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Goo.gl URL Shortener Gets Copy Clipboard, Dashboard Dumpster

Google's Goo.gl URL shortening service won't be mistaken for Bit.ly or any of the other well-heeled URL shrinking services yet, but the search engine...

Google Docs Gets Pagination to Combat Microsoft Word

Google April 12 trumpeted the fact that its Google Docs now has pagination, which lets users see visual pages on their screen similar to...

Google Should Target the Unlit Social Graph Before Facebook

Ever since Google launched its Facebook Like +1 recommendation button, super smart people have weighed in with a number of suggestions on what Google...

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...