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Google, Intel and Sony are working on Google TV, a platform and service that will funnel search, video, Twitter and other Web applications through set-top boxes and onto televisions. Google TV will leverage a version of the Google Chrome Web browser, letting users search through the Web and video content ...

Google March 17 has improved search and added a widget for the Google Latitude location-sharing application to Google Maps for mobile 4.1. Google has also begun putting ads from its local business partners on Google Maps pages in Australia and New Zealand. When users searching for information on businesses zoom ...

Outgoing Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour blasted Google Buzz during the agency's privacy workshop March 17. The FTC should stop imploring and start pushing policies and privacy controls into legislation. Require high-tech companies to vet Web services that potentially infringe on user's rights. However, Harbour is correct in arguing ...

News Analysis: As the rhetoric battle between Google and Apple heats up, the search giant is showing that it will fight to defend its Android mobile OS from any legal or marketing attacks from Apple. We take a look at 10 ways Google can defend its Android turf and take ...

Sprint March 17 confirmed it would soon offer Google's Nexus One smartphone to its subscribers, but the wireless carrier did not say when it would begin offering or what it would charge for the Google Android-based device. By throwing its hat into the ring, Sprint is the third U.S. carrier ...

Google March 17 released Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, a tool designed to help move e-mail, calendar and contact data from Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server to Google Apps. An unabashed bid to lure Microsoft customers from their existing Exchange installations, and to keep them from moving to Microsoft Business ...

Google March 17 released a tool to help Microsoft Exchange customers move their e-mail, calendar and contact data to Google Apps, the company's latest salvo versus Microsoft in a simmering collaboration software war. The tool, free to existing customers of the paid Google Apps Premier and Google Apps Education Edition ...

Google has added a world of new design possibilities to Blogger. If you have a Blog and you are using Blogger to publish it, you are no longer bound to some set styles. Instead, you can create a virtually unlimited number of different designs for your Blog. Google made a ...

Google failed in its bid to own the Nexus One name for its Android 2.1 smartphone, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected its application for a trademark on the moniker. That mark is currently commanded by Integra Telecom, which in December 2008 registered the trademark for ...

Google said the Nexus One is now available from Google's Web store as an unlocked device without a service plan for AT T's 3G network in the U.S. and on Rogers Wireless in Canada. Nexus One devices can also now be shipped to Canada from Google's Web store and will ...

PacNet (formerly Asia Global Crossing), the largest submarine cable telecommunications company in Asia Pacific, partnered with SubCom, the contracted international supplier of undersea communications systems and services, to do this job. PacNet and SubCom will turn on the power for data flow March 20. - SAN FRANCISCO ...

Microsoft may one day counter Google Apps Marketplace with a third-party integration shop for cloud computing of its own, but if there are any such plans in the works, Microsoft won't share them as it competes in the cloud with Google, IBM, Salesforce.com and others. IDC analyst Melissa Webster says ...

Laying fiber optic data transmission cable across the Pacific Ocean is a costly and risky operation. Not just any company with a seaworthy ship can hope to undertake this sort of operation. It takes specialized ships and companies that have developed the expertise to do it right. PacNet, the largest ...

Now that the first .com domain is officially 25 years old, it might be time to discuss some of our favorite Web services from companies like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. It's a difficult list to come up with. All three companies are doing something special with at least one of ...

On Monday, for the first time, the share price of the Chinese search engine Baidu eclipsed the share price of its competitor, the Internet behemoth Google. Analysts attributed the 7 percent price jump of Baidu ($593) versus the 4 percent drop of Google ($556) in early trading on the NASDAQ ...

Google and the Dish Network are implementing Google's Web search experience through a Google Android set-top box. Users' search queries bring back both TV content and YouTube video content. IDC analyst Hadley Reynolds says the test runs only on Android-powered set-top boxes, for users able to use a keyboard and ...

Google launched Google Buzz Feb. 9 to provide users with another way to communicate with one another that makes use of contacts within users' Gmail accounts. Recently eWEEK offered 10 quick tips on using Buzz from the desktop. However, the search engine company also launched a mobile version, Google Buzz ...

Danah Boyd, who studies social networking against the backdrop of sociological theory for Microsoft Research, gave Google Buzz and Facebook the dreaded FAIL designation at the SXSW show in Austin, Texas March 13. Boyd said Buzz, a social networking stream that leverages contacts in users Google Gmail accounts to spur ...

Google could shutter its Google.cn search engine within weeks after talks with the Chinese government over censorship have stalled, according to a March 13 report in the Financial Times. This latest step comes two months after the search engine in January vowed to stop censoring search results and to possibly ...

Google March 12 launched its extensions for Google Wave, a move to boost the open-source, real-time collaboration platform's functionality with the help of outside application developers. New extensions include trip app Trippy; Mind Map, to let users build visual workflows; Waffle, a time management tool; and Poll, a gadget for ...