Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:58 AM/EST
Congress is expected to ask Google, Microsoft and Yahoo executives to testify before House and Senate subcommittees about Google's planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick.The news comes during a week in which a Precursor Group analyst released a 36-page white...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:56 AM/EST
That headline joke never gets old. Via Google Blogoscoped forums via Google Operating System, the news that Google image search now lets you restrict searches to faces. The implementation is still being tested, apparently, hence the awkward controls: You have...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:12 AM/EST
Google announced yesterday the launch of the Google developer podcast, a series of interviews with Google engineers and discussions about application building. The podcast will cover:Interviews with Google engineers, discussing areas of their expertiseNew features, applications and APIs that matter...
Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:06 PM/EST
A California company has created a map overlay for Google Earth that embeds animal sounds into the relevant locations in Google Earth.Bernie Krause has spent 40 years collecting over 3500 hours of sound recordings from all over the world, including...
Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:00 AM/EST
Google has launched a new blog, this time for Google Maps and Google Earth. The blog's name: LatLong. Sounds Cambodian. Or an obscure exercise, also possibly Cambodian.The latest entry is pretty devastating: Satellite imagery from the Greenburg, Kan. tornado, which...
Friday, April 20, 2007 10:15 AM/EST
In the same week that Google pre-announced a new slideshow application, the company acquired Sweden-based Marratech, a maker of e-meeting software.Marratech's software is for download instead of browser-based, and users can use text chat, VOIP and video and share applications....
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:29 PM/EST
This recent post from Jeff Jarvis--about whether Obama or Clinton is mentioned more often in the media--got me wondering what Google Trends has to say about the matter. As Jarvis notes, the latest Gallup poll shows Hillary ahead, while Google...
Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:51 PM/EST
Google released a version of Desktop for Macs today.Some Mac users (not including this one), despite already having the use of the excellent Spotlight app, asked for a Mac version of the popular PC app.Google Desktop for Mac is only...
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:03 PM/EST
I'm not a big Google fanboy. I don't tend to prosyletize their apps. That's not my job. But from time to time I'm struck by just how good some of Google's products are. And so today, looking at a new...
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:38 AM/EST
LG announced it will pre-install Google mobile apps, including Maps and Gmail, on milions of LG phones starting in 2Q 2007. The phones will be sold in North America, Europe and Asia.This is Google's second partnership with a handset maker...
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