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1. Sony Ericsson Android lumbers into view

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... of app stores, such as PlayNow and the Android Market. Additional specs include:
 Size - 119 x 63 x 13 mm. Weight - 135 grams. Memory - 8GB microSD memory card. Operating system - Google Android Donut, ...

2. How Microsoft blindsided vulnerable Apple with Windows 7

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... the next few months because, traditionally, Microsoft would be vulnerable and not able to fight back. Second Front However this isn’t their only problem. Verizon, Google and Motorola have opened a ...

3. The best IT vendor CEO of the decade is...

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   ... he's a personal favorite of mine, having worked with him back at Sun in the 1980s.) He brought adult supervision to Google. He's been instrumental in taking a mere search engine company and turning it ...

4. Windows 7 Starter Edition: The best version of Windows yet

   (Software/Software Features)

   ... the features you missed.     I can imagine a future OS, similar to Google Chrome, where you’d only have an operating system kernel and a browser when you bought a new system and then would ...

5. AT&T ends controversial ban on iPhone VoIP apps

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   ... use Skype on any device, on any network," added Silverman. See Also Google: AT&T attempting to "undermine" Web-based competition AT&T slams Google for 'systematically' blocking telephone calls ...

6. EU says Google AdWords are fair game

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   While the EU is content to slam Intel and Microsoft for billions in antitrust suits, it takes a rather more relaxed view on fellow US giant Google, presumably on the grounds that it's not evil. While ...

7. Beatles finally bigger than Jesus

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Search engine Google has resolved a religious argument which has raged for decades – are the Beatles bigger than Jesus? Search engine Google has resolved a religious argument which has raged ...

8. British blogger sued for defamation

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   In a convoluted international case, a law firm in Sydney, acting for the Chinese owners of the massive multiplayer online game Evony, has filed a case against a British blogger for defamation.In a convoluted ...

9. AMD showcases Eyefinity multi-display technology

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   AMD showcased its Eyefinity multi-display technology during a media event on the USS Hornet in Alameda, California. Eyefinity - which is powered by a single, next-generation ATI graphics card - allows ...

10. Monopoly goes global with online Google Earth version

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Google has teamed up with Hasbro to develop a version of Monopoly for people who really like to indulge their megalomania. Google has teamed up with Hasbro to develop a version of Monopoly for people ...

11. Updated: Sony hopes $300 PS3 will boost sluggish sales

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sony has unveiled a slimmed down Playstation 3 at the Gamescom conference in Germany. The upgraded console will feature a 120GB HD and is expected to retail at $300 on September 1. San Francisco (CA) ...

12. War declared: Apple’s Cult Takes on Google’s Borg

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... while past conflicts, like Microsoft kicking IBM into the PC weeds a generation ago and Google more recently knocking Microsoft down a peg or two, typically involved relative newcomers picking off established, ...

13. Feds bust serial console jailbreaker

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    A Southern California college student has been arrested for allegedly "jailbreaking" an unspecified number of video game consoles. According to the Associated Press, law enforcement officials obtained ...

14. Khronos Group details cross-platform WebGL initiative

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... joined the WebGL working group, including AMD, Ericsson, Google, Mozilla, Nvidia and Opera. Participants are currently working to define a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES 2.0 that will enable rich 3D graphics ...

15. Rumor: Sony prepping PS3 Slim for August 18 launch

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Sony is reportedly preparing to launch a new version of its Playstation 3 console. According to RTL Info, the "PS3 Slim" will be unveiled in Germany on August 18 before the official opening of the Gamescom ...

16. Apple’s iPad: Like Apple TV or like iPod?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... Ironically, this is likely the one device Palm should have understood how to do right first. In many ways, this would be Apple’s spin on Google’s Chrome OS idea (showcasing Apple’s hardware roots) and ...

17. Chrome to get hardware accelerated 3D graphics

    (Software/Software Features)

    Google has begun building its O3D plug-in for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics into its Chrome browser. Google has begun building its O3D plug-in for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics into its Chrome ...

18. Google Chrome OS: Gcrap reveals the next Netscape

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... starting with DEC and running all the way to Sun. Google’s new Chrome OS looks to be another example of people more interested in pretending to be doing something, rather than actually doing it well. ...

19. iPhone shakes up mobile games industry

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... & Markets, the popular device boosted demand for mobile content and "opened the market" to smaller publishers. The report also notes that the iPhone, along with Nokia's N-Gage and Google's Android ...

20. Get in line: Netscape founder has $300 million to spend

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Andreesen announced the founding of a $300 million VC firm, ready to give out somewhere between $50,000 and $50 million to the next great idea. If you have a convincing idea for the next Google or Facebook, ...

21. Intel + Nokia: In search of relevance

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    ... Apple or a partnership with RIM, Palm, or Google would be vastly more powerful, because they are all seen as major players in the targeted segment today.    Strategically for Nokia, this is ...

22. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Google Chat. The driverless installation makes the Eyeball easy-to-use by simply connecting the USB cable to either a PC or Mac.  Using a custom-designed monitor adapter, Eyeball is easy to position ...

23. Intel to play WiMax vs. 3G game as capacity vs. coverage

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    ... it was late to launch to begin with and it is now almost two years behind the initial rollout schedule. While Clearwire will be driving the network rollout, companies such as Google and Intel have an ...

24. California Attorney General demands Supreme Court resurrect violent video game ban

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    California Attorney General Jerry Brown has demanded that the US Supreme Court resurrect a law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. California Attorney General Jerry Brown ...

25. Apple, go cheap or go home: Time to dump the elitist strategy

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    ... with maintaining its OS dominance in the face of a growing shift toward a Web services-driven future, a huge vacuum opens up at the bottom of the market. Google may get all the headlines as the only vendor ...

