Pocketnow sur Twitter : "The new #Google Wallet app might confirm #AndroidPay is around the corner by @antondnagy. New Google Wallet app pops up in preparation for Android Pay. September 16, less than a week from today, is when Android Pay is supposed to go live, according to the latest rumors we heard on September 4. The information allegedly came from Verizon through unofficial channels, and the fact that Mountain View has a new Google Wallet app ready in the Play Store is a clear indication that the rumors were (at least) close to reality. You will not be limited to paying in stores with the new Google Wallet app; instead, you’ll be able to send (and receive money) to people in the US via email (apparently, with no fees), manage your Wallet card, deposit and withdraw cash.
The new app, which has a slightly different icon and a new color theme, will not overwrite your current Wallet app, which might (or might not) become Android Pay as soon as the offering officially debuts. You can find the new Google Wallet app at the source link below, and, while it appears to be compatible with all phones, it might only be available in the US. Source: Google Play. A Tale of Three CocoaPods (100 Days of Google Dev) Flights. Google Partners With Cloudera To Bring Cloud Dataflow To Apache Spark. Google today announced that it has teamed up with the Hadoop specialists at Cloudera to bring its Cloud Dataflow programming model to Apache’s Spark data processing engine.
With Google Cloud Dataflow, developers can create and monitor data processing pipelines without having to worry about the underlying data processing cluster. As Google likes to stress, the service evolved out of the company’s internal tools for processing large datasets at Internet scale. Not all data processing tasks are the same, though, and sometimes you may want to run a task in the cloud or on premise or on different processing engines. With Cloud Dataflow — in its ideal state — data analysts will be able use the same system for creating their pipelines, no matter the underlying architecture they want to run them on.
Google first announced Dataflow as a hosted service on its own platform last summer that relied on Google’s own Compute Engine, Cloud Storage and BigQuery services. SpaceX confirms $1 billion funding round with Google | The Verge. Google and Fidelity are investing a collective $1 billion in SpaceX, Elon Musk's space transportation company. Combined, Google and Fidelity now own "just under 10 percent" of SpaceX, which has already taken on four other major investors. The round values SpaceX at over $10 billion. Funding expected to be used for internet satellites The Information first reported the funding on Monday, saying that the financing round was meant to bolster the development of SpaceX satellites that could be used to send internet to areas where it isn't currently accessible across the globe. Musk described the satellite internet initiative to Bloomberg last week, saying that it would both speed up the internet as we know it and bring internet access to 3 billion people who currently have only poor access.
"People should not expect this to be active sooner than five years," Musk tells Bloomberg. Verge Video Archives: What is the Future of Communication? Google data could improve forecasting of influenza levels. A study published in Royal Society Open Science today reveals that data from Google searches could help improve estimates of the spread of infectious influenza. Colorized transmission electron micrograph showing H1N1 influenza virus particles. photo by NIAID licensed under CCBY2.0) Seasonal influenza outbreaks and pandemics of new strains affect people all over the world.
However, current systems used to estimate the spread of such illnesses are too slow, delivering predictions with one or two weeks delay. Tobias Preis and Helen Susannah Moat, the researchers behind the study published today, worked out a way of improving the speed and accuracy of such estimates by using data from search engines like Google. Large technological systems are a part of our everyday lives. By interacting with these systems, for example by Googling symptoms of illness, we are unwittingly creating gigantic sets of data which can be used to investigate human behaviour on massive scales.
Azure vs Amazon vs Rackspace vs HP vs Google: Cloud Storage Infographic. Sifting through the reams of information on the various enterprise cloud storage options can be pretty daunting. So we thought we'd make things as easy on you as possible. The cloud storage company Nasuni runs a bunch of tests for their annual report, stacking Amazon S3 and Azure up against providers like Google, Rackspace, and HP in a few key areas. We put their findings into an easy-to-digest infographic for you... and for us. (Everybody loves infographics.) Google Publishes Its ‘Physical Web’ Standard for the IoT. Google has unveiled the code for its open source Physical Web standard, an attempt to provide an easier way to communicate with public connected devices like vending machines, posters and bus stops.
