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Google places ad explaining offensive image
Google has reserved one of its valuable ad spaces on Google Image Search to explain why an offensive image of Michelle Obama appears as the first result for searches on her name. Search Engine Land noted that last week, Google had removed the image after claiming the site hosting it was spreading malware, but it's back with the ad featured [...]
Chinese iPhone clone looks like Apple, smells like Android
You’re stuck in quite the conundrum. You want the chic elegance of the iPhone – but you want unbridled flexibility that comes with the Android platform. Whatever are you supposed to do? If you’re able to read Chinese and are absolutely insane, there’s a solution: the APhone A6. Straight out of a Chinese handset cloning workshop, the [...]
Acer Aspire One AOD250 impressions: Android gone bad
We admit, we were pretty stoked when we first saw the Acer Aspire One AOD250 running Android in dual-boot mode. What could possibly be bad about it? Fast start-up, Google apps... other good things that aren't coming to mind at the moment... what could go wrong? Turns out, just about everything. See, the Aspire One AOD250 has an unfortunate lack of [...]
Music search is Google’s newest tune
The search giant teamed up with News Corp.'s MySpace and streaming service Lala for the Wednesday debut of the new Google music search feature at the historic Capitol Records building in Hollywood. With the new music search, which had been internally code-named "OneBox" when news of the project broke earlier this month, search queries [...]
Verizon’s Motorola Phone Boosts Android
The launch of the Motorola Droid puts the powerful Verizon marketing machine and its 3G network behind Google's fledgling mobile operating system From the start, Google's Android smartphone software has garnered way more attention from hard-core techies than the general public. That's mainly because the range of handsets and carriers [...]
Google developing free navigation app?
We already know plenty of people who've eschewed traditional turn-by-turn GPS systems in favor of plotting it out for free on Google Maps, and now there's whispers that Mountain View is coming after the rest of the market with a free nav app. That's at least what nav services providers are saying to Forbes, who think El Goog is gearing up to [...]
Google Voice now (kinda) works with your number
Google on Monday will begin giving users a new way to use their existing mobile phone number with parts of its Google Voice service. No, it's not a full number port, which the company still says is coming and will eventually allow things like call screening, conference calling, or listening into a call before picking up--all with your [...]
Google making it possible to print public domain books
Google has been very much about saving out of print books by moving them into a digital format over the last seven years. This has been a part of their Google Book Search project, which involved pulling books out of libraries and scanning them in, and thus preserving them forever. Of course, some people prefer a hard copy, and now that’s going [...]
Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks
Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks. As part of a deal announced Thursday, Google is opening up part of its index to the maker of a high-speed publishing machine that can manufacture a paperback-bound book of about 300 pages in under five minutes. The new service is an [...]
Android Market Now Over 10,000 Applications Strong
In the mobile OS world, Google’s Android is still a challenger but with the amount of devices that will be running the system that are due to come out in the coming months alone in combination with its open approach it is definitely a contestant to watch closely. The success of Apple’s App Store for the iPhone / iPod Touch is often measured by [...]
Google’s Caffeine: A jolt to search rankings?
One of the largest behind-the-scenes updates to Google's search technology in three years is under way, as the company reworks its computing muscle. On Monday evening, Google quietly began soliciting feedback for "Caffeine," a new system for Web searches that is being tested completely separately from the live search results currently found [...]
Facebook launching Twitter-like Lite site
Facebook, it appears, was not about to let Google get this week's award for shadowy new projects. On Tuesday night, a number of users--including Mashable blogger Ben Parr--received notifications that they were beta testers for something called "Facebook Lite." The notifications, as well as the site hosted on the subdomain lite.facebook.com, [...]
Review: T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google [Update]
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It’s been nine months since I first dabbled in the world of Android. It wasn’t a pretty picture then, but a lot has changed in those short nine months. The platform has grown and become more stable. The Market is filled with useful and enjoyable apps. Cupcake has had the biggest impact thus far but we eagerly await what Donut has to [...]
