Destination CRM - Ed Chi Joins Google as a Research Scientist
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(22-Feb-11) Google has hired Ed Chi, a world-renowned expert in social media, as a research scientist specializing in human interaction. Up until the end of January, Chi was a principal scientist of augmented social cognition at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), an institution for...
Tim Hickernell, senior analyst at Info-Tech Research Group, says it is likely that Chi was hired to enhance the company’s social media strategy, but says it is hard to definitively know for sure with Google’s unpredictable track record.
What Is XXVI (Alphabet) (Google)?
Note: Trends and Predictions
The technology world has become terribly warped since modern China showed up for the dance, and very few companies have retained their culture, their missions, or, more obviously, their earnings – or (therefore) their CEOs. But Google has, and for that, and for all of the deeper reasons behind...
But Google has, and for that, and for all of the deeper reasons behind that, its management deserves the respect of innovating companies and countries worldwide.
Google Introduces Anthos in a Bid to Embrace Hybridity
Software Reviews: Infrastructure & Operations
Google has rebranded its Cloud Services Platform as Anthos and announced compatibility across platforms. Users will be able to manage hybrid cloud deployments in Azure and AWS, along with Google Cloud. This is an acknowledgement from Google that the cloud’s future is hybrid, and that the major...
The Cloud Services Platform was Google’s platform for managing hybrid Kubernetes deployments (a container orchestration tool). Users of Google’s cloud could employ the services platform to manage instances that live in both the on-premises datacenter and the public cloud, allowing enterprises to move the workloads easily between the two.
Google Updates Improve Speech Recognition for Contact Center AI
Software Reviews: Industry Coverage
Google has launched several updates for its Contact Center AI product, improving speech recognition accuracy by 40%.
Google has launched several updates for its Contact Center AI product, improving speech recognition accuracy by 40%.. Google has launched several updates for its Contact Center AI product, with its most notable feature “Auto Speech Adaptation” significantly improving speech recognition for voice bots and transcription accuracy.
Google Cloud Introduces a Premium Support Offering – What Took Them So Long?
Software Reviews: Infrastructure & Operations
Google has announced a premium support plan for its cloud customers, promising a 15-minute response to the highest severity tickets. Google’s cloud has long struggled with enterprise customers – especially when compared to giants Microsoft and AWS – and this announcement is the latest...
The new service brings Google Cloud’s offering in-line with that already available with G-Suite. Pricing is based on monthly cloud spend with a base cost of $12,500/month. That’s roughly $150,000/year, which highlights who Google is targeting with this offering.
Backbone Magazine: Google's 14 year run has been nothing short of astounding. Where does it go next?
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In November 2009, Ben Tseitlin thought he’d seen a strange new wind-powered Prius cruising down a California highway. The car had a spinning attachment bolted onto its roof. He posted the sighting on Facebook and thought little more of it. What he’d seen was a self-driving autonomous car....
The company, founded in 1998, has gone from basic search functionality to effectively owning your digital life. It has rewritten the rules of online video and reached the number-one spot in the mobile phone operating system market. Its reach also extends from the virtual world to the real one.
Google Announces Major G-Suite Updates
Software Reviews: Infrastructure & Operations
Google has announced several updates to its G-Suite offering, which aims to heavily integrate and better secure its teamwork applications. The move represents a clear attempt by Google to directly compete with Microsoft’s office productivity suite, with several of the G-Suite updates mirroring...
Google has announced several updates to its G-Suite offering, which aims to heavily integrate and better secure its teamwork applications.
Toronto SUN - Microsoft, Yahoo! search engine deal approved
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(18-Feb-10) Microsoft and Yahoo! say they will move ahead with their joint search engine venture after getting a green light from European and U.S. regulators, though analysts say their union is unlikely to shave much off Google’s dominant market share any time soon. The U.S. Department of...
s search business allows it to become a more credible alternative to Google and provide greater value to advertisers, according to a European Commission statement.
"We Won't Lock You In, We Promise": Google's Anthos Platform
Software Reviews: Infrastructure & Operations
Google touts the avoidance of vendor lock-in as a key benefit of its new Anthos platform.
Anthos is solution stack for managing applications, and it can run in the cloud or on-premises. It includes features such as container orchestration, service management, and configuration and policy management.
Google Stocks Ammunition in the War Against Deepfakes
Software Reviews: Enterprise Architecture
Google continues to be an ally in the war against deepfake deception, releasing a large dataset of video deepfakes that it has produced with the intent of helping researchers detect visual deepfakes.
Google collaborated with Jigsaw, an incubator that lives within Google’s parent firm Alphabet, to release the dataset to the FaceForensics benchmark project. The project is also cosponsored by Google and spearheaded by researchers at the Technical University of Munich and the University Federico II of Naples.
