Berlin (dpa) – Microsoft said Tuesday it had taken offline its service showing photographic views of German city streets because of criticism from local residents demanding privacy.
StreetSide, part of its Bing Maps portal, is the equivalent of Google’s more famous Street View, which triggered huge controversy when it was launched in Germany after a long delay.
SAN FRANCISCO (Xinhua) — Google announced on Tuesday that it has closed the 12.5 billion-U.S. dollar acquisition of Motorola Mobility.
“I’m excited to announce today that our Motorola Mobility deal has closed. Motorola is a great American tech company that has driven the mobile revolution, with a track record of over 80 years of innovation, including the creation of the first cell phone,” Larry Page, Google co-founder and chief executive officer, wrote in a blog post.
Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt challenged college graduates on Sunday to take the radical step — at least for their generation — of tearing their eyes away from their smartphones and computer screens.
”Take one hour a day and turn that thing off,” Schmidt told graduates at Boston University, where he received an honorary degree and was applauded by an audience that had grown up relying on the technology company’s search engine, e-mail and other services.
