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Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb on Xoom Wows Crowd at Googleplex

February 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Google built on the buzz swirling around its forthcoming Android 3.0 operating system for tablets during an event showcasing the Honeycomb platform tailored for tablets. After a brief introduction at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., Android lead Andy Rubin passed the torch to Hugo Barra, product management director for Android, and Chris Yerga, Android engineering director for cloud services. Barra whizzed through an array of demos using Motorola’s soon-to-be-launched (as in late February, early March) Xoom tablet, showing off multitasking, widgets, application bars and several other perks that were introduced to developers via the Android 3.0 preview SDK last week. Yerga then relieved Barra to show off Google’s new Android Market Website, a destination that will allow consumers to purchase applications, games and music on Android smartphones and tablets. In-application purchasing is also part of the mix, as you’ll see here. Peruse the Honeycomb demos and the new Android application perks here in this eWEEK slide show. – …


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Microsoft: Google Worried About Bing

February 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Microsoft keeps firing back at Google accusations that Bing copies its Web-search results, with an executive claiming Google is worried about Bing’s progress. – Google accusing Bing of
copying its Web-search results, blogged a Microsoft executive Feb. 2, is possibly
motivated by the search-engine giants fears of losing ground to its upstart
rival.
“We do not copy results from
any of our competitors. Period. Full stop,” Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice preside…


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Salesforce.com Buys Manymoon, Google Apps Marketplace Player

February 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Salesforce.com Feb. 1 acquired popular project management software maker Manymoon, which rose to power via the Google Apps Marketplace. The move raises some interesting questions. – Salesforce.com Feb. 1 acquired project management
software maker Manymoon, which shot to fame courtesy of its high profile on the
Google Apps Marketplace in 2010.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Google’s Apps Marketplace launched in March 2009 as an online store to help
smaller Web-based s…


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Google opens online store for Android users

February 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

google1In an effort to compete with the rival Apple in the wireless sector, search engine giant Google has launched a new online store of advanced software applications that run on mobile phones powered by Android software. Google’s new online store, Market.Android.com, will allow Android users find new applications more easily from their computers, see recommendations [...]

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Google launches virtual tour of world’s finest museums

February 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

google21Google is harnessing its controversial Street View technology to take you on a virtual tour of the world’s finest museums, from the comfort of your home. The search giant even claims its Art Project tours are better than the real thing, with one exhibit in each location available in a high-resolution image that goes beyond [...]

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Google Launches Android Market Webstore During ‘Honeycomb’ Demo

February 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

Google rolled out the Android Market Webstore to let consumers make application purchases and downloads via a Web browser from a dedicated Website. – Google Feb. 2 launched the Android Market Webstore, a Website dedicated to letting
application consumers purchase apps for their Android smartphones and tablets
from a Web browser.
To this point, users had to purchase Android apps through the Android Market
client from smartphones and tablets s…


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Google: Yes, Microsoft Copies Our Search Results

February 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Google says Microsoft cheated by aping its search results. Microsoft disagreed with that term, but acknowledged using customer data to improve results. Pundits weigh in. – Google Feb. 1 capped a public smear campaign that
backfired by claiming that Microsoft’s Bing team is indeed cheating by copying
its results for some Web search queries.
Google last summer looked at the search results for an
unusual misspelled query, torsorophy. Google returned the correct spel…


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Google Art Project Brings Street View into Galleries

February 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

Google Feb. 1 revealed the Art Project featuring 1,000 works of art scanned online using Google Street View, Picasa and App Engine. – Google Feb. 1 said it has begun taking its Street View
Google Maps feature into art galleries to bring images of art works to
consumers’ computers via the Web.
One of the search engine’s famed 20 percent projects, Google’s
Art Project aims to bring more than 1,000 works of art to people who mig…


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Google, Twitter offer Egyptians Speak to Tweet

February 2nd, 2011 | No Comments

google twitterHoping to circumvent the blackout of the internet and social networking in Egypt, Google and Twitter announced a new service Tuesday that allows anyone to send tweets over the phone. People can use the service by leaving a voicemail at one of three international numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855). The service will instantly tweet [...]

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Microsoft, Google Execs Tussle over Bing Accusations

February 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Microsoft and Google executives traded barbs at the Farsight Summit over Googles accusations that Bing is copying its Web-search results. – Microsoft and Google executives engaged in some contentious back-and-forth during a Feb. 1 roundtable discussion at the Farsight Summit, suggesting emotions are high in the wake of Google accusing Bing of copying its Web-search results.
“Our testing has concluded that Bing is copying Google Web-se…


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Microsoft Bing VP Denies Copying Google Search Results

February 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Microsoft vehemently denied copying Google search results but acknowledged using customer data to improve its Bing search engine. Google disagreed, and the back and forth flowed. – A vice president for Microsoft’s Bing team denied configuring the Bing
algorithm to copy Google search results in an effort to boost search market
share.
What Bing does use is quot;clickstream, quot; or customer data from its
Bing toolbar to improve its search results, said Harry Shum, corporat…


