It's official: MarketWatch reports that Clearwire and Sprint have combined their next-generation wireless Internet businesses and are set to build the first nationwide high-speed 4G broadband network.
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Computerworld reports that the terrorists who attacked Mumbai last week used Google Earth to learn their way around. They also used other technologies, such as satellite phones and GPS systems. The story infers that by making high-tech tools like Google Earth easy to use and Internet-accessible, Google is somehow aiding terrorists.
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Google's Chrome browser is picking up some good press these days. In speed tests conducted by ExtremeTech, Chrome was deemed significantly faster at page loads and other tasks than either Firefox or IE. And CNET reports that although Chrome usage trails that of IE and Firefox by quite a bit, it's still gaining traction and market share.
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Google released Version 0.4.1154.25 of its beta browser, and says most users will get an automated update in the next few days. The new version is simply a rollup of several fixes Google had already released in the developer version of Chrome, but some notable changes include bookmark management and bolstered security.
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Reports have been flying about the Web that Google is set to lay off 10,000 workers. The news stemmed from a WebGuild Silicon Valley report that "since August, hundreds of employees have been laid off," about 500 of them recruiters. But there's more to the story than that.
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That's the question ZDnet's Jason Perlow asks. Netbooks, just like the Android-based G1 (and Apple's iPhone OS), are aimed squarely at the consumer, and in most cases, the non-techie consumer. And if Apple and Google can get all that functionality into a phone footprint, just think what they could offer when they have the processor, memory and screen real estate of a netbook.
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Remember back when $381 a share looked like a bargain price for Google? Now, after weeks of Dow despair, Google's latest share price has plummeted to just $262.43, and even the experts are on board.
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When Google launched SearchWiki, a new tool that lets users edit and mark up their Google search results, the company said its aim was to let users tailor their search results for their own specific needs, making the results more useful in the long run. But as with everything Google, there's another side to the story.
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Vnunet reports that Google and consumer products heavyweight Procter & Gamble have traded some staffers in order glean advertising know-how from each other. For P&G, the goal was to figure out how best to leverage the "new" world of online search and advertising, while Google hoped to get more insight into how to snag--and keep--big ad spenders like P&G.
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Microsoft has officially invaded Google Apps' turf by opening up its Exchange and SharePoint Online products to just about everyone. And as part of the online onslaught, Microsoft is introducing a new a la carte pricing scheme aimed at undercutting Google Apps' one-price-fits-all model.
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Maybe Google is really serious about digitizing all of the world's knowledge. The company struck a deal with Life Magazine to make Life's complete 10 million image archive publicly accessible via Google's image search.
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Wondering what your town is uploading to YouTube? Google just launched a new location-based search feature for the video site, based on Gears and the new GeoLocation API, that shows you every video uploaded within a certain distance of your actual location.
The new feature is based on Gears and the new GeoLocation API. According to the Google Geo Developers Blog:
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It's not just you. A lot of people have noticed a huge dip in spam in the last week or so, even Google. Turns out that after just one huge, notorious spammer -- web hoster McColo Corp. of San Jose, Calif. -- was shut down last week, Google registered a 70% drop in spam.
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When Yahoo's Jerry Yang stepped up to the plate as CEO back in June of 2007, expectations were high. Yang helped found Yahoo and it was hoped he'd use his engineering savvy to make the No. 2 search engine a stronger player against not only No. 3 Microsoft, but No. 1 search engine giant Google. How fast things change.
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Amid all the interest surrounding Google's new voice-recognition search feature for the Apple iPhone, one main issue was lost. Apple has yet to OK the new application to the App Store. According to TechCrunch, the app should go live today.
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No matter which set of numbers you believe, Google Docs has a lot of market share ground to gain, not only against Microsoft Office but also OpenOffice.org's free office suite.
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As the latest search market share numbers plainly show, Google is probably already a search engine monopoly, with or without the recently deceased Yahoo deal. Yahoo and Microsoft are both struggling just to stay alive in the marketplace, and it looks like the search engine wars are just about over--or are they?
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One major feature the Google/T-Mobile G1 has over Apple's iPhone is it's swivel-out keyboard. The iPhone touchscreen keyboard is not all that intuitive and typing out simple texts and e-mails takes some time and patience. But Google refuses to let such a small thing stand in the way of getting all those deep-pocketed iPhone users onto its mobile search engine.
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Google has been searching for a way to make money from YouTube ever since it bought the company for a cool $1.6 billion in 2006, but it has yet to stumble upon the right formula. So far, it offers quick video ads before and during YouTube videos, as well as text-based search ads alongside YouTube search results. Now, it's trying yet another way. Google has tailored its popular AdSense program to YouTube via a new auction-based sponsored video program.
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