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1. Chrome OS: Lame Copy or Amazing new OS?

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   Depends on How Smart YOU Are Sometimes I wonder about new companies.   Apple and Google both have this way of bewitching people so that, no matter what they come out with, folks drool and say that’s wonderful.  ...

2. Apple's small-minded strategy

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 04 November 2009

   ... from other sources, such as Amazon or (maybe?) Google. And they will gladly chuck their iPhones for the next cool thingamajig. So, why is Apple, full of many smart people, being so strategically small ...

3. Google launches OneBox music service

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 29 October 2009

   Google is getting into the online music business with a service allowing people to find and hear tracks by searching on song titles, artists or snatches of lyrics. Google is getting into the online ...

4. Google readying Music Search

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 21 October 2009

   Wired said that Google is set to introduce a music search service, as early as next week.Wired said that Google is set to introduce a music search service, as early as next week.According to the report, ...

5. Nokia shrugs off Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry threats

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Tuesday, 06 October 2009

   Oli-Pekka Kallasvuo, CEO of Nokia, shrugged off competition from Apple's iPhone  and RIM's BlackBerry today, maintaining that his firm still held 40 percent of the smartphone market. Oli-Pekka ...

6. Beatles finally bigger than Jesus

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Monday, 21 September 2009

   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 ...

7. Video makers to earn with YouTube

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Wednesday, 26 August 2009

   ... lucky filmmaker, who will be helped to set up a Google AdSense account. It isn't giving a figure, but the sums aren't likely to be huge. To start with, the company will only be offering 'monetarization' ...

8. Realnetworks proposes iTunes alternative

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Monday, 24 August 2009

   ... turned down Google Voice on the grounds that it duplicated some of the iPhone's features  - a charge that could equally well be levelled at Rhapsody. There'll be even more of a conflict when the ...

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

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Thursday, 30 July 2009

   ... 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 ...

10. Google's a threat to you, not Microsoft

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    Opinion Google's upcoming Chrome operating system may be many things to many people, but one thing it certainly ain't is an operating system. Neither is it a threat to Microsoft. And it couldn't play ...

11. $1.92 million RIAA fine sparks outrage as lawyer demands retrial

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 07 July 2009

    An attorney representing Jammie Thomas-Rasset has demanded a retrial after his client was fined $1.92 million for illegally sharing copyrighted music. Meanwhile, the RIAA continued its legal crusade ...

12. NTT DoCoMo buys into PacketVideo

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Sunday, 05 July 2009

    ... has become NextWave's main focus since it announced plans for a major reorganization a couple of months ago. PacketVideo has also been working on the Google Android and Apple iPhone platforms.  ...

13. Jacko death downs Twitter

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Friday, 26 June 2009

    Michael Jackson's death caused chaos on the internet, with Google thinking it was under attack as millions of people searched for more information.Los Angeles, CA - Michael Jackson's death caused chaos ...

14. T-Mobile announces another Android phone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 22 June 2009

    You wait ages for a new smartphone, and then half a dozen come all at once. Now, T-Mobile is announcing its next Google Android device, to be known as the myTouch. Bellevue, Washington – You wait ages ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... 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 ...

16. Opera reinvents the client PC and turns it into a server

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 16 June 2009

    ... there is a clear use for families, clubs and other small organizations behind this technology, a technology that may simply be constrained by Opera’s limited reach. Mozilla, Google, Apple, Microsoft, are ...

17. Apple confirms iPhone 3.0 specs

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 08 June 2009

    ... search: calendars, music, notes, email iTunes - rent and purchase movies Support for audio books, music videos, TV shows Embed Google maps in apps via a Cocoa control Push notifcation service for ...

18. Google to challenge Amazon’s ebook sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 01 June 2009

    Following media reports that Google may move into Amazon.com territory, the company today confirmed that it will be offering ebook publishers a distribution channel through its websites. New York ...

19. Spotify shows off Android app

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 28 May 2009

    ...  Spotify, available for both Windows and Mac machines, is financed by advertising and has quite a fair amount of VC backing. There's a Spotify mobile demo for Google Android at Tech Crunch, here.  ...

20. Dateline 2600 - one of our civilizations is missing

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Tuesday, 19 May 2009

    The IDC report that we covered earlier today said that digital content doubles every 18 months, but there's a problem with this, a big problem. The IDC report that we covered earlier today said that ...

21. Android 1.5 available for download on developer phone

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 28 April 2009

    Google released its Android 1.5 Software Developers Kit today. If you already have the developer version of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device then you are now able to update the device and begin ...

22. UPDATED: YouTube and Universal Music Group to form VEVO music and video site

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 09 April 2009

    ... apparently Google). Universal and YouTube came to strategic content agreements as far back as 2006, when they announced their first partnership. The new site was announced today, and will include the ...

23. Up next for the iPhone: Video calls

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 07 April 2009

    ... taking still images and recording videos, in addition to auto-focus camera, magnetometer (digital compass) and voice control hints. Benm.at discovered UI elements (translated from German via Google Translate) ...

24. Nintendo DSi on sale in United States

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Saturday, 04 April 2009

    ... 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 ...

25. YouTube blocks GEMA music videos in Germany

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 01 April 2009

    ... the German YouTube platform -- similar to what happened in Britain two weeks ago." The shutdown follows several others recently where the Google-owned YouTube video viewing website has leveraged its ...

26. iPhone OS 3.0: Top 10 user-centric features

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 20 March 2009

    ...  6. Calendar:  Supports CalDav and .ics subscriptions The Calendar application is now enhanced with CalDAV standard used by online calendars from Google, Yahoo and server version of OS X. In ...

