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Google Movie in the Works


 Google Movie 
 in the Works 
Aug 20, 2010 3:56 AM CDT

Google Movie in the Works

Producers buy rights to 'don't be evil' story

(Newser) - The Social Network is going to have some competition in the tech start-up thriller genre. Producers have bought the rights to the book Googled: The End of the World As We Know it and plan to make a movie based on the story of Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry...

Google TV Spooks Hollywood
 Google TV Spooks Hollywood 
Aug 18, 2010 9:30 AM CDT

Google TV Spooks Hollywood

Entertainment execs fear Google plan could upend industry

(Newser) - Google wants to bring the Internet to your TV set, but many in Hollywood want Google to stay off their turf. Companies fear that the search king's Google TV project —which will allow users to search for and watch online videos via their TV sets—will encourage viewers to...

Gmail Storage Isn't Infinite, After All

And some select users are maxing out

(Newser) - When Gmail launched in 2004, its slogan was "never delete an e-mail again." Six years of ever-expanding attachments later, a few users have maxed out and, well, needed to delete an email. Again. Mashable congratulates Mike Monteiro, the most recent person to use all of the allotted 7....

Google, Verizon Proposal Shrinks Net Neutrality

Mobile phone service would be exempt from equal treatment for all traffic

(Newser) - Google and Verizon have unveiled the results of their talks on Internet regulation and supporters of net neutrality aren't happy. The firms' proposals champion the idea of requiring Internet providers to give equal priority to all traffic, but only through regular broadband lines, the AP reports. Wireless phone services and...

Google Counts the World's Books: 129,864,880

Of course, it all depends on what a 'book' is

(Newser) - After a lengthy and surprisingly complicated discourse on what constitutes a "book," a Google software engineer offers up the day's most bandied-about number: 129,864,880. As in, that's how many books exist in the world. After all, a company in the business of digitizing all of them...

Google, Verizon Deal May Kill Net Neutrality

Agreement could pave the way for priority internet packages

(Newser) - Google and Verizon are nearing a deal that could spell the end of one-speed-fits-all for Internet service. The firms are said to be on the brink of an agreement under which Verizon could give priority to traffic from content providers who paid for premium treatment. The deal would do away...

Google Pulls Plug on Wave
 Google Pulls Plug on Wave 
Aug 5, 2010 4:34 AM CDT

Google Pulls Plug on Wave

Too few users caught communication platform

(Newser) - Google is pulling the plug on its ambitious "Wave" communication project just over a year after its launch. The tool—which combined email, instant messaging, and social networking features to help users work together—was launched in beta mode last year with much fanfare. Invitations were selling for up...

Bing Pushes Google Into Innovation War

New features coming fast and furious

(Newser) - Google has been adding features lately—like its new side navigation, revamped image search, and customizable background image—that look an awful lot like ideas nabbed from Bing, the New York Times observes. Though Bing still has a mere 12.7% of the search market, compared to Google’s 62....

CIA, Google Invest in Future-Predicting Firm

'Recorded Future' scans the web to see what's coming

(Newser) - The investment arms of Google and the CIA have teamed up to support a company that says it can predict the future. Recorded Future—a Massachusetts tech firm that presumably saw the deal coming—monitors tens of thousands of websites and uses algorithms to find the relationships between people, places,...

Google Takes on Facebook With Games

Watch out, FarmVille

(Newser) - Google wants to get in on FarmVille and Mafia Wars. The search engine giant's latest run at rival Facebook is an attempt to get a piece of the social gaming pie. Google recently took a financial stake in a social game developer, and is reportedly in talks with other online...

Ode to Web 1.0: Sites We Miss
 Ode to Web 1.0: Sites We Miss 
Jul 24, 2010 10:38 AM CDT

Ode to Web 1.0: Sites We Miss

Esquire : Sites that were before their time

(Newser) - Everything old is new again, especially on the Web. Some of today's tech darlings owe a lot to websites of years past. Here are some of Esquire's 15 favorite, and mostly kaput, Web 1.0 pioneers:
  1. Dodgeball (2000) "A location-based social network for mobile devices, and the Internet's gift
...

