One month ago, Google put the word out that it was looking to build and test its own fiber-to-the-home networks in a couple of cities. The speeds would be up to 1 Gbps and the reach would initially be about 50,000 homes.
Immediately, hundreds of cities began making pitches to attract Google’s attention, some earnest, some [...]
YouTube is adding captions to millions of Internet videos.
The feature unveiled Thursday expands upon speech-recognition technology that YouTube began using to make captions available on a limited number of videos late last year.
YouTube’s audience will be able to request captions at the press of a button. Video producers will also be able to download the [...]
In a landmark case today, the Italian court convicted three Google executives of privacy violations saying that they did not act quickly enough to remove an online video that showed sadistic teen bullies pummeling and mocking an autistic boy.
In a very closely monitored case around the world, because of it’s implications for Internet privacy and [...]
We reported Googl’e launch of Buzz last week. Then within days after this launch, Google did a huge overhaul of its service after receiving an anormous amount of complaints about it’s privacy infringements.
Buzz allows users to share messages, web links, photos and videos with friends and colleagues directly within Gmail. Great, no? But when it [...]
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