PSA for iPhone/iPad Owners –
Sean Kovacs’ Google Voice app for the iPhone has been approved and looks to have been added yesterday. Looks as though the app is fully functional letting you send and receive SMS messages, playback voicemails, and toggle which calls are made through Google Voice.
Grab it now for $2.99 (iTunes) if …
Remember how awesome you thought it would be to use Google Docs on the iPad only to find out minutes after unboxing that fancy slab of metal and glass that Docs didn’t quite work out the way you thought it would? Yeah…me too. Well, Google has heard our plight and they’ve announced that in the coming weeks, we’ll all be able to …
Friday, September 17, 2010 –
Quote To Live By:
“I spent large segments of each day picturing you choking on food, and I recently contacted an exotic animal dealer because I had a very satisfying dream that I once shoved your face into one of those pink-inflamed monkey butts.” Sue Sylvester from Glee
Up Front:
Details Of The Google …
Wha?!
I don’t know who this hurts more but Verizon Wireless will not be carrying Windows Phone 7 devices at launch or anytime in 2010. Verizon’s Brenda Raney said the carrier “will probably release a phone in 2011” reports Bloomberg.
It’s unclear if Verizon’s heavy investment and dealings with Google were a determining factor …
The news that Google’s trying to get on the social networking bandwagon doesn’t necessarily come as a surprise. But, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced that the powerful company doesn’t only want to take on Facebook. They’re planning to take your Facebook information and use that to power their own products.
Schmidt wants at Facebook’s …
In an age of oversharing thanks to services like Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, etc., do we really need to see what you’re actually seeing and doing, too? Looxcie thinks so.
The douchey Bluetooth looking earpiece is actually a camera that’s constantly recording (up to four hours at 320×480 at 15fps) whatever it is that you’re …
Google has been talking to major record labels about starting their own digital music store, Billboard.biz reports. The service will be like iTunes and involve digital downloads that you can buy as well as a subscription-based cloud-based digital locker to store your purchases.
The locker allows you to access your music from any …
In my last post I said some companies do better than others at scrubbing your confidential search logs as time passes. Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
But there’s a far better answer than looking for the search company that …
Man, bad day to NOT be in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Apparently Google gave away some 600 Sony Bravia TVs to guests attending its Zeitgeist conference. Not only that, the attendees also got Google TV (presumably built right into the Sony) and six months of free Dish satellite service.
Oh and free Geek Squad installation, too. It’s not
…
Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life — online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they know about you, the better they can tailor information to your needs. But you pay a …
Starting today, Best Buy Mobile is pre-selling T-Mobile’s G2 with Google with an expected launch date on the 6th of October. It will retail for $200 with a new two-year contract. And if Best Buy’s press release is correct, the T-Mobile G2 will have an S-TFT WVGA resolution screen. As of this posting, the G2 has not shown up on the …