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    Google Chairman Eric Schmidt: "The Internet Will Disappear"

    Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted the end of the Internet as we know it.
    At the end of a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where his comments were webcast, he was asked for his prediction on the future of the web. “I will answer very simply that the Internet will disappear,” Schmidt said.
    “There will be so many IP addresses…so many devices, sensors, things that you are wearing, things that you are interacting with that you won’t even sense it,” he explained. “It will be part of your presence all the time. Imagine you walk into a room, and the room is dynamic. And with your permission and all of that, you are interacting with the things going on in the room.
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    Google's $66 billion pull for 2014 was less than Apple's Q4 results

    Google has posted both its Q4 and full year 2014 results, where we see the Mountain View-based giant raking in an impressive $66 billion for the year. This is up 19% from 2013, with its Q4 2014 seeing revenues reach $18.1 billion, up 15% year-over-year.


    The company said that its Google-owned sites saw $12.43 billion in revenues for Q4 2014 which is up 18%, while its partner sites pulled $3.72 billion in revenue, up 6%. When it came to revenues secured outside of the United States, Google saw 56% of its total revenue made outside the US. The UK for example, made up 9% of its revenues. Google added an additional 2000 employees to its roster in Q4, too.

    Comparing this to Apple, which made $74.6 billion for Q4 2014, more than Google's entire full year revenue, these results are great, but don't touch Apple in the slightest.

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    A Apple jasus! :0
    List of Public DNS Servers! - Internet Censurada? Tenta alterar o DNS.
    aqui como testares o teu DNS!


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    Paletes de Iphonix 6
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    Gmail payments via Google Wallet starting to roll out in the UK

    Google previously announced it was introducing a money sending service for Gmail users, allowing you to easily send funds back and forth to each other via Google Wallet. The service is built directly into Gmail and is accessed no different than a typical email attachment, and now the search giant has announced that its UK users will soon have access to the feature.
    As the service rolls out, UK users will be able to send money to others in the UK using the simple attachment method. It works right on the desktop and will even allow you to send cash to users that don’t have/use a Gmail address. Alternatively, users can also request funds from users in a similar fashion.
    Much like you would expect, the first time you have been sent money there is a set-up process for those not already in the Google Wallet ecosystem. Users will need to “claim” the funds by setting up a Wallet account and linking it with a debit card or bank account. Like any funds stored in Google Wallet, they can be kept there for quick payments elsewhere, spent on Google Play or simply transferred to your bank account.
    According to the Google announcement post, the service will be rolling out the users in the UK over the coming weeks. The feature will only be available to those over the age of 18 and users should begin seeing the £ icon within the usual attachment drawer shortly.



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    Google will change its Privacy Policy for the better

    Since Google changed its privacy policy back in 2012, it has been under investigation in no less than 28 countries. It has been fined by both Spain and France for the vagueness of the policy, which does not clearly state how it will store and collect personal data. The Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK today released news that, it would not be fining Google, but it will be requiring it to sign a formal undertaking to improve the information it provides to people about how it collects personal data in the UK, after concerns were raised around changes to the company’s privacy policy.
    Steve Eckersley, Head of Enforcement at the ICO, said: “This undertaking marks a significant step forward following a long investigation and extensive dialogue. Google’s commitment today to make these necessary changes will improve the information UK consumers receive when using their online services and products.”

    Google did not sound so pleased however “We’re pleased that the ICO has decided to close its investigation,” a spokesman from Google said.
    Google introduced a new privacy policy in March 2012 combining around 70 existing policies for various services, but the new policy did not include sufficient information for service users as to how and why their personal data was being collected. The search engine is now being forced to make the agreed changes by 30 June 2015 and make further changes within the next two years to make their privacy policy clearer.
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    Project Ara To Use SolidEnergy's Revolutionary Battery Technology In 2016


