7 posts and columns on Labs

Exclusive: Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving Resigns

in News on April 5 at 6:28 pm PT

Irving has left the purple building.
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Why Honeywell Is Suing Nest Labs

in News on February 7 at 11:04 am PT

Will a fight over thermostat technology heat up?
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eBay Is the Most Recent Bay Area Transplant to Seek Access to Seattle’s Talent Pool

in Commerce on January 12 at 6:00 am PT

The e-commerce giant has joined a growing list of companies willing to brave the rain in order to gain access to a deep pool of technology engineers in Seattle.
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IPhone Users Finally Get a Gander at Google Goggles

in News on October 6, 2010 at 6:21 am PT

A year after their Android-phone-toting peers, owners of Apple’s iPhone are finally able to play around with Google Goggles, a Labs app that can identify and return relevant search results about certain objects (landmarks, logos, book and CD covers) as they are viewed through the phone’s camera. Goggles is now part of the Google Mobile App, available in the Apple App Store and supported on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 running iOS 4 or above.

Results 1-10 for Your Search for “Pizza Joint Where Bill Got Food Poisoning”

in Social on October 27, 2009 at 7:14 am PT

On the heels of its deal to incorporate Twitter data into its search results, Google on Monday announced an experimental Labs feature that searches the social Web. Called Google Social Search, the service is intended to make search results more relevant by enhancing them with personalized social data.
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Hulu: Watch Our Shows on a Big Screen, but not on a TV

in Media on May 28, 2009 at 12:13 pm PT

Want to watch the season finale of “30 Rock” for free, whenever you want, on a big screen? Go for it, says Hulu–just don’t watch it on a TV. Confused? Of course. So was I when I checked out Hulu’s new “Desktop” app, launched today as part of the video service’s new “Labs” collection of experimental offerings. Basically, it’s downloadable software that makes it easier than ever to watch Hulu’s shows and clips in the same way that you’d watch TV–on your sofa, remote in hand. But Hulu wants to make sure you don’t actually think it replaces TV.