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Free Samsung Nexus S Via Google.com: Hurry!
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-08-03
Step right up and into the Google Nexus Website, where the search engine is giving away free Samsung Nexus S smartphones via retailer Best Buy today only. Google posted this note on its Google.com homepage (via Search Engine Land): Clicking the link brings you to the
Google, Apple Are 'Frenemies,' But Android Feels the Heat
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-08-02
There are a lot of stories painting Google and Apple as enemies, and there are some that paint the tech powers as "frenemies."
I'm of the latter camp, and so is Mike Elgan, who makes an elegant and compelling argument via The Cult of Mac about why the two
Logitech Offers Cold Comfort With Google TV Update
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-08-01
For owners of the Google TV-powered Logitech Revue companion box, little that came out of Logitech's first quarter earnings call can be construed as good or beneficial. Logitech lost $30 million for the first quarter, as sales of its digital home products, including the Revue boxes, fell 53
Google Hotel Finder Experiment Comes for Vacation Planners
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-29
Google may be winding down its Google Labs experiments, but the company has promised to keep experimenting in its core products, such as search, Gmail and Google Maps. To that end, Google July 28 timed its new Hotel Finder to help people planning summer vacations in the U.S.
Google+ Slowdown Shows No Reason for Panic
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-28
Google+ use is slowing! Google+ use is slowing! Those sentences must be uttered with the Chicken Little cadence and timbre of "The sky is falling." Seriously though, Google+ was bound to slow down. It took off like a rocket, hitting more than 20 million users in three weeks,
Google+ Gets Advice from MySpace Tom
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-27
One month into its already storied existence, Google+ is getting both advice and feature requests at a healthy clip. One of the most liberal advice dollopers has been Tom Anderson, also known as MySpace Tom, for better or worse.
As the founder of the social media comet that
Windows Phone 7 'Mango' So Sweet I Can't Get a Review Unit
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-26
For this post I'm taking a break from my regularly scheduled Google+ critiques to critique one of the other hot news items of the modern technology age: That would be Windows Phone 7. Where are all of these devices running Windows Phone 7? What is this elusive "Mango"
Louis Gray Argues for Algorithmic Filtering on Google+
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-25
I've waited a week to write this post because there has been a lot of newsy stuff going on. Google+ has been newsy and topical since June 28, but it's also growing increasingly noisy, with what comScore claims are 20 million people using the service.
That makes for one
Google, Facebook Boast Record Lobbying Spend
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-22
Google is facing an antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. Every acquisition Google makes of size is investigated by the FTC or the Justice Department. The company stumbled through 2010 with two major privacy gaffes with Street View and Google Buzz.
It is looking to expand its
Google Girds to Pay Oracle in Android Case
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-21
Florian Mueller, who is doing yeoman's work for media by poring over meat and minutiae in the legal salvos between Oracle and Google over Android, has dug up some new meat from the latest filing in the patent infringement case. That is that Google has signaled
Google+ May Have 18 Million Users, Slowing Growth
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-20
The good news for Google+: it may now have 18 million users, less than a week after Google CEO Larry Page said it had signed up 10 million users. The bad news for Google+: growth seems to be slowing. Those are two bullet points Ancestry.com founder Paul
Move Your Photos Let Users Migrate Facebook Pics to Google
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-19
Some folks who have been waiting for an alternative to Facebook and enjoy the newly minted Google+ social network enough to want to move their data their have a few options. You may have already heard that Facebook blocked Facebook Friend Exporter, a Chrome extension that automates the
Google+ a Sign of Newfound Social DNA?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-18
MySpace founder Tom Anderson addressed whether social is in Google's DNA in light of the early success of Google+ in a guest post on TechCrunch. Google+'s primary differentiator from Facebook is the Circles construct, where users manually follow other people they choose. Some Web luminaries have been
Google Bad for the Brain, Recall, Study Says
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-15
The title of this post may well have been: Nicholas Carr Vindicated!
I'm referring of course to the fact that another study has come to the fore showing empirical evidence that Google is bad for our brains, specifically impinging our ability to recall.
If ever there were redemption for
Amazon Android Tablet Coming in October, Says WSJ
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-07-14
The latest spin on the Amazon Android tablet rumor mill has the e-commerce giant pumping out a 9-inch tablet this October to try to catch some of Apple's iPad magic. You know, the kind of magic that goes with selling between 25 million and 30 million tablets in
