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Google, in an attempt to outshine one of the worst kept secrets in the industry at the time — Apple’s 3D Maps announcement at WWDC 2012 — hastily put together its own presser 5 days in advance, to announce their entry into the “next dimension” of maps. That’s all water under the bridge now (see Continue Reading →

Google is making it even easier to get around a foreign city when you travel. The Google Translate app for Android got a major update allowing you to take a photo of a sign or even a menu, and translate it into another language. Now you never have to sit in a café unable to Continue Reading →

Google will pay a historic fine to settle U.S. government charges that it violated privacy laws when it tracked via cookies users of Apple’s Safari browser. The US$22.5 million civil penalty is the largest ever secured by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for a violation of one of its orders, the FTC said on Thursday. Continue Reading →

Google on Wednesday announced that it will be updating its Search application for the iPhone and iPad. The new version of Google Search will include the company’s enhanced voice functionality, which is similar to the service it offers in the latest version of Android. Performance on iOS should identical to the performance seen in Jelly Continue Reading →

One of the things that all of us were wondering at the Google search event today was when will the rest of Google’s products be unearthed in the main search. Liz Gannes from AllThingsD asked the team when other products would get this “universal” touch, and responded by saying that Docs, Drive, Calendar are all Continue Reading →

In a major move to integrate personal search and Web search, Google is adding some users’ Gmail into their search results as a “limited field trial,” it said Wednesday. So when participating users search for “Amazon,” information from their own recent purchase confirmation emails will appear on the right rail. Or, a user could type Continue Reading →

Do you really think security is too much trouble? That no one is ever going to bother with your accounts? Ask former Gizmodo employee Mat Honan if he feels that way after his accounts and devices were wiped clean. That could have been you, and it could have been worse. There are several ways to Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120808_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] When we talk about hackers, the image that comes to mind is often of secretive computer geniuses hiding somewhere where they can’t be traced. But sometimes hacking takes little digital skill. Recently, Wired writer Mat Honan had nearly his entire digital life destroyed by hackers who were Continue Reading →

Other than wanting to live in Kansas City due to fast Internet, I am also waiting patiently for the day where I can hop in a car and it drives itself. The Google self-driving car project has been around for some time, but has crossed a milestone of over 300,000 miles tested. If you hang Continue Reading →

In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely Continue Reading →