26. Why Apple needs Microsoft to survive the coming OS battle

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Analyst Opinion - With Google coming to market, the OS environment is very similar to what it was in the late 80s with Microsoft in IBM's position, Apple in Apple's, and Google in Microsoft's. Windows ...

27. The ultimate 3D mouse, yours for $500

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ...  However, I wrote before that these Space Navigator devices are fantastic controllers for those who enjoy Google Earth. Entry level products including just the navigator knob are priced from about $100. ...

28. Google goes after iPhone 3.0 with Android 1.5

    (Software/Software Features)

    Google’s Android team releases a sneak peek at the next version of the Android software development kit, which integrates most of the features that were developed by the “Cupcake” development branch: ...

29. Apple close to one billionth App Store app served, prize to be awarded

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Labs18) iHunt, $0.99, JOHN MOFFETT19) iShoot, $1.99, Ethan Nicholas20) Monopoly, $4.99, Electronic Arts TOP 20 FREE APPS: 1) Facebook, Facebook2) Google Earth, Google3) Pandora Radio, Pandora Media, ...

30. Nintendo not planning to cut Wii price

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Satoru Iwata, president of Nintendo said that the video game creator does not plan to make any pricing changes to its Wii console  even though unit sales are declining in Japan. The company admitted ...

31. Android G2 slips to May, Samsung plans three Android phones for 2009

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... told Forbes last week that it plans to market three Android smartphones this year, two of which will go to U.S. carriers. POWERED BY GOOGLE, BRANDED BY VODAFONE HTC Magic, also known as Android G2, will ...

32. Nintendo DSi on sale in United States

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... in the DS, and therefore cannot play any of the former GBA player games.While it's disappointing the player does not play MP3 files, there are several free MP3 to AAC converters purported on a basic Google ...

33. Google begins searching for the next big thing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Google's new venture capital fund, simply dubbed Google Ventures, was created to explore a broad range of investment areas for companies and individuals who might come up with the next great idea. ...

34. Skype's mobile assault: iPhone client due tomorrow, Blackberry in May

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... or Google's Gtalk. While such solutions enable basic support for free or paid Skype-like calls on cellphones, they usually lack the more sophisticated features found in the desktop Skype application, ...

35. Google showcases Javascript engine with Chrome Experiments website

    (Software/Software Features)

    Google's speedy V8 Javascript engine is already hailed as Chrome's biggest competitive advantage. While other browsers also pack byte-code Javascript interpreters, Chrome is better-positioned to ultimately ...

36. Can anyone break the carriers' choke hold on the cellphone market?

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    ... to control the entire market from top to bottom -- all the time. And it's because of subsidies that we can get a high-end smartphone (like RIM's Blackberry Storm, Apple's iPhone or Google's Android G1) ...

37. IE8 not gaining much market share

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... press coverage, the bump in market share was less than what we have seen with the launch of Google Chrome or major versions of Microsoft. However, numbers released by Net Applications indicate that ...

38. Review: Chrome 2.0 beta is speedy, still falling behind in features

    (Software/Software Features)

    Historically, moving from a 1.x to 2.0 version number suggests a host of improvements. Sadly, in Google's case with Chrome 1.0.154.48 moving to 2.0.169.1 -- it's just a marketing trick, like the kind ...

39. Google introduces telephone services

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Google has yet again managed to find a pot to dip their money hand into, this time it's the phone industry. It would appear that the company's goal is to be the hub of all of its user's communication ...

40. Apple's App Store analysis: This Titanic is actually unsinkable

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... whether rivals stand any chance of ever closing this gap. Google's Android Market is now four and a half months old but still carries less than 150 programs (132 free, 9 paid). True, Google enabled paid ...

41. YouTube viewers in U.S. exceed 100 million for first time

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... industry. When Google acquired the video site in 2006, they obviously made a great decision as the site now ranks as the most popular provider of online video in the United States. In January alone ...

42. Research: Apple owns mobile web, Google rules mobile search

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... its desktop dominance into the mobile market), Google has taken its lead as the desktop search engine nicely over into the mobile market, which now leads both -- and the latter by an obscenely large margin.  ...

43. Review: Safari 4 Beta - Not quite there yet

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... in Chrome, the Google Android browser, the Nokia Series 60 browser and Palm's webOS. If you use web applications a lot like I do, you'll notice in your everyday work how Safari strictly follows web ...

44. Android gets a $200 application that does nothing

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... on-screen which, well... proves that you're rich. Unlike the iPhone application, this one is here to stay because Google doesn't exercises control over applications offered on its store, choosing instead ...

45. The Microsoft Store: Software boxes on a shelf just won’t do

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... to emerging cloud-based alternatives such as Google Apps. While it’s clear that no online app can yet approach the Office feature set, the storm clouds are gathering on the horizon. So kudos to Microsoft ...

46. Cell phone battles in Barcelona

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    ... with their renamed Windows Mobile platform going up against the Apple only iPhone, but you have Palm emulating Apple, and Google emulating Microsoft as well. You also have Nokia who appears to be trying ...

47. Why you will upgrade to OS X Snow Leopard

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... against a number of third-party applications, which could be viewed as a strong indication of the software's near-finished status. According to Macity (via Google Translate), build 10A261 shows greater ...

48. An iPhone record: 500 million App Store downloads

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... now features some 15,000 applications, eclipsing the offerings on rival mobile application stores by a large margin - including Google's Android, RIM's store and third-party applications for the Windows ...

49. Big News Around CES That Got Little Coverage

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... Given these cars were surrounded by beautiful custom cars the fact that they stood out and drew crowds was impressive; the fact they were, OMG, Hyundai's was amazing. Where oh Where was Google? There ...