Google Chairman Eric Schmidt went on “The Colbert Report” on Tuesday to talk about his new book, “The New Digital Age.” One of the first sentences in the book is that humans truly do not understand the Internet is among one of the few things humans have built that they don’t truly understand. Schmidt said that he does not understand the Internet and that no one does.
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Yesterday the Provo Municipal Council voted to approve on the sale of the fiber-optic Internet service iProvo to Google, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Google will take iProvo’s infrastructure and convert it into Google Fiber. The seven member Municipal Council voted unanimously to approve of the sale. Now Provo, Utah will become the third metropolitan area to become a Google Fiber city.
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Google has acquired Wavii, a company that has developed a natural language processing app used for creating status updates for your favorite politicians, gadgets, and celebrities. The value of the transaction is rumored to be at over $30 million, according to TechCrunch. Apparently Apple outbid Google for the acquisition of Wavii.
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Google Street View is a service that lets you see panoramic views at a 360 degree angle of places all over the world. Google has announced today that Street View is available in 50 countries around the world. Hungary was the 49th country and Lesotho was the 50th country, according to the Google Maps blog. Street View started in 2007 with just 5 cities and it has grown exponentially since then.
The Facebook Home app has surpassed 500,000 downloads on the Google Play store after about a week of availability for certain Android devices. Unfortunately, the early adopters testing out Facebook Home have provided mostly negative feedback. The app has an average rating of 2.2.
Earlier this month, Google said that they would be launching Google Fiber into Austin, Texas. Prior to expanding into Austin, Google Fiber was started in Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. Now Google will be coming to Provo, Utah as the “third Google Fiber City.” Google is expanding into Utah through an acquisition.
Google has decided to shut down their Affiliate Network service. Google said that they will continue to support customers as the wind down takes place in the next few months.
While on stage at the Dive Into Mobile event, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that he was in favor of Android iterations like Facebook Home and the Amazon.com Kindle operating system. Schmidt also shared an incredible milestone, which is that there are over 750 million Android phones that are in use today across 320 carriers and 160 countries. At the current rate of 1.5 million sales or activations every day, Schmidt said that Android will cross the 1 billion mark this year.
