TechCrunch has an exclusive look at Gizmo5 aka the Google Voice desktop app. According to TC, Google could be scrapping this project altogether since Larry Page and Sergey Brin “don’t want Google to be in the business of creating software outside of the browser.” Looks neat, no?
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Rather see a New York Times article than a Huff Po link? Google can arrange that.
Today, Google unveiled its latest News update, a customized ranking system that relies on rankings made by you to display a more tailored news feed. The latest feature, “News For You,” will offer localized, personalized news based on your preferences. By …
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Yahoo! has just made available apps for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Search.
Also, Yahoo! Mail and News have been HTML5 optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
That is all.
Press release after the jump.
There’s some pitter-patter on the worldwide web concerning a rumored project simply known as Google Me. It all started with a Twitter update from Digg founder Kevin Rose saying that he’d heard a rumor from a “very credible source” that Google would be launching a “Facebook competitor very soon” called Google Me. That tweet has since been …
Do you own the Google-backed Nexus One smartphone? Then you, my friend, will get the Google-backed Android 2.2 software very soon. It’s currently rolling out to Nexus One handsets via an over-the-air update.
Per Google, “In order to access the update, you will receive a message on your phone’s notification bar. Just download the …
Google’s web-based communications platform, Google Voice, is now available for everyone and anyone after a year’s worth of testing and tweaking. If you’re unfamiliar with what GV is and what it does, fret not; Google has a video for that. In a nutshell: a Google Voice number rings all your linked phones, has voicemail that looks …
Rumors of a Google-backed music service aren’t necessarily new by any means but CNET has recently re-fanned the flames by citing “multiple music industry sources” as saying “Google could launch a music service that offers song downloads and streaming music as early as this fall.”
The search engine giant has several things …
Two months ago, Jessamyn West noticed something about the Google Maps location of her small town, Randolph, VT. Instead of being tucked somewhere in central Vermont, Google had moved the official location of Randolph into the middle of a lake.
(More on Techland: Little Old Lady Calls To Have Google Pac-Man Disabled)
“I was having …
Come on Internet world, was Google’s photo background really worth that groupthink meltdown that went on this morning?
Did it seem like a bit of Bing rip-off? Sure. But Google has always been experimental with its homepage, not everything’s going to work, right? Just get through the day and everything will be back to normal. Yeah. …
Back in 2005, a useful communications service called GrandCentral was launched. With it, you could get yourself a single phone number that got forwarded to any or all of your other phone numbers and featured some cool bells and whistles such as different voicemail greetings depending upon who was calling you—friends, family, …
Google has ramped up the speed with which it’s able to return new web content with “a new web indexing system called Caffeine,” according to a recent company blog post.
Google is promising “50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index,” which would basically re-scour the web continuously, a process …
It’s too funny not to laugh.
This old lady calls tech support asking the lucky computer nerd to disable the Google Pac-Man game because she didn’t like it. Hilarity ensues. Just listen. For the love of Pete(r Ha), just listen.
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