Last week, we ran an experiment. We hosted a gathering, called “Solve for X,” for experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world. The event focused on proposing and discussing technological solutions to some of the world…
Click to continue reading “What’s your X? Amplifying technology moonshots”
Posted in Email, Google, Tech Companies 
Tags: Accidental Discoveries, Best Computer, Breakthrough Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Programs, Energy Input, Eric Schmidt, Fabrication Problems, Fresh Water, Google, Gray Area, Innovators, Mcginnis, Oasys, Radical Solutions, Rna, Scientific Discovery, Technological Advances, Technological Solutions, Treuille 
Comments OffThe newest addition to the Google scholarships family is the Google Student Veterans of America (SVA) Scholarship. We’re partnering with the nonprofit Student Veterans of America (SVA) to support their mission of providing veterans with the resources…
Click to continue reading “Supporting U.S. student veterans with a new scholarship”
Posted in Email, Google, Tech Companies Tags: Academic Scholarship, Award Recipients, Computer Science Education, Computer Scientists, Creative Lab, Department Of Veterans Affairs, education and research, Education Scholarship, Educational Outreach Efforts, Employee Groups, Generation Of Computer, Global Effort, Google, Googleplex, Internship Opportunities, Job Search, Military Veterans, Newest Addition, Scholarship Programs, Student Veterans, Technology Education Comments OffOur team continues working hard to improve Orkut communities, and today we are introducing a new feature: support for hashtags.
From now on, whenever you’re reading a topic, all hashtags will be automatically highlighted and will link to our imp…
Posted in Google, Social Networks Tags: Engineer, Feature Support, Google, googlenew, New Feature, Orkut Communities, Reply, Search Page, search results, Wisniewski Comments OffNow that the final Super Bowl touchdown has been scored, the dip bowl wiped clean and the last of the chicken wings devoured, we’re taking a look at some game-day search trends to see what football fans were searching for this year.
As the Giants an…
Click to continue reading “Super Bowl XLVI: Mobile, Manning and Madonna”
Posted in Email, Google, Tech Companies Tags: Chicken Wings, Dip Bowl, Down To The Wire, Football Fans, Game Day, Google, Halftime Show, Joe Montana, Material Girl Madonna, Nail Biter, Patriots Quarterback, Search Trends, Spanish Language Version, Super Bowl Ads, Super Bowl Commercials, Super Bowl Performers, Super Bowl Xlvi, Tom Brady, Watching The Game, Wire Nail Comments OffIn this edition of Weekend Reading, we’ve got stories on the Kinect Super Sunday Challenge, a new version of Skype for Windows, a collection of Windows Phone news bits and some alternative products for those concerned with some of the changes Goo…
Posted in Email, Tech Companies Tags: Alternative Products, Bing, Drew Brees, Feb 3rd, Google, Hotmail, Indianapolis Area, Internet Explorer, Kinect, Kinect for Windows SDK, Media Center, Microsoft News, Microsoft News Center, MSN, Mvp, News Center, Office 365, privacy, Privacy Policies, Share Photos, Skype, Start Group, Super Bowl, Super Bowl Xliv, Weekend Reading, Windows Game, Windows Phone, Windows Version, Xbox, Xbox 360 Comments OffFirst, some housekeeping: Every Wednesday night, we run the report on what stories were most shared by LinkedIn’s 135-plus million members. That means the news of Facebook’s coming IPO — announced Wednesday, Feb. 1 — had only one day to attempt to rocket to the top of our rankings. A Mashable story about the IPO [...]
Click to continue reading “The Rise of Pinterest — and Other Top Stories on LinkedIn This Week”
Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: Advertiser, Amp, Bbc, Bob Mcdonald, Business Insider, Business Model, Business World, Entrepreneur, Facebook, Free Impressions, Google, Housekeeping, Infographic, Ipo, linkedin, linkedin-news, Old Spice, Rocket To The Top, Traffic Driver, Web Economy, Wednesday Night Comments OffFor the last couple of days we’ve been running a series of Microsoft advertisements in some major newspapers, focused on some key differences between some Google products and practices and some Microsoft products and services. This conversation w…
Click to continue reading “Looking for Options? Try the Dynamic Duo of IE9 and Bing”
Posted in Email, Tech Companies Tags: Advertisements, Analytics, Behavioral Profiling, Bing, Couple Of Days, Dynamic Duo, Google, Hanff, Hotmail, Ie9, Independent Parties, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Products, Org Uk, Privacy Experts, Privacy International, Privacy Protections, Privacyonline, Relevant Results, Search Experience, Simon Davies, Third Parties, Windows Azure Comments OffToday the BSI, Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, released a best practice guide for Windows users as part of their overall guidelines and recommendations for Cyber Security. Security has always been a core focus of Chrome, so we’re…
Click to continue reading “German Federal Office of Information Security recommends Chrome”
Posted in Browsers, Email, Google Tags: Adobe Flash Player, Aficionado, Bsi, Central Component, Challenges, Core Focus, Cyber Attacks, Cyber Security, Day Security, Eve, Google, Information Security, Mechanisms, Security Benefits, Security On The Web, Security Security, Travis Mccoy, Wieland Holfelder, Windows Users, Www Google Comments OffBy Hiroshi Lockheimer, VP of Engineering, Android The last year has been a phenomenal one for the Android ecosystem. Device activations grew 250% year-on-year, and the total number of app downloads from Android Market topped 11 billion. As the platform…
Posted in Email, Google, Mobile Networks Tags: Activations, android, Anti Malware, Application Approval, Bouncer, Developer Accounts, Google, Hiroshi, Infrastructure, Innovations, Malicious Behavior, Malicious Software, Measurement, New Features, Phenomenal One, Red Flags, Security Software, User Experience, Vp Engineering, Vp Of Engineering Comments OffWomen make up more than half the global population, but hold fewer than a third of the world’s engineering jobs. In the U.S., female students comprise fewer than 15 percent of all Advanced Placement computer science test takers. Even in high-tech Isr…
Click to continue reading “Mind the Gap: Encouraging women to study engineering”
Posted in Email, Google, Tech Companies Tags: Advanced Placement Computer Science, Annual Conferences, Beer Sheva, Computer Science Teachers, Computer Scientists, Diversity, education and research, Engineering Jobs, Female Engineers, Female Students, Gap Program, Global Population, Google, googlers and culture, Great Computer, Groups Google, Math Science, Placement Computer Science, S Engineering, School Visits, Science Test, Teenage Girls, Test Takers Comments Off
