Tag: Google

  • 25 Facts You Should Know About Google

    25 Facts You Should Know About Google

    Ericka Chickowski

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    25 Facts You Should Know About Google 1. Google’s initial name was "BackRub," in reference to the way it was designed to check backlinks in order to rank a site for search results. No Title 2. Google’s first investor, Andy Bechtolsheim, wrote the company a check for $100,000 a full month before it even existed.… Read more

  • Google Offers Work Around for Twitter Access in Egypt

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Google Inc launched a special service to allow people in Egypt to send Twitter messages by dialing a phone number and leaving a voicemail, as Internet access remains cut off in the country amid anti-government protests. "Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we… Read more

  • iPhone, iPad, Android Platform Lead Enterprise Mobility Adoption

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    The trend of personal smartphones infiltrating the workplace is being led by both Apple’s iOS and Android smartphone platforms, according to Good Technology’s second quarterly data report detailing the changing landscape of IT and mobile enterprise technology. In the fourth quarter of 2010, this trend continued to grow, but the iPad "revolutionized" the enterprise mobility… Read more

  • Google Apps for Business Expands to Verizon

    Nathan Eddy

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    Network operator Verizon and search engine giant Google announced the availability of Google Apps for Business—a suite of online tools that includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites—for Verizon with the option to be bundled with Verizon’s other business solutions. High-speed Internet, unlimited nationwide calling, Verizon Websites powered by Intuit, Verizon Online Backup… Read more

  • Google Management Shuffle Brushed Off by Investors

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    NEW YORK, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Investors brushed aside concerns that a surprise shake-up at Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) putting co-founder Larry Page back in the top job would prove a distraction at a critical time and focused instead on the company’s stellar results. Profit and revenue rose 29 percent in the quarter and at least… Read more

  • Google Voice Gets Number Portability

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    Google is testing a number portability for its Google Voice application that will let users use their personal mobile phone numbers as the digits through which to route all of their calls for $20. Google Voice is a phone management application that lets any user route all of their landline, work and mobile calls through… Read more