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Netflix App for Android Improved for Kindle Fire, Nook Tablets
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-16
Netflix, which only made its Android application available for Android tablets, has rolled out an improvement to its app to boost discovery of its content on slates such as the newly available Kindle Fire and Nook tablets. Zal Bilimoria, formerly a product manager at Google and Microsoft who manages
Google's X Lab Future Looks Like 'Caprica'
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-15
The New York Times provided the best glimpse yet into the work that Google co-founder Sergey Brin and other crack engineers have been working on for the last several months.
There exists in the secret Google X lab more than 100 experiments that Brin said last month at the
Google Giving Away 7 Samsung Galaxy Nexus Phones
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-14
Google has started giving away seven Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphones as part of its Google Nexus Challenge, according to the company's @googlenexus Twitter account.
It's a daily puzzle contest, with Google giving away a phone a day to the winner, starting on Nov. 12 and ending on Nov.
Google +1 Button Comes to Images
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-11
I'll admit that when Google unveiled the +1 button back in March of this year I was dissappointed. Where was the rest of it, I wondered. What about the Emerald Sea social network I'd heard so much about? Obviously, that came to pass in June, but for nearly
Google+ Destined to Be a Ghost Town?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-10
You have to have guts or a crystal ball to proclaim the death of a multi-million-dollar software project undertaken by one of the world's premier Internet companies. Give credit where credit is due to Farhad Manhoo, who does just that in his column in Slate.
Never bullish on
Motorola Corvair: The Future Google TV Controller?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-09
The Verve had a nice little scoop about some newfangled Motorola Mobility device that no one had heard of but apparently is far enough along that it has its own marketing box. The Motorola Corvair -- sounds like a car -- is a tablet-style TV remote control with
Google's Horowitz Responds to Zuck's Google+ Jab
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-08
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's affront to Google did not go unanswered as top executives from the two companies engaged in a rare war of words Nov. 7. Zuckerberg appeared with his COO Sheryl Sandberg on PBS' Charlie Rose show yesterday. When Charlie Rose asked Zuckerberg about Google and
Google Isn't Dominant: Schmidt ... Really?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-07
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's answers to questions in the wake of the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee failed to satisfy the majority of Congressmen on Capitol Hill, so they sent him plenty more in writing. This one, from Sen. Richard Blumenthal, stands out: Mr. Schmidt, your company
Ex-Googler Offers to Fix Google Reader
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-04
Kevin Fury Fox, a former Google Reader lead designer, has offered to fix Google Reader, which the search engine has streamlined and stripped of social tools such as to render it unusable by several of its loyal users. Google started the firestorm earlier this week when it ripped
Google News, Google+ Marry to Show Journalists Love
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-03
What do you get when you cross Google+ with Google News? For journalists, you could get a big bump in visibility if you play Google's new game. When reporters link their Google profile with their articles, Google News will show the writer's name and how many Google+
Google Street View Walks Through Parks
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-02
There was a good reason Google sent out Street View trikes to shoot footage of those hard to reach places two years ago: footage of parks! The search engine provider's trike team has traversed 22 countries to add a number of parks for its real-world, street-level footage.
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Former Google Reader PM Calls Changes a "Disaster"
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-11-01
In case people haven't heard enough griping about the new Google Reader changes, which kill off comments, sharing, likes and other social tools, former Google Reader Product Manager Brian Shih weighed in Oct. 31 with his own thoughts on the product. For a recap, Reader's social tools were
Facebook Open Compute Offers No Competitive Advantage vs. Google
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-31
So I've been reading the handful of articles that covered Facebook's Open Compute launch in depth and I have to disagree with one of the main story angles. Naturally, when one covers a news item regarding Facebook it makes sense to look at it from a competitive
Ode to Fragmentation: Which Android Version Is It Anyway?
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-28
Google's gross Android fragmentation is the stuff of legend among developers by now.
Here's a quick rundown: The company has pumped out Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo and
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Google, Oracle Android Trial Pushed to 2012
By Clint Boulton | Posted: 2011-10-27
While Apple and Samsung continue to sue each other silly, there's one big patent and copyright infringement case we tech reporters can take off of the books for 2011: Oracle versus Google, a case concerning Java patent and copyright infringement in Android. The major case was
