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Google adds ActiveSync to accommodate iPhone, Win Mobile

Google Monday announced that it is adding support for Microsoft's ActiveSync to Google Sync, which will give iPhone and Windows Mobile offline access to their Google calendars and Gmail contacts from their mobile applications. Google alrea [...]

Posted On : Feb, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Google Execs facing jail in Italy

Four Google executives go on trial in Italy Tuesday criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation. The charges relate to a video posted to Google Video in 2006, showing four Italian youths teasing a boy with down syndrome.Google rem [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Google Blacklists Entire Internet

Now this isn't your usual everyday occurrence... Heralded Internet super spawn Google today performed the mother of all service cock-ups - if briefly - when it accidently warned customers about the danger of every single site pulled up usin [...]

Posted On : Feb, 02 2009 | Comments : 0

New Google toolbar gives Firefox a Chrome look

Google released a second beta of its toolbar software for Firefox that gives the browser a prominent feature of Google's own Chrome.In Chrome, when you open a new tab, the browser displays a page with up to nine miniature versions of page [...]

Posted On : Jan, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Google Delivers Offline Access for Gmail

Google will begin to offer browser-based offline access to its Gmail Webmail application, a much-awaited feature.This functionality, which will allow people to use the Gmail interface when disconnected from the Internet, has been expected s [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Microsoft Bid to Beat Google Builds on a History of Misses

Now that Yahoo Inc. has named a new chief executive, Microsoft Corp.'s Chief Executive Steve Ballmer may finally be in a position to gain ground on Internet juggernaut Google Inc. -- and to reverse one of his biggest mistakes. Mr. Ballmer [...]

Posted On : Jan, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Scientist slams newspaper for Google CO2 report

A report in The Times of London on Sunday generated a firestorm of controversy when a Harvard physicist was identified as saying a typical Google Web search on a desktop computer generates about 7 grams of carbon dioxide, making two searche [...]

Posted On : Jan, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Google Watchers Strike Down Google Netbook Notion

Google Watch readers are surprisingly skeptical about the notion that Google will create a version of the Android mobile operating system for netbooks.But let us recall how Google's Android creators have said publicly that they expect Andro [...]

Posted On : Dec, 29 2008 | Comments : 0

5 little Gmail annoyances Google needs to fix

Last week, I discussed why Gmail is the best e-mail service on the Web and took a look at all those features that earn it that title. But just because it's the best doesn't mean that the e-mail service doesn't annoy me sometimes. In fact, G [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2008 | Comments : 0

Google releases finished version of Chrome browser

Google yanked the "beta" test label off Chrome, quickly putting a stamp of approval on its Web browser released in a direct challenge to Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer. The California online search titan known for [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

Hurtful Google Docs Study Tied To Ex-Microsoft Employees

On Friday, ClickStream Technologies published a study claiming that "use of free productivity applications such as Google Docs and OpenOffice remains low, while Microsoft Office is in use by over 50% of adult U.S. Internet users and [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2008 | Comments : 0

With Google out of Yahoos sights, will AOL be next in line?

Yahoo messed up badly in the handling of offers from both Microsoft and Google. With stock prices dipping below the $14 mark, the fledgling search company is searching out any offer possible. Will AOL make it into the mix? [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2008 | Comments : 0

Google Answers the iPhone

In the exciting new category of modern hand-held computers -- devices that fit in your pocket but are used more like a laptop than a traditional phone -- there has so far been only one serious option. But that will all change on Oct. [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 2008 | Comments : 0

Google Begins Testing AdSense For Games

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) on Wednesday began offering a limited number of online game publishers the opportunity to earn ad revenue by participating in a beta test of its AdSense advertising program for games. "As a beta user of AdSense fo [...]