March 2, 2010 |
News
Google has bought Picnik, a free online image editing website.
Picnik has grown to become one of the most popular web-based photo editing sites.
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February 16, 2010 |
News
Google Chrome’s been out for Mac since December, but now they’ve released a new beta version with extensions and other features.
Click through to see a video of the new features.
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February 11, 2010 |
Digital Life
Google announced that they are going to be building high-speed networks 100x faster what most people have today.
They’re going to price their broadband service competitively to what other companies are charging.
I say it’s about time.
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February 10, 2010 |
Digital Life
Google introduced what they’re calling Safety Mode for YouTube. YouTube’s community guidelines are already pretty strict, but Safety Mode takes it a step further.
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February 4, 2010 |
Digital Devices
The one big complaint against Google’s Nexus One cell phone was that it didn’t have multi-touch like Apple’s iPhone did.
Not anymore.
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February 2, 2010 |
Digital Devices
Google took many years to come out with a phone after Apple’s iPhone, but it looks like they’ll only take a few months to put out their tablet after the unveiling of the Apple iPad.
Now we have some pictures to preview the planned tablet’s UI.
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January 17, 2010 |
Digital Privacy
Remember that fellow that helped to blow up a few buildings and then went into either seclusion or retirement? Someone by the name of Osama bin Laden? Since it’s been a while since he’s released a YouTube video, government agencies have no idea what the terrorist mastermind looks like anymore. At the end of their [...]
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January 12, 2010 |
Uncategorized
When I logged in to Google Webmaster Tools today, I noticed the initial screen looked a little different. Here’s what the list of sites looks like: What’s different is that in the site list, Webmaster Tools is now also showing the the little icon that appears in browser tabs. It’s called a “favicon” after the [...]
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January 7, 2010 |
Digital Devices
Google just released its own phone, the Nexus One, this week. Google has had a mobile phone software platform, Android, available for a while now, and a number of cell phone companies are using it on their phones. But this is the first time Google has come out with a consumer hardware device. (Note: It [...]
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January 4, 2010 |
Digital Privacy
As if Google didn’t have enough reach by being the owner of DoubleClick (the ad firm), it’s buying AdMob, which I just learned is the major (and just about only) ad firm for the phenomal price of three-quarters of a billion dollars. Apparently AdMob’s focus is on web ads that display when you view a [...]
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