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Windows Phone 7 Will Challenge Android in 2011

Windows Phone 7 is out, or at least the mobile-watching world has seen the devices and is largely impressed by them, if not overwhelmed...

Google TV Search Powers Google TV

One of the interesting tidbits of news teased from Google out of Logitech's Oct. 6 launch of the Revue companion box and controller for...

Google, PayPal Deal for Android Market Expected Soon

The Street this week reported that Google and PayPal are set to announce that long-rumored deal to make eBay's e-commerce platform a payment option...

Google Latitude Gets Cozier with the Desktop Computer

File this under backward compatibility.Google Latitude, the search engine's friend-finding location service, is used by millions of Google users from their mobile phones.For some...

How Will Google Build Its Serendipity Engine?

Google CEO Eric Schmidt wowed the crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt Sept. 28 with talk of autonomous search and serendipity engines that deliver search content...

Google Lost 200 Employees to Facebook, the Newer Cool Kid

We in the media have spilled a fair share of digital ink over defections of Google employees, also known as Googlers, to its cross-town...

Google TV ‘Very Good,’ Blip.tv CEO Says

Early reviews of Google TV have started rolling in from applications makers who have customized apps for the emerging TV service, which aims to...

Google Mobile Ads Go Hyperlocal for Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Google continued to refine its mobile ad technologies Sept. 29 with the introduction of a new hyperlocal advertising feature geared to help consumers in...

For Google, Open Is the New Closed

Google CEO Eric Schmidt wowed (and scared) the crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt Sept. 28 when he talked about autonomous search and serendipity engines, but...

Google Sheds Threading to Make Gmail Feel Like Outlook

Hewing to its pledge to provide choice for its 180 million or so e-mail users, Google has backed off its adherence to its beloved...