Hope your past week of Google Voice-less communication has been alright, iOS users, because we – by way of Google Voice’s official Twitter account – have the news you’ve been waiting to hear. Google Voice is now back in Apple’s App Store, as engineers have apparently fixed the issue that had previously caused Google to...Read More
By ETHAN SMITH Google Inc. is building a music-download store that would work closely with its Google Plus social network and could launch it within the next two weeks, according to people familiar with the matter. Users of Google Music, as the service is tentatively named, could recommend songs in an online library to Google...Read More
BY JOHN LETZING Google Inc. has been unable to provide more than a third of Los Angeles city employees with its Apps software because of security concerns, highlighting difficulties the search giant faces as it tries to create revenue streams outside of its core business. On Wednesday, Los Angeles City Council member Dennis Zine filed...Read More
Google Translate expanded its “Conversation Mode” feature to 14 languages Thursday for Android mobile phone application users, MSNBC’s Technolog reports. The newly enhanced mobile software allows users to translate conversations in Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Russian, and Turkish. Currently, the application only translates speech into English and...Read More
Google is nuking its Twitter clone in a couple of weeks in favor of loving its new social website big-time. Friday Google said in a blog that it plans to kill Google Buzz and the Buzz API in a couple of weeks. The news isn’t surprising given that the Twitter clone really never caught on,...Read More
Goodbye, Google Buzz. The social messaging platform, which was meant to rival Twitter, is being tossed aside by Google in an effort to slim down. Google Buzz launched in February 2010 as a way to share status updates, photos, videos, and links with friends through Gmail. The secret sauce was a “page rank” algorithm that...Read More
By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO | Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:37pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc’s third-quarter results trounced Wall Street expectations as good cost controls helped boost the Internet search leader’s profit by about 26 percent. Shares of Google were up roughly 6 percent at $592.43 in after-hours trading on Thursday. Google...Read More
Some people seek fame. Some have it thrust upon them. And some find it by merely posting something publicly on Google+, when they meant to post it privately. This morning, Google engineer Steve Yegge is undoubtedly more famous– and not only at Google– than he was yesterday. My virginal reading of Silicon Filter, you see,...Read More
Computerworld – Steve Jobs’ was praised worldwide as a business visionary following his death last week. Analysts say Jobs’ death also had immediate business impacts on both Apple products and those Android-based machines sold by rivals. For instance, Google and Samsung postponed plans to launch a new smartphone tomorrow because, Google said, “We believe this...Read More
These days, if I need to read or write an e-mail when I’m not at a regular computer, I can usually do so on my phone. Wi-Fi is also plentiful — even on planes and trains — when I need to catch up on messaging using my laptop. But I found myself lacking both options...Read More
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