Engadget:
Guess what, prospective Milestone owners, the Droid's one major advantage over its Euro cousin has just been coded out of existence by those proactive, un-American XDA Developers. The free Google Maps Navigation service, whose US announcement was so shocking as to decimate the stock prices of satnav purveyors Garmin and Tom (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Last week Google unveiled a first glimpse at Chrome OS, their web-only operating system slated for wide release in 2010. So now that you've had time to sit with the idea, we want to know what you think of it. We've seen plenty of "this will never work" press since the Chrome OS event last week, but we actually like a lot of (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Google is growing its display advertising dominance, today with the acquisition of Teracent, a startup that provides companies with the tools they need to customize display ads like web banners and interactive modules. Still making most of its revenue from text ads listed next to search results, the tech giant sees display (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Previously users wanting to run Google Maps Navigation on their Android phones either needed a 2.0 device (like the Droid) or resorted to this workaround. Today, Google announced the application is now available for pretty much every Android device. Google Maps Navigation is a GPS system with automatic rerouting and voice g (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Last week we pointed you toward a virtual machine build of Chrome OS for anyone eager to play around with (the still incomplete) Chrome OS, but if you'd rather try running it from a thumb drive, weblog MakeUseOf has you covered. Tech blogger Jorge Sierra details how to install Chrome OS on a bootable thumb drive so you can (Read More)
Google Operating System:
Google didn't do a good job at explaining the intended use of Chrome OS and many people wondered if Google's operating system is an alternative to Windows. The goal is to build "an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web". Here ar (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
This holiday season, whether you're shopping for a new sweater for Fido, a Lego set for young builders, or that fancy camera you've been eyeing all year, Google Product Search can help you find what you're looking for at a great price. You can compare products and prices from merchants across the web, from popular retailers (Read More)
Lifehacker:
The creator of Gmail hasn't tried Google Wave, Android and Chrome OS will likely become one at some point in the future, and AOL loses two capital letters and gains a period. Brin: Google's OSes likely to converge Chrome OS and Android may become one at some point down the road. [CNET] Mint Upselling To "Free"CreditReport. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Google says it’s getting close to adding extensions (which users install to add features to their web browsers) to its Chrome browser.Specifically, Google announced today that developers can not only build extensions, but also upload them into Google’s gallery showcasing Chrome extensions. That way, “developers have time to (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Backflip Studios has managed to defy the odds on the iPhone by coming up with hit games that have become big hits over and over.The Boulder, Colo.-based game studio has just six employees and has been around only seven months. But they have scored big with multiple hits on the iPhone as well as a business model that generat (Read More)
VentureBeat:
October numbers are in, and Comscore, Compete, Google, and Quantcast all agree: US traffic to Twitter.com reached a peak in July or August and has begun to decline slowly.According to Comscore, October 2009 traffic was down 8% from from September 2009, while Compete shows a more modest decline of 2.1%. Still, on a year-over (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Congratulations to the Financial Times. It’s taken them 10 days and three reporters to confirm our previous story that Microsoft and News Corp, along with plenty of other newspaper publishers, are in actual, formal discussions to encourage them to de-index from Google and will incentivise them with premium positions on the (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s still invitation only and in preview, the real-time wiki collaboration platform is being used by some media companies for community building, real-ti (Read More)
: Poeple wont start to use Bing just so they can access those news. Who cares? And Microsoft, telling other companies to remove themselves from Google. Microsoft...you make me sick. I hope that Murdoch will loose alot of money on this, and that people don't "migrate" to Bing.
Engadget:
It's been a hot, hot minute since we've seen anything noteworthy from the lads and ladies over at Pegatron, so it's not shocking that we're super tantalized by the prospect of yet another netbook flooding the oversaturated market in the near term. All unnecessary snideness aside, the sub-$200 price point that's being floate (Read More)