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Google +1 officially launched, boosts searches found useful

Published on: 8th April, 2011

Google recently launched the long rumored Google +1 feature. The add-on is similar to Reddit or Digg and allows people with Google accounts to recommend search results by simply making a click on the namesake +1 button. This way, searches that users find useful will be boosted and will get more relevance from friends. As [...]

Chrome OS notebooks would go mainstream in second part of 2011

Published on: 4th April, 2011

Notebooks equipped with Google’s streamlined and cloud-based Chrome OS are now confirmed to go mainstream, although they were originally expected to ship in numbers in this year’s first half. The change will take place in the second half of this year. A wide range of important vendors are supposed to present their Chrome OS notebooks [...]

EU: formal complaint filed by Microsoft over Google dominance

Published on: 4th April, 2011

A few days ago, Microsoft filed a complaint to the European Union, incriminating Google for unfair competition. The document is backing earlier complaints, partly generated by a Microsoft subsidiary and maintains that Google had excluded competition systematically. Many complaints were centered on YouTube, deliberately excluded from results of search for rivals, for example Bing. Access [...]

Google’s Android in-app purchases ready to go live

Published on: 4th April, 2011

Google has recently followed up on a last-minute promise and started up public access to the Android In-app Billing. This system catches up to iOS and offers the possibility of buying books, game add-ons, as well as other content which had formerly been locked out. This can take the same payment methods as standard Android [...]

James Gosling, Java’s creator, hired by Google despite Oracle suit

Published on: 4th April, 2011

James Gosling, Java’s core creator, recently revealed that he was hired by Google. Although he said he did not know what he would focus on, he anticipated it as a “bit of everything”. The new position, although unnamed, became effective the same day. However, the hire will probably be centered on Android, with java being [...]

Google to team with Citigroup and MasterCard in NFC trials

Published on: 1st April, 2011

Trials of Google’s NFC-based phone payments seem to go more and more tangible. A leak cited by the Wall Street Journal says that owners of debit or MasterCard credit cards at Citigroup would be allowed to make payments by simply swiping a Nexus S or any future Android 2.3 phone with NFC, in proximity of [...]

The final version of Firefox 4 to hit Android and triple Google’s browser speed

Published on: 31st March, 2011

Mozilla has recently posted the final variant of Firefox 4 for Android (free, Market), as well as for Nokia’s Maemo. This application uses much of the desktop engine and benefits from a JavaScript engine which guarantees to triple the speed of Google’s own stock browser. Multiple interface elements are borrowed from the desktop too (this [...]

Google, Microsoft and Apple, some of the highest-rated brands in the world

Published on: 31st March, 2011

Brand Directory has published its rankings for 2011, listing the most valuable brands on earth. Technology and US-based companies dominate this list, with Google and Microsoft taking the two top spots. IBM is on fourth place and Vodafone is following very close on fifth. Apple on eighth and AT&T are filling out the top ten. [...]

Google Music and Android in-app billing in tests

Published on: 28th March, 2011

According to tips, Google Music has finally passed internal tests. Google’s staff is using the streaming service for the web and Android for day-to-day tasks and this is usually a clear sign that it is almost complete. As CNET was told, a single vital component is still missing for the release, but it was not [...]

Google not to share source of Android 3.0 too early

Published on: 28th March, 2011

In a recent interview, Google said it would not give out the source code of its Android 3.0 for a certain time after the operating system’s launch. Andy Rubin, engineering vice president of the company, told to BusinessWeek that months could pass as the code had been done under pressure to make the launch date [...]

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