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Google Chrome Hits 10.7%, Apple Safari Tops 6%

February 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Google’s Chrome Web browser topped 10.7 percent market share through January, up from 10 percent through December 2010. Safari grew as well, while IE 9 is performing better. – Google’s
Chrome Web browser continued to grow through the first month of 2011, reaching
10.7 percent market share through January, up from 10 percent through December
2010.
Researcher Net
Applications also noted that Apple’s Safari rose to 6.3 percent
from 5.9 percent over the same period. Thi…


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Google Touts Android 3.0 ‘Honeycomb’ Holographic UI Redesign for Tablets

February 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Google Jan. 26 trotted out a key piece of its Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" puzzle in the form of a preview SDK based on the new operating system intended for larger touch-screen tablet computers. Honeycomb offers users a new holographic user interface that focuses on multitasking, notifications, widgets and other features to make devices easy and fun to use. Google Maps in 3D is a big draw for this platform, which Google programmers like to boast has been redesigned from the ground up. To show off the OS, Google is also offering media and analysts a special demonstration at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., Feb. 2. Those attending will see Honeycomb running on plenty of Motorola Xoom tablets and perhaps some others as hardware makers rush to polish their products and get them out the door to compete with Apple’s iPad. Google’s Android team also offered a sneak peek at what the Honeycomb user interface and other tools will look like on the Android developer Website. The Android developer team offered this platform highlights Web page. Of course, eWEEK gladly poached the screens for readers to peruse for their viewing pleasure. – …


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Microsoft’s Bing is Copying Google Web-Search Results: Google

February 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Google is accusing Microsoft’s Bing search engine of copying Googles Web-search results, just ahead of a major Microsoft search event. – Google officials are accusing
Microsofts Bing of “copying” their Web-search results.
“Our testing has concluded
that Bing is copying Google Web-search results, and Microsoft doesnt deny
this,” Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow, wrote in a Feb. 1 e-mail to eWEEK. “At
Google, we strongly believe in …


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Google, Twitter Build Speak-to-Tweet for Egypt

February 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Google, SayNow and Twitter have built a speak-to-tweet for people in Egypt. People can call a few numbers and leave messages, which will be blasted out as tweets. – Google and
Twitter have teamed up to create a speak-to-tweet service for citizens in
Egypt, where the Internet has gone dark.
Tweeting via
speech is simple and requires no Internet connection. Users may tweet by
calling (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and leaving a voice mail
m…


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Google Docs Refines File Search in the Cloud

February 1st, 2011 | No Comments

Google Jan. 31 began making Google Docs more visually appealing and easier to use as it seeks to improve its cloud-computing collaboration application for documents. – Google Jan. 31
said it is refining the search capabilities in its Google Docs document
software to help users find the myriad files they create and store in the
company’s cloud-computing system.
The
enhancements are all geared toward making Docs a more serious collaboration
software play as th…


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RIM’s BlackBerry Curve Will Go All Touch-Screen: Report

January 31st, 2011 | No Comments

RIMs next BlackBerry Curve will be all touch-screen, according to online rumors. RIMs roadmap is a source of speculation as it gears to compete with Apple and Google. – Research In
Motions next Curve will be touch-screen only, according to specs leaked on a
BlackBerry rumor blog.
The Canadian
company, currently fighting to maintain its share of the smartphone market in
the face of fierce competition from the Apple iPhone and Google Android, is staying
firmly …


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Google, DOJ Discuss Compulsory Licensing for ITA Deal

January 31st, 2011 | No Comments

Google and the Justice Department are exploring whether a licensing deal prohibiting the search engine from harming the competition will make Google’s bid for ITA Software work. – Google and the
Justice Department are discussing ways to resolve a potential antitrust lawsuit
regarding the search engine’s $700 million offer for ITA Software, according
the published reports.
The Wall Street Journal and Reuters said the DOJ has tabled a compulsory
licensing arrangement that …


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Google, Mozilla Privacy Efforts Lead Security News

January 30th, 2011 | No Comments

Google’s and Mozilla’s efforts to empower users to more easily opt out of online behavioral tracking by advertisers were joined in the past week’s headlines by arrests in the pro-WikiLeaks cyber-attacks. – User privacy was in the news this past week when Mozilla and Google proposed
their own answers for concerns about online behavioral tracking by advertisers.
Mozilla entered the fray Jan. 23 when
it proposed adding a quot;Do Not Track quot; HTTP header to the Firefox
browser to send a signal to …


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Mozilla Firefox Ad Opt-Out Preferred over Google Chrome: EFF

January 30th, 2011 | No Comments

The Electronic Frontier Foundation gives the nod to Mozilla’s Firefox behavioral tracking opt-out tool over Google’s Chrome Keep My Opt Outs browser extension. Find out why here. – Mozilla Firefox received the early edge over the Google Chrome Web browser
in a head-to-head match-up of software tools that let users elude ad-tracking
cookies, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Mozilla Jan. 23 introduced its Do Not Track HTTP header that will allow users
to opt…


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