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[Video] Google Introduces Google Wallet – George Costanza Is Their First Customer

September 18, 2011
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Google introduced the world to their new mobile payment service for smartphones aptly named, Google Wallet. While the service isn’t officially live just yet, you can hit up Google.com/wallet to signup and get notified as soon as it is. Currently, there is only one phone in the US that is actually NFC enabled to take [...]

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Intel and Google announce Android x86 optimization

September 14, 2011
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It’s no secret how badly Intel wants in on the mobile computing market. The silicon manufacturer has been hard at work developing the technology inside emerging Ultrabooks, as well as putting their weight behind the tablet and smartphone OS MeeGo. Unfortunately for Intel, the effort behind MeeGo likely won’t amount to much. Nokia has ditched [...]

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Google Engineer Uses The Power of Android and Google Maps To Propose To His Girlfriend

September 3, 2011
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In one of the more geeky (and equally awesome) stories I came across today, a Google engineer by the name of Ari Gilder proposed to his girlfriend today using a combination of Google Maps and a custom app he built on his Nexus One The girlfriend was given the Nexus One and then, using the [...]

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Google marks Chrome’s 3rd birthday with a nifty interactive infographic

September 2, 2011

Has Google Chrome really been with us for three years? Apparently so, according to this blog post today from Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher, Software Engineers at Google. Google made this announcement on 1st September, 2008, though it seems the browser was actually launched the following day. So what’s Google’s take on these past 3 [...]

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Offline Gmail, Docs and Calendar finally come to Google Chrome

September 1, 2011

If there’s been one thing that has held many of us back from being perfectly happy to live in the cloud it is the fact that sometimes you just don’t have an Internet connection so your cloud becomes all but useless. Google is no stranger to this fact and has apparently been hard at work [...]

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Google Docs document pages have a minimalist new look

August 30, 2011

You’ll notice from this image below that Google Docs has “a pimp new look”. In July, Google Docs upped its game from 1GB to 10GB uploads and in early August, Google started rolling out a new version of Google Docs’ document dashboard bringing it up to speed with the design of both Gmail and Calendar. As European Editor Martin Bryant [...]

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Facebook’s updated privacy controls take it beyond Google+ Circles

August 28, 2011

Facebook just announced on its blog that it is rolling out a litany of privacy-related updates that streamline its various interfaces, simplify privacy control, and add more power in the hands of users. Facebook has always had a feature similar in function to Google+’s Circles but it has so far been underemphasized and complicated to [...]

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You can now share content into Google Circles with the +1 button

August 25, 2011

As Google announces a major milestone for its +1 button: with over 4 billion daily views, it’s giving its new product a much needed update. Google has just announced what many Google+ and Google Circle fans have all been waiting for. We’ve needed a way to easily share content to our growing Google Circles, and [...]

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How Google+ will succeed and why you’ll use it whether you want to or not.

August 24, 2011

Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Tom Anderson, the founder & former President of MySpace. Follow him on Google, Twitter, and Facebook. There’s been more than a few “Google+ is doomed” articles as of late. After the initial rush of delighted surprise that G+ didn’t suck, the second wave of journalists have arrived. [...]

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