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YouTube makes your fifteen minutes of fame 15 minutes
Jul 29th
YouTube has decided to make it markedly easier for you to get your fifteen minutes of fame. How
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YouTube makes your fifteen minutes of fame 15 minutes
Chrome Dev Channel Enables Extension Sync by Default [Updates]
Jul 29th
Reader choebear writes in to point out that if you’re using the Dev channel of Google Chrome, you no longer need to use the command-line switch to enable extension sync in Chrome—extension syncing is now enabled by default. To use it, just open Chrome’s Options/Preferences and head to the Personal Stuff tab.
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Chrome Dev Channel Enables Extension Sync by Default [Updates]
as0gAGoogle on Android: mobile search grew 300%, 160,000 activations daily, 70,000 Market apps
Jul 17th
Google announced its second quarter 2010 earnings on Thursday, and the earnings conference call painted a rosy picture of the current state of Android. According to Google CFO Patrick Pichette, and Senior VP of Product management Jonathan Rosenberg, Android is currently not a huge resource investment for Google but promises a “formidable return” as the “entire ecosystem is exploding.” According to Rosenberg, the web browser is the most popular app on an Android device with search being its primary usage.
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Google on Android: mobile search grew 300%, 160,000 activations daily, 70,000 Market apps
Get Wildcard Suggestions with a Google Autocomplete Trick [Google School]
Jul 9th
Google’s autocomplete is a handy tool for both saving time and getting a feel for what people are searching. Reader scantorscantor points out a cool trick for getting a bit more from the autocomplete
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Get Wildcard Suggestions with a Google Autocomplete Trick [Google School]
HTC: No Plans for a Tablet Quite Yet
Jul 9th
Tablets are all over the place. Of course, it’s made worse when a company out there seems to be just making oodles and oodles of money by reigniting a market that, for all intents and purposes, was dead. But, that’s not a reason for HTC to jump into the tablet game quite yet.
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HTC: No Plans for a Tablet Quite Yet
Google Pays $700 Million In Cash For Flight Info Provider ITA
Jul 1st
Google is now in the flight information business. The search giant just announced it is paying $700 million in cash for ITA Software , an essential provider of flight information to airlines, travel agencies, and online reservation systems
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Google Pays $700 Million In Cash For Flight Info Provider ITA
Yahoo! launches Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger for Android
Jul 1st
This morning, Yahoo! announced the release of Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger app for Android. Available for download in the Market, the Yahoo! apps provide a tad more functionality to those Android users who aren’t “with Google” like their phone’s OS may be. Hit the jump for the full press release
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Yahoo! launches Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger for Android
Early Retirement
Jun 29th
Over dinner my father looks at me and says, with a straight face: “I hear Google might start building its own phone.” I’m trying to figure out which direction to take the conversation. Condescension would be too aggressive, no matter how much my inner troll wants to bait him
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Early Retirement
FFmpeg gets its own implementation of Google’s VP8 codec
Jun 29th
Developers Ronald Bultje, David Conrad, and Jason Garret-Glaser are creating a native VP8 video codec implementation for the open source FFmpeg project.
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FFmpeg gets its own implementation of Google’s VP8 codec
Google stops Hong Kong auto-redirect as China plays hardball
Jun 29th
Google has decided to call off its efforts to redirect all China users to its Hong Kong search site , sort of. Instead of automatically sending searchers straight on to google.com.hk , the search giant once again serves up a Google China home page—complete with a faux search box image that sends users to the Hong Kong site when they click in it. The change may seem minimal, but Google hopes it will be enough to appease the Chinese government—and to keep its license to operate an Internet business in the country
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Google stops Hong Kong auto-redirect as China plays hardball
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