Posts Tagged ‘ Google ’

Google Is Betraying Itself [Blockquote]

January 24, 2012
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Google Is Betraying Itself [Blockquote]

From a 2004 Playboy interview with Larry Page, in which the Google co-founder describes a very different company from the one we use now: More » Gizmodo

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When Did You Tweet That? Twistory Improves Google Calendar Support

December 19, 2011
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When Did You Tweet That? Twistory Improves Google Calendar Support

Twistory, which lets people save their tweet backlog to their favorite calendaring application, has finally come through with full support for popular Web-based calendaring service Google Calendar. You can now subscribe to Twistory using your existing Twitter account and automatically view in Google Calendar when you’ve tweeted what. Up until now, compatibility with Google...

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How Apple Led The High-Stakes Patent Poker Win Against Google, Sealing Ballmer’s Promise

July 10, 2011
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How Apple Led The High-Stakes Patent Poker Win Against Google, Sealing Ballmer’s Promise

“It’s not like Android’s free. Android has a patent fee. You do have to license patents.” That was Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an interview last year with The Wall Street Journal. At the time, Microsoft was on the verge of releasing their first Windows Phone 7 devices, and knew their best hope in...

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Eventually, One Of These Updates Will Make Google News Not Suck At Tech News, Right?

May 17, 2011
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Eventually, One Of These Updates Will Make Google News Not Suck At Tech News, Right?

For as long as I can remember, there has been one constant in tech news: Google News sucks at it. Now, that’s not entirely fair since Google News doesn’t actually provide any of their own content. Instead, they use the supposedly magical Google algorithms to curate others’ content from around the web. Still, there’s...

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Google Suggest Fail: Dirt Eater Edition

November 10, 2010
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Google Suggest Fail: Dirt Eater Edition

I give up, why DOES your arm turn bright red and shake when you’re eating dirt? More here: Google Suggest Fail Post originally from: BlippittGoogle Suggest Fail: Dirt Eater Edition Post originally from: BlippittGoogle Suggest Fail: Dirt Eater Edition Blippitt | U.S. News | Entertainment News | Sports News | Odd News | Viral...

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[Technology] 125 video shortlist announced today for YouTube Play (The Official Google Blog)

October 27, 2010
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(Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog ) The Guggenheim has spoken: the shortlist for YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video is now going in front of the jury, and is available to view at youtube.com/play . It’s been a busy summer. More than 23,000 videos, from 91 countries across the world, were submitted for...

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Google Music: Part iTunes, Part Lala, Part Awesome. But…

September 15, 2010
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Google Music: Part iTunes, Part Lala, Part Awesome. But…

An article yesterday on Billboard gives some new details into Google’s upcoming music store plans. Over the past several years, there have been no shortage of services that have launched with the hopes of being the “iTunes killer”, but if the details told to Billboard by “industry sources” are true, and if Google can...

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Google Launches Chrome’s ‘App Store For The Web’ In Developer Preview

August 19, 2010
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Google Launches Chrome’s ‘App Store For The Web’ In Developer Preview

Earlier this week we covered new details about the Chrome Web Store, an ‘App Store for the web’ that Google first announced at its I/O conference in May. Now Google is giving developers their first taste of what they can expect from the new marketplace: the Chrome Web Store has launched in a developer...

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[Technology] Taking off with ITA (The Official Google Blog)

July 2, 2010
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Today, almost half of all airline tickets are sold online. But for many people, finding the right flight at the best price is a frustrating experience; pricing and availability change constantly, and even a simple two city itinerary involves literally thousands of different options. We’d like to make that search much easier, which is...

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OnStar Gets Directions From Google Maps

June 18, 2009
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OnStar Gets Directions From Google Maps

OnStar has struck a deal with Google to integrate Google Maps into all of its navigation systems. OnStar users can now use Google Maps to get directions to a destination and then send those destinations to OnStar’s Turn-by-Turn Navigation Service in their vehicles. The Google Maps option will be available on all current Turn-by-Turn...

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