The Internet of Things is making objects around us smarter, but we don’t have a standard way of interacting with them. Many devices require you to download a custom mobile app, but that’s overkill if it’s just for a one-time use. The Chrome-sponsored Physical Web project wants to use URLs to lower the barrier for “tiny use cases.” Google’s examples include: A bus stop tells you the next bus arrivalParking meters and vending machines all work the same way, letting you pay quickly and easilyAny store, no matter how small, can offer an online experience when you walk inA ZipCar broadcasts a signup page, allowing you to immediately drive away Google notes in its documentation that it has published the Physical Web specifications early to allow for greater discussion and feedback.
On The Future of Apple and Google. When Tim Cook was interviewed by Charlie Rose after Apple’s mega launch event a few weeks ago, he scoffed at any mention of competitors, highlighting only Google as Apple’s arch-rival. Apple and Google are entrenched in a modern version of the PC war, and are the only two players with relevancy at the operating system level. Here are some thoughts on why this is important and what’s next as we enter the golden years for mobile and approach the early beginnings of the post-mobile era: Android is now the operating system of the world. It dominates any non-Apple, non-PC application. We still think of Android as a smartphone OS. But almost everything truly smart will run Android – new TVs, IoT devices, your home appliances etc.
Android is just a fork of Linux, a runtime, controlled by Google. It’s provocative to think about where Apple and Google each go next. All of this innovation is underpinned by software, software that is figuratively eating the world. Google's Nexus 9 is made by HTC and coming very soon | The Verge. How Google Glass will innovate HealthCare. Part I. | Surgery Academy. Google Glasses applications are so many. From communication to design, from exploring to development of new features. However, from a year ago, Google Glass are disrupting healthcare for the better as various innovators come up with creative ways to use the technology and get results.
In this post we try to understand how many innovative ways Google Glass can improve healthcare and people’s lives. How Google Glass is disrupting health? 1. Ok, this may seem a little self-centered, but Glass can help while performing operations as the head-mounted headset can provide vital signs (blood pressure, heart rate and so on) without surgeons taking their eye of the patient.
Glass is being used in this way have surfaced in Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center (BIDMC). Here’s the explainer video: Likewise Dr. The first surgeon who joined an operating room wearing Google Glass was Dr. 2. Google Glass applied to EHR are really revolutionary. 3. 4. We are joking. And this is just the beginning. Android Wear and Google Glass – Review after a few months. I have been living with an Android Wear watch (Samsung Gear Live) for a few months and with Google Glass for one month. Here are few thoughts on using them in everyday life. Android Wear Android Wear is the new wearable platform from Google and it was a bit surprising that Samsung was one of the first manufacturers to release a device for it since they have their own Tizen-based wearable platform and devices like Samsung Gear 2 and Gear Fit already on the market. Interesting to see if they will continue both or focus only on one. Android Wear is all about contextually relevant information, information that is relevant to you then and there.
It’s no surprise that Google’s own apps are the first to support the Wear. I travel quite a lot and pay for TripIt to handle mining and parsing all my itineraries from my email and actually for traveling the Android Wear is quite handy. Google Glass On to Google Glass. Another use I’ve found here in London is navigation. Riussi : Lasse Wasserman from #Google ... Platform Overview - Google Fit. Google Fit is an open ecosystem that allows developers to upload fitness data to a central repository where users can access their data from different devices and apps in one location: Fitness apps can store data from any wearable or sensor.Fitness apps can access data created by any app.User's fitness data is persisted when they upgrade their fitness devices.
Responsible use of Google Fit As a developer of fitness and wellness apps, you often collect and manage important user information. Keep these key principles in mind: Always clearly explain to the user what data you will collect and why.Honor user requests to delete their data.If you read fitness data from Google Fit, you must also write the fitness data you collect to Google Fit.Do not use Google Fit APIs for non-fitness purposes, such as storing medical or biometric data, selling data, or using data for advertising.Carefully review the Google Fit Terms and Conditions before using Google Fit.
Components The fitness store Data Sources. Riussi : Flashing my #Nexus 5 with newer ... Google Developers Blog: Google Fit Preview SDK now available. By Angana Ghosh, Product Manager, Google Fit At Google I/O we announced Google Fit: an open platform for developers to more easily build fitness apps. Today we’re making a preview SDK available to developers so that you can start to build. Google Fit provides a single set of APIs for apps and device manufacturers to store and access activity data from fitness apps and sensors on Android and other devices (like wearables, heart rate monitors or connected scales).
