of headaches with the PlayStation Network security breach followed closely by a hack of the Sony Online Entertainment servers. Apple is in hot water after a pair of researchers directed attention to an unencrypted file on iPhones and 3G iPads that stores location data. And now Google is under the microscope in South Korea.
Today’s uproar is not occurring in a concerted cry of outrage like it normally does, but instead it is occurring in the volume of material being published on so many different fronts. Two weeks ago we covered the fact that smartphones track our locations: Today’s uproar – Apple’s iPhone and 3G iPad track your location [...]
This weekend I watched an amazing video on YouTube. It is called Talking Funny, and it had been broken up into 4 parts and posted. It features Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K., Chris Rock and Ricky Gervais sitting together in a room talking about their craft. It is utterly amazing because it lets you get inside [...]
I’ve been pretty good about keeping a level head so far, Google. When you launched Android, I was excited to see an open(ish) smartphone operating system hit the market. I bought into the philosophy and believed you when you said it would drop the barrier between developers and the platform. Unlike with Apple, developers wouldn’t have to endlessly tweak their apps to vague and sometimes hidden guidelines in order to get a spot in the marketplace. But reality hasn’t quite panned out the way you hinted at a few years ago. And now you’re about to make it harder for customers to decide what product to buy.
Over the past year or so, there’s been a lot of talk about Google and Apple’s efforts at establishing cloud computing services. Apple’s been working on a giant facility rumored to be a data center for streaming media in North Carolina, and Google Music is supposed to be coming soon, too. But while the two companies have been working on their efforts, Amazon beat them to the punch today by launching its own cloud music service, called Cloud Drive.
Scott Brown and Bill Nelson, a bipartisan pair of Senators introduced a bill at the beginning of this month that would direct the IRS to issue itemized receipts to taxpayers showing them where their taxes are spent and in what amounts. The bill would also create a website where curious/enraged taxpayers could dig into even deeper detail about exactly where twenty-something percent of their money is going.
We have talked about Google’s self driving cars on a couple of previous occasions: – How self-driving cars work – Google’s self-driving cars Now Google has a version that can drive like a bat out of hell (in case you are wondering where that expression originated, this page can help): This does look impressive, but [...]
Google is making it easier for you to cook. The new Google Recipes feature is a very nice way to get to recipes through Google: It gives you lots of options for finding and exploring recipes. There is also this thing on Google called “Wonder Wheel”. Google describes it in this way: The example given [...]
Just a few years ago, if you had told me you owned an HTC phone I’d have to ask you what that meant. The company has been around since 1997 but I wasn’t aware of it until 2008. That’s when HTC came out with the G1 Android phone, the first Android-based smartphone available in the United States. Earlier HTC smartphones had Windows Mobile as an operating system.
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