ClackPoint Brings Voice, Document Sharing To Google Friend Connect
Over the last six months Google has been ramping up Friend Connect, its social online identity platform that’s a direct rival of Facebook Connect (both products opened up to the public last December). Since then Google and third party developers have released a slew of gadgets and features, including the Social Bar, Recommendations, and Comment [...]
A Bull Market in Social Entrepreneurs
For graduating students at Stanford University, it's all too clear that the economy's in the tank. The venture capital industry, with its epicenter just down the road, is stalled. The unemployment rate in Santa Clara County has doubled in the past year, to 10.9%, as employers across techdom eliminate jobs and scale back expansion plans. Career [...]
Yahoo Releases Internal Hadoop Source Code
Yahoo! is releasing their tested source code used to help power its sites and products, called Hadoop. Hadoop is free Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s published computing infrastructure and fostered within the Apache Software Foundation. Yahoo made the announcement at the second annual Hadoop Summit [...]
Google Chrome opens up to extensions, gets an ad blocker
Google may be expanding the number of services it offers, but the majority of its income is generated from advertising. So taking the decision to introduce a third-party extensions system to Chrome, much like Firefox has with its add-ons, may turn out to be a double-edged sword. On the one hand it will allow developers to make Chrome more [...]
Google News Timeline Offers A New Way To Search The Past
Timelines are becoming an increasingly popular user interface. Today, Google Labs launched a new product called Google News Timeline, which lays out the top stories from Google News in columns for each day. You can scroll down to see more stories or, of course, can search for specific topics or keywords. (It also launched similar image [...]
Google Maps Now Show Views From Webcams
The latest layer to be turned on in Google Maps is one for webcams. Just click on the “More” button on the top right of each map right next to the “Traffic” button. When you do that, it shows you thumbnails from different public Webcams around the world as tracked by Webcams.travel. You don’t see an actual video, just the most recent [...]
Google Profiles Take An Important Social Step With Vanity URLs
The problem with Google’s movement towards becoming more of a social entity is that it lacks one cohesive place to tie everything together. YouTube has social elements, Picasa has social elements, even Google Maps has social elements, but Google lacks this singular area — like a Facebook profile page — where all of this information can [...]
Google, Universal to Launch Music Hub ‘Vevo’
Vevo will launch later this year, a collaboration between Universal Music Group and Google the partners expect to be the leading music video service in the world from day one. Google confirmed to Wired.com Thursday that all of Universal Music Group's video assets (music videos, interviews, concert footage and possibly Kyte-style backstage [...]
Mobile Gmail Becomes More Like Its Desktop Father
Google has launched a new Gmail mobile web app for the iPhone and Android-powered devices. The app has been revamped to have the same look and feel as your desktop Gmail. The app also has a new floaty bar (more on that below) and offers basic offline support. Google says that the app is faster in performing actions like opening an email, [...]
Happy Birthday App Engine. It’s Been A Good Year
Google App Engine turned one year old today - they launched the service, which lets developers build web applications on Google’s infrastructure, on April 7 2008. And it has been a good year. Despite the fact that App Engine only supports Python applications, 150,000 developers have flocked to the service, says Google. They’ve launched [...]
Google Loses A Round In Sponsored Search Litigation
Google has lost the most recent round of litigation over alleged abuse of sponsored search, the sale of keywords based on corporate trademarks, and misdirection. No, this decision does not change anything in Google’s business practices. It does not prove that Google did anything wrong. And it does not create financial liability for Google. It [...]
Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter
Here’s a heck of a rumor that we’ve sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding. Twitter turned down an offer to be bought by Facebook just [...]
Chrome for OS X coming this Fall, according to Google devs
I’m not the biggest “download the source and compile” person out there, but if you are, you may have been following Google’s ongoing browser experiment as it rockets through release numbers. It’s not exactly available for macs just yet, but you can compile it and make it go as a sort of pre-Alpha program. It should have all the features [...]
Google China Signs Big Music For Free MP3 Search Engine
Google China has taken the beta label off its dedicated, free MP3 search engine now that the local Google branch announced deals with all four major music labels (Warner, Universal, EMI and Sony) at a press conference earlier today. The website, which had been in beta for over a year, can be found here, or you can try the translated version (note [...]
