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Google Wallet to Lose Exclusivity but Let’s Start With a Launch

How are Google's plans for local deals and mobile payments shaping up? It depends on who you ask.Google will tell you everything is simpatico,...

Google Goggles Alerts Users to Photo Matches

Earlier this year, I had a discussion with Shailesh Nalawadi, the Google product manager running Google Goggles, the visual search application that lets Android...

SEC Filing Reveals How Motorola Had Google Over a Barrel

Nothing like an SEC filing to shed light on the ins-and-outs of deals.Motorola Mobility, which is in the process of being acquired by Google...

There’s Room for More Than Apple, Google in Mobile

One of the regular memes has Apple iOS and Google's Android mobile operating systems as the only platforms that matter in mobile.With some 70...

Netflix App Hums on Motorola Droid Bionic

Great news, Netflix/Android phone owners!Netflix, which has fought to navigate the rough waters of security and digital rights management to put its service on...

Google Zagat Buy Provides More Antitrust Fodder

Amazing. Google acquired Zagat, a niche content company nearly as old as myself whose little red pocket-sized booklets of restaurant reviews I can remember...

Google’s Objectivity With Motorola Comes Under Fire

For several months, pundits and folks with grudges versus Google's Android operating system have speculated that the provider of the world's leading smartphone platform...

Is the Android Update Alliance Working Yet?

At Google I/O back in May, executives for Google's Android platform proudly announced they were working on a way to provide regular platform updates...

Does it Matter for Google if Motorola’s Patents Suck?

While there's no question Google's bid for Motorola was predicated on the company's huge intellectual property war chest of 17,000 patents (7,500 pending), some...

Apple TV Looking More Likely to Challenge Google TV?

Even pundits who formerly thought Apple Television -- as in a fully integrated box with a Web browser that flings content across iPhone's, iPod...