Tag: Google

  • Google Gives Searchers More Options for Refined Results

    Channel Insider Staff

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    SAN FRANCISCO, May 12 (Reuters) – Google Inc (GOOG.O) unveiled a slew of new and future features on Tuesday, including one that will allow people to better coordinate Internet searches on their cellphones and computers and another that will produce sophisticated automated research reports.    At a briefing at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California,… Read more

  • Dell Preparing a Google Android-based Netbook?

    Jessica Davis

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    PC maker Dell may be on the verge of releasing a netbook based on Google’s Android operating system. Mobile software developer Bsquare issued a press release on Wednesday that said it would port Adobe Flash Lite to Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 netbook to leverage “Bsquare’s Android competency to improve the Adobe Flash Lite experience on… Read more

  • Google Unveils New Search Tools

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Google’s latest experimental additions to its search tools include "Similar Images" and a "Google News Timeline," but it seems there are still a few kinks to work out. Both Similar Images and Google News Timeline were introduced by the search giant yesterday as part of its growing online Labs project, in which users can take… Read more

  • Google Launches New Java Development Tools

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    If you attended President Obama’s March 26 online Town Hall meeting, you were likely more interested in how the president would answer questions about the economy, health care and higher education costs. But what you might not have noticed was that the White House was using an application called Google Moderator, hosted on the application… Read more

  • Microsoft, Google Do Battle for Twitter

    Sharon Linsenbach

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    Google and Microsoft are in an all-out battle to be the first to make a search-advertising deal with Twitter, technology news and opinion site All Things D reported Thursday. Twitter’s search potential has been coveted since it acquired third-party search app Summize and integrated it into its own site. Currently, according to industry statistics, Google… Read more

  • Google: Publishers’ Friend or Foe?

    Lawrence Walsh

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    Google chief executive Eric Schmidt walked into the lion’s den yesterday, speaking at the annual Newspaper Association of America’s meeting in San Diego to assure publishers of struggling newspapers across the country that the search giant is their friend. But these are not good times for newspapers and other periodical publishers, such as The New… Read more