Googles 2008 logo for Mothers Day - Happy Mothers Day to all the moms!
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Don’t they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites.
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Google has long said that its best hope for future growth comes from mobile devices. Today, Google moved to bring that future a bit closer.
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Privacy advocates should take note of an effective way to avert the prying eyes of Google Street View: the lowly plastic bag.
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Over the weekend, CoreCodec, the company behind the high-performance CoreAVC video codec, sent a DMCA takedown notice to Google over an open-source project intended to provide a Linux compatibility layer for the CoreAVC codec.
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Google, in a filing with the FCC Friday, raised concerns that Verizon Wireless wasn’t committed to the open-access rules the FCC put on the nationwide C block of the 700MHz spectrum the agency sold in an auction ending in mid-March. The FCC’s open-access rules required the winner of the C block to allow customers to connect wireless devices of thei
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Microsoft Corp.’s attempt to take over Yahoo Inc. has become so tortured it may help Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc. grow stronger, undermining Microsoft’s main reason for pursing the deal in the first place.
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While Microsoft chases Yahoo, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO and chairman is seeking a stronger relationship with IBM, something in which Big Blue’s chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano, appears very interested.
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See what’s been discovered by Liberty City locals! Check the categories on the right to show markers for just about any person, place or thing in Liberty City. First to find something? Right click on the map location and choose “Add Marker” to share your original discovery.
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On new book by Philipp Lenssen: “My verdict? It’s really good. Part of my job is to know obscure things about Google, yet several of the hacks in this book discussed tricks that I didn’t know.”
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