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Resolved: The Best Gadgets Are the Work of One Company

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington is reporting that Google is absolutely, positively working on an Android phone of its own for release early next year. He seems to be confirming scuttlebutt from a month ago, and the only thing that’s changed is that the shipping schedule has supposedly slipped a bit. If Arrington’s right, Google may be about [...]

Chrome OS: The Great Unveiling

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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On Thursday morning, Google is holding a press event that sounds like it’ll be the closest thing to an official introduction that the company’s Chrome OS for netbooks has gotten to date: While this will be more of a technical announcement, we will be showing a few demos that will definitely be of interest to you [...]

Will Google Docs Replace Word? Perhaps, but Not Today.

Friday, November 13, 2009

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Google is predicting that its online office suite, Google Docs, will soon give people the option to “get rid of” Microsoft Office. With Google Docs in a less than robust state, that pronouncement sounds more like vendor bravado than prophecy. Google’s entire premise is based on vaporware: It is promising to update Google Docs within the [...]

Chrome for Mac, Finally Within Sight?

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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Over at Cnet, Steven Shankland has taken notice of some info on a mailing list for Google Chrome developers that suggests that Google’s browser may arrive in an OS X beta in early December. If so, fifteen months will have passed between Chrome’s Windows debut and its appearance on the Mac. (Developer versions of Chrome [...]

Google’s New Online Storage Deal: Much Cheaper, But Not a Game Changer

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Google is so synonymous with free stuff that it’s easy to forget that it does indeed offer some for-pay services–such as additional online storage space for Gmail messages and Picasa photos. Yesterday, it announced that it’s slashing the fees it charges for extra elbow room. The new pricing starts at $5 a year for 20GB of [...]

5Words: Free Airport Wi-Fi? Thanks, Google!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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Google springs for airport Wi-Fi. Blockbuster’s memory-card movie rentals. Nvidia shows off tablet prototype. How many Droids? Maybe 100,000. LinkedIn talks to Twitter now. Nokia starts shipping N900 handset. A whole new Google coming? Blu-Ray managed copy: looks awful! A projector dock for iPhones. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.

Google Magazines: Now Actually Findable!

Friday, November 6, 2009

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I keep writing about the wonders of Google Books’ archive of scanned magazines–most notably, the utter delight that is the complete LIFE. Every time I do, I pause to wonder why it’s practically impossible to find a magazine unless you know it’s there. Problem solved, mostly: Google Books now has a page with thumbnail images of [...]

Google Dashboard: Good–But More Explanation, Please

Thursday, November 5, 2009

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Just how much Google do you have in your life? Now Google is giving you a tool to help answer that question: Google Dashboard, which puts personal information relating to twenty Google services you may be using on one page. Dashboard includes everything from the number of conversations in your Gmail inbox to how many people [...]

Google Friend Connect: More Ways to Connect Friends

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

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Google has rolled out a major update to Google Friend Connect, its service that lets small Web sites (and some not-so-small ones, such as the Huffington Post) easily add community features such as comments, reviews and ratings, and the ability to friend other visitors. There are a bunch of new features, all of which you can [...]

Is TomTom Toast?

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Among the bevy of interesting things about Verizon’s Droid smartphone is Android 2.0’s new version of Google Maps, which includes full-blown turn-by-turn GPS navigation with spoken instructions–for free. Judging from the couple of trips around San Francisco it’s guided me on so far, it would be pretty darn appealing even if it wasn’t a freebie–the [...]

5Words: Can’t Stop the Google Music

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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Google search launches music feature. Once again, Google-FCC correspondence. Google navigation for iPhone, maybe. Netflix coming to the Wii? Windows 7 as Wi-Fi router. Apple Stores to dump Windows. Color e-ink in the works. Sneak peak at iPhone Lala. Surprisingly sensible dual-screen laptop. Windows 7-XP battery tests. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.

The T-Grid: Verizon Droid vs. iPhone 3GS

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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So Verizon’s Droid is official, and officially arriving a week from Friday. I’m smart enough to know it’s pointless to call any phone an iPhone killer, or even a potential iPhone killer–and that competing with the iPhone is much more about software and overall integration than it is about hardware specs. (If you could kill the [...]

Chrome for Mac: Not Here Yet, But Use It Anyway

Thursday, October 22, 2009

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Here at the Web 2.0 Summit, a surprise guest dropped by this afternoon to be interviewed by cochair John Battelle: Google cofounder Sergey Brin. An audience member asked him a question that was on my mind, too: Exactly what’s going on with Google Chrome for the Mac, which still hasn’t shipped well over a year [...]

More About Google Audio

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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This morning’s rumor about Google launching a music service is gradually getting rounded out. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has blogged about a LaLa and iLike press event scheduled for next Wednesday that he says involves the incorporation of those companies’ music services into Google results. Search for an artist on Google, and you’ll be able [...]

Google Previews Social Search, Talks Twitter

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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More news from the Web 2.0 Summit: Search honcho Marissa Mayer just previewed Social Search, a feature the company plans to launch as a Google Labs experiment. It’ll place user-generated content–blog posts, photos, and the like–at the bottom of search results. And that content will come from your circle of friends, which includes both people [...]

Yup, Google is Getting Twitter Search, Too

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

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Did I just hear another shoe dropping? Shortly after Microsoft’s Bing launched Twitter search, Google’s Marissa Mayer has blogged that Google also has a deal to integrate Tweets into its results. Something will show up “in the coming months,” which could presumably mean either next week or sometime in 2010. Mayer didn’t have much to say [...]