It looks like Motorola may have inadvertently let the cat out of the bag regarding Google’s rumored web-based music service.
According to the Guardian, when speaking about Motorola’s upcoming Xoom tablet, the company’s mobility CEO, Sanjay Jha, said:
“If you look at Google Mobile services today, there’s a video service, there’s a
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If you’ve noticed recently that YouTube videos seem to be uploading faster, and without as much buffer-stutter, then perhaps you should be thanking the Hydra. That’s the name of an internal project within YouTube to speed up video loading times, and in the process, lower both user frustration and operating costs. The key? Google …
Sick of Google telling you what to read all the time? There’s now an extension for the company’s Chrome web browser called Personal Blocklist that allows you to oust sites you don’t want showing up in your search results.
Once installed, each search result will contain a link to block its associated site from showing up next time. …
Is there anything that Google doesn’t do?
Google Docs announced this week that it’s rolling out a new organizational tool for all those bridezillas called Google Weddings, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Despite its corny nature, Google Weddings could actually be a really useful tool–it allows users to do everything from plan …
If you enjoy Google’s online translation services, there’s now an iPhone app that will bring that functionality to the smartphone. The free app will translate 57 languages by text input and 15 languages by voice input, according to the official Google blog. Your translation can also be spoken out loud in 23 different languages, using the …
Americans were using their smartphones a lot more last year, with usage up an amazing 60%. But it’s only really good news for Apple and Google, as ComScore figures suggest that iOS and Android were the only mobile platforms to see any increase, with RIM, Microsoft and Palm all dropping in the last months of the year.
Google’s Android …
For you really tech smart people out there, Google has issued a challenge for you. It’s quite simple: Hack Google Chrome Web browser successfully, and they’ll give you $20,000 cash and a Chrome CR-48.
You’ll have your work set out for you though. Last year, Google’s web browser was the only one left untouched at CanSecWest Pwn2Own …
Here’s what happened.
Google suspected Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, of copying some Google-ish search technology to display certain results to users.
The long version has been thoroughly covered by search expert Danny Sullivan but the basic story is that last May, some people at Google began to notice that Bing was returning
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For those of you out there who are fans of Google’s apps, the company announced on their blog today that they’ve created Google Shopper for the iPhone and added a check-in function for Google Latitude.
Google Shopper
Previously only for the Android Market, Google Shopper allows you to search for the item you want by typing the word in, …
Google held a press conference today to show off some features from its upcoming tablet-specific Android operating system, Honeycomb.
While most of what Google talked about has been public knowledge for a bit already (see here and here), the company also announced that the Android Market app store found on its phones has now …
One of the longstanding promises of the Internet–of the last century’s worth of technology, really–is that the cultural heritage of the world will be accessible to everyone in their homes. Today, the global museum has taken another step forward with Google Art Project. An ingenious application of Google’s Street View and Picasa tools, …
Are iTunes’ days of digital music dominance finally about to come to an end? New reports are suggesting that Google is closing in on a launch date for its much-rumored music service at the same time as Spotify is said to be making progress with its potential second US signing.
Google Music has been the subject of much speculation …