Facebook Definitely Raising Capital This Year; Google Considered Acquisition
Last October we wrote about how Facebook’s breakaway growth combined with a declining advertising market was forcing the company back to the capital markets. The company has been all over the place with on record comments about fundraising since that post. In November Founder Mark Zuckerberg firmly said “No” in response to the question [...]
Google Health Now Lets You Share Your Medical History With Loved Ones
After months of rumors, Google Health finally launched last May, promising to store our medical records in a secure way that is more accessible, easier to understand, and useful than traditional paper records. Since then we haven’t heard too much about the service, which isn’t particularly surprising given the sensitive nature of the [...]
Now You Can Edit Google Spreadsheets On Android and iPhones
Google Spreadsheets can now be edited on Android mobile phones and iPhones. Up until now, all Google Docs (online docs, spreadsheets, and presentations) could only be viewed on mobile phones. Editable spreadsheets work inside the mobile browser, which for both Android and iPhone is based on Webkit. Jonathan Rochelle, the senior product manager [...]
World-Renowned Scientists Team With Google And NASA To Launch Singularity University
NASA, Google, and some of the foremost authorities in science and technology have teamed up to create a new school, dubbed Singularity University, that is looking to solve “humanity’s grand challenges”. The university is named after the idea of the singularity - an extremely rapid period of technological progress. And damn if it doesn’t [...]
Soon, All Your Blog Comments Will Belong To Facebook (Or Google)
There are way too many comment login systems out there. Each blogging platform (Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger) has its own login system, then there are the cross-platform commenting systems like Disqus and JS-KIT. But many of these will soon give way to Facebook Connect and Google’s Friend Connect. (more...)
Google Earth partially blamed for Mumbai terrorist attacks
The terrorist attacks in Mumbai have once again put Google Earth in an unfavorable light. The one (“baby-faced”) terrorist that police caught has said that the terrorists used Google Earth the help plan the attacks. (That they also used everyday cellphones, GPS and other technologies appears to be lost on the ban happy Indian officials.) In [...]
Google now hawking fully unlocked G1s to developers
Starting today, Google is offering a development version of the G1 that is both SIM and hardware unlocked, meaning no more nagging at T-Mobile and waiting for ages to receive an unlock code. (more...)
Oh No You Don’t, Google! Facebook Connect Now Generally Available, Too
Not an hour after Google announced the general availability of Friend Connect, Facebook is doing the same for its competing Facebook Connect service. Now any third party website that wants to pull personal data about visitors from Facebook - and send back activity reports to their news feeds - can do so by first filling out a self-service [...]
Everything you always wanted to know about Google
But were afraid to ask. This is the title of this very interesting 34-slide presentation on Google prepared by FaberNovel, a french consulting firm. It is hard to realize the real nature of this just 10 years old giant given the number of services it has continuously released, updated (and sometimes shut down) or acquired. (more...)
Google drops truth bomb over iPhone API
It hasn’t been too long since Google launched its iPhone search app missile and struck targets deep inside my heart. Like most missiles, it blew a lot of weak, defenseless things into oblivion (I’m looking at you, Google search bar in Safari). But also like a lot of missiles, it came with its fair share of fall-out. (more...)
Google: Yes, We Broke iPhone App Store Rules (GOOG)
One of the more interesting recent questions in the iPhone geek circle: Is Google's (GOOG) neat, newish voice-powered iPhone search feature quietly breaking Apple's (AAPL) App Store rules? Yes. iPhone programmers figured out quickly that Google was using "private" code in its iPhone app, which is officially against Apple's rules. (more...)
Why Did Google Discontinue SearchMash?
Whether you like SearchWiki, the new voting and commenting feature for search results Google introduced last week, or not, it was undeniably a bold move for the company to turn on the feature for everyone with a Google account at once instead of gradually releasing it. (more...)
360 Cities Brings Stunning Spherical Panoramas To Google Earth
Color me impressed with this one: Prague-based 360 Cities, a network of ‘Virtual Reality’ photographers promoting high-resolution spherical imagery, has integrated its portfolio of stunning 360° panorama shots into the Featured Preview Layer for Google Earth. (more...)
