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iHypocrite: Why Jobs Was Wrong to Go Thermonuclear on Android

It feels painfully petty calling a deceased man who brought the world so much joy with consumer electronics devices hypocritical, but bloggers have to...

Steve Jobs Showed Super Class by Not Turning Page Away

One of the many tidbits pulled early out of Walter Isaccson's authorized biography of Steve Jobs, titled "Steve Jobs," is that Google CEO Larry...

Google Isn’t Serious About Not Competing with Siri

AllThingsDigital's Ina Fried, one of my favorite mobile reporters, scored a nice little chat with Google Android creator Andy Rubin about Apple's new Siri...

What Google’s Sergey Brin Is Up to These Days

Well, I learned something new from Sergey Brin's appearance with Google+ guru Vic Gundotra at yesterday's Web 2.0 Summit.Did you know that Brin is...

Why Google+ Has Uphill Battle vs. Facebook: Sean Parker

To my mind, the best question put to Sean Parker (he of Napster fame) here at the show in San Francisco Oct. 17 was...

Google, Apple, Amazon Facebook Square Off in Cloud, Mobile, Social

These are exciting and excruciating times to be a Google watcher.One of the things I've tried to pay the most attention to in the...

Google Voice Starts Photos, MMS on Sprint

Great news for Google Voice users. The phone calling application, which lets users route phone calls to several phones using one phone number, will...

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Launch Set for Oct. 19… in China

As promised, Samsung and Google have rescheduled their Galaxy Nexus launch event. It will now take place Oct. 19 in Hong Kong at 10...

Google+ Doomed by Lack of Platform Prowess?

Another Chicken Little has surfaced to cry the sky is falling on Google+, or at least talk about how much the social network blatantly...

How Google+ Can Make a Dent in Facebook’s User Engagement

At a time when the majority of blog posts concerning Google+ either have the social network credibly challenging Facebook or dying on the vine,...