This means that with the user’s permission, you can get access to the user’s fitness history -- enabling you to provide more interesting features in your app like personalized coaching, better insights, fitness recommendations and more. There are three sets of APIs designed to meet specific developer needs: Sensors API provides high-level access to sensors from the device and wearables—so with one API your app can talk to sensors, whether on an Android device or a wearable. One Out of Every Ten Android Apps Affected with Malware and Viruses, States New Research. Android malware has been found to have tremendously increased during the first half of 2014.Reuters It seems that every cyber-criminal in the world is determined to take down Google's Android operating system completely.
Going by recent statistics, Android malware has increased by a whopping 600% in the last 12 months. Adding value to this fact, and to highlight the need for Google to ensure better security measures at the developer level, a comparatively newer study has found that almost one in every ten Android apps is either partially or completely affected with malware. This study conducted by China-based Cheetah Mobile (a leading mobile internet service provider with roughly 300 million active subscribers) states that the number of Android security issues has grown rapidly in the first half of 2014, with payment/financial data related malware (viruses wanting to suck out users' financial details) coming out tops in a survey. Asia leads the pack 3rd Party markets spread maximum viruses.
Hmm, Google apparently also autoawesomes videos... Riussi : Got the #Google #Glass yesterday ... Google launches Calico, a new company tasked with extending human life. Google said today it has created a new company called Calico to make improvements in human health and well-being. Art Levinson, chairman of Apple's board and former CEO of Genentech, will be Calico's CEO. "Illness and aging affect all our families," Google CEO Larry Page said in a statement. "With some longer term, moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology, I believe we can improve millions of lives. " "Art is one of the crazy ones. " It's unclear what Calico will do. The announcement marked an unusual public moment of collaboration for Google and Apple, which once were close but have drifted apart as both have relentlessly pursued the mobile computing market.
In an interview about the new company with Time, Page suggests that even curing cancer won't go as far as he would like to see Calico go. Futurice Afterwork: Google I/O 2014. Riussi : Hannes Kleist talking about ... Google I/O - the whole story, Thursday 24. July - 6pm. Larry Page and Sergey Brin on what's next for Google. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recently sat down with billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla for a lengthy interview. During the relaxed and informal discussion, the co-founders discuss their company's early days, its current projects, and its future, questioning societal constructs that keep us working five-day weeks and saying that the US health industry is so heavily regulated that it's difficult for a technology to succeed in the sector.
Page and Brin, who rarely take the stage together for interviews, start the 40-minute session by reminiscing with Khosla about Google's aborted sale to search engine Excite in 1999. Khosla, who helped found Sun Microsystems, was an investor in Excite at the time. Page and Brin say they eventually pulled out of the deal — worth either $350,000, according to Khosla, or more than a million according to the co-founders — because Excite lacked the "passion" for search that the nascent Google embodied. Design. Riussi : Introduction to #projectvolta ... Design. Riussi : L developer preview #GoogleIO2014 ... Riussi : Going to #Google I/O (@ United ... Juha @ United Club Terminal 2. Report: Google Nearby to Bring Android Next-Level Contextual Awareness. How Android 5 Can Lock Manufacturers Tightly In To Google's Ecosystem.
Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Yahoo release US surveillance requests | World news. Tens of thousands of accounts associated with customers of Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Yahoo have their data turned over to US government authorities every six months as the result of secret court orders, the tech giants disclosed for the first time on Monday. As part of a transparency deal reached last week with the Justice Department, four of the tech firms that participate in the National Security Agency’s Prism effort, which collects largely overseas internet communications, released more information about the volume of data the US demands they provide than they have ever previously been permitted to disclose. But the terms of the deal prevent the companies from itemising the collection, beyond bands of thousands of data requests served on them by a secret surveillance court.
In announcing the updated data figures, the companies appeared concerned by the lack of precision over the depth of their compelled participation in government surveillance. Android 4.3: Nexus 4 running Android 4.3 Jelly Bean leaks. Google document proposes giving Motorola time-to-market advantage to build Android "lead devices" Royal Wedding & Nokia's Ovi Maps. Google Fined $5 Million For Linux Patent Infringement. How to Build Chrome OS For Your Netbook or VM.