Archive for February 4th, 2009

Yahoo launches search tool like one Google killed (Reuters)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is panning for gold in waters that Google Inc abandoned.

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

They know where you are: Google lets you track friends and family through their mobiles (Daily Mail)

Internet users are used to sharing minute details of their lives through social networks such as Facebook. Now Google maps has launched software that goes one step further.

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Google launches Latitude for Mobile Maps (Infomatics)

Google has launched a new Mobile Maps application called Latitude , allowing users to share their locations with contacts via their mobile phone. Latitude allows users to approximately pinpoint each other on Google Maps for mobile . After using a Google account to opt in to the feature, users can invite their contacts to sign up to Google Latitude, in order to keep track of their various ...

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Ray Kurzweil to head futurology school backed by Nasa and Google (Guardian Unlimited)

An American inventor who plans to live forever has been appointed head of a new school for futurologists backed by Google and the US space agency Nasa. Ray Kurzweil , who worked as a computer scientist before turning to future gazing in the late 1980s, will become chancellor of the Singularity University based at Nasa's Silicon Valley campus in California. The institution gains its name ...

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Google’s Latitude knows where your friends are (Silicon.com)

Google has today launched software called Latitude that lets mobile phone users share their location with close contacts. Google hopes it will help people find each other while out and about and to keep track of loved ones. Steve Lee, product manager for Google Latitude, said: "What Google Latitude does is allow you to share that location with friends and family members, and likewise be able ...

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009