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Google, Apple Are ‘Frenemies,’ But Android Feels the Heat

There are a lot of stories painting Google and Apple as enemies, and there are some that paint the tech powers as "frenemies."I'm of...

Logitech Offers Cold Comfort With Google TV Update

For owners of the Google TV-powered Logitech Revue companion box, little that came out of Logitech's first quarter earnings call can be construed as...

Google Hotel Finder Experiment Comes for Vacation Planners

Google may be winding down its Google Labs experiments, but the company has promised to keep experimenting in its core products, such as search,...

Google+ Slowdown Shows No Reason for Panic

Google+ use is slowing! Google+ use is slowing! Those sentences must be uttered with the Chicken Little cadence and timbre of "The sky is...

Google+ Gets Advice from MySpace Tom

One month into its already storied existence, Google+ is getting both advice and feature requests at a healthy clip.One of the most liberal advice...

Windows Phone 7 ‘Mango’ So Sweet I Can’t Get a Review Unit

For this post I'm taking a break from my regularly scheduled Google+ critiques to critique one of the other hot news items of the...

Louis Gray Argues for Algorithmic Filtering on Google+

I've waited a week to write this post because there has been a lot of newsy stuff going on. Google+ has been newsy and...

Google, Facebook Boast Record Lobbying Spend

Google is facing an antitrust investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. Every acquisition Google makes of size is investigated by the FTC or the...

Google Girds to Pay Oracle in Android Case

Florian Mueller, who is doing yeoman's work for media by poring over meat and minutiae in the legal salvos between Oracle and Google over...

Google+ May Have 18 Million Users, Slowing Growth

The good news for Google+: it may now have 18 million users, less than a week after Google CEO Larry Page said it had...