Stories by Zach Miners

Article | 17/05/2013 At Google I/O, developer services hogged the spotlight
Forget Glass, self-driving cars or a smartwatch. Developers, not physical consumer products, were Google's darlings at the company's annual I/O confer...
Article | 17/05/2013 At Google I/O, Glass wearers say 'trust us'
Google is facing some tough questions from Congress over the privacy concerns raised by Glass, its fledgling augmented reality system for recording an...
Article | 16/05/2013 Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr try out social networking apps for Glass
While Google promotes its Glass head-mounted display as a new way for people to receive and document information on the fly, several social networking...
Article | 15/05/2013 Google to boost speed, cut data use on mobile devices
Google has shown off new features that can reduce data consumption and improve Web performance on Android-powered mobile devices, drawing partly from ...
Article | 15/05/2013 A soft-spoken Larry Page makes surprise appearance at Google I/O
Google CEO Larry Page made a surprise appearance Wednesday at the Google I/O conference, where he overcame problems with his throat to take questions ...
Article | 15/05/2013 Google brings voice-enabled search to the desktop
Just by saying "Okay Google," people will soon be able to search using voice commands on their Chrome-powered desktop and laptop computers, Google sai...
Article | 15/05/2013 Google launches multiplayer Android gaming API
Google has introduced new APIs to help developers build better games for its Android OS.
Article | 15/05/2013 At Google I/O, attendees compete to save the world, virtually
Google I/O has not officially started, but the developers' show is already seeing some action. Two warring factions, the Resistance and the Enlightenm...
Article | 14/05/2013 Hours before I/O, Larry Page opens up about his hoarse voice
Less than 24 hours before Google kicks off its annual I/O developers confab in San Francisco, Google CEO Larry Page is revealing why his speaking voic...
Article | 13/05/2013 Twitter buys big-data analyzer Lucky Sort
Twitter has acquired Lucky Sort, a data analytics company, in a move that could give the social network deeper insights into its users' tweets and how...
Article | 13/05/2013 Feds looking to make health data more user-friendly to tech developers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants health tech developers in Silicon Valley to make greater use of its data to help make advances ...
Article | 11/05/2013 At Google I/O, expect Android, Chrome, and some privacy questions about Glass
Google kicks off its I/O developer conference next Wednesday and if there's one thing that could steal the limelight from Android, Chrome and all the ...
Article | 10/05/2013 Bing brings more of Facebook to search
Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site.
Article | 10/05/2013 Twitter buys Ubalo to speed up its back-end
Twitter has acquired Ubalo, a company that provides various services aimed at speeding up the coding process, the social network announced Thursday.
Article | 9/05/2013 YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels
Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subs...

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