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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
We'll Believe Android 5.0 Is Coming in Q2 When We See It
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-17
Sometimes you read reports and just shake your head. That was the case for this DigiTimes report that said Google is rushing Android 5.0, or "Jelly Bean," to market in the second quarter. The reason? "Adoption of Android 4.0 has fallen short of original expectations, and Microsoft
How Google Comes Out Cleaner Than Apple on Privacy
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-16
Path's privacy snafu of collecting address book data and storing it on remote servers without permission opened the floodgates of media hellhounds on that startup, along with Twitter, Foursquare, Yelp and others. This comes a week after Google spent a couple weeks being demonized for its planned
SoftLayer Launches New Worldwide Object Storage Service
By Chris Preimesberger | Posted: 2012-02-15
Dallas-based SoftLayer came out with a heartfelt news announcement on Valentine's Day. The seven-year-old company, which started out as a Web hoster but now is into cloud
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Microsoft Mistakenly Claims Google Home Page Infected With Blackhole
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-15
Microsoft quickly updated its security tools after users reported seeing warnings that Google's home page was infected with the Blackhole exploit kit.
Microsoft's
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Google PageRank Used in Molecular Chemistry Research
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-15
Google is well known for its collegiate roots, hatched as it was by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University back in the late 1990s. So it's only fitting that PageRank, the defining algorithm that set Google apart from Overture, Yahoo, Microsoft and many others to
Google Voice Search vs. Siri in Battle for Speech-Driven Ads
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-14
Anyone who reads this blog knows I'm a pretty faithful follower of John Battelle's own Search Blog.
Battelle sparked an interesting conversation about the mobile ad
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Does Gmail's Perpetual Window Play Fast, Loose With Data?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2012-02-13
This fine piece in Wired about a "perpetual window into Gmail" caught my attention this weekend for two reasons.
First, I live in Gmail. It's my primary, personal email haven. Second, considering the data-sucking sounds Path made this month, the idea that Google has left open some potentially serious
Mozilla Closes Security Flaw in Firefox 10
By Fahmida Y. Rashid | Posted: 2012-02-12
Less than two weeks after releasing Firefox version 10, Mozilla has updated its popular Web browser to close a security flaw.
A critical security vulnerability has been fixed in Firefox
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