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Google Battles For Book Rights

Google Battles For Book Rights

While a U.S. settlement looks likely to be reached, it may rouse critics at home and abroad.

 

Google Gives You More Storage for Less, but Still No GDrive

Google just announced dramatically reduced prices for their online storage options via a post on the company's Official Google Blog.

 

Google Gives Free Airport WiFi To Inspire Holiday Cheer, Generosity

Deck the halls with free wiFi! Google's spreading holiday cheer this year is by equipping 47 airports across the U.S. with free wireless Internet, they announced today.

We're already clapping our hands like children on Christmas day over the free service. But it also comes with a pretty awesome way to give back. If you're stuck on an endless layover and feeling thankful for Google's generosity, the company encourages you to spread that warm fuzzy feeling:

 

If The WSJ.com Says Goodbye To Google, It Will Also Say Goodbye To 25 Percent Of Its Traffic

If The WSJ.com Says Goodbye To Google, It Will Also Say Goodbye To 25 Percent Of Its Traffic

Whenever Rupert Murdoch goes back to his home country of Australia, he loosens up and says things to the press (usually his own outlets) that he might not say in the U.S. Of course, everyone in the U.S. picks up on it and it becomes a big story, as it did today after Murdoch told his own Sky News that he might start blocking Google and other search engines from giving searchers full access to articles on the Wall Street Journal's website, WSJ.com.

 

Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5

Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5. It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn't work out.

 

Google Acquires Mobile Display Ad Firm AdMob

Google Acquires Mobile Display Ad Firm AdMob

Google on Monday announced that it has acquired mobile display advertising firm AdMob for an undisclosed amount. "Despite the tremendous growth in mobile usage and the substantial investment by many businesses in the space ...

 

MySpace Traffic Drop Costs News Corp About $100 Million

MySpace Traffic Drop Costs News Corp About $100 Million

The MySpace social media network’s traffic has dropped so much that it will fail to satisfy a minimum traffic level crucial to parent company News Corp’s three-year $900 million advertising deal with Google, inked in 2006, that made Google the exclusive search advertiser on MySpace — then the world’s most popular social network.

 

Google Voice Search Now Understands Chinese

iPhones, Android phones, and now Nokia phones (S60 models) all have the ability to run the Google Mobile App and conduct searches by voice.

 

App Search: iDon't and Neither Does Droid

App Search: iDon't and Neither Does Droid

With the iPhone, it's all about the apps. At least that's what the commercials on TV tell us. Naturally, I wanna see what apps are available on the App Store. Disappointingly, it only shows a categorized selection - out of the 100,000 that's available. Directories died a long time ago; just give me a search box.

 

Droid vs. iPhone: The Scorecard

As an iPhone user who is more than a little interested in the Motorola's newest, I have compiled a personal scorecard comparing important features of the two phones.

 

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