Why I just purchased an iPhone 3GS, and why Android isn’t ready for prime time yet

Last week, much to my dismay, my seven year old son attempted to place my 14 month old iPhone 3G in our JBL iPod/iPhone speaker dock without lining the phone up before hand. The end result was ... continue

Google Acquires ReCaptcha, ditches the no evil tag for lets annoy everyone instead

Google has acquired leading capthca service provider ReCaptcha as part of its push to digitize the worlds books. Captcha's, for those not familiar with them (most have seen one, but not everyone knows what they are called) are ... continue

Google rumor mill – Brightcove next target

I guess all that money is starting to burn a hole in Google’s pockets because not only do we get word today that they’ve snapped up reCaptcha but they may have also set their ... continue

Google’s Chrome gets themed and changes the New Tab page

I have been using Chrome since the first day that the beta made its way to the web and I haven’t regretted it at all. In fact I wouldn’t want to use any other ... continue

Google Debuts Fast Flip News Reader. Still A Work In Progress

This past Monday Google announced their newest online service called Fast Flip. Like most Google sites when first launched the program is an experimental Google Labs offering. The tool works by allowing users to view full page content ... continue

Today’s mystery Google photoshopped logo is crop circles

Google has continued on its merry path of odd and strange logos by today embracing a logo that revolves around crop circles. The logo, which appeared on a range of Google country specific search sites on September 15 ... continue

Google Fast Flip is just the ammunition newspapers wanted

Google today launched Google Fast Flip, a new reading services that allows users to (as the name suggests) flip through content on various sites without leaving Google itself. The new service includes content from the New York Times, ... continue

Google searches indicate economy is recovering. Slowly.

Hal Varian, Google's chief economist, has noticed some significant, promising changes trending since March. Unemployment searches are down, real estate searches are up, and temporary employment (which often is a pre-indicator for a recovery in the permanent kind) ... continue

Google working on micropayment platform with newspapers in mind

According to a post by Zachary M. Seward over at the Nieman Journalism Lab blog it appears that Google is working on an extension to its Google Checkout payment platform that is aimed at ... continue

Google launches Google Answers for the Middle East

Google has entered the online question and answers space in a new market with the launch of Google Egabat, which translates from Arabic to Google Answers. Google Egabat uses the same platform deployed on Google's help forums in ... continue

Anonymous data not so anonymous after all

Like Hansel and Gretel's trail of breadcrumbs, we all leave a trail of personal information as we navigate the internet. Your friend sent you a birthday drink! A post about taxes in your hamlet, another about your toddler's ... continue

The latest product from Google: Monopoly on Google Maps….seriously

Google has teamed up with boardgame maker Hasbro to create Monopoly City Streets, a global game of Monopoly that uses Google Maps as its playing board. The game, which launches September 9 will allow users to buy properties ... continue