Category Archives: Google

Chrome Web browser comes to Android phones, tablets

By doris | Published: February 9, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com Google launched a beta version of Chrome for Android smartphones and tablets Tuesday, delivering a mobile version of the popular desktop web browser after a very long wait. Indeed, both Android and Chrome launched more than three years ago, and users have demanded unification ever since. Why bemoan the long wait? [...]

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Google to merge user data across more services

By doris | Published: January 25, 2012

Full Story at msnbc.com Google plans to unify its privacy policy and terms of service across its online offerings, including its flagship search, Gmail and Google+ products, to make them easier to use, but the move could attract greater scrutiny from anti-trust regulators. In an online blog post, Google said it expects to roll out [...]

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Why Google’s new search might be illegal

By doris | Published: January 18, 2012

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — There’s nothing illegal about being so big that you dominate a market. But when Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) unveiled a new feature last week called Search Plus Your World, some antitrust experts believe Google stepped over the line. Google’s new feature risks abusing the company’s dominant position [...]

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Could Chrome overtake Internet Explorer in the browser wars?

By doris | Published: January 6, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A month ago, Google’s three-year effort to push its Web browser, Chrome, took a major step when analysts said it had passed Mozilla’s Firefox to become the second-most popular tool of its kind on the Internet. Today, that climb continues and has some tech observers wondering whether Chrome could [...]

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Report: Android dominates US smartphone market

By doris | Published: December 31, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com As 2011 ends, Google employees, especially those involved with Android, will probably be popping a few extra corks, given that it emerged victorious in the latest bout in an ongoing war with Apple’s iOS for top smartphone platform. In a recently released report from comScore, Android made up nearly 47 percent [...]

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Bill that could ‘break the Internet’ delayed until 2012

By doris | Published: December 23, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A congressional vote on an anti-piracy bill that Internet heavyweights like Google say would be an online Armageddon has been delayed until 2012. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which was introduced in the House of Representatives in late October, aims to crack down on copyright infringement. [...]

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Steve Jobs, G+ and iPad 2 in Google’s 2011 top searches

By doris | Published: December 16, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com In the past year, Google users around the world got more excited about tech topics Google+, “Battlefield 3″ and Steve Jobs than almost anything else, according to their billions of queries. In the Google top 10 list of 2011′s fastest rising search terms overall, the mythical iPhone 5 also appeared, along [...]

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Massive hack hit 760 companies

By doris | Published: October 31, 2011

Full Story at moneh.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A massive cyberattack that led to a vulnerability in RSA’s SecurID tags earlier this year also victimized Google, Facebook, Microsoft and many other big-named companies, according to a new analysis released this week. A list of 760 organizations that were attacked was presented to Congress recently and [...]

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Whoops! Google accidentally showed off Gmail’s new design

By doris | Published: October 21, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com Some of the design changes Google plans on making to Gmail were revealed when a video was inadvertently posted to the search engine giant’s official YouTube account on Thursday. The video was quickly removed, but not before some folks managed to make and re-upload copies of it. The video — a [...]

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Should Disney just buy Yahoo?

By doris | Published: October 5, 2011

Full Story at cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Yahoo’s big announcement on Monday was something of a snoozer: It’s partnering with ABC News on newsgathering and content. But the deal highlights how nicely buyout-ripe Yahoo’s assets fit with big media companies like ABC owner Disney. It’s an open secret that Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) is [...]

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Google Analytics adds free real-time website tracking

By doris | Published: September 30, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Google Analytics, a widely used tracking tool for website operators, got a major upgrade Thursday with the company’s first real-time traffic tracker. Google’s free analytics tool offers a fairly comprehensive dive into the traffic patterns of sites on which it’s installed — but until now, it had [...]

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Uh oh! Gmail was briefly down for some

By doris | Published: September 23, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com Uh oh! It appears that Gmail and other related Google services are down (or barely functioning) for a lot of users right now. There isn’t a lot of information about the issue at this point, but we do know that many users are seeing error messages. Others are simply attempting to [...]

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