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Google Floating on Mobile Cloud in 2011

Several times in 2010 Google CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned that Google was taking a "mobile first" approach to computing, including anything from smartphones to...

Google Games Coming, but When and in What Form?

The jig is up. Google Games is coming. Let us no longer be fooled or fool ourselves.Yesterday, Mary Jo Foley discovered that Johnny Chung...

Android vs. iPhone, Warts and All

The media spend an inordinate amount of time amping the pros of smartphones such as Apple's can-do-no-wrong iPhone and Google's latest high-end handsets.Some folks,...

Google Girds to Defend Search Kingdom in Europe, U.S.

The European Commission is doing its due diligence in its investigation of Google's search-engine practices with a questionnaire to advertisers asking whether Google manipulated...

Google Apps SLA to Credit Customers for Any Downtime

Google got bolder with its Google Apps service-level agreement Jan. 14, removing the clause that allows for scheduled downtime for its Web-based collaboration software...

Google Hiring Mobile Payments Specialist with NFC Chops

Yes, there will be a Google mobile payments system. It's now a matter of when, not if.A week ago, BusinessWeekBloomberg said Google is building...

How Much Will the Verizon iPhone Impinge Upon Android Sales?

As I sat in the theater Jan. 11, which is totally appropriate considering I was listening to the dramatic flourish that was Verizon Wireless'...

Google Hasn’t Gotten Social Right: Marissa Mayer

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has shown a predisposition toward frankness in his answers to journalists' questions.He's even exhibited wit at inopportune times, joking about...

Google UI Designer Duarte Sweet on Honeycomb

Engadget scored this sweet interview with Google's Android user-experience lead Matias Duarte, who discussed the new Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system powering the Motorola...

Google Lurks Behind Android at CES

Funny story, or at least funny to those who appreciate fine PR slipperiness.A few weeks ago--before I landed in this godforsaken city in the...