    Module makers for Project Ara are already lining up to create third-party modules for the platform, and one of the more interesting ones is Solid Energy, which promises to make revolutionary batteries that have twice the capacity of current batteries.
    SolidEnergy is an MIT startup with $4.5 million in funding, and it has 12 employees who have been working on this new technology for the past three years. The company has developed an ultra-thin metal anode that has twice the density of the graphite and silicon anodes commonly used in smartphone batteries.
    The current lithium-ion battery technology that uses graphite anodes has been commercialized since 1991, when Sony first launched it on the market. A graphite anode is more limited in how much energy it can store, which is why SolidEnergy tried to solve the energy storage problem using an ultra-thin metal anode that can raise the energy density of the battery up to 1,200Whr per liter. A graphite anode can only hold less than 600Whr per liter.
    SolidEnergy's anode is made of a thin piece of lithium on copper that's less than a fifth the size of a graphite anode. The company provides the electrolyte as well, which is the substance being used to move a charge back and forth between the anode and cathode. It can work at room temperature, while other metal anodes have to work at a higher temperature.
    SolidEnergy is going to target its battery technology at smartphones, because it seems you can never have too much battery life in a mobile device. Most smartphones barely last a day under moderate use. Because the company can just sell its own battery modules to consumers and because its batteries can store twice as much energy than the competitors, SolidEnergy has chosen to make batteries for Project Ara at first.
    “Our battery basically makes the Project Ara phone more practical," said SolidEnergy founder and CEO Dr. Qichao Hu in an interview. "Right now, one of the major challenges with this phone is that the battery life is too short."
    Project Ara only has room for so many modules, and the battery module isn't particularly large in size. That makes high storage capacity very compelling. SolidEnergy will begin commercializing its own batteries in 2016. Batteries targeted at electric vehicles will follow in 2017.
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    Google Stymies Thieves With Remote Lock Tool For Chromebooks

    Google has just rolled-out a long-awaited update to Chrome OS that will allow administrators to disable devices in the event that they're stolen. This kind of security feature isn't new, of course, and even Google's Android platform has supported it for a while. But as it's been missing on Chrome OS, Chromebook adoption could have been a little stifled -- at least on the enterprise side of things.
    Google's Chromium evangelist François Beaufort reports, "Admins can now place lost or stolen Chrome OS devices in a disabled state right from their web-based management console and display a custom message on the disabled device screens.".
    The keyword in that statement is "Admins", as this feature will only affect Chromebooks sold in the business and education sectors. It's a little strange that consumer Chromebooks would be left unaffected, so we hope that Google will roll out an update for those devices at a later date.
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    Once a Chromebook is deemed missing, its administrator can log into the Web management tool and select an option to disable it. That's standard fare; what makes this particular version cool is that the admin has the ability to issue a custom error, along with an address for the sake of returning it. It's hard to imagine most thieves returning locked-down Chromebooks to their rightful owners, but perhaps a personal message might strike the right chord with some. We could hope, anyway.


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    Google Acquires Photo Sharing and Backup App Odysee, Hasn’t Given up on Google+


    Google has finally acquired Odysee to improve its social networks by adding more offline and privately shared features to its Google+ service. Odysee allows backing up of photos automatically to the home PC which are one captured through tablets and Android phones.
    “Odysee is a sharable cross platform camera roll using distributed cloud storage from any source. It is intended to be the place where a user can keep all their captured memories with easy access and simple sharing”
    Acquisition seems more advantageous to Odysee than closing its previously provided services

    Odysee is basically an iOS and Android app that allows direct contact through PC to save much more than photographs only. It also allows people to share and setup private inbox automatically. Odysee was primarily “especially designed for people who take a lot of videos and would like the option of saving them at their full quality” With the new term, Odysee also announced that its private saving and sharing service is subject to be closed on February 23. And with thee closing, Odysee will join hands with the Google+ team and will work in a similar capacity with photo syncing and sharing services to “continue to focus on building amazing products that people love.”

    Acquirement was announced by sending in a notification the app users as well as through a post by Odysee home website. With the newly announced service, the note also states the closure of its previous services. Also, Odysee app is no more available at Google Play store and Apple App Store. However it is justifiable how it makes so much sense for Google to acquire Odysee. Because there had been a bunch of rumors that Google will start its own Photos service, independent of Google+ as a new venture which will have features that allows it to stay ahead of other photo service providers like Yahoo, Instagram and Dropbox, etc.
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    Google Celebrates ‘Safer Internet Day’ With Security Checkup, 2GB Of Free Google Drive Space

    While it’s not quite the 100GB of free One Drive cloud storage space that Microsoft is giving away if you sign up for Bing Rewards, Google is giving away freebies of its own to commemorate Safer Internet Day. In an effort to ensure that users are protected against hackers and other cyber threats, Google is asking its users to complete its Security Checkup by February 17.

