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Android Marketplace to Allow Paid Applications

Next week, the Android Marketplace(the G1’s AppStore basically) is to announce paid applications that you can put on your G1. What does this mean for iPhone. An actual competitor in the Smart Phone market. The G1’s operating system Android is very sophisticated and could match up with the iPhone. Now with the G1’s appstore you [...]

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Chrome still yet to come out for Mac

Today Mike Pinkerton posted new pictures of Google’s Chrome browser…..

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Paid Downloads Available on Youtube

Google rolled out another interesting feature on their Youtube front today, giving partners the option to charge people to download their videos. While the option for partners to allow their videos to be downloaded is nothing new, Youtube created a new category under the “My Videos” section, where purchased videos are stored.
For now, Youtube has [...]

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Apple Allegedly Scared Google/HTC Out Of Using Parts for G1

M.G. Siegler of VentureBeat claimed earlier today that Google did not include multi-touch, 3.5 mm headphone jack, batteries and displays  because Apple scared them with patents. I know what your thinking; headphone jack?!  John Gruber from Daring Fireball said that Apple has a patent regarding the iPhone’s headphone jack, but the question is what does [...]

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Archos to release Android powered smartphone-tablet

Archos, a company known for their Internet Media Tablets has decided to take a jab at the smartphone market by offering a new device boasting inbuilt 3.5G HSPA connectivity. The device is planned on running Android, the Google OS, and will most likely be released around Christmas of 2009. With the HD space of 500Gb [...]

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Ubiquity: Firefox Powerhouse

Before I begin, I know that many of you are not going to understand why I am doing a full-blown review on a Firefox add-on. This isn’t just any add-on, rather a mini operating system within an Internet browser. Ubiquity is the all-in-one, feature-packed, eye-catching, Web 2.0 POWERHOUSE. For all of you mac users out [...]

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Google Sync to keep your contacts and calendars up-to-date on your iPhone/Windows Mobile devices

It seems everyone is taking a page out of the Mobile Me book; with Microsoft’s announcement of their phone syncing service, earlier today Google debuted their new syncing service for iPhone and Windows Mobile phones. The sync service constantly updates contacts and calendars between your computer and hand-held devices. Better yet, it’s free! Why pay [...]

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Google Latitude - True Social Networking

As we all know though, Google succeeds in pretty much all they do. So for those of you that loved those other services, finally ones coming that many people might actually use. Google announced a new application based on their Google Maps system called “Latitude.” It lets your friends and family know where your at based on the positioning of their mobile device

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Google explores the oceans and goes back in time

Google released a plethora of goodies today, with their most prominent being a large addition to their Google Earth engine; Google Oceans. The addition to Google Earth adds a virtual ocean search. Now Google can proudly say they cover the entire world; not just the land we live on. As noted on the Official [...]

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Google Chrome Gets a little Japanese “Twist”

The Japanese are always whipping up some interesting ads; this time it is a Google Chrome ad, that shows the fastest, most evolutionary browser out there. Check it out for yourself:

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