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With only three weeks remaining before Google Reader disappears for good, Feedly has completed its transition away from the dying service and onto its own backend cloud. Feedly has been among a host of third-party Reader clients searching for a new way to handle their users’ RSS feeds, which have long been loaded and synced Continue Reading →

How many calories are in that banana? The answer to this type of question is now never more than a Google search away. Google recently added nutritional information for over 1,000 fruits, vegetables, meats and meals to its searches. Looking to find out how much protein or how many carbs are in a particular snack? Continue Reading →

Sources inform ”Globes” that Google will acquire Waze for $1.3 billion. The acquisition of the Israeli navigation app and traffic report start-up will be completed after months of reports that Waze would be sold to either Google or Facebook. Ra’anana-based Waze has almost 50 million users. This is a big number for an Israeli company, Continue Reading →

TiVo’s stock plunged the most in three years after settling a patent dispute with Google’s Motorola Mobility unit, Cisco Systems and Time Warner Cable for $490 million — less than analysts had estimated. TiVo announced the amount this morning, saying it brought the total from awards and settlements related to the use of TiVo’s digital-video-recorder Continue Reading →

It seems that cable companies really don’t think that American consumers need 1Gbps Internet services such as those offered by Google Fiber. We’ve already seen both former Time Warner Cable CFO Irene Esteves and National Cable & Telecommunications Association CEO Michael Powell dismiss delivering gigabit connectivity as “an irrelevant exercise in bragging rights,” among other Continue Reading →

Google Glass is arguably the most concerning new product for privacy advocates nowadays, but certain businesses also have reason to worry. The gambling industry is the latest to show apprehension, with casinos and regulators in at least two states prohibiting the device in some form. “We are thinking very carefully about how we design Glass Continue Reading →

Shipments of Android smartphones are expected to climb to more than 1 billion units annually in 2017, more than twice the 470 million Android phones that shipped last year. Market research firm Canalys on Tuesday issued a new report containing its smartphone forecast for the next five years. Android is clearly the big winner, and Continue Reading →

With the death of Google Reader under a month away, third-party RSS clients will soon need to find a replacement to Google’s service. Feedly has been working hard to fill the void, and it’s announcing that it will integrate with the apps Reeder, Nextgen Reader, gReader, Press, and Newsify before the end of the month. Continue Reading →

Google posted a notice to its Google Glass channel on G+ that lays out its plan to prevent abuse of facial recognition on the head-mounted computer. Its solution? Reject any Glassware that uses it until they have proper protections in place. Since Glass began hitting people’s faces, the questions about how a wearable camera with Continue Reading →

When Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth began shipping Ubuntu nine years ago, he created “Bug #1.” Its title was “Microsoft has a majority market share,” and Shuttleworth said “[t]his is a bug which Ubuntu and other projects are meant to fix.” Shuttleworth has declared the bug “closed,” but the bug wasn’t fixed as a result of Continue Reading →