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Google Jan. 24 said it is bringing its Google Cloud Print beta to allow Android and iPhone smartphone users to print Google Docs documents and Gmail messages. Google Cloud Print is the company’s solution to allow any application to print to any printer from any computing device without installing any software. Google Cloud Print is […]

Motorola Xoom, the first tablet based on Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system, is launching from Best Buy Feb. 17. Engadget, which said the device will ship with 32GB of onboard storage, scored the scoop via an internal Best Buy document posted here. The news comes after Android Central reported the minimum price for the […]

Of the many different ways Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s turning over ultimate control to co-founder Larry Page will impact the company I believe Google Apps — really, the company’s entire enterprise business — will be affected the most. If I’m Google Enterprise President Dave Girouard, I’m cursing the change. With two decades at Sun Microsystems […]

Toshiba launched a preview Website of its forthcoming Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, a device geared to provide features Apple’s iPad lacks such as dual cameras, a swappable battery, several data ports and Flash support. eWEEK got a sneak peek of the tablet three weeks ago at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, but few specs were […]

Samsung Mobile has weathered withering criticism for being slow to pushing Android 2.2 upgrades to its handful of popular Galaxy S devices, which have sold more than 10 million units. T-Mobile customers at least have begun to get a reprieve from this delay, as Samsung confirmed Jan. 21 it has started rolling out the Android […]

Google may have used copyrighted code owned by Oracle in as many as 43 files for the latest versions of its Android operating system, said an intellectual-property specialist. However, tech-savvy bloggers who have studied the issue dispute his claims. Oracle sued Google Aug. 12 for infringing seven patents and other copyrights related to Java in […]

Facebook said Jan. 21 it has raised $1.5 billion in funding from Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies, which brings the social-networking company’s value to $50 billion. Goldman Sachs clients overseas invested $1 billion in Facebook Class A common stock in a funding round that closed Jan. 21. The latest investment follows a $500 million […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s announcement that he is relinquishing his title to company co-founder Larry Page has hijacked the news cycle throughout the tech industry in the last two days. Schmidt made the news on Google’s fourth-quarter earnings call Jan. 20. The news was a bombshell for analysts expecting Google to announce a solid quarter […]

Google confirmed it is preparing a prepaid deals program that would compete with local deals giant Groupon, which the search engine failed to acquire late last year. Mashable broke the news Jan. 20, citing confidential sources. Normally spoken word sourcing beckons Google to respond with its “will not comment on rumors or speculation” mantra. However, […]

Several times in 2010 Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned that Google was taking a “mobile first” approach to computing, including anything from smartphones to Google Apps and its other technologies. Google is moving that needle forward in 2011. Schmidt wrote in the Harvard Business Review that all of Google’s initiatives for year are mobile-centric. “We […]

Facebook Jan. 19 rolled out a new mobile application to allow people with feature phones to access the social network on the go without incurring data charges. Built in conjunction with mobile app specialist Snaptu, Facebook for Feature Phones aims to approximate the user experience of smartphones on a feature phone by offering an easier-to-navigate […]

T-Mobile USA formally unveiled the Samsung Galaxy S 4G, an Android 2.2-based smartphone with Samsung Mobile’s elegant Super active-matrix organic LED touch-screen technology. At a press event in New York City, T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm promised the Galaxy S 4G “will be the fastest smartphone running on America’s largest 4G network” when it appears later […]