Category Archives: Google

Facebook for Android Updated, Now Features Push and Chat Notifications

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Chris Ullrich

Late yesterday, everyone’s favorite social media website Facebook announced an update for their Android version of the Facebook app. This update brings the application to version 1.5, for those of you who keep track of that sort of thing. Some … Continue reading →

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Google Updates Gmail for Android

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Joe Gillis

Late yesterday Google released an update to its Gmail Android application for smartphones. The update brings with it several bug fixes, improvements, and feature additions. The biggest improvements/changes include enhanced priority inbox support, an improved compose email feature, and in-line … Continue reading →

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Mobile Wars: Blackberry Overtakes Apple in Mobile ‘Net Usage

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Erik Jensen

For the first time in history, the Blackberry Mobile OS has overtaken Apple’s iOS, at least in the domestic U.S. market mobile internet usage. According to the report from StatCounter, which illustrates November 2010 performance between the major mobile browsers, … Continue reading →

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Tumultuous Times for TV Over IP as Microsoft Enters the Fray

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Erik Jensen

It’s not easy being a consumer trying to cut the cable or fiber cord these days. You’d think with a bevy of hot new set-top boxes like Apple TV, Google TV and Boxee, we’d be living in a Utopian future where television … Continue reading →

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New Browser ‘RockMelt’ Tightly Integrates Social Features

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Erik Jensen

New browsers don’t come around very often. So us users are pretty settled-in, mostly sticking to tried-and-true browsers like IE, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari or perhaps for the adventurous types, Google’s Chrome or Opera. And while all of these browsers … Continue reading →

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Free Version of Angry Birds Arrives on Android Phones

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Erik Jensen

A full-featured version of the immensely popular mobile game Angry Birds, has finally arrived for Android-powered Smartphones. And get this: it’s free. Yes, you read that correctly, free! After dropping $4.99 for the iPad version, which with it’s gorgeous big … Continue reading →

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Google Goggles Comes to iPhone

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Chris Ullrich

Yesterday, Google announced that its Goggles image search feature is immediately available in the App Store for Apple’s iPhone smartphone. The new feature, which will be bundled into the Google Mobile App, will support iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 devices … Continue reading →

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Google Unveils Portal, Details for its Upcoming Google TV

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Erik Jensen

What interesting timing Google has. On a day when many Apple TV pre-order customers are eagerly plugging in their little black cubes and exploring what Apple’s brand of TV-Internet convergence has to offer, Google launches a dedicated site for their … Continue reading →

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