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Google debuts new flight search service, checking-in is the least popular smartphone activity, and 'Father of Java' joins Sunnyvale startup Liquid Robotics.
• Google debuts new flight search service.
 The Internet search giant closed its $700-million purchase of travel software company ITA in April after a nine-month investigation by the US Department of Justice. On Tuesday Google launched a new service that displays flights and airfares.
 Read » [latimes.com]
• Checking in is the least popular smartphone activity.
Checking in to locations with geosocial services like Foursquare is the least popular activity among smartphone users, finds a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. While more than half of the smartphone owners in the survey of 2,277 adults report accessing social networks, sending photos and viewing email, just 12% of smartphone owners say they use checkin services. Geotagging updates to social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are also fairly uncommon.
Read » [mashable.com]
• 'Father of Java' joins Sunnyvale startup Liquid Robotics.
 James Gosling, a key architect of the programming language Java, is joining Liquid Robotics as chief software architect. James Gosling - the so-called 'father of Java' - left Google on Tuesday to join a company that is looking to scatter thousands of robots around the Earth's oceans, to collect and transmit data for a variety of uses. Gosling resigned from Oracle in April 2010, a few months after the company bought Sun, where he had worked for more than 25 years and led the effort to develop Java, the widely used computer programming language. In March, he joined Mountain View Internet giant Google in an unspecified position.
Read » [siliconvalley.com]
Author: Regular Expression, for AZ10.com ~ 13 Sep 2011
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