Direct Marketing News - Google eBookstore could create ad-supported book publishing model: experts
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(7-Dec-10) Google's just launched eBookstore, which made available approximately 3 million digital books from more than 4,000 publishers, will be a boon for the nascent e-tablet market, according to industry experts. It could also usher in ad-supported book publishing. The move is Google's...
The company can also create an ad-supported publishing model, said McQuivey, in his blog post. . (7-Dec-10) Google's just launched eBookstore, which made available approximately 3 million digital books from more than 4,000 publishers, will be a boon for the nascent e-tablet market, according to industry experts.
Bloomberg Businessweek - Google Web Calling Needs Mobile, Business Support, Analysts Say
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(27-Aug-10) Google Inc. needs to add more mobile capabilities and support for business customers to its new Internet-calling service to compete with Skype Technologies SA and rival Web-phone providers, analysts said. Google’s Gmail, the third-largest e-mail site with 186 million users...
Google’s Gmail, the third-largest e-mail site with 186 million users worldwide, added a feature this week that lets users make voice calls to a wireless or land-line phone from a computer, the company said in a blog post. Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free at least until yearend.
Amazon on the Launch Pad: Beyond Antitrust and Into the Next Mammoth Growth Phase
Note: Trends and Predictions
Facing an antitrust investigation (and a presidential grudge), Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon can expect a rocky road ahead. Facebook’s filtering of media, Google’s ubiquity in search, and Apple’s control over newsfeeds are sure to come under fire. What about Amazon? The story of the...
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is likely concerned given its foundational chosen market of search, filtration, and preferential advertising, and how much revenue it gleans from these activities. Both Facebook and Google monopolize ad avenues and invade privacy limits, and so are likely prey for FTC probes.
Google Cloud
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Google Cloud provides the building blocks so you can quickly develop everything from simple websites to complex applications. Explore how you can make Google Cloud work for you.
Google Cloud. software-reviews. Google. Google Cloud provides the building blocks so you can quickly develop everything from simple websites to complex applications. Explore how you can make Google Cloud work for you..
“Unsafe” Code Uncovered in Chrome Browser (and Chromium-Based Browsers)
Software Reviews: Security
Google has identified “unsafe” code in the Chromium web browser engine. This flaw introduces a potential vulnerability that effects Google Chrome, as well as all Chromium-based web browsers.
For a longer-term solution, Google is examining alternatives to C/C++, including Rust, a programming language that is similar in syntax to C++, but has built-in memory safety features. Microsoft has already been replacing the C++ code in its Chromium-based Edge browser with Rust, having identified the limitations of C and C++..
Google Cloud Assembles Dream Team
Software Reviews: Vendor Management
A new wave of rock star cloud executives are joining Google Cloud as the company makes a strong pivot towards the enterprise market.
The biggest news of the past few months was the announcement that Thomas Kurian was joining Alphabet as the CEO of Google Cloud. After more than twenty years of service as Larry Ellison’s go-to product development and technical wizard, the two apparently could not reconcile core differences in their strategic approaches for Oracle Cloud.
Google Moves Into Banking With Project Cache
Software Reviews: Data & Business Intelligence
Google sets its sights on another vertical to dominate: it plans to start offering checking accounts, reports The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The service, code-named Cache, will be available next year in partnership with Citigroup and Stanford Federal Credit Union.
In the process it can sell aggregated data to advertisers and consolidate its power and market dominance – not just in the information access and advertisement markets, but also more recently in healthcare and now in financial services. Google checking accounts are just a first step in that direction.
Google Cloud Search
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Use the power of Google to search across your company’s content. From Gmail and Drive to Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, and more, Google Cloud Search answers your questions and delivers relevant suggestions to help you throughout the day.
Google Cloud Search. software-reviews. Google. Use the power of Google to search across your company’s content. From Gmail and Drive to Docs, Sheets, Slides, Calendar, and more, Google Cloud Search answers your questions and delivers relevant suggestions to help you throughout the day..
Amnesty International Calls Google and Facebook a Threat to Human Rights
Tech Note: Data & Business Intelligence
We recently covered Google’s lackadaisical approach to data privacy in the context of its partnership with Ascension, a US healthcare giant. Last month, Google was under fire again, along with Facebook, from Amnesty International.
The report contains recommendations for businesses, too, urging them to: Replace the current surveillance-based business model with a model that is respectful of human rights.Stop lobbying to relax data protection and privacy legislation.Take action to remediate human rights abuses they have caused or contributed to.
ITBusiness - Lax privacy rules get Google off the hook
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(29-Oct-10) Weaknesses in privacy legislation both in Canada and the U.S. helped Google escape with a mere slap on the wrist over the StreetView WiFi snooping snafu, according to tech and privacy experts. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, on Wednesday said it has closed its investigation...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, on Wednesday said it has closed its investigation into the matter and has back off further privacy breach investigation of the search engine. Jennifer Stoddart, Canadian privacy commissioner, earlier said Google StreetView cars had downloaded much more than they had intended.
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