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Kindle Fire Update Offers Reprieve from Balky Browsing

Amazon has begun rolling out the promised update for its Kindle Fire tablet.The *over-the-air software package will help remove a lot of the latency...

Google Nexus Tablet May Be on Tap for 2012

Take any translation with a grain of salt, but if you believe Corriere della Sera's citation of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, the company...

Google Goggles Connected With Metropolitan Musuem of Art

Google has indexed and cataloged 76,000 images of the Metropolitan Musuem of Art's art collection for its Goggles visual search application.What's especially cool about...

Google Places Check-In Offers Available for Businesses

As I wrote last week, Google was preparing to let businesses offer check-in deals via the Google Places local search service.That's now come to...

Gmail for iOS Upgraded With Custom Signature, Sketching

Google's mobile software team has been busy building a better iOS application for Gmail.Six weeks after Google prematurely launched a native Gmail app for...

Kindle Fire Sales to Excel Despite Navigational Lag

Seems everyone is finding it in their hearts to beat up on the Amazon Kindle Fire for its balky navigation and other gross fits...

Google Movie Search Gets Better on Android, iOS Devices

Google recently upgraded its movie search capabilities for Android smartphones and Apple iOS devices, making movie discovery along with their showtimes and theaters faster...

Verizon Galaxy Nexus Delayed in Google Wallet Dispute

With less than three weeks left in 2011, Android OEMs are racing to pump out the last of their smartphones and tablets for people...

Google+ Gets Find My Face Facial Recognition Feature

The Google+ team has been hard at work, adding well over 100 features since launching the platform June 28 and releasing it to public...

Battelle’s Big 5: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook

John Battelle is doing some nice culling for his next book, "What We Hath Wrought."Normally, I'd shun any book with a title like that...