From Teaching with Glass…we’re hoping to see more Glass news from CERN this month.
Google Keep now available for Chrome Web Store
Google Keep, the Evernote-like content storing app for Android, is now available for the desktop as well as a Chrome web app, bring offline support to the desktop and keeping with its web app initiative.
Google Fonts now available for desktop use
Last month Google announced it was dropping ‘web’ from its Google Web Fonts brand and today made their robust font collection available to download for the desktop via sync with SkyFonts.
Google Glass: the case for the prosecution & the defense (Video)
When you stage a debate on Google Glass between a self-described technology evangelist and a man who believes that current technology trends are debasing culture, things are likely to get interesting … especially when the discussion begins with the question of the etiquette of wearing the gadget at a urinal.
Check out The Next Web‘s conference video below of a conversation between Glass enthusiast Robert “I will never live a day of my life from now on without it” Scoble and British entrepreneur and privacy advocate Andrew Keen …
First the phone clone wars, now the video clones: HTC copies Samsung copying Apple
HTC has followed Samsung’s, uh, lead in replicating the ‘making of’ video format made famous by Apple. The HTC One Design Story features engineers and execs talking about the handset, while showing pretty video of the construction.
So here in sequential order are the iPhone 5, Samsung S4 and HTC One videos … Read more
UK govt to quiz Google on whether it was ‘economical with the truth’ on tax
The British government, which previously questioned Google’s tax arrangements in the country, is to call the company back in to determine whether it has been “economical with the truth” in its previous responses, reports Reuters.
Last November, Google claimed that the reason it paid just £6m tax in the UK on a turnover of £395m was that all its Adword sales to UK customers were handled by staff based in Ireland, Google spokesman Matt Brittin openly admitting that this was to reduce tax payments. A Reuters investigation now casts doubt on this claim … Read more
