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Why Google's Display Ad March Could Grind to a Halt
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-03-02
"Do Not Track" presents some interesting obstacles for Internet giants that rely on Web advertising, with Google poised to be significantly impacted in the display ad market. A quick refresher: Do Not Track will allow Internet users to add a Do Not Track header from browsers such as
RSA 2012: Chrome OS vs iCloud
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-03-01
Google and Apple harnessed the power of the cloud the benefits of working in the cloud with Chrome OS and iCloud, but according to a Kaspersky researcher, there are security issues with both platforms.
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RSA 2012: NSA Pilots 100 Android Phones
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-03-01
Smartphones running Google's Android mobile operating system are secure enough to make top-secret and classified phone calls from the field, according to the National Security Agency.
The NSA
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Android Smartphone Costs Dropping Big Time, Says Schmidt
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-03-01
Much of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's keynote discussion at Mobile World Congress Feb. 28 concerned very forward-looking, sci-fi-type stuff. Sample: People will deploy
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RSA 2012: LulzSec As a CloudFlare Customer
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-29
The CloudFlare team was surprised when cyber-pranksters LulzSecurity signed up to take advantage of its services last year, Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare said Feb. 28 at the RSA
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Google+ a Ghost Town of User Engagement?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-29
Google CEO Larry Page said during his last earnings conference call that Google+ has more than 90 million users. He declined to reveal the user engagement of those users. Now comScore reveals that Google+ users only spend an average of three minutes there a month, compared with 405
Google, Evil and the Binary Curse
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-28
The whole "Is Google Evil?" meme has grown to be a ridiculous, farcical debate, prone to solemn punditry by some of the most authoritative voices in high tech.
I've defended Google countless times here, but I've never subscribed to the notion that Google is good, much less evil. No
Apple Chomps Into Google's Jelly Belly With App Search
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-27
Apple is finally doing search, or at least search for applications, somewhat completing a debate ignited nearly two years ago by analysts and pundits. Last week, Apple acquired Chomp, whose application helps users of iOS and Android devices find an app they'd like.
It's an application search app,
Pocket Use Case #1: Precise Software Moves to the Cloud
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-02-24
In the interest of saving time on delivering new and useful information, The Station is trying out a new feature here today. It's called a Pocket Use Case, or PUC for short.
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The Station Stops the Presses to Explain a Few Things
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-02-24
The Station wants to apologize to all of his readers. We've been spectacularly inconsistent with our posts for a long while, but that's now changing. We'll still be
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Google Picking Ad Sales Guy to Lead Motorola (Maybe)
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-24
No one is raving about the job Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha has done in the last couple years.
The last couple of quarters have been iffy as Motorola missed expectations both times. But Jha did preside over some of my favorite phones, such as the Motorola Droid
Google's Fiber Plan Taking Shape as Cable TV Power Play
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-23
Google's Fiber ambitions for high-speed Internet access are slowly but surely coming together in the form of paid TV programming, and it's something we should have seen coming.
Remember when we first learned of Fiber two years ago this month, when wacky political wonks jumped in shark
Google Apps Attacked by Microsoft in "Googlelighting" Video
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-22
For a company without major cloud computing collaboration clout, Microsoft has a good sense of humor regarding its competition with Google. Coming from the
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Google+ Share Box Comes to the Home Page
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-21
Anyone else think this is just wrong? There will no doubt be some search traditionalists and Google lovers who will see this as sacrilege.
I see it as another shining example of how Google+ is coming to be synonymous with Google. Or is Google becoming synonymous
Google Cookiegate a Case of Competitive Politics, Not Privacy
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-20
Every reporter under the sun painted Google's use of cookies to insert its Google+ functionality on Apple's Safari browser as an invasion of users' privacy. The rub is this: Google and a few other advertising companies have secretly tracked the Web-browsing habits of millions of people using Apple's
