Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Posted on October 29, 2009 - by admin

Google answers the FCC: Google Voice blocks fewer than 100 numbers

While most of the tech world today is reveling in the introduction of Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 and its first host device, the Motorola Droid, there's still plenty of Google left to talk about.

Earlier this month, Google Voice was subject to yet another inquiry by the US Federal Communications Commission — specifically the Wireline Competition Bureau. Its intent is to re-examine what Google Voice exactly is, evaluate whether it is unfairly blocking certain connections and how, and to determine how it should be regulated.

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Posted on October 28, 2009 - by admin

Gadget Rumor: Google Maps With Turn-By-Turn Navigation Might Be Heading To Android Devices

Today rumors emerged that Google is in the process of developing their very own navigation app for smartphones running the Android OS.  It’s not clear if the application would be more robust than the iPhone’s current Google Map application and offer turn-by-turn directions, but given that they own the Android OS, and can essentially do whatever they want, it’s more likely than not.

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Posted on October 28, 2009 - by admin

Google flexes Twitter integration with Social Search Lab

Today, a new experimental Google search feature called Social Search was made live in Google Labs, following up on last week's announcement that Google and Twitter had established a partnership.

But the implementation of this Twitter data is much more conservative than many were expecting. Following the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, a lot of talk in the search community revolved around "Realtime Search," (a buzzword formerly known as "conversational search") where chatter (articles, blog posts, comments, forum entries, status updates, tweets, videos, and podcasts) on a particular subject is indexed in real time, putting searchers more or less directly into the conversations as they occur.

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Posted on October 28, 2009 - by admin

Android 2.0 features revealed

It's undoubtedly been a huge quarter for Google's Android mobile operating system, and exciting developments are all falling into place.

Two weeks ago, the ceremonial giant foam pastry was planted on Google's front lawn. This time it was an eclair, and it signified the readiness of Android 2.0, codenamed "Eclair," which we get a first look at today.

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Posted on October 2, 2009 - by admin

Google bites Bing back, recovers all usage losses since spring

If the last two months should be interpreted as Microsoft suggests, with Bing’s gradual ascent in usage share against Google as a sign of Bing’s inevitably catching up, then a similar interpretation of September’s numbers from live analytics firm StatCounter should be taken as a sign of Bing’s ultimate demise. A sampling of five billion or more US page views from Web sites accessed by StatCounter in September reveals that, of the world’s top three search services, Google’s usage share has climbed back just above 80%, and is flirting with last November’s peak of 81.14% — meaning Google is back to serving four out of five US-based general queries.

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Posted on August 25, 2009 - by admin

Apple Keeps Google Voice for iPhone on the Table

In a letter to the FCC, Apple specified that it hasn’t actually rejected Google’s Voice application for the iPhone — rather, it’s still under consideration. The letter was a response to an FCC inquiry on why exactly the Google Voice application has not yet become available to users. Apple denied consulting with AT&T on the matter, and AT&T said the same in its own letter to the FCC.

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Posted on August 19, 2009 - by admin

First Google Chrome 4 reveals the beginnings of cloud synchronization

With Google, one tends to learn the meanings and intentions behind the many events in its development programs pretty much as they happen. For example, the distinctions between what goes on in the Chrome browser’s development channel (”Dev”) and what happens in the beta channel, have frequently been explained to us after the fact.

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Posted on August 18, 2009 - by admin

HTC confirms ‘Sense’ Android UI upgrade for China

HTC’s ‘Sense’ UI is a large part of what makes the HTC Hero such a desirable handset for Android fans. The interface, centered mostly around home screen widgets, was debuted earlier in the summer and was expected to arrive on other “non-Google” HTC Android handsets.

Since there are only three HTC Android handsets, and all of them are Google-branded in the US so far, this meant at the time that the UI was not coming to the States.

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Posted on August 13, 2009 - by admin

Google’s next search engine: What’s the difference?

Yesterday, without much explanation or instructions, Google opened the floodgates on what it’s describing as the next generation of its search engine, most likely to test its efficiency and performance using real-world traffic. Testers are being invited to sample the new engine that Google is calling “Caffeine,” although perhaps intentionally, it isn’t yet explaining just what the differences are.

In Betanews’ initial tests Tuesday morning comparing Caffeine to Google’s current stable release, we noticed that for nearly every simple and complex search query we tried, the top three non-paid search results were always the same. But the order of results starting as high as #4, sometimes #6, changed. Usually Caffeine retrieved the same pages as the stable version, but shuffled them in a different order.

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Posted on June 17, 2009 - by admin

‘Computer, on screen!’: A look at Google’s voice recognition engine

Google is bringing voice command to our handheld devices, but it has a long way to go before it responds like the Starship Enterprise.

Google’s voice recognition technology took to the mobile sector with voice-powered search applications for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. Naturally, Google’s own mobile operating system Android has begun to reap special benefits of the powerful technology with some new voice-enabled features.

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