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Five Unanswered Questions Left Behind by the F.C.C’s case against Google
Following the ruling that Google was liable for damages for secretly intercepting and gathering public data from open Wi-Fi routers during its Street View project has literally opened a modern day Pandora box with numerous questions still remaining unanswered. FCC censured Google for eavesdropping on millions of unknowing people as the Street View cars drove [...]
Is Google Maps Ready for iOS 6? What to Look For in the New App
iOS 6 has more than 200 features that have changed the last iOS experience. Apple keeps on enhancing their products, embracing the philosophy of the late Steve Jobs: “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” However, Apple Maps has disappointed users who were forced to look [...]
Adopting a Micro-strategy Towards Website Data Inside Google Analytics
You have probably heard about the term Big Data, a gigantic movement underway in cloud computing, designed to analyze huge clusters of data sitting inside document folders, image banks, giant databases, email archives and other repositories, which many believe hold hidden pearls of wisdom and could make bigger companies more agile and competitive. Meanwhile, smaller [...]
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Is “No Central Point of Failure” at Risk with New Chinese “Mobile” Underdog?
Google says a central point of failure is at risk if it allows Acer hardware and Chinese technology giant, Alibaba, to continue their romance and launch the Aliyun operating system (OS), which Google says is engineered off the Android platform; but is not compatible with Android. Everyone is used to China pressuring smaller nations not [...]
Google releases yet another Panda update which impacts search rankings
Google has just released Panda update 3.9 which apparently will affect about 1% of websites hosted on shared, dedicated and cloud platforms around the world. As usual Google is constantly tweaking its algorithm to favor high-quality sites, which publish original, useful and timely content relating to the core product or business offering. These quality guidelines [...]
Is Google+ worth the effort? Comscore report says yes!
So what exactly is going on at Google Plus? On the one hand The Wall Street Journal reported in late February that that Google+ is nothing more than a virtual ghost town, reflected by a growing amount of users who sign up but then never go much further in engaging the platform. A large number [...]
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Do you know how to liberate or delete your data in the Google cloud?
Many Google users, including those using cloud services such as Google Docs and Google Spreadsheets, may be unaware that Google has put together an engineering team whose sole goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of popular Google products stored in the cloud. Generally, there are two [...]
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Google gets fancy: Adwords can now be automated with JavaScript
If the World Wide Web was ever in love with a scripting language, JavaScript must be it. This mainstay pseudo programming language allows both web designers and developers to inject bells and whistles into static HTML sites (powered by professional hosting platforms) often turning them into ‘dynamic’ wonders. Its fan base has always been large [...]
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Shared Calendars with Google and/or CalDAV
Many people have asked me how best to share a calendar between colleagues, between friends, husband and wife, offices in different locations, and some other cases where coordinating schedules is useful. One solution that many are turning to is Google Calendar, which is a fantastic solution. It offers many features, including the ability to subscribe [...]