What will Internet visionary Vint Cerf do for Google?
Whether he meant to or not, Cerf hinted at one area he was interested in six weeks before he joined the search giant, and it deals with a wireless device near you. In a broad-ranging interview with ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com on 28 July, Cerf — the man who co-developed TCP/IP, the basic communications protocol of the Internet — said databases filled with geographically indexed material will soon help people easily retrieve lists of local hospitals, ATMs or cafes on mobile devices. Advertisements could also be part of the mix. “In the case of Google Earth, for example, if you find yourself at a particular location and you ask where the nearest Chinese restaurant is, they can all be popped up, with little logos with the appropriate symbols on them, and you could mouse over to that and click on it and menus might pop up,” Cerf told News.com this summer. In one of the tech industry’s most prestigious hires in recent years, Google announced on Thursday that Cerf, 62, would help the c