    The Security Checkup prompts you to verify your account recovery options (email, phone), gives you a listing of recent sign-ins on your account to help you spot any suspicious activity, and allows you to confirm or remove app that have access to your Google account information.

    In return for completing the Security Checkup, which Google says should take no more than two minutes, you’ll receive an additional 2GB of storage space in your Google Drive. Now before you guys run through the checks and cry foul when you don’t see your 2GB bonus, please note that Google won’t actually start crediting accounts until around February 28.
    There’s also one other caveat to the 2GB promotion; users of Google Apps for Work or Google Apps for Education are ineligible, although Google says that these users “should still consider taking the Security Checkup.”


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    Google I/O 2015 scheduled for May 28-29 at Moscone Center West, registration opens in March

    Android developers, listen up! This year’s Google I/O developer conference will be held May 28-29 in San Francisco. Once again, Google has selected Moscone Center West as the venue for the event.
    Registration for the event will open on March 17 at 9:00am PDT and will remain open until March 19 at 5:00pm PDT. That’s a relatively short registration window but Google is quick to remind interested parties that there’s no need to rush to submit an application.
    As was the case last year, Google will employ a lottery system to select lucky recipients that’ll be offered the opportunity to purchase a ticket to the event. Why a lottery system, you ask?
    Simple – because demand for tickets is extremely high. Utilizing the first-come, first-serve model meant tickets often sold out in under an hour. The lottery model gives everyone a fair chance of being picked to attend (although I wouldn't be surprised if some of Google's top developers get a free pass). And even if you aren’t selected, there’s always the possibility that Google could put some last-minute tickets up for grabs.
    At the very least, you’ll be able to watch a livestream of the keynote online.
    No word yet on how much Google plans to charge for tickets. For what it’s worth, the search giant charged $900 a head last year. The cost of admission is typically recouped as Google is known to give attendees some pretty cool swag.
    Last year, for example, conference goers received two Android Wear smartwatches and a Google Cardboard kit.
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    Google Goes Green Will Be Using Wind Energy to Power The Mountain View Headquarters


    Google’s latest deal to power its Mountain View Headquarters with energy that is coming from a Bay area wind farm releases today. Its green energy investment reveals out to be a big deal for Google itself.
    In an official Google blog post it is stated:
    “Technology can help us do more with less. For example, making use of natural climates has helped us make our data centers 50% more efficient than the industry average, and green building technology has helped us limit energy consumption in our offices around the world. Now, we’re doing more with less to power Google’s North Bayshore campus in Mountain View”
    Google intends to increase its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through these sustainable practices

    The firm will be allowed to reboot a wind farm in California’s Altamont Pass, outfitting it with new turbines. That too will happen because of the long term agreement signed with NextEra Energy Resouces.
    Google also stated:
    Finally, if we can geek out for a minute: We think this project is especially cool because back in the 1980’s, the golden hills of Altamont Pass were an early test bed for the first large-scale wind power technology in the U.S. We’ve been blown away (pun intended ) by how far turbine technology has come since then. Once the installation is complete, and the 370 legacy turbines are replaced, it will take just 24 new ones to generate as much power as our campus uses in a year. Talk about doing more with less.
    43 MegaWatts of electrical energy is expected to be added to the grid starting in 2016 with the arrival of this farm. This farm will contribute a certain percentage of the total electricity generated in 2016. Sustainability efforts by Google were primarily focused on on powering energy guzzling data centers, usually with clean energy.Many out of all are located around the globe. To build a hyper efficient data center, Google recently dropped $773 million in Netherlands, whereas company already had one already in Belgium. According to Google, its going to be the “fourth hyper efficient facility in Europe.”



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    Google stated about the making of a new hyper efficient plant in Netherlands:
    The new Dutch data centre will benefit from the latest designs in cooling and electrical technology. It will be free-cooled — taking advantage of natural assets like cool air and grey water to keep our servers cool. Our data centers use 50% less energy than a typical datacenter — and our intention is to run this new facility on renewable energy.
    Google is expecting to “start initial operations [on the data center] in the first half of 2016 and to be fully operational by the end of 2017.” Apple also stated that it wants to start expanding its renewable energy resources towards retail stores in addition to its data centers. This announcement by Google comes on the heels of Apple’s investment on building a $850 Million solar farm in California with First Solar. Apple operated two energy solar farms already in North Carolina and in Nevada.
    The two companies are truly dedicated towards sustainable practices since many years, to help themselves in the long run and also to improve their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
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    Google Tackles Apple Pay With Plaso

    Apple Pay launched late last year and has been successful. It has gained acceptance in some retail stores and has managed to gain the support of the largest banks in the world.
    Looking to cut into Apple's profits, Google is developing a new service called Plaso. Plaso will work in a similar fashion as Apple Pay, running inside of Android. Google will need to be creative to catch up to Apple Pay, however.

