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Google Should Buy Twitter to Battle Facebook but Won’t

When Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked what he thought of Twitter Sept. 28 at TechCrunch Disrupt, he acknowledged that the microblog should be...

Google Car Home for Android Gets Navigation Shortcuts

Google Oct. 1 refreshed its Car Home for Android application, decoupling it from the core operating system and providing custom shortcuts for users of...

Facebook Should Buy Skype, Analysts Agree

Just hours after news surfaced that Facebook and Skype could be entering into a VOIP (voice over IP) partnership, industry watchers seized on the...

Google Gives Goo.gl URL Shortener Its Own Home

Google gave its Google URL Shortener history, analytics capabilities and its own home Sept. 30, enabling users to shorten URLs from the new goo.gl...

Intel Labs Eyes Atom-Based Compute Clusters

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-Intel reportedly is not interested in pushing its energy-efficient Atom processor for the server space.Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel's...

Google Street View Comes to Antarctica, Brazil, Ireland

Google Sept. 30 said it has added imagery for its Street View technology across all seven continents, adding footage in Antarctica, Brazil and Ireland.Google...

Facebook Photos Go High-Resolution, Get Batch Tagging

Facebook Sept. 30 said its photo software will enable high-resolution images, a better viewer for browsing photos and a new photo upload tool for...

Apple TV Still Looks Like a Hobby: 10 Reasons Why

Since the original Apple TV's launch in 2007, Apple executives have said that the device is a hobby for those that want to enjoy...

Intel Labs, Carnegie Mellon Jointly Research Clouds, Embedded Systems

PITTSBURGH-Priya Narasimhan is an associate professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and director of the CyLab Mobility Research Center at Carnegie Mellon...

Microsoft Jeers Google Gmail Conversation View Switch

A Microsoft Office executive laughed off a new Google Gmail feature that lets users sort e-mail messages by date, claiming that Google should just...