Maybe Verizon Doesn't Need the iPhone?

Company steadily increasing market share with Droids

(Newser) - Even without the iPhone on its network, Verizon has steadily improved its share of the smartphone market, increasing from 20% to 26% since 2008. During the same period, AT&T's smartphone market share has dropped from 45% to 40%, reports the New York Times . Both companies remain publicly professional and...

'Jesus' Seen in Google Earth
 'Jesus' Seen on 
 Google Earth 

in case you missed it
Jul 10, 2010 12:13 PM CDT

'Jesus' Seen on Google Earth

'It's obvious,' says spotter

(Newser) - An Internet surfer perusing Google Earth has reported finding what he calls the face of Jesus in a pattern of fields in Hungary. "I'm not a religious person looking for images of Mary or Jesus in everything, but this is obvious," said Zack Evans, 26, a sales assistant...

Google Screwed Up China Standoff
Google Screwed Up China Standoff
Henry Blodget
Jul 9, 2010 3:35 PM CDT

Google Screwed Up China Standoff

Search giant should have been lower-key about conflict

(Newser) - Google’s decision to lock horns with China over censorship “may go down as one of the worst in the company’s history,” writes Henry Blodget of Business Insider . Google made a media spectacle out of the whole thing, giving China no way to compromise without losing face....

China Renews Google's License

Compromise over Hong Kong site keeps site active

(Newser) - China has renewed Google’s license to operate a commercial website there, despite the company’s clashes with Beijing over censorship, Google announced today. To get the renewal, Google had to agree to stop redirecting web surfers from its Chinese page, Google.cn, to its uncensored Hong Kong page. Google...

China to Google: Stop Sending Users to Hong Kong

Google will give users a choice in hopes to appease Beijing

(Newser) - Google will stop automatically rerouting users of its China search site to its Hong Kong site, the company said today, after Beijing threatened the company with the loss of its Internet license. Instead of automatically being switched to Hong Kong, visitors to Google.cn now see a tab that says...

Google Plans 'Facebook Killer'
 Google Plans 'Facebook Killer' 
Jun 28, 2010 5:00 PM CDT

Google Plans 'Facebook Killer'

Search giant rumored to be trying social networking again

(Newser) - A single tweet from Digg co-founder Kevin Rose hinting at a Google challenger to Facebook has opened the floodgates of speculation about what a Google social network, aka "Google Me," would look like. Most focus on Google profiles, a service that establishes a small profile that comes up...

Why Microsoft Is Doomed to Be an Also-Ran
 Why Microsoft Is Doomed 
 to Be an Also-Ran  
Henry Blodget
Jun 21, 2010 6:42 PM CDT

Why Microsoft Is Doomed to Be an Also-Ran

Or worse. Its two biggest businesses—Windows and Office— are close to obsolete

(Newser) - Henry Blodget winds up big and delivers a broadside against Microsoft on Business Insider today . The fact that Apple's market value passed Microsoft's a couple weeks ago is only the beginning. Blodget points out that a huge majority of Microsoft's profits come from Windows and Office, and both are being...

T-Mobile May Beat Verizon to iPhone
 T-Mobile May Beat 
 Verizon to iPhone 
hot rumor
Jun 11, 2010 3:38 PM CDT

T-Mobile May Beat Verizon to iPhone

Verizon's alliance with Google an obstacle for Apple

(Newser) - Competition from Google's Droid platform may stall the Verizon-Apple marriage, meaning the iPhone will wind up branching out to T-Mobile first. With AT&T's exclusive deal near an end, furious speculation about which provider will be the next to offer Apple's signature device has focused on Verizon. But two industry...

Twitter Will Make You Smarter
 Twitter Will Make You Smarter 
opinion
Jun 11, 2010 12:14 PM CDT

Twitter Will Make You Smarter

Like other new media, site beefs up brain if used wisely

(Newser) - It's fashionable to cry about how Twitter and other new forms of electronic media are making us intellectually lazy and downright stupid. In fact, the opposite is true, writes Harvard's Steven Pinker. "Don’t rail at PowerPoint or Google," he writes. "It’s not as if habits...

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