Because there apparently aren’t enough gunslingers at the e-book OK Corral, Google announced today that they plan on joining the battle royale when they open their online e-book store sometime this summer. [More]
Google Pushed To Block Kids' Access To Android Porn
By 5.3.10
Last month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs cited the availability of porn apps as a major advantage offered by Google’s Android platform (well, he didn’t really, but some may have seen it that way). Now, the Parents Television Council, which earlier pushed to make Apple’s App Store more family-friendly, has decided to follow up on Steve’s endorsement, and is looking at what it sees as a lack of effective parental controls on Android phones. [More]
Google Prepares To Dominate Your TV With New Technology
By 5.2.10
In case there was any doubt, Google is getting ready to just straight up dominate the world: The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is going to unveil Android-based TV software in May at the kind of event where life-changing announcements are made, the Google I/O conference. [More]
These Are The Top 10 Brands In The Whole Wide World
By 4.28.10
For five years, the people at BrandZ (you know they’re in branding because of the “Z”) have been evaluating customer opinion and awareness of various global brands, and then putting a dollar value on that evaluation for their annual Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands report. Here are the top 10 brands on the BrandZ list. [More]
Google Kills Nexus One For Verizon, Says Get An HTC Incredible Instead
By 4.28.10
If you’ve been waiting for the Nexus One to hit Verizon, you can stop waiting. The HTC Droid will take the place of the Nexus One on the Verizon network, Google announced via a blog post Monday. It’s supposed to support better multi-touch sensors, so, win? Perhaps given the customer service issues that arose after the initial Nexus One launch – they didn’t even offer any phone support at first – Google decided it would be better to get out of the retail business. [Google via PhoneScoop] [More]
Which Of These Is The Worst Business Decision Ever?
By 4.26.10
There have been a lot of boneheaded business decisions over the years, but the folks over at MSN seem to think they’ve distilled it down to an elite 8 of nearsighted, addle-brained, wrong-minded missteps. See if you agree. [More]
iPhone Hacked To Run Android
By 4.22.10
This guy has hacked his iPhone so it runs Android. In fact, he can choose to run either the iPhone OS or Android. It only works on the original 2G iPhone and it’s a little buggy, and not recommended that casual users try it, but the future could hold implementations on the 3G and 3Gs. Apple’s secret garden just got further pried open. [More]
Buncha Peoples' Droids Randomly Deleting All Their Text Messages
By 4.21.10
Maybe they are sentient after all, just like the commercials suggest, and they’ve decided it’s time for you to move on. A slew of Droid owners are reporting that their cellphones will sometimes randomly delete all of their text messages. That’s every picture of your baby your wife sent you, every hilarious exchange between you and your best friend, and every must-have address you’ve got stored as a text message. [More]
Should Google Be Broken Apart?
By 4.20.10
The consumer group Consumer Watchdog is planning to ask the Justice Department to “launch an antitrust action against the search giant and seek remedies including a possible break up,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The group will host a press conference in Washington, D.C. tomorrow where it will argue that there’s enough evidence to warrant antitrust action from the feds. [More]
Library Of Congress Now Home To Complete Archive Of Inane Tweets
By 4.14.10
Remember that Tweet you wrote about Tiger Woods that seemed hilarious at the time? Or that night you shared your thoughts on your cousin Bob’s lack of personal hygiene? Good news — all of the world’s most trivial 140-character-or-less Tweets will soon be housed forever in the Library of Congress. [More]
Go Daddy Leaves China Over Censorship, Privacy Concerns
By 3.26.10
GoDaddy.com, of the annoying Danica Patrick commercials, has announced that it will no longer sell .cn domain names. Why? It is not willing to comply with new rules from the Chinese government which requires domain holders to provide photo ID, says Wired. [More]
Google Data Explorer Makes Pretty Charts From Depressing Numbers
By 3.26.10
Google Labs recently unveiled its latest toy, the Public Data Explorer. The tool adds visualization features to Google’s public data search engine, letting you make charts and graphs like this one, which overlays unemployment stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on a U.S. map. Colorful and cheery, right? All those lovely pale green circles (10% umemployment), flashes of orange (13%) and the occasional outburst of red (15%). Who knew that modeling depressing data could be so much fun! [More]
Convict Tries, Fails To Use Google As Get Out Of Jail Free Card
By 3.22.10
A convicted bank robber had been hoping to get out of jail because the judge in his parole revocation hearing admitted to doing a Google search on a piece of evidence. Unfortunately for him — and fortunately for just about everyone else — an appeals court disagreed. [More]
YouTube: Viacom Uploaded Some Of The Videos They're Suing Us Over
By 3.19.10
It’s a showdown of new media and sorta-old media as YouTube defends itself against Viacom in the TV leviathan’s billion-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit against the site that showed the world that cats can indeed play the piano. [More]
Report: Facebook Beats Google For Web's Most-Visited Site
By 3.16.10
It’s official — playing Farmville and tagging friends in photos (and consequently untagging embarrassing photos of yourself from your friends’ photos) has become more popular than actually trying to find things on the internet, as a new report shows Facebook edged out Google as the most-visited site on the internet last week. [More]
Poll: Are You Ready To Give Up Desktop Apps For The Cloud?
By 3.4.10
Google’s head of European online sales, John
Herlihy, recently prognosticated that in three years, “desktops
will be irrelevant,” and everyone will work on mobile devices and
store their data in the Internet “cloud.” That would be good news
for Google, but what about you? Would privacy concerns, limitations
of mobile widgets and web apps or other issues keep you tethered to
your desktop, or are you ready to launch yourself into the clouds?
Tell us in our poll, inside.
Yahoo And Twitter Announce Unholy Alliance Of Social Networking
By 2.24.10
Perhaps as a response to Google’s monumentally successful launch (at least in terms of irritating Gmail users) of Google Buzz, Yahoo announced on Tuesday that they have entered into a partnership of sorts with social networking biggie Twitter, apparently in an attempt to bring Yahoo up to speed with the rest of the Internet. [More]
