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Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:01 AM/EST
Google Advertises Motorola Droid on its Home PageGoogle started promoting the new Motorola Droid, which launched today from Verizon Wireless and is available for purchase at Best Buy. Is this an ad? Definitely. Google has high hopes for the Droid, the first phone to feature its Android 2.0 operating system build and feature the Google Maps Navigation GPS service.
Friday, November 06, 2009 8:07 AM/EST
Google Sidewiki Under Fire from Reframe ItReframe It believes Google's Sidewiki looks and feels a little too much like its own Web annotation service. While the similarities on the hood of both apps are hard to ignore, Google would likely argue that the ranking technology under its hood is where the real differences lie. What do you think?
Thursday, November 05, 2009 2:00 AM/EST
Google Dashboard Lists Account Info to Calm Privacy CriticsGoogle made another move to assuage the concerns of privacy critics Nov. 5, with the Google Dashboard, which provides a summary of the application data associated with Google accounts. This is a fine feature, particularly for folks like yours truly who use a swath of Google Web services and want a faster way to manage them.
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:38 PM/EST
Would Google Be Evil for Buying The New York Times?Bloggers and reporters are reviewing Ken Auletta's new book, "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," in which the New Yorker writer notes that Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google co-founder Larry Page considered buying The New York Times. Evil alert!
Monday, November 02, 2009 4:39 PM/EST
Weather.com Plays Weatherman on Bing Maps Using FlashMicrosoft is getting help from its partners to boost the value proposition of Bing Maps. Specifically, Weather.com, which uses Bing Maps over Google Maps, has created an interesting way to deliver its weather-oriented maps to users. Called Futures, the feature aims to play digital weatherman by overlaying a forecast prediction on a Bing Map embedded in the Website.
Monday, November 02, 2009 10:26 AM/EST
The Complete Guide to Google Wave: Free & OnlineWith Google Wave confounding some users, LifeHacker founder Gina Trapani collaborated with LifeHacker editor Adam Pash on a sort of beginner's guide to the platform. The Complete Guide to Google Wave is a comprehensive user manual.
Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:01 AM/EST
Google Voice Has 1.4 Million UsersThe Google Voice phone management application already has 1.42 million users, 570,000 of which use it daily, according to a letter Google sent to the Federal Communications Commission this week. Business Week unearthed the data point Oct. 30 in something of an embarrassing gaffe by Google on par with the Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction.
Friday, October 30, 2009 5:30 AM/EST
Google Maps Makes Finding Real Estate Listings EasierGoogle Maps just got more useful and more layers for real estate. Instead of specifying a real estate search, you can now select the "real estate" option from the 'More' button on the top right of any Google Map and you'll automatically sees balloons on the maps of listings, as well as a pop-up real estate refinement panel on the left.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:55 PM/EST
Google Sidewiki Now Available on Google Chrome, Apple SafariGoogle's Chrome team has launched a Sidewiki bookmarklet that lets users compose and read Sidewiki entries in Google Chrome, Safari and other browsers. Google also said it is also working on a Chrome extension for Sidewiki.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:00 AM/EST
Don't Tell Collecta's Gerry Campbell Bing is Indexing Twitter in Real-TimeCollecta CEO Gerry Campbell Campbell said Microsoft is searching Twitter and indexing tweets, but not surfacing them with the same stream speed as Collecta, which he said was designed to watch the Web and persistently push Twitter and other socially-driven content to users as it arrives online.
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