Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Weather Now Available in Google Earth

Jul 30 by Angela West | 6 comments

Weather-obsessed people like pilots and surf bums will now be able to see the latest weather maps on Google Earth. In order to see it, enable the clouds layer, and zoom to the spot that you want to see (or do that in reverse order, it doesn’t matter). Precipitation more »

Eric Schmidt: The Last Man On Earth Denying Google Me

Jul 28 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

Eric Schmidt (guy who runs Google, if you’re new to this ‘inter-net’ thing) was quoted this week as saying that Google was, in fact, not developing a service to rival Facebook. “The world doesn’t need a copy of the same thing,” he said. more »

16 Techi-rific Google Logo Doodles

Jul 23 by Ransler Dier | 13 comments

When Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, wanted to do something creative with their logo back in 1999 to signify their attendance at the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada Desert, things were simple for the Google logo; just a stick figure stuck in the middle more »

Google Versus China: Endgame

Jul 21 by Ty Dunitz | 2 comments

Whenever I see the word ‘endgame’, the only thing going through my head is Highlander. I wonder why that is. Either way, that’s how the headline up there is meant to be read. Like, imagine the poster for Highlander: Endgame, and just imagine Christopher Lambert is Google, or something. more »

Nexus One Found Dead at Six Months

Jul 19 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Did you ever get a look at the Nexus One? I remember, back in The Day, I was even going to champion the Nexus when I moved up to a smartphone. But it looks like I’ll never get my chance – Google’s discontinuing the Android-packing iPhone killer. According more »

Android App Inventor Democratizes App Creation, May Flood Market With Crap

Jul 12 by Navneet Alang | add comment

For all the chatter regarding the great democratizing power of the internet – its capacity to enable a generation of thinkers of creators to produce amazing things – a simple problem has kept the creation of applications limited to small number more »

Is the Web Finally Ready to Kill Television?

Jul 12 by Navneet Alang | 16 comments

Ever since broadband internet hit the mainstream around the turn of the millennium, we have been hearing how the web would spell the end of traditional TV. Rather than the ‘mere’ 500-channel universe offered by cable or satellite, the web was more »

Like Farmville? So Does Google

Jul 11 by Toby Leftly | 1 comment

Pygmies in the Amazonian rain forest are all well aware of the addictive and widespread Facebook game Farmville, so I won’t insult your intelligence by explaining what it is. However, if you thought you were Farmville’s biggest fan, think more »

Google And China, Friends Again At Last

Jul 11 by Toby Leftly | add comment

This might have been a no-brainer for some, but the tension between China and Google has been eased when it was announced this weekend that Google’s operating license in China was renewed without issue. Guxiang is the company responsible for more »

Google's Back On In China...Mostly

Jul 9 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Today’s big thing: Google’s lights are back on in China after a longer-than-was-really-necessary-you-guys bruhaha that saw Google damn near shut down Chinese operations entirely. Long story short, Google has promised to end its auto-redirect more »

Google, Impersonating the Soup Nazi, Says No Chrome OS Notebook For You!

Jul 5 by Navneet Alang | 1 comment

Eric Schmidt, CEO of small, obscure search company ‘Google’ (man, that name is never gonna’ take off, amirite?) revealed that the folks at Mountain View have no interest in either a Google-branded netbook running ChromeOS or a followup to their Nexus One smartphone. more »

Google Alters Its Approach To China After Beijing Complains

Jun 29 by Toby Leftly | add comment

For those of you following the Google Vs. China melodrama, you know the internet giant is doing its best to walk a fine line between revolutionizing search in China and getting kicked out. So far, Google’s tactic has been to redirect users from more »

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