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Android Handsets Getting Gingerbread, but What About NFC?

ComputerWorld compiled the type of list people gobble up: a list of smartphones getting the bump to Gingerbread, or Google's latest Android 2.3 operating...

Google’s Page Can’t Buy Social Love

Sometime you read things that are just, well, head scratchers.Take for example, Nicholas Carlson's scoop in Business Insider that Google CEO Larry Page sent...

Google Called to Capitol Carpet for Enabling Web Piracy

Congress held an antipiracy hearing April 6, in which Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of a U.S. House Judiciary subcommittee that is investigating Web sites...

Android Developer Console Wonky for Last Week

Yesterday I noted Baird's report that fragmentation in the Android platform is making some developers nervous.If developers can't publish their applications to the Android...

Google Street View Infringes on Privacy, Say Swiss

Switzerland's top administrative court supported the country's Federal Data Protection Commissioner Hanspeter Thuer in agreeing that Google Street View map service infringes on privacy.Street...

Android Is the New Microsoft Windows Mobile (for Now)

As of this writing, Google's Android operating system has captured 33 percent of the U.S. smartphone market share through February, according to comScore.That's one...

Google Cancels QR Codes to Pave Way for NFC Platform

Google this week proved just how bullish it is on NFC (near field communications) technology, ending support for QR codes on Google Places and...

Microsoft the Monopolist Files Antitrust Complaint Vs. Google

Ever since Foundem, eJustice and Ciao filed antitrust complaints with the European Commission in Brussels that Google was affecting their ability to do business...

How Google Recipe View Devours the Long Tail

It's getting increasingly harder for Google to claim it is friend to the long tail of Website publishers indexed on its search engine.Nicholas Carr,...

Gosling Goes to Google to Shore Up Android Defense Vs. Oracle

Google's hiring of the spurned Java creator James Gosling could be a brilliant tactical move for the search engine as it defends its Android...