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James Gosling, Google Hardly Knew Ye

Java Founder James Gosling has left Google, where he was definitely not helping the search engine with its patent infringement case versus Oracle.A Google...

Google+ is an Identity Service, Stupid

NPR's Andy Carvin scored a fascinating question-and-answer bout with former Google CEO and current Executive Chairman, who spoke at the Edinburgh International TV Festival...

Google Voice Search Comes to Google Maps

Google Chrome is the most voice-enabled browser in the free world, as the company propelling it continues to weave voice throughout its core applications...

Apple, Google CEO Turns Aren’t the End of Eras

There is a lot being written about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' stepping down from the company he built, was subsequently exiled from, and restored...

Apple Store Does What No Android Retailer Can

I realize this blog is called Google Watch, not Apple Watch, so please bear with me.I've come to the point in life that when...

Free Google Phone Strategy Revitalized, Post Motorola Bid

Leave it to a venture capitalist to cut through the clutter of punditry, follow the money and point to the next possible direction for...

Gray Goes Google: Page Responsible for Talent Retention

Facebook's poaching of Googlers has been going on since about 2005 or 2006, but it really came to a head in March 2008 when...

Google Maps Finally Gets Weather Layer

Google Maps has many layers but it's just gotten perhaps one of its more important layers since traffic patterns: weather.This makes total sense. People...

Google, Motorola, T-Mobile a Holy Trinity?

I was going to write about how Motorola Mobility's latest legal setback versus Microsoft, but because I woke up in a better mood I'm...

Google+ Already a Tumbleweed Town?

This week's Linkbait Prize goes to Paul Tassi, blogging at Forbes.com, who has kindly penned a euology for Google+, a service he obviously despises...