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Oh it’s on! Google’s Vic Gundotra takes another shot at Apple
Google’s fourth annual I/O conference is underway and there’s a shit ton of information to discuss. From Google’s music initiative to Android 3.1 and a whole lot more. But this picture naturally caught our attention. The I/O conference kicked off with Google’s Vic Gundotra walking on stage. It didn’t take long for the event to […]
Continue reading...Apple ranked as most valuable brand with worth of $153 billion
Monday, May 9, 2011
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By Luis Estrada: Face it, guys. Apple is the envy of the entire computer industry. Not only are they making money hand over fist but they’re doing it while releasing revolutionary products that continually raise the bar for the entire tech industry. More than that, Apple products have a cachet of “cool” that most companies literally spend millions of dollars trying […]
Continue reading...Apple beats Google in race to deploy could-based music service – Report
Thursday, April 21, 2011
There have been a number of reports over the past few months suggesting that Apple is planning on completely revamping its MobileMe service to include a digital locker that would enable users to store, and potentially stream, purchased content from iTunes from the cloud – namely, Apple’s large Data Center in North Carolina. Apple, of […]
Continue reading...Google’s negotiations with record labels over streaming service are “broken”
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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A little less than a month ago we reported that Google had already begun internal testing on its rumored music service which, by all accounts, will serve as a competitor to iTunes. Google’s purported plan with music involves the ability for users to store their music in the cloud and stream it down to their […]
Continue reading...Roger McNamee: Not excited about Android, says Apple is killing the world wide web – in a good way
Friday, April 15, 2011
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You might recognize Roger McNamee as the angel investor who invested heavily in Palm and came up with this ludicrous prediction back in March of 2009: You know the beautiful thing: June 29, 2009, is the two- year anniversary of the first shipment of the iPhone. Not one of those people will still be using […]
Continue reading...Safari in OS X Lion to come with “Do Not Track” tool
Thursday, April 14, 2011
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Safari, following in the footsteps of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, will soon offer a new “do not track” feature that will enable users to opt out of tracking cookies which as you know is a time-old favorite of marketers and advertisers. The new feature is a part of the new Safari […]
Continue reading...Andy Rubin responds to claims that Android isn’t open, addresses fragmentation
Thursday, April 7, 2011
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Reports that Google was increasing the amount of control it exerts over handset carriers with respect to UI tweaks and the like garnered a good deal of press and generated some heated discussions last week. These reports were magnified further because they followed word that Android was going to delay the open source release of […]
Continue reading...Google product chief Jonathan Rosenberg resigns
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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With Larry Page now in firm control as CEO of Google, significant management shakeups have already begun. This past Wednesday, Jonathan Rosenberg announced that he was leavingthe search giant after 9+ years at the company. The impetus for the departure was the result of one of Page’s first orders of business as CEO – asking […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt garner high CEO approval ratings, Steve Ballmer and Carol Bartz not so much
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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An anonymous survey taken by Glassdoor.com recently compared CEO approval ratings in 2011 against approval ratings from 2010.
Continue reading...In bait and switch, Google throws the hammer down on handset manufacturers ability to tweak Android
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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Google ostensibly delivered Android to save the masses from a world where one company, Apple, was able to dictate how phones were supposed to look and operate. The result has been a smorgasbord of Android handsets with custom UIs and all sorts of wonky tweaks. But that party is coming to and. Google recently reached […]
Continue reading...Microsoft Kinect hack turns Gmail Motion prank into a reality
Monday, April 4, 2011
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Google Motion was a cleverly delivered April Fools Day joke from Google, but that “joke” was recently turned into a reality using Microsoft Kinect. In the video below, Institute of Creative Technologies (ICT) researcher Evan Suma demos how he actually uses the motion gestures mentioned in Google’s original video to actually control Gmail.
Continue reading...MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman says iOS users are more likely to purchase content than Android owners
Monday, April 4, 2011
Android may have surpassed both Apple and RIM in smartphone marketshare, but app monetization on the Android platform is still not as easy as it is for Apple’s lineup of iOS devices. Part of the problem, of course, is Android fragmentation. With a slew of Android handsets out in the marketplace, developers have to account […]
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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