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Bing Booster: Microsoft Wants to Bring Bing to More Startups
Microsoft today launched its new Bing Booster program. This new program, which is launching in Boston, New York and San Francisco today, aims to “to bring experts, [...]
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HTTPS: Google Wants to Make Search Safer
Google just announced that it will soon redirect all of its users who are signed in to their Google Accounts to https://www.google.com. Over the last few months [...]
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Google Docs Presentations Get Real-Time Collaboration, Transitions and Animations
Just about a year and a half ago, most of Google’s productivity apps in the Google Docs suite received major overhauls that brought real-time collaboration and a number of other new features to Google’s online document, spreadsheet and drawing tools. One tools that was left out of that refresh at the time was Presentations, Google’s online PowerPoint rival. Today, Google is changing this by bringing real-time collaboration, animations, rich tables and about 50 more new features to Presentations.
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Ford to Demonstrate Google-Powered Smart Electrification Technology Later this Week
Earlier this year, at Google I/O, Ford and Google announced a new project that would use Google’s cloud-based tools to make vehicles smarter. Later this week, at the 18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Ford will give its first public demonstrations of the fruits of this work. The idea behind this work is to use Google’s Prediction API to “predict driver behavior in order to optimize vehicle control systems and improve vehicle performance attributes such as fuel or hybrid-electric efficiency.”
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Google Announces Dates for I/O 2012: April 24-25
Last year, Google’s I/O developer conference sold out within less than a hour. Today, Google announced the dates for I/O 2012. The conference will return to San Francisco’s [...]
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