Google has created the Silicon Valley equivalent of a velvet rope under its so-called Google Glass Explorers program.
So when Google called, it was serendipitous timing.
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Banks--and most recently Google--have created so-called tax equity funds to finance those leases, in which investors get to pocket a 30% federal tax break for renewable energy projects.
In March 2011, Mike Hearn, a Google engineer, released an open source java client for bitcoin called BitcoinJ so obviously the protocol did not go unnoticed at Team Google.
In particular, the watchdog says that Google breaks the country's so-called "right to be forgotten" - a law that enables people to control information about them.
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston on Tuesday rejected Google's argument that the so-called National Security Letters the company received from the FBI were unconstitutional and unnecessary.
Google admitted its vehicles inadvertently captured so-called payload data but said it contained only fragments of content, according to the Information Commissioner's Office, which examined the data in August.
The apparently Chinese cybercriminals are using Google searches to track down sites vulnerable to so-called "SQL injections, " says Jeremiah Grossman, chief technology officer of security firm Whitehat Security.
This has some industry observers excited about how Google will help sell radio advertising, particularly in moving so-called "remnant inventory, " those spots which aren't purchased in advance and are usually sold at steep discounts at the last minute or simply go unsold.
At the same time, carriers are likely still nervous that if Google proves successful it might try to broaden its platform into so-called converged services.
Among the share stealers are so-called vertical search engines such as Amazon that beat Google when it comes to searching for a narrower purpose.
These data are available through a site called Google Trends, which allows anyone who cares to do so to download an index of the aggregate volume of searches for particular terms or categories.
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In a somewhat more significant part of the deal, Google also agreed to make its standards-essential patents available on so-called fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms without using injunctions to block their use by rivals.
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So, in late August, Smugmug used Google Maps to launch a new service, called smugMaps.
And I noted in that column that Jobs called out Google probably to help ward off complacency at Apple, whose success was coming so rapidly and so pervasively that its employees might begin to feel that such success was automatic that it was something they deserved just for showing up.
On Thursday, the company announced on its blog that so-called two-factor authentication via cell phone is now available for all users logging into Google apps like Gmail and Google Docs, not just the business accounts that gained the feature last September.
Google recognizes the Web's power to publicize and offers Web masters a simple interface to remove their own pages from its index. (Type "remove" into Google to get started.) Other preventive measures include putting sensitive info behind password-protected walls and attaching so-called robot files to Web sites that tell search engines not to index a particular page or site.
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