27. ISOHunt search site lawsuit could make Google, Yahoo, others illegal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 18 March 2009

    ... of America (RIAA). In response, he is fighting back in court, launching a lawsuit of his own. The ruling could have very significant implications. Google, for example, can be used today to find pornography ...

28. Updated Mac desktops arrive March 24, as does a "pleasant surprise"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 02 March 2009

    ... meaty Mac Pro. Japanese site Kodawarisan claims (via Google Translate) that new Macs are coming as early as tomorrow. Whatever the case, don't expect anything truly Earth-shattering. If recent unibody ...

29. Search engines: Diving into the "Deep Web"

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Monday, 23 February 2009

    ... pages directly. Events and information such as these are not pertinent to a Google index or catalog. And these bits of information lack the necessary URL information which currently drives Google algorithms ...

30. A wide-sweeping 4% "Internet download tax" proposed in New York

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 17 February 2009

    ... so far this is the first one tax being proposed that is a "generic download tax" for Internet-distributed content. See AFP's original article republished on Google News.  ...

31. YouTube rolls out download feature on Barack Obama channel

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 20 January 2009

    ... that finally lets people legally download YouTube videos to their computers. Sort of. Google has actually chosen Barack Obama's YouTube channel as an exclusive test ground for the download feature that ...

32. Big News Around CES That Got Little Coverage

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    ... 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 ...

33. CES 2009: Can Steve Ballmer steer Microsoft through a perfect storm?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 07 January 2009

      Opinion - Rumored layoffs in the thousands, an operating system that can only be described as a disaster for the company, an ailing browser, virtually no progress against Google and a difficult ...

34. Post-Jobs Apple to profit from content and services, not just gadgets

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 07 January 2009

    ... cap that surpasses Google, nearly $30 billion in bank, no debt and fast-growing Mac and iPhone businesses in addition to music market dominance with iPod and iTunes, Apple is now a global corporation ...

35. Macworld 2009: Apple unveils iLife '09

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 06 January 2009

    ... that sells playing lessons from celebrity artists on various songs. Their photo management application iPhoto brings Faces feature that helps organize large photo libraries by faces (like Google's Picasa ...

36. 2009: Year of mergers, platform changes and conservation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 26 December 2008

    ... in final form. Many believe Apple will shortly enter this space and that the next major version of Google's Android will target this form factor as well. But it will be the web services and online application ...

37. Warner Music videos removed from YouTube

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 22 December 2008

    ... agreement, Warner demanded that thousands of the company’s videos be removed from Google owned YouTube. YouTube notified its users that it would be removing Warner Music content - including user-created ...

38. Second Android smartphone to launch unlocked on January 29 for $225

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 08 December 2008

    ... and Bluetooth connectivity as well as a built-in 2-megapixel camera on the back. The Android operating system that powers the handset brings integration with a host of Google services, in addition to the ...

39. Nokia to complete Symbian acquisition and may change the mobile landscape

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 02 December 2008

    ... Symbian Foundation could be viewed as a milestone that alters the cellphone landscape. The platform is backed by major vendors who are part of the Open Handset Alliance that promotes Google's Android ...

40. Microsoft’s Zune phone rumor back again, this time with Tegra

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

    ... it needs to compete with Apple, it is clearly ahead of Google and, best of all, it might be cheap. RIM may be undervalued as so many other tech companies right now, but at a market cap of about $25 billion, ...

41. Showdown: iPhone vs. Blackberry Storm

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 21 November 2008

    ... But the gap is getting smaller: Google’s Android G1 is challenging some features of the iPhone, but the Google-branded handset lacks a certain kind of finesse to successfully compete and will need a ...

42. Google G1 phone cheaper to build than Apple’s iPhone

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 November 2008

      HTC is able to build the G1 phone for a much lower bill of materials (BOM) than what Apple has to shell out for the iPhone 3G,. According to iSuppli, the hardware cost difference between the two ...

43. Happy birthday, Android!

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 10 November 2008

      Analysis – Google’s mobile software platform turned 1 last week. However, even if Android was officially unveiled on November 5 last year, there is only one Android cellphone available at this ...

44. T-Mobile G1 now on sale for $180, $300 and $400

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 22 October 2008

    ... buy the device without a 2-year contract. SLIDESHOW: T-Mobile G1, Google Android Smartphone (4 pictures) At the time of this writing there was plenty of supply of G1s in U.S. retail, even ...

45. Android source code released, anyone can now make Android devices

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

      Riding on the G1 launch headlines and platform openness philosophy, Google and the Open Handset Alliance today released the entire source code of the Android operating system under the open-source ...

46. Imeem for Android G1 brings social to the music on the go

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

    ... social-network based music discovery features. SLIDESHOW: iMeem for Google Android (3 pictures) Imeem announced a new free social music application for the Android platform, which will ...

47. G1 & Co.: Top 10 cellphones for your Christmas shopping list

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 17 October 2008

    ... browser, POP3/IMAP email, IM, and integration with Google services. It lacks standard headphone jack, comes with only 1 GB of storage (expandable with microSD cards), and has deficiencies in audio/video ...

48. Videosite Joost reinvents itself to become a Hulu clone

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

    ... as an alternative Internet partner for media companies that aren’t fond of Google.   Joost’s revamp is interesting, but the site does not really offer much in the form of anything different than ...

49. Watch and buy: YouTube promotes music sales

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 08 October 2008

    ... (limited to Spore at this time) to Amazon.com.     “This is just the beginning of building a broad, viable e-commerce platform for users and partners on YouTube,” Google said in a statement. ...

50. Microsoft's Live Search lures users with new rewards

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 01 October 2008

    ... decline in overall searches (minus 7.7% to 7.2 billion searches in the U.S.), Google outpaced its main rivals once more: Google grew 3.1% to more than 4.3 billion searches, while Yahoo followed with a ...