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A Closer Look at the Google-Motorola Deal

A Closer Look at the Google-Motorola Deal

As with any tech industry merger, Google’s recent acquisition of smartphone-producer Motorola Mobility came to fruition for a number of reasons benefiting the participants.  The deal also should not be considered too much of a surprise, since Motorola and Google have been allies in the mobile wars since 2008, when Motorola committed all of its [...]

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Google Shopper for the iPhone

Google Shopper for the iPhone

Finally! It’s here! Announced just recently, the Google Shopper app – which has been out for Android since November – is finally out for the iPhone!  

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The Chrome Video Codec Change

Last week, Google announced that their Chrome browser will no longer support the H.264 codec. The primary reason being that this codec is only freely available for next couple of years. After that, it will be a licensed codec — there’s no longetivity with that strategy. Google has taken the hard, but better route and [...]

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Google’s Top 10 Posts of 2010

Google has had an amazing year in blogging and truly made themselves more transparent as a company. Here are the top 10 posts in Google blogging last year. A different kind of company name – 10,604,183 unique pageviews, more than 30 percent of the year’s total. Our April Fools’ Day post about changing our company [...]

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Bye-bye GOOG-411

What started out as a great idea, ended just like many other projects. Anyone remember the GE phone that had a GOOG-411 button built directly into it? That obviously will no longer work, that’s unfortunate. Google is describing the GOOG-411 project as something was a stepping stone to better projects, such as Voice Search, Voice [...]

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Google Cars Driving Themselves

Google Cars Driving Themselves

Late last week, there was a bit of news flying around about the Google Car that drives itself. Google also released a blog post about this very topic. So what is the purpose behind Google developing this technology? So we have developed technology for cars that can drive themselves. Our automated cars, manned by trained [...]

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DFP Launches Mobile Interface

Google’s DART for Publishers (DFP) has launched a mobile interface for its ad operations. In a recent communication to its customers, Google says this about the new release. Hello, Over the past few months, many of you have let us know how much you’d like to have fast and easy mobile access to your ad [...]

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Oracle Sues Google Over Android Technology

Oracle Sues Google Over Android Technology

Oracle is suing Google for its use of Java technology in the Android mobile phone software. Oracle is demanding that Google cease making and distributing Android phones. Oracle also noted the interlocking history between Google and Java in its complaint, noting that “Google has been aware of Sun’s patent portfolio, including the patents at issue, [...]

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Maryland Education “Goes Google”

A quick snippet from the Google Corporate Blog, Today we’re happy to announce that The Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC) will make Google Apps for Education available to 1.4 million students in the state. MEEC is comprised of the University System of Maryland, Maryland Higher Education Commission and Maryland Department of Education, and provides software [...]

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Who Google is Investing In

Google Ventures was launched a little over a year ago. The goal? Do three primary things: Seek out the most innovative and interesting entrepreneurs and companies we can find Perform in-depth due diligence and invest in those we are most excited about Do everything we can to help those companies succeed So who has Google [...]

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7 New Tools with Google Analytics

An email was recently sent out about some great new tools with Google Analytics. Analytics Intelligence with Custom Alerts Using an algorithmic driven Intelligence engine, Analytics Intelligence monitors data patterns over daily, weekly and monthly periods. Significant changes in data trends and insights you may not have noticed are surfaced directly in your account. You [...]

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How Fast is Your Site? It Will Soon Matter.

During Pubcon Vegas, Matt Cutts hinted at a potential new algorhiym factor for 2010. Site speed. For sites that already do this, such as this one, there’s nothing to worry about. But for those sites that taken 30 seconds+ to load, you really need to begin considering caching and other like functionality to speed up [...]

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Google Latitude with Location History and Alerts

Google Latitude with Location History and Alerts

Google Latitude is introducing a few new and sought after features. Location history and alerts. Google Latitude Location History This new feature will allow you to see previously checked in locations for your Google Latitude account. Here’s what it looks like: Google Latitude Alerts The other feature launched with this announcement is Google Latitude alerts. [...]

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Free Internet from Google on Virgin America

Free Internet from Google on Virgin America

Google and Virgin America are teaming up to offer free WiFi. Google and Virgin America are teaming up to bring you free in-flight WiFi on every Virgin America flight from November 10, 2009 through January 15, 2010. Bring a WiFi-enabled laptop or mobile device and stay connected for free during your flight. The service is [...]

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A Better Mobile Shopping Experience

The Google Mobile team has joined forces with the, what was the Froogle team, now the Google Shopping team, to provide a better mobile experience while shopping around town. The video below explains how to use the new and improved mobile shopping application. For me, I think this is a great addition and will definitely [...]

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