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Google Apps Attacked by Microsoft in “Googlelighting” Video

For a company without major cloud computing collaboration clout, Microsoft has a good sense of humor regarding its competition with Google.Coming from the underdog--if...

Google+ Share Box Comes to the Home Page

Anyone else think this is just wrong?There will no doubt be some search traditionalists and Google lovers who will see this as sacrilege.I see...

Google Cookiegate a Case of Competitive Politics, Not Privacy

Every reporter under the sun painted Google's use of cookies to insert its Google+ functionality on Apple's Safari browser as an invasion of users'...

We’ll Believe Android 5.0 Is Coming in Q2 When We See It

Sometimes you read reports and just shake your head. That was the case for this DigiTimes report that said Google is rushing Android 5.0,...

How Google Comes Out Cleaner Than Apple on Privacy

Path's privacy snafu of collecting address book data and storing it on remote servers without permission opened the floodgates of media hellhounds on that...

Google PageRank Used in Molecular Chemistry Research

Google is well known for its collegiate roots, hatched as it was by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University back in...

Google Voice Search vs. Siri in Battle for Speech-Driven Ads

Anyone who reads this blog knows I'm a pretty faithful follower of John Battelle's own Search Blog.Battelle sparked an interesting conversation about the mobile...

Does Gmail’s Perpetual Window Play Fast, Loose With Data?

This fine piece in Wired about a "perpetual window into Gmail" caught my attention this weekend for two reasons.First, I live in Gmail. It's...

Google Prepping Storage Drive, Home Entertainment System

Unlike my blogger peers, I'm not usually wont to skewer a so-called scoop. And I won't start doing so, but I will point out...

HP Touch to Share NFC App Joins Google Wallet, Android Beam

Near field communications, also known as good-ole NFC, was one of a handful of rages in 2011.You couldn't read a story about mobile payment...