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The New York Times Headline App Released For Google Glass
If you’re one of the lucky/wealthy people that managed to get their hands on an early pair of the Google Glass Explorer Editions, you now...
Apple Loses Bidding War To Google For Acquisition Of News-Summarizing App Wavii
About a month ago, Yahoo! acquired the popular news-summarizing app Summly for $30 million and now it looks like Google has acquired a similar app,...
Google Fined $189,000 Over Wi-Fi Data Protection Violation In Germany
Google has been slapped with a fine of 145,000 Euros, about $189,000, for violating “one of the biggest data protection rules” known in Germany. The...
Google Places For Business App Lands On iOS
Google has released an iOS version of Google Places for Business. This application was released into the App Store on April 21st, 2013, and lets...
Google Glass Confirmed To Run On Android
If you were wondering what software would be powering your Google glasses, Google’s CEO Larry Page confirmed today that it will be running on an...
Google Fiber Making A Stop In Provo, Utah
If you’re in Provo, you’ve just won the lottery. Google will be bringing its Fiber program to your lovely city. The third stop for the...
Facebook Hires Richard Williamson, Former Apple Employee And Apple Maps Executive
Facebook has scooped up another former Apple employee. This time Richard Williamson is joining the social network’s team. Williamson was previously the head of Apple’s...
YouTube For iOS Update Adds Live Streaming, More
Google’s YouTube app for iOS was recently updated, adding some cool new features, like support for live streaming, a new personalized subscription feed and the...
Google Launches New Feature, Grants You Powers After You Die
As more and more of our lives revolve around the digital world and social media, what happens to a person’s online presence once they die...
Judge Says Apple And Google Aren’t Really Interested In A Settlement
Apple and Google-owned Motorola Mobility have accused each other of infringing on the other’s patents related to wireless technology. The judge presiding over the case,...
Place-Saving App Rego Gets Update, Adds Foursquare Support, More
Rego, that place-saving app that means “butt crack” in Portuguese, has been updated to bring better search functionality, Foursquare support, more editing features, new languages, and a...
Survey Asks Which Smartphone People Would Never Use, Guess Who Gets No Love
Usually it’s the other way around, but a new survey by Raymond James analysis asked participants which smartphone they would never use, instead of which...
WhatsApp Confirms It’s Not Selling To Google
Rumors were swirling around recently that the popular messaging app WhatsApp was in discussions to sell to Google. Neeraj Arora, WhatsApp’s business development head, squashed...
Google Fiber May Expand To Austin, Texas, Next Week
Google and the City of Austin have sent media invitations out for a press conference that is set to take place in Austin, Texas. Rumors have...
Google: Chrome Moving From WebKit To Blink In About 10 Weeks
Earlier this week, Google announced that it would be moving away from WebKit and instead creating its own rendering engine, called Blink. Now the company...
Opera Ditches WebKit, Incorporating Blink Already
Well that didn’t take long. Months after publicly announcing it was going to use WebKit, Opera has decided to contribute to Google’s new rendering engine,...
Google Retiring WebKit Engine, Going At It Alone With Blink
Google’s decided that WebKit isn’t cutting it for Chrome anymore, the company has decided to fork the open source engine, and instead, begin to integrate...
Google Explains Why iTunes Search Results Disappeared
An interesting phenomenon was noticed today involving Google’s iTunes search results. When searching for iOS apps on Google, direct iTunes links don’t immediately show up...