Category Archives: Google

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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Google’s social network opens to everyone

By doris | Published: September 20, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Google’s answer to Facebook went public on Tuesday afternoon. For the past three months, Google+, the company’s social network, was available only to users who had been invited by the company or by friends who already had access to the site. “For the past 12 weeks we’ve been in [...]

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Google self-driving car crash caused by human

By doris | Published: August 8, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.com As further evidence that we should welcome our robot overlords, it turns out the first self-driving car accident in robo history was caused by a human driver. The competency of robo drivers came in to question over the weekend after Jalopnik posted a photo of a fender bender sent in by [...]

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Google, Microsoft patent spat escalates

By doris | Published: August 7, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Tech heavyweights Microsoft and Google are acting like a couple of feuding starlets in a public online spat over — wait for it — patents. It’s not the first time Microsoft and Google have gone at each other’s throats, nor is it likely the last. (Msnbc.com is a [...]

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Google Street View snooping lawsuits will proceed

By doris | Published: July 1, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A federal judge has denied Google’s request to dismiss several lawsuits accusing the company of illegally collecting private information from open Wi-Fi networks. The ruling, filed in California court Wednesday, is a setback for Google as it tries to put its “Street View” debacle behind it. In [...]

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Facebook overtakes Microsoft, Google in UK

By doris | Published: June 27, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LONDON, Jun — Facebook overtook Microsoft websites in Britain for the first time last month, becoming the UK’s second-most popular after Google as people aged over 50 flocked to social networks, online measurement body UKOM/Nielsen said. Facebook attracted a record 26.8 million visitors in Britain in May, up 7 percent year [...]

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For a pioneer of technology, 100 years of “Think”

By doris | Published: June 17, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com ENDICOTT, N.Y. – Google, Apple and Facebook get all the attention. But the forgettable everyday tasks of technology — saving a file on your laptop, swiping your ATM card to get 40 bucks, scanning a gallon of milk at the checkout line — that’s all IBM. International Business Machines turns 100 [...]

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Google unveils pay-by-phone system

By doris | Published: May 27, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK — Shoppers soon will be able to use mobile phones to pay for things they buy at the checkout counter under a system unveiled by Google and a group of banks and other companies on Thursday. Google, MasterCard, Citigroup, transaction processing company First Data and Sprint will make the [...]

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Facebook attacks scam spam with new security tools

By doris | Published: May 12, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.m The White House isn’t sharing photos of Osama bin Laden’s bullet-riddled corpse, let alone video — despite all that Facebook spam you may have seen last week promising you otherwise. Curious Facebook users who clicked the link were tricked into manually spamming friends as well, as their own profile, with the [...]

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Google branches into music, movie streaming

By doris | Published: May 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com San Francisco (CNN) — With new music, movies and accessory services for Android, Google is taking on Apple in three major areas. The assault came Tuesday at Google I/O, the company’s annual conference, where Product Management Director Hugo Barra announced a variety of new services. For starters, Google launched music and [...]

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Google named most reputable company in U.S.

By doris | Published: May 3, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (Mashable) — Google has topped a list of the most reputable companies in the U.S., according to a Harris Interactive poll. Harris Interactive asked more than 30,000 respondents to identify the 60 most visible companies in the U.S. and rate them based on 20 different attributes, including financial performance, emotional appearance, [...]

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Apple, Google tap phone location data: report

By doris | Published: April 22, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com Apple’s iPhones and Google’s Android phones send back data about the locations of the users to the technology companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. And at least two members of Congress are pushing for more information about why it’s happening. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., has asked Apple for more [...]

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