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Facebook, Google Maps Go Mobile in GMs High-End OnStar Cars by Clint Boulton Rallying the Fans OnStar President Chris Preuss rallies the modest crowd at a loft in the city. Preuss discussed the advancements OnStar has made in the market. Showing Off the Merchandise OnStar packed five new gorgeous GM cars into the loft, fitting […]

Box.net, whose software is used by more than 4 million users and 60,000 businesses to store and manage files, has built an Android application to help corporate road warriors manage content from smartphones. Available free Sept. 23 from the Android Market, Box for Android allows users to manage and share business content for smartphones running […]

Google rooted on the Federal Communications Commission, which Sept. 23 freed up the so-called “white spaces,” or vacant airwaves between TV channels that can power speedy wireless broadband networks. TV airwave signals can travel far and deep-through walls, in fact-making the spectrum well-suited for mobile devices that connect wirelessly to the Web, such as smartphones […]

What better way to smooth over a Hollywood-cooked public relations disaster than by feeding $100 million to schools in need? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg-who is being relentlessly derided by former acquaintances and business partners in the build-up to a movie about the social network’s creation-is donating $100 million to help improve public schools in Newark, […]

One year after releasing a developer preview of Google Chrome Frame, an open-source plug-in that enables Google’s Chrome browser rendering engine to run in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Google has deemed it stable. Chrome Frame’s raison d’être is that IE did not adequately support newer Web technologies such as HTML5 or offer the performance boost associated […]

Research In Motion expects to build 2.5 million BlackPad tablets for the fourth quarter, said a financial analyst. The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 22 that RIM will unveil the BlackPad at its 2010 BlackBerry Developer Conference, which runs from Sept. 27 through Sept. 30 in San Francisco. While RIM did not comment on the […]

Facebook is working with INQ Mobile on two social networking smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system, the latest step in the weeklong rumor about a so-called Facebook phone. TechCrunch reported Sept. 1 that Facebook was building a mobile phone operating system that would compete with Apple’s iPhone iOS and Google’s Android platform. Facebook denied […]

Google’s controversial Street View service has been shuttered in the Czech Republic and has sparked privacy changes in Germany. A feature of Google Maps, Street View provides photos of city streets taken by cars strapped with cameras and computers. The photos are stored on Google’s servers. Street View has faced privacy questions almost since its […]

Two interesting pieces came to light regarding Google’s torrid acquisition spree. CBI Insights put together these charts on the subject Sept. 19, while Reuters snagged a rare interview with Google M&A head David Lawee. How fast has Google’s shopping spree been this year? Since I published this piece about Google’s gluttony Sept. 1, the company […]

Google Sept. 21 upgraded Gmail for Android, decoupling the application from the operating system for future Android releases and adding limited support for its new Gmail Priority Inbox feature. The Gmail for Android team said in a blog post the update will be available only for smartphones and tablets running Android 2.2. That includes the […]

Google’s Android 2.2 operating system began rolling out on the Motorola Droid X smartphone Sept. 22, more than two months after Verizon Wireless launched the handset as its midsummer Droid update. Verizon Wireless spokesman Albert Aydin confirmed the upgrade, telling eWEEK that the software bump is happening in waves over the air. Droid X users […]

Google, Microsoft and IBM have an important deadline coming up in their heated war for cloud computing contracts. The General Services Administration July 30 invited software makers to submit their bids to become the federal agency’s e-mail and collaboration application provider. The deadline to submit bids is Sept. 30. The GSA, which oversees government procurement […]