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Google Chrome Creeps to 7.2% Worldwide Browser Share

Net Applications' June Web browser market share data is out and Google Chrome grew to 7.24 percent, up from 7.04 percent in May when...

Google Docs Viewer Comes to Android, iPhone, iPad Devices

Reading documents has typically been a painful chore on most smartphones, where applications struggle to rationalize the so-called third screen.Google, whose Android operating system...

Google Chrome Moves Past Apple Safari, Says StatCounter

StatCounter said June 28 that Google's Chrome Web browser has leapfrogged Apple's Safari browser in the U.S., with 8.97 percent market share to Safari's...

Google Me This, the Potential Facebook Killer?

It was a classic tit-for-tat.No sooner did the idea that Facebook is challenging Google in search re-emerge than word of Google challenging Facebook's social...

Facebook Will Threaten Google When Social Becomes Search Hub

There's been some support for but mostly blasting of AllFacebook's argument that Facebook's forthcoming Open Graph initiative are setting the company up to challenge...

WhitePages.com Aims to Beat Google in Local Business Search

I've been using Google for local searches for a while out of habit, but gave it a lot more play when the company opened...

Verizon Droid Offer Paves the Way for the Droid 2

Earlier this week I wrote pieces previewing the Droid X launch, which came to pass June 23, and the Droid 2, which did not.Nothing,...

Bing Does Bang Up Job in Entertainment, Still No Match for Google

No surprise that Microsoft's Bing team should focus on the entertainment vertical by hosting a star-studded news event in Los Angeles hosted by Ryan...

Google Music Service Is a Me, Too Proposition to Boost Android

When I watched Google launch Google Buzz in a Webcast last February, I confess I did so with mixed feelings.It was good to see...

Google Gmail for iPad Gets Full-Screen Compose Window

Google, whose relationships between its applications and how they run on rival Apple's popular consumer electronics devices is often scrutinized, has altered its Gmail...