Tag: Google

  • Google Revamps Search Engine for Real Time

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – Google Inc has revamped its search engine to allow results to be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products. The move to integrate real-time search results directly into Google’s flagship Web search product comes nearly two months after the company announced a partnership to license… Read more

  • Ouch Developers Disappointed with Android

    Ouch Developers Disappointed with Android

    Leah Gabriel Nurik

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    Ouch Developers Disappointed with Android Android buzz may be fueling fervor, but a recent report shows that Android developers are growing frustrated with Google and are putting the brakes on further development efforts. A recent report by Skyhook Wireless shows Android developers are struggling to monetize their apps and are dissatisfied with Android Marketplace’s billing… Read more

  • Google Chrome: The Official Start of the Cloud Era

    Lawrence Walsh

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     Google is getting a ho-hum reaction from the IT world following last week’s release of the Chrome OS, its attempt at an operating system designed for cloud-based applications and contender to the Microsoft desktop crown. Critics and skeptics, however, have labeled Chrome with such tarnishing descriptors as dull, uninspired, lackluster and ne’er-do-well. Microsoft has issued… Read more

  • Google Chrome OS to Boot PC Within 7 Seconds

    Channel Insider Staff

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    (Reuters) – New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web Google gave the first public look at its Chrome OS four… Read more

  • If Google Apps is Hacked, Los Angeles Gets Paid

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Google and its partner, Computer Science Corp., has struck a major blow to on-premise email software vendors by scoring a major cloud services deal with, according to press reports. The one catch: CSC will pay stiff penalties to the city of angels if its implementation of Google Apps suffers a security breach. Los Angeles plans… Read more

  • Consulting Key to Cloud Computing

    Carolyn April

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    We all know that if Gartner says it is a big deal, it must be so. Seriously though, the ubiquitous analyst firm is spot-on in citing cloud computing as the No. 1 technology area that should drive strategic investment next year. Gartner defines strategic technologies as those with potential for significant business impact over next… Read more