Computerworld – After months of speculation and anticipation, Google’s online music store is live and it’s going up against some big industry names, including Apple’s iTunes and Spotify. Google ended conjecture about its plans late Wednesday with a news conference in Los Angeles to unveil its new online music store – Google Music. The service...Read More
By Sam Oliver Published: 08:39 AM EST (05:39 AM PST) Google on Wednesday is expected to announce a new online music store that will let users buy and store songs online and listen to them on multiple devices, in direct competition with Apple’s iTunes. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg has reported that Google...Read More
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It’s a place where your refrigerator could be connected to the Internet, so it could order groceries when they ran low. Your dinner plate could post to a social network what you’re eating. Your robot could go to the office while you stay home in your pajamas. And you could, perhaps, take an elevator to...Read More
Logitech (NASDAQ:LOGI) CEO Guerrino De Luca didn’t mince words in announcing that the peripherals maker was giving up on its Logitech Revue companion box, noting that the Google TV device cost the company more than $100 million in operating profits. Google TV is the search engine provider’s stab at combining elements of TV programming with...Read More
Google’s patent counsel has accused Microsoft of aggressively using patent licensing as a stand-in for product innovation, suggesting that Android OEMs have been pressured into cutting deals with Microsoft because the company is afraid its own products have been “marginalized.†Lawyer Tim Porter told SFGate that he did not feel Android development had been impacted by the multiple...Read More
Google is having a bit of a (self-inflicted) rough week, aren’t they? They’ve rolled out three big projects: redesigns of Gmail and Google Reader, and a new Gmail app for iOS. Two of the three have justifiably come under fire from users. I didn’t even get a chance to download the Gmail app for iOS....Read More
BY SAM SCHECHNER AND AMIR EFRATI Internet giant Google Inc. is considering a plan to offer paid cable-TV services to consumers, a move that could unleash a new wave of competition within the traditional TV business. Google has looked at ways to expand a previously announced project to build a high-speed Internet service in Kansas...Read More
Despite explosive growth in smartphone usage, many businesses still have a website that isn’t optimized to fit on a small mobile screen. If a potential customer can’t navigate your store’s site from a handset, there’s a good chance they’ll walk over to the shop of your competitor that has a mobile-ready site. Google’s new GoMo...Read More
By Rex Crum, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — It’s no secret that Google Inc. likes to have fun with its “Google doodle,†recasting its home-page logo to recognize birthdays of historical figures, holidays and other occasions. So perhaps it was no surprise that on Monday, for Halloween, Google /quotes/zigman/93888/quotes/nls/goog GOOG -1.25%  posted a time-lapse video...Read More
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