And so it begins. Creativity at its best as Google unrolls their various silly services. As April Fool’s Day is my second favorite holiday of the year and I look forward to the Internet follies every year. Google was a little lighter than usual last year, with their CADIE service. It wasn’t as funny as […]
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Some Bay Area residents woke up yesterday to a 4.1 magnitude earthquake. According to various reports, Google had integrated that news in its search results somewhere between two minutes to 10 minutes afterward. Although Google said their Bay Area data centers had the feed from the US Geological Survey Feed in less than two minutes,
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Well, there’s no limits to the lengths Google will go to collect the world’s data. Monday, Google introduced Goo.gl, the URL shortener. The limiting factor, however, is that you must use Google’s Toolbar to do so. The toolbar icon allows you to share with nearly every social service you ever heard of. Is this Google’s
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The Official Google Blog reports today new types of search ads. Citing that they are committed to “giving you the information you want,” Google is unrolling sponsored links that include many different “extras.” The blog shows details on ads with extra links to the site advertising, maps and videos embedded within the ad space, and
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Well, two weeks in, I still can’t say enough about it and I still keep finding new features. Is it as good as an iPhone? I don’t know, I don’t care. Does it make calls, keep my schedules in sync, organize all my emails, appointments and tasks? Yes. Is it easy to type on? Yes.
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Engadget is reporting a phone conference scheduled between Lowell McAdam and Eric Schmidt , respective CEOs of Verizon and Google. While no facts have been confirmed, the rumors abound that an Android-based phone will be discussed. Frankly, Verizon is long overdue for the “next cool gadget phone.” AT&T has had the iPhone locked up and
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CNET News is reporting Google services outages World-Wide . Granted, this is not a normal occurrence, and (you would think) this would most certainly not become a regular issue. However, I think the quote from Twitter user @Tadiera says it all: “The Internet dies with out Google. Can’t get to my bank Web site because
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The world loves Google, right? How can you complain with free Web search, free email, free blogs, free picture sharing, free video sharing and all the disk space in the world with which to do it? So when Google released Google Analytics, we all said, “why not?”
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Not even letting the fury of ire from their bandwidth cap plans cool, Time Warner hit back announcing that the planned DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade to the much faster 50Mbps broadband service will not happen in the four markets that voiced their disapproval of the bandwidth caps. While no official press release from the company seems
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Time Warner really needs to get their collective heads on straight for their future. The defense of “those who use more should pay more” is fine until they pair it with the lie that their costs go up when their customers use more. Using publicly accessible financial statements filed with the SEC and readily available
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