Happy Droid Day!
After weeks of speculation, followed by a real announcement, followed by more waiting, Motorola and Verizon have finally released the Droid, the supposed iPhone-killer which is the first device using version 2.0 of Google’s Android operating system.
The reviews have been positive so far, with gadget… Continue Reading
Google Dashboard: All Your Data That Are Belong To Us
OK, so all that personal data doesn’t really belong to Google, but it would be nice to know how much the search giant has on us — embarrassing e-mails, search histories and all.
The company released a dashboard today that shows all the data it has from… Continue Reading
Blogger gives Google Friend Connect a 9-million site lead on Facebook
Google released some interesting statistics today about Friend Connect, which is part of the search giant’s push to build a social layer across the web where visitors can get tailored experiences depending on their interests and friend network. So how has Friend Connect done since… Continue Reading
Google Friend Connect sites start offering tailored web content, ads
More than a year ago Google and Facebook started a head-to-head race to build a social layer across the web with Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect. The vision was, if you visited a web site, you’d get a custom experience based on your own… Continue Reading
Google announces turn-by-turn GPS navigation — for free
There’s a good chance you’ve driven with someone who’s bought a fancy GPS navigation system for their car that gives them voice directions for each turn as they drive. You may have purchased one of those systems yourself, or maybe you went for the $100… Continue Reading
AlertMe teams with Google, British Gas to give consumers more control over energy use
AlertMe is the newest energy monitoring device maker to partner with Google PowerMeter, giving homeowners more information and control over how much electricity they are using, and how much they pay for it. By providing hardware that plugs into your home’s traditional electric meter and… Continue Reading
Web 2.0: Google’s Sergey Brin admits Chrome for Mac delays are disappointing
Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today, where he was booster-ish on almost everything (Google, Bing, hardware, web advertising, more), but did admit to one disappointment: The delays in releasing a version of Google’s Chrome… Continue Reading
Web 2.0: Google to roll out social search, with results from friends
The big elephant in the worlds of social and real-time search certainly made itself heard today.
Google’s rolling out a social search product in Labs within the next few weeks that will show you results connected to your social circle. At the bottom of the page,… Continue Reading
Bing, you’re not alone: Google adds tweets to search too
Bing got much of the glory this morning at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, when it announced that it was incorporating Twitter’s public stream into its results. But a few hours later, Google crept in with its own announcement.
Google, it turns out, is… Continue Reading
Google to work with Lala and iLike on music search (report)
Google is planning to launch a music search service with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike, according to multiple reports.
So far, all that’s official is the fact that Lala, iLike, and unspecified “others” are holding an event titled “Discover Music” next week in Los Angeles…. Continue Reading
Google needs a new name for its wicked Holodeck
When Google showed off a way of navigating Street View in a fully immersive room of flat-panel screens at the I/O conference in May, there was a collective web cry of — uh, awesome!
Informally dubbed the “Holodeck,” the room had a chair in the center and… Continue Reading
‘Gone Google’ ad campaign goes global
It looks like Google is happy with the initial response to its “Gone Google” campaign, where it uses simple white billboards to try to recruit more companies to its Google Apps online software.
The campaign started in August, with the posting of billboards in Boston, Chicago,… Continue Reading
5 O’Clock Roundup: Sidekickers saved, e-books slashed, PCmover revisited
Microsoft recovers T-Mobile customers from the Sidekick Apocalypse – A blog post from Roz Ho at Microsoft, head of the company’s Premium Mobile Experiences group, promises that “we have recovered most, if not all, customer data” that had disappeared last week in an embarrassingly public failure… Continue Reading
Google’s optimism backed by positive Q3 results
Google released its third quarter financial results today, and the positive numbers seem to back up Google chief executive Eric Schmidt’s recent statements that the ad market is improving, allowing the company to start spending again.
During Q3, which ended on Sept. 30, Google earned $5.94… Continue Reading
Avoid emailing the wrong person with Gmail’s ‘Got the wrong Bob?’
One of the greatest sources of embarrassment, or worse, when using email comes when you send a message to the wrong person accidentally. (Hence the proliferation of those annoying “Delete this message if you’re the wrong recipient” email signatures.) Google added a new feature to… Continue Reading
Shared folders make Google Docs better for teamwork
Google has announced that its online word processor Docs just got a little better for team collaboration, with a new feature that allows users to share entire folders.
This is a nice tweak — previously, you could invite users to collaborate with you on individual documents,… Continue Reading
Google PowerMeter comes online in Germany
Utility customers in the U.S. are still waiting for widespread roll out of Google PowerMeter, the search engine’s new home energy monitoring system that allows users to view their energy consumption on their iGoogle homepages in real time. And yesterday, German homeowners and businesses using… Continue Reading
Android’s search gets a lot richer than the iPhone’s
If there’s one area where Google’s Android platform should blow Apple’s iPhone completely out of the water, it’s search.
So Google’s aiming to do just that with the Quick Search Box it released today for Android-based phones. It combines web search with search inside your phone…. Continue Reading
YouTube now serves more than 1 billion money-losing views per day
Fifteen million viewers watched CSI on Thursday night, making it the most-popular show on television. On that same day, YouTube served over a billion video clips — 66 times the number of views CSI got.
Yet YouTube owner Google is currently losing an estimated $1.5 million… Continue Reading
Google’s Sergey Brin defends Book Search settlement
The New York Times just published an op-ed piece from Google co-founder Sergey Brin, in which Brin defends the settlement between his company and a group of authors and publishers over Google’s right to scan books and publish excerpts on its Book Search site. That… Continue Reading