New Google service to stream music

May 17, 2013

New Google service to stream music

Google Inc. has unveiled a streaming music service, called All Access, that blends songs users have uploaded to their online libraries with millions of other tracks for a $10 monthly fee. The service puts the Internet goliath in competition with popular paid subscription plans ...

Suu Kyi takes in Japan's top technologies

Apr 19, 2013

Suu Kyi takes in Japan's top technologies

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi viewed Japanese technology firsthand Thursday, visiting 634-meter Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest broadcast tower, and Panasonic Corp.'s showroom in the Ariake area on Tokyo Bay.

'We are abandoning all the checks and balances'

Mar 16, 2013

'We are abandoning all the checks and balances'

by Ian Tucker

Evgeny Morozov is a Belarus-born technology writer who has held positions at Stanford and Georgetown universities in the United States. His first book, “The Net Delusion,” argued that “Western do-gooders may have missed how [the Internet] … entrenches dictators, threatens dissidents, and makes it ...

Jan 19, 2013

Google ditches face-morphing app after irking Asians in U.S.

Washington AFP-JIJI Google has removed a “Make Me Asian” app — that let players change their appearance — after an uproar by Asian-American activists who said the game promoted derogatory stereotypes. As of Thursday, “Make Me Asian” and similar apps such as “Make Me ...