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Microsoft Ad Attacks Google For Only Caring About Money
By Chris Morran on February 1, 2012 2:15 PM
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Once upon a time, a lot of people viewed Microsoft as the epitome of corporate omnipresence, as many of us wrote our 11-part fantasy series in Word, checked our Hotmail accounts while surfing the web on Internet Explorer, probably on a computer running Windows. But now we have Google Docs, Gmail, and Chrome, and Microsoft is taking out full-page ads warning consumers of how this other company is the one to be reviled. More »
Lawsuit Claims Technology Industry Bigwigs Had Secret Anti-Poaching Pact To Keep Employee Salaries Low
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 30, 2012 1:00 PM
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The ability to play employers off bids from other companies seeking to snag the best in their fields is an important one. So much so, in fact, that workers in Silicon Valley have filed a lawsuit alleging that some of the industry's biggest players were involved in a secret anti-poaching pact that kept salaries down and workers stuck where they were. More »
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FTC Commissioner Puts Verbal Smackdown On Facebook & Google Over Privacy
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 27, 2012 1:00 PM
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Aww, snap! Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill doesn't care that her speech opening a forum on Data Privacy Day was being streamed on Facebook and likely Googled by many — she still put the verbal smackdown on those two companies for their problems protecting user privacy. More »
If Google's New Privacy Rules Have You Ready To Flee, Here's How To Close Your Account
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 26, 2012 1:00 PM
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Feeling like you don't so much want Google to be able to use your information across products, as they announced yesterday with their new terms of service? For those who have just had enough and want to quit, there are a few steps you'll need to take to cancel your Google account once and for all. More »
Google Reaching Its Grabby Arms Out To Combine More Of Your Personal information
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 25, 2012 10:00 AM
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Google wants to change things up a bit and grant itself the right to combine your personal information across its products. So how is it planning on doing that? By simply rewriting its privacy policy to let you know about it first, which they figure you'll agree to if you want to keep using Google stuff. More »
Google Breaks Down SOPA Opposition By The Numbers
By consumerist.com on January 18, 2012 3:41 AM
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As you probably already know, a number of websites have gone silent today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act currently being considered by Congress and the Senate's similarly controversial Protect IP Act. And while Google, which has previously voiced its opposition to both pieces of legislation, didn't shut down for the day, it is making its feelings known to the public. More »
Bing Beats Out Yahoo To Claim Distant No. 2 Search Engine Spot Behind Google
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 12, 2012 10:00 AM
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When you're trudging up a mountain with not even a glimpse of the summit, and all you know is that you're really, really far behind the guy in the lead, it might be nice to know that hey, at least you're in second. Bing can claim that status now in the search engine world, as it has surpassed Yahoo to sit a distant second to Google. More »
Google Calls Its Social Search Effort "Your World" But Only Includes Its Own Products
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 10, 2012 12:00 PM
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Google wants to connect you to your online social world — well, at least it wants to connect you to the social products it pushes, Picasa Web and Google+. Their new joint venture between the Google search engine and those two social media sites will start rolling out tonight. More »
Google Calls Its Social Search Effort "Your World" But Only Includes Its Own Products
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 10, 2012 12:00 PM
23 Comments
Google wants to connect you to your online social world — well, at least it wants to connect you to the social products it pushes, Picasa Web and Google+. Their new joint venture between the Google search engine and those two social media sites will start rolling out tonight. More »
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Google Knocks Chrome In Its Search Rankings After Sponsored Blog Post Controversy
By Mary Beth Quirk on January 4, 2012 12:30 PM
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Google is slapping itself on its own metaphorical wrist after a bit of controversy over sponsored Chrome ads on various blogs boosted the site's Google PageRank. The company announced they'll lower the offending page's rank for two months at the least. More »
MySpace's Tom Advises Google+ On How Not To Become A Cesspool
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 30, 2011 2:00 PM
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Remember that guy who started the first successful social network, only to see it fall by the wayside, weighed down by flashing gifs and pornbots? MySpace founder Tom Anderson is back in the news, doling out advice to Google+ on how not to become a cesspool like his site did. More »
Apple Wins Small Victory In Patent Battle Against Android Smartphones
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 20, 2011 10:00 AM
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There are so many patent battles going on around the globe between Apple and various smartphone companies, it can be hard to keep track of all the suits and countersuits. In one small but important battle decided recently, Apple has come out on top of HTC, in a ruling that could also affect the way Google's Android operating system works. More »
Microsoft Wants To Soothe 5 Traumatized Android Users With Free Windows Phones
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 15, 2011 11:00 AM
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Do reports of malware on your Android phone have you in a cold sweat? Are dreams of scary phone viruses dancing in your head? Microsoft is taking advantage of those fears and using recent bumps in the road for Android to offer free Windows phones to five Android users with the worst malware horror stories. More »
Google Continues Free Voice Calls To U.S. & Canada Through 2012
By Paul Eng on December 14, 2011 2:45 PM
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If you use the "Call Phone" function in Gmail's Chat menu to chat with your phone pals in the U.S. or Canada — or if you're looking for a free way of doing so — Google has announced it will continue to offer this service for free through the upcoming calendar year. More »
Verizon Blocks Google Wallet On Some New Smartphones
By Chris Morran on December 6, 2011 12:15 PM
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The Samsung Galaxy Nexus may run on Google's Android OS, but that doesn't mean Verizon Wireless is going to allow the device to run Google's pay-by-phone app Google Wallet. More »
Google Reportedly Testing The Waters Of Speedy Delivery Service For Online Shoppers
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 1, 2011 5:00 PM
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Watch out, Amazon, there's a new kid on the retail block and it comes with a familiar name tied to it: Google is said to be discussing a new service with various retailers that would offer web shoppers super speedy delivery. More »
Google Maps 6.0 Will Show You The Inside Of Certain Locations
By Mary Beth Quirk on November 30, 2011 11:00 AM
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Getting lost inside the sprawling wonderland that is any IKEA is likely a shared experience, and one that may happen less for Android smartphone users. Google Maps 6.0 rolled out some changes on Tuesday, including indoor mapping of certain retail locations and airports. More »
Fake Bank Of America Google+ Account Has 27 Times More Followers Than Real One
By Chris Morran on November 15, 2011 11:30 AM
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UPDATE: As predicted, the obviously fake BofA page has been pulled down by Google, because why should anyone be able to have fun at the expense of Bank of America? More »
Amazon Fire Could Be A Big Bummer For Android
By Mary Beth Quirk on October 2, 2011 3:50 PM
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Good news for Amazon's Kindle Fire is that it could be poised to be a serious competitor to the iPad. Bad news for Google and its Android operating system, which the Fire runs on, is that if it does rival the iPad, Google probably won't see much benefit. More »
Berliner Suckered Into Paying $680 For Free Government Forms
By Ben Popken on September 26, 2011 5:00 PM
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A woman from Berlin Googled for US citizenship application info and thought the site she landed on was an all-in-one place for taking care of all her forms. She forked over $680, and what she got back were forms she could have gotten from the government for free. More »