    Google already has its Google Wallet system setup, but it's never gained great popularity. While it isn't official yet, Plaso and Google Wallet could work together to help speed the development and basic frame work for Plaso.
    One minor problem for Google will be NFC technology. Apple has integrated NFC technology into the latest iPhones, which can be used to make public transactions much faster and easier. In addition, the Apple Watch, which will launch in the near future, also has NFC technology. Although some Android devices have NFC, it isn't necessarily something that Google can enforce across all devices.
    According to NFCWorld.com, the majority of devices from Google, LG, HTC, Motorola, Samsung, Sony and ZTE, which make up the bulk of Android smartphone sales, have NFC technology included. This is fortunate, because it will minimize the impact of phones which lack this ability and should still allow Plaso to grow quickly.
    Square, another company which has a device for taking credit card transactions, is also attempting to regain lost ground. Faced with fierce competition from Paypal, Amazon, Cupertino and others, Square is developing a standalone tablet device. This is mostly in response to Apple Pay, because Square's stand reader device doesn't work well with Android products.
    With Apple Pay continuing to grow, it's hard to say if these new products and services will be able to catch up, but it's good to have some competition in the market.
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    Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever


    Technology giants often meet their end not with a bang but a whimper, a slow, imperceptible descent into irrelevancy that may not immediately be reflected in the anodyne language of corporate earnings reports.
    Old kingpins like Digital Equipment and Wang didn’t disappear overnight. They sank slowly, burdened by maintenance of the products that made them rich and unable to match the pace of technological change around them. The same is happening now at Hewlett-Packard, which is splitting in two. Even Microsoft — the once unbeatable, declared monopolist of personal computing software — has struggled to stay relevant in the shift from desktop to mobile devices, even as it has continued to pump out billions in profits.
    Now Google is facing a similar question about its place among tech’s standard bearers. And like those companies before it, its strength today — a seemingly endless reservoir of ads next to search results — may turn out to be its weakness tomorrow.
    “I’m not saying that Google is going to go away, just as Microsoft didn’t go away,” said Ben Thompson, a tech analyst who writes the blog Stratechery. “It’s just that Google will miss out on what’s next.”
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    At first glance, the Mountain View, Calif., company looks plenty healthy. It generated $14.4 billion in profits in 2014 and revenue was up 19 percent from the year before. Google accounts for three-quarters of the world’s web searches, and the company also controls Android, by far the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, and YouTube, the world’s most popular video site.
    Yet a look behind the search bar shows cracks. Growth in Google’s primary business, search advertising, has flattened out at about 20 percent a year for the last few years. The company’s financial results have failed to meet consensus analysts’ expectations for five straight quarters. And its stock price has fallen 8 percent over the last year.
    Although Google has spent considerable resources inventing technologies for the future, it has failed to turn many of its innovations into new moneymakers. About 90 percent of Google’s revenue is from ads, most of that on its search engine.
    But as smartphones eclipse laptop and desktop computers to become the planet’s most important computing devices, the digital ad business is rapidly changing. Facebook, Google’s archrival for advertising dollars, has been quick to profit from the shift.
    Google’s place in the future is less clear.
    In a much-discussed article published last fall, Mr. Thompson argued that the search company is ill suited to capitalize on the huge cache of ad dollars that marketers now spend on TV — a bundle of money that is slowly shifting to mobile apps.
    Here’s why: The advertising business is split, roughly, into two. On one side are direct-response ads meant to induce an immediate purchase: Think classifieds, the Yellow Pages or catalogs.
    In 2000, Google began running text-based ads alongside its search results. These ads quickly became one of the world’s most successful forms of direct-response advertising. In 2014, Google sold about $45 billion in search ads.
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    But Google’s enormous search haul is only a slice of the $550 billion global advertising market, according to the research firm eMarketer. As Mr. Thompson pointed out, most of that money is not in direct response ads like Google’s.
    Instead, the bulk of the ad industry is devoted to something called brand ads. These are the ads you see on television and print magazines. They work on your emotions in the belief that, in time, your dollars will follow.
    Google is great at information but it is still learning emotion.
