October 19th, 2011 
Tyler Google has officially announced that it will force users with a Google account to search via Google’s encrypted search homepage. This decision was made on October 18th and has received a lot of uproar as of late among search marketers and SEO experts. Now, these people will only get certain information about how site visitors [...]
September 19th, 2011 Tyler Google’s Wallet service is now available to owners of Sprint’s Nexus S 4G and a Citi Mastercard. Google Wallet will allow users to process payments through Google very easily. While the audience remains small, Google does plan to expand this service very quickly and rapidly. Google Wallet will work through NFC, or near-field communications, which [...]
September 7th, 2011 Tyler At the Google I/O event earlier this year in San Francisco, the “search giant” Google announced that they would name the next major version of the Android mobile operating system ‘Ice Cream Sandwich,’ which developed the acronym ICS shortly after. A launch date for ICS was not discussed or announced, but it was expected to [...]
August 23rd, 2011 Tyler People have been worried about Google+ taking over Facebook, and some have openly voiced that people are switching even though the service is still invite-only. However, Facebook has not been hurt, and has even grew since Google+ launched in late June according to a new report. Facebook had a total of 162 million visitors in July, [...]
August 22nd, 2011 Tyler Google+ has started verifying the accounts of high-profile users, such as celebrities, and is publicly flagging them next to the users’ names, the company announced today. When users visit the page of a celebrity or public figure, there will be a checkmark next to the name once it has been verified, similar to Twitter’s official [...]
August 17th, 2011 Tyler Facebook just got busted for running a “clumsy smear campaign” against Google a couple of months ago. Now, they are in another dispute. Google alleges that when Facebook posts contain a link enabling the recipient to sign up for Google+, the new social-networking platform from Google and a rival to Facebook, they aren’t always getting [...]
July 14th, 2011 Tyler With the personal accounts a huge hit, Google has raised its efforts to finish a business version of Google+ and to get it up and running as soon as possible. Google said in a Google+ blog post on Thursday that the cutoff for companies to take part in a Google+ test for business would be [...]
June 15th, 2011 Tyler At the Inside Search event today, Google has done two marvelous technological improvements. The title kind of says it all. Google has introduced the Android-style Voice Search for Google Chrome. Voice Search is pretty straightforward, so I don’t really need to go into detail with that. To go with the Voice Search is something that [...]
June 8th, 2011 Tyler Apparently, Google Maps Navigation will be getting a “true” offline mode this summer (2011). In December, the Google Maps Navigation app for Android received an update that allowed it to store information to your cache memory. It stored the routes you went on as well as surrounding areas. Basically, you will be able to go [...]
June 2nd, 2011 Tyler Back in March, Google hit the kill switch on a lot of malware found within the Android Market. Well, the infestations have happened again. Google has responded swiftly and appropriately by removing all infected applications from the Android Market. The infestations were found by a security company called Lookout. They found about 30 different infected [...]
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