Google Glass may only be the first step as Google smart contact lenses could turn average human beings into the Six Million Dollar Man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5zn-mF2-_8 Adriana Lee on ReadWrite.com just published a story on some patents that Google filed with regard to their smart contact lense technology. From the article: Imagine the Google Glass headgear, which currently … [Read more...]
Google Reports: Paid Clicks Up 26%, Cost-Per-Click Drops 9%, Stock Down After Hours
Google reported it earnings after the market closed today for the quarter ending ending March 31 Google had $15.4 billion in revenue. Net income was $3.45 billion, which amounted to earnings of $5.04 a share, or $6.27 a share excluding one-time charges. While revenue rose 19% and profit was up 3%, that fell short of Wall Street's projections. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters were … [Read more...]
Google Explains How It Reads Your Email
Google has changed its terms of service when it comes to Gmail. Reuters is out with the news, (Reuters) - Google Inc updated its terms of service on Monday, informing users that their incoming and outgoing emails are automatically analyzed by software to create targeted ads. The revisions more explicitly spell out the manner in which Google software scans users' emails, both when messages … [Read more...]
Google Acquires Drone Maker That Facebook Was Eyeing
Todd Wasserman is reporting for Mashable that Google has purchased Titan Aerospace, a 20 person drone maker that Facebook was also interested in purchasing. There were no financial terms on the deal released on the acquisition. Apparently Facebook was interested to the tune of $60 million. Google has purchased Titan Aerospace, a maker of drones that Facebook was reportedly interested in buying … [Read more...]
Google Extends “Not Provided” to Paid Search
Google is making a change that will bring paid search in line with organic search when it comes to relaying referrer information. Now when people using secure search click on AdWords ads, they will not have their search query show up in the referrer string, this info will no longer be available in analytics packages and third party providers of related software. Ginny Marvin wrote on Search … [Read more...]
Google to Launch Android TV – We Already Know They Don’t Own The Domain
According to a story on Mashable, Google is going to launch Android TV. Ten days ago Mike wrote a post about a UDRP that Google filed on AndroidTV.com. The panelists decided that this case was outside the scope of the UDRP. You can read the case and the commentary that Mike added here. March 31, 2014 there was a press release put out highlighting this decision. The press release contact is Mike … [Read more...]
USPTO Views The Glass Half Empty When it Comes to Google
There is a lot of buzz around Google and their attempt to trademark the word glass. The Huffington Post and The Daily Mail wrote articles on Google having trouble getting their trademark approved which for the most part they were sourcing the Wall Street Journal article who seemed to be the first to talk about the trouble Google was having with their trademark for glass. Jacob Gersham wrote … [Read more...]