    This gets to the crux of Mr. Thompson’s argument that Google has peaked. The future of online advertising looks increasingly like the business of television. It is likely to be dominated by services like Facebook, Snapchat or Pinterest that keep people engaged for long periods of time.
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    “Google doesn’t create immersive experiences that you get lost in,” Mr. Thompson said. “Google creates transactional services. You go to Google to search, or for maps, or with something else in mind. And those are the types of ads they have. But brand advertising isn’t about that kind of destination. It’s about an experience.”
    Google disputed the idea that it may face a challenge in brand advertising. “The brand and video advertising opportunity is huge and we feel well positioned to invest with confidence and excitement,” a spokesman said.
    YouTube attracts more than a billion users a month, and the company thinks that if ad dollars begin flowing from TV to the Internet, a lot of that money will flow to YouTube.
    At YouTube’s headquarters just south of San Francisco, Google built a huge workshop it calls BrandLab, where sales people shepherd representatives from big advertisers like Coca-Cola and Toyota through online advertising lessons.
    Google has also created technology to measure how marketers’ ads affect potential customers, which was not so easy to do in the predigital era. And it keeps investing in its formidable ad infrastructure, including technology to serve up and measure how ads are performing, and a staff of thousands of sales people.
    The problem for Google, though, is that its efforts aren’t impossible to replicate. In less than five years, Facebook has also built an enviable ad-technology infrastructure, a huge sales team that aims to persuade marketers of the benefits of Facebook ads over TV ads, and new ways for brands to measure how well their ads are doing. These efforts have paid off quickly: In 2014 Facebook sold $11.5 billion in ads, most of them on mobile devices. That was up 65 percent over 2013.
    Any number of up-and-coming social services, including Pinterest and Snapchat, could also do well. So even if YouTube does very well, it will be only one of several services where marketers want to spend their money.
    “The movement of brand advertising into digital will probably not be winner-take-all, like it was in search,” said Ari Paparo, a former advertising product director at Google who is now the chief executive of an ad technology company called Beeswax. “And if it were to be winner-takes-all, it’s much more likely to be Facebook that takes all than it would be Google.”
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    Google would still make a lot of money if it doesn’t dominate online ads the way it does now. But it would need to find other businesses to keep growing.
    Perhaps this explains why Larry Page, the company’s co-founder and chief executive, recently delegated responsibility for most of Google’s products to a subordinate, allowing Mr. Page to focus on strategy. It could also explain why Google’s research and development spending increased to $2.8 billion in the fourth quarter, from $2.1 billion in the same quarter a year ago.
    That spending, on projects like a self-driving car, Google Glass, fiber-optic lines in American cities and even space exploration, generates plenty of buzz for the company.
    But the far-out projects remind Mr. Thompson of Microsoft, which has also invested heavily in research and development, and has seen little return on its investments.
    “To me the Microsoft comparison can’t be more clear,” he said. “This is the price of being so successful — what you’re seeing is that when a company becomes dominant, its dominance precludes it from dominating the next thing. It’s almost like a natural law of business.”
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    http://www.portugal-tech.pt/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=566&dateline=1384876765

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    Project Ara may appear at MWC next month

    Google has been showing off more and more of Project Ara during recent months and we may get to see even more of the modular smartphone at the Mobile World Congress, which starts next month, in Barcelona.
    Around 50 of the device’s modular components are also due to be displayed at the event. although according to recent rumors, not all of them will actually be working just yet.

    Project Ara’s modules will allow owners to customize the specifications of their smartphone and upgrade different parts when required. Modules will include the Camera, RAM and graphics. We don’t know how much these modules will sell for though.
    However, Toshiba’s Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Shardul Kazi, has indicated that modules may range from as low as £32 all the way up to £325. Toshiba will also be teaming up with Einfochips to produce parts for Project Ara.
    Two early versions of the Project Ara handset have already been created, the Spiral One and the Spiral Two, the Spiral Three is expected to be shown off at MWC next month.
    Noticia:
    http://www.kitguru.net/channel/gener...wc-next-month/
    http://www.portugal-tech.pt/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=566&dateline=1384876765

 

 
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