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YouTube videos account for 22% of all global mobile bandwidth consumed

July 27, 2011

Close to a quarter of all global mobile bandwidth is consumed by people watching YouTube videos, according to a new report from network management vendor Allot Communications. The Google-owned video site’s global bandwidth share was 22 percent in the first half of 2011, compared with just 17 percent in the first half of 2010. YouTube now accounts for 52 percent of all global mobile video streaming, according to Allot.

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Reinventing Monopolies

July 23, 2011

Futurist Thomas Frey: In 1936 Edwin Howard Armstrong unveiled an improvement in radio that would later become known as FM radio. Working out of an office on the 82^nd floor of the Empire State Building, an office provided by RCA, Armstrong was on the verge of revolutionizing the radio industry. But it was a revolution that would not happen for several decades.

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U.S. girls sweep Google Global Science Fair 2011

July 20, 2011

Top honors went to three young ladies from the U.S.

Three girls in the U.S. won the top prizes in a global science fair launched by Google for their projects on ovarian cancer, grilled chicken and indoor air quality, the internet giant announced.

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Are Search Engines changing the way our memory works?

July 15, 2011

Has the Search Engine altered our way of thinking and remembering?

If you can Google it, why bother remembering? Being able to access facts with just a few keystroke definitely improved our lives, but it has actually changed the way our memories work.

A study of 46 college students found lower rates of recall on newly-learned facts when students thought those facts were saved on a computer for later recovery.

If you think a fact is conveniently available online, then, you may be less apt to learn it…

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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg now richer than Google founders

July 1, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg is worth $18 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has become richer than Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, thanks to GSV Capital Corp’s stake buy which values the popular social networking site at about $70 billion. Earlier this week GSV Capital Corp bought 225,000 shares in Facebook at an average price of $29.28 each.

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Google adds speech recognition to its search engine

June 29, 2011

Speech recognition searches may take time for web users to get used to.

Asking a computer out loud for information is seen as a futurist idea right out of science fiction. But Google is trying to change that. They are adding speech recognition to its search engine which will release technology that will allow any browser, website, or app to use the feature.

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Google activates 500,000 Android devices every day

June 29, 2011

Android had become the most popular operating system among smartphone users in the United States.

The vice president for engineering at Google, Andy Rubin, said in a Twitter message Tuesday that the company was now activating over 500,000 Android devices each day. Andy leads the company’s Google Android platform.

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Google takes on Facebook with Google Plus

June 28, 2011

Google Plus One

Frustrated by a string of failed attempts to crack social networking, Google Inc, is taking another stab at fending off Facebook and other hot social sites with a new service called Google Plus.

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Smartphone data usage is up 89% more than last year

June 22, 2011

Driving the growth of data usage are “app friendly” mobile operating systems.

Smartphone users are using up more and more data than ever before. According to data from Nielsen data usage is up to 89 percent more than last year.

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Facebook takes number one spot in U.S. online display ad market

June 21, 2011

Facebook, the world’s No.1 Internet social network.

Facebook has displaced Yahoo Inc to collect the largest slice of online display advertising dollars with Facebook’s advertising revenue in the U.S. totalling $2.2 billion in 2011.

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Life Without Google

June 10, 2011

How much Google is too much Google?

Joshua J. Romero discovered that much of his daily life was dominated by Google. He used its myriad services for so many tasks, and worried that it gave Google too much ability to control him. So as an experiment, he decided to completely disconnect from the company…

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The Day that Google Died

June 3, 2011

Futurist Thomas Frey: It was a frenzy of activity as workers scurried from office to office, making their final checks, gathering books, papers, and personal belongings. Many were still stunned over the announcement that Google was closing its doors. The final minutes before the deadline were reserved for tearful hugs and remorseful goodbyes, but for the people of the world these brief moments of stunned silence would soon be replaced with long term anger and outrage.

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