Time for Google, and Microsoft, to call Murdock’s bluff

There's been a lot of go-round this past week about Rupert Murdock yanking everyone's chain about pulling their content from Google unless the search giant is willing to cough up some money for the privilege of indexing News Corp ... continue

Your Google PageRank may soon depend how fast your site loads – Why?

Google has been making a lot of news over the past while about how it wants to help speed up the web; and as nice as that might be it has gotten more than a few people ... continue

News Corp Dithers on Google Pullout While AP Asks For More Traffic

News Corp has indicated that its expected withdrawal from Google search results won't be for months, while on the same day AP has met with Google asking for more traffic. News Corp’s chief digital officer Jonathan Miller told ... continue

Chrome OS to launch within the week?

After several spurious sightings in the wild, rumors intensified this morning that the hotly anticipated Google Chrome OS might be released within the week. Google said earlier in 2009 that the open source operating system would be available ... continue

Dell Officially Announces Mini 3 Smartphone, Forgets To Mention Specs

Dell has officially announced the arrival of their Mini 3 Google Android Based Smartphone, the companies first foray into the Smartphone market dominated by Apple, Research In Motion (Blackberry) and Google Android Smartphones. According to Dell the touchscreen ... continue

Google Confirms Gizmo5 Purchase

Google has confirmed rumors from earlier this week that it has acquired Skype competitor Gizmo5. In an announcement on the Google Voice blog (but notably not on the main Google blog... yet), Wesley Chan and Craig Walker, Group ... continue

Chrome OS gets ‘mounting library’ but doesn’t change the fact a Web OS is dumb

I was reading Sarah Perez's post at ReadWriteWeb about some clever folks at the DownloadSquad who have found some goodies in the Chrome OS code that seems to indicate that the new web-based operating system will be ... continue

Google Search Fail: Why Won’t My Parakeet Eat My Diarrhea

Head on over to Google right now and type in "Why Won't" and you'll quickly realize an odd top search suggestion of "why wont my parakeet eat my diarrhea" one of the most popular search options found ... continue

Google slashes storage prices, offering 20GB for $5G

Google announced today that they're now offering "twice as much storage for a quarter of the old price." Comparing starter prices to the cost of a "triple mocha," plans range from 20GB to 16TB, and Google helpfully equates ... continue

Dropbox Blocked By Google For Malware

Popular file sharing and cloud storage service Dropbox has been blocked tonight by Google for hosting malware. According to a message inserted by Google, Dropbox is a "Reported Attack Site!" that "has been reported as an attack ... continue

Google Providing Free Airport WiFi For The Holidays

Google is providing frequent and not-so-frequent fliers with a special holiday gift, free WiFi at various airports through the U.S.  a free service that will last until January 15th 2010. Google is providing the service in conjunction with ... continue

Motorola Milestone Heading To Telus In Early 2010

It's official! The Motorola Milestone is headed to Canadian wireless carrier Telus sometime in early 2010. The device, which has recently been released in Europe is basically the Motorola Droid with the addition of a multi-touch interface. The ... continue