Google TV will be released sometime this fall, and while Google hasn’t yet provided us with an official release date, the company has taken the liberty of starting an official Google TV blog and flipping the switch on the official Google TV website.
The blog’s first post details some of Google TV’s content partnerships as well as …
T-Mobile and HTC have just announced the “new” myTouch aka myTouch HD. Like the G2, the myTouch HD runs on T-Mobile’s super fast HSPA+ network (4G) that’s currently available in Biloxi and Gulfport, Miss.; Denver, Colo.; Huntsville, Ala.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Norfolk, Va.; Omaha, Neb.; Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; …
Remember when Google Street View launched in 2007? Countless hours were spent exploring the streets of NYC, Miami, Denver, Las Vegas and San Francisco. Some folks got pissy over privacy issues and others were caught with their pants down or something like that. Didn’t one of the Street View cars capture a crime in progress or …
Looks like the rumor that originally surfaced in early June has come true.
Gmail has officially announced an option to turn off threaded replies. Those of you who don’t like "conversation view" (and judging from the previous post, there are at least a few of you out there) will soon be able to view chronologically-ordered Gmail
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Umm…what? We’re not entirely sure what Google is trying to get at with this Google Mobile ad, but listening to someone say “pizza” for over 10 minutes has to be one of the most annoying things of all time. Watch for yourself and click on the following at the designated splits for a little reprieve:
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Motorola and Verizon’s Droid R2-D2 will be in stores on September 30 for $249. Everyone’s favorite astromech will be bundled together with a wired headset and media dock in carbonite-like packaging.
Pre-loaded content will include:
• R2-D2 notification sounds and ringtones
• Four live wallpapers
• R2-D2 clock widget
• “The …
Did you know GMail has its own little app store? Ok, so it’s not really a store. And they aren’t called apps. But there are lots of free little add-ons for Firefox and Chrome that inject handy new features into GMail. I’ve tested two recently that are among the most useful I’ve seen. The first, Boomerang, lets you schedule …
As an outage, it wasn’t as lengthy as Skype’s 2007 two-day disappearance. As a bug, it didn’t produce results as hilarious as the 2009 screwup that left Google identifying the entire Web as malware. But the Facebook glitch that left “many” users without access to the site for two and a half hours must rank among the Web’s bigger …
Besides not liking Paris H(ilton) and Philip Kindr(ed Dick), here’s some other words Google has blacklisted on instant search. We stopped where Google Instant Search stopped searching but you can fill in the blanks. (More on Techland: Google Announces Instant Search Results Feature)
– one cup two girls (but it will find one cup two …
The fine people of Denmark are getting a closer look at their cobblestone-paved streets. Google Street View Bike (well, technically tricycle) has come to the country to track bike paths and small spaces that a car can’t get to.
So far the tricycle has logged 300 kilometers in the Danish countryside including a trip to the Round Tower, …
I never know what’s going on at Google considering how many things the company is involved with. Think about it for a second. There’s a freaking blog for every project and who knows how many of them there are, so Google New is a bit of a godsend. It compiles the latest updates about new products from all the Google blogs in one …
The Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Beta recently released by Microsoft reintroduces the software giant into the browser wars, but why are browsers worth fighting over when they’re essentially offered as freeware? Of the three major browsers used worldwide, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome, each …