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Facebook Kill Google? Get Outta Here

Once again, a brave soul has suggested that Facebook could kill Google thanks to its vast treasure trove of user data and its increasing...

Gilt-Free: Samsung Chromebooks Sell Out at Insider Site

Google officials said at Google I/O that Chrome Operating System notebooks from Samsung and Acer would be available June 15 online from Amazon.com and...

Google Schmidt’s Facebook Folly a Cause for Demotion?

Google co-founder Larry Page was effusive in his praise about Eric Schmidt when he announced the CEO who had led Google for a decade...

Chrome OS Smartphone Seems Unlikely Anytime Soon

Anyone expecting a smartphone based on Google's Chrome operating system will have to wait because it doesn't seem like the search engine is going...

Why Google Wallet Won’t Work

I want Google Wallet to succeed, I really do.Wallet is the search engine's bid to marry a mobile payment application with NFC-enabled Android phones...

Google Launches Flight Search, sans ITA Data

If someone were to tell you that Google just launched flight travel search results without using data it culled from ITA Software, you'd probably...

Gmail People Widget Launching to Rival Microsoft, Xobni

Google will soon roll out a "people widget" in the right-hand side of its Gmail messages that surfaces content from friends and other contacts....

Google Chrome OS Smartphone Coming, Pundit Says

How do you feel about a smartphone based on Google's Chrome operating system, the Web-based OS currently making its way to Amazon.com and Best...

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Coming with Honeycomb 3.1

Sure, 5,000-plus attendees received limited edition Android 3.0 "Honeycomb"-based Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets like this one at Google I/O May 10.But it looks...

Google eBooks Sees 2.5M Downloads of iOS, Android, Chrome Apps

Google eBooks has been on the market 6 months, an amazing amount of time for the search engine to go without publicizing pretty much...