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Google Isn't Planning to Merge Android and Chrome

Posted 03/21/2013 at 10:30am | by Paul Lilly

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Google's Eric Schmidt talked about keeping the search giant's two popular OSes separate from each other.

When Google announced that Android boss Andy Rubin was stepping aside and handing the reins over to Sundar Pichai, senior vice president for Chrome and Apps, it was only natural to wonder if, going forward, Android and Chrome would end up merging. Maybe someday they will, but for the time being, Google is adamant that both with remain independent operating systems serving two different markets.

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Google Reader is a Dead RSS Walking

Posted 03/14/2013 at 9:44am | by Paul Lilly

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Will anybody miss Google Reader once it's gone?

Google is doing a bit of spring cleaning and one of the services it's kicking to the curb is Google Reader, the sultan of search announced in a blog post. It's been an eight-year run for Google Reader, which launched in 2005 but has recently been declining in usage. So, on July 1, 2013, Google is throwing its RSS a forced retirement party, giving users a good three months to export their data and subscriptions with Google Takeout.

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Google Chrome Boss Sundar Pichai Replaces Andy Rubin as Head of Android

Posted 03/13/2013 at 11:28am | by Paul Lilly

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What will become of Android following a surprise management change?

Andy Rubin, one of the founding fathers of Android, approached Google about the open source mobile operating system back in 2004. Now he's stepping aside as head of the OS he helped to create, handing the reins over to Sundar Pichai, senior vice president for Chrome and Apps, Google CEO Larry Page announced in a blog post today. Rubin is off to start a new chapter at Google, while Pichai will likely focus on making Android easier to use.

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Google Settles Multistate Street View Lawsuit for $7 Million

Posted 03/12/2013 at 12:15pm | by Paul Lilly

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From 2008 to 2010, Google's Street View team collected personal data without consent.

For a company that earned more than $50 billion in consolidated revenues last year, a $7 million fine is the very definition of a slap on the wrist, but hey, it mostly goes to lawyers anyway. That's the amount Google agreed to pay to settle a Street View privacy lawsuit with 37 states and the District of Columbia, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today. In addition to the fine, Google agreed to secure and destroy information it improperly collected from March 2008 to March 2010.

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Android Tablet Shipments to Top iPad in 2013

Posted 03/12/2013 at 9:32am | by Paul Lilly

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It's only a matter of time before Android overtakes iOS in the tablet space.

The open source nature of Android is perhaps a double edged sword, depending on how you look at the situation. On one hand, fragmentation is a sometimes annoying byproduct of having so many different device makers putting their own spin on the operating system, which is why Android 2.3.x (Gingerbread) is still the most popular version of Android to date. On the other hand, it's the very reason why Android's market share is so much higher than Apple's iOS platform. The one exception is tablets, but given enough time, it's inevitable Android slates will outnumber the iPad.

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Google Chrome Loses Market Share To Internet Explorer

Posted 03/03/2013 at 7:23pm | by Justin Kerr

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Windows 8 may be struggling, but Internet Explorer is thriving.

For years Internet Explorer has been easy to pick on, but for once the Redmond based software giant is bucking the trend. Market share for Internet Explorer has reached an 18-month high, and it seems to have done so largely at the expense of Google Chrome. In February IE climbed 0.68 points to 55.82 percent. Chrome dropped 1.21 percent, and Firefox rocketed above 20 percent to settle at 16.27 and 20.12 percent respectively.

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Lenovo Goes After The Nexus 7 With a Revamped Lineup of Tablets

Posted 02/24/2013 at 12:26pm | by Justin Kerr

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Mobile World Congress is underway in Barcelona, and while it is intended to be a smartphone focused event, tablets seem to be stealing all the headlines. Lenovo has added 3 new tablets to its 2013 lineup, and the entry level model bears a striking resemblance to Google's Nexus 7. It appears as though Lenovo believes they stand a better chance of wrestling market share from the budget / mid-range category, rather than going after Samsung and Apple on the high end.

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Would You Pay $1,299 for a Touchscreen Chromebook?

Posted 02/22/2013 at 1:01pm | by Paul Lilly

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Google's Chromebook Pixel sports a touchscreen display with a 2560x1700 resolution.

It's not entirely clear what Google is thinking by launching a $1,299 Chromebook. Oh, haven't you heard? Google on Thursday unveiled the Chromebook Pixel, essentially a high-octane Chromebook with a 13.3-inch touchscreen display and 2560x1700 resolution. Google says it's the highest resolution of any notebook in its class, but that luxury doesn't come cheap, as it's also the highest priced Chromebook to date.

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Google Accepting Applications for Google Glass Testers

Posted 02/20/2013 at 11:55am | by Paul Lilly

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A new video shows off the Google Glass UI.

Google on Tuesday provided a glimpse of how the world looks and feels through the eyes of someone wearing its Glass eyegear. The Google Glass project, if you're not already familiar, is an augmented reality heads mounted display (HMD) that displays information about the world around you. It lets you interact with the environment using voice commands, similar to using a smartphone.

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Russian Search Engine Yandex Surpasses Bing in Popularity

Posted 02/11/2013 at 9:00am | by Paul Lilly

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Bing falls to fifth place in the search engine wars, according to data from comScore qSearch.

Google tends to be the go-to search engine in the United States and in many other parts of the world, but in Russia, Yandex is top dog. On a global scale, Yandex is now officially more popular than Microsoft's Bing, so says the latest search engine data from comScore qSearch. Bing slipped to fifth place with a 2.5 share of the search market, falling slightly behind Yandex at 2.8 percent.

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