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Google Animations – Gmail is green, and secure. (via @jkhowland)

by Joshua H. on May 15, 2012 in News, Social Media

Google has shared information of what happens when your email is sent. Google is trying to accomplish a few things with this video. Energy Conservation: The title of the video gives its message away. ‘Story of Send on Google Green’ is about how Google’s server infastructure is built to use the most efficient amount of [...]

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Wired: Why iOS Apps Look Better Than Android Apps

by Caleb Hicks on May 3, 2012 in Apps

Wired ran a feature this week on why the exact same app can look so much better on iOS than it does on Google’s Android platform. And before you get up in arms, read along to find out why that is, or check out Wired’s article for a trove of screenshots and explanations. But the [...]

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Android may be winning. But it isn’t matching Google’s expectations. (by @jkhowland)

by Joshua H. on April 28, 2012 in Gadgets, News

According to a presentation given by Andy Rubin in July 2010, Google expected to sell some 10 million Android tablets a year in 2011 and 2012 and capture up to a third of the entire tablet market. Google’s Expectation So, Google expected Android tablets to have 33 percent of the market? Why is that so [...]

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Chrome 18 leads the browser world. Why?

by Joshua H. on April 25, 2012 in Gadgets, News

Pingdom Report Internet monitoring firm Pingdom on Monday released a new report on global browser share. They have some awesome, and interesting data There are two ways to look at this: The company found Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 to be the most popular browser in North America with a 21.2% share, and it was closely [...]

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Google *beta* Play goes through growing pains

by Joshua H. on April 24, 2012 in Gadgets, News

Earlier Google Play had a bug. That’s vague, sorry. Google Play has had bugs on mulpitle recent occasions. Not much less vague I guess. March 26th bug Would you like a random Russian MTC Mobile Mail app installed on your device? Oh you wouldn’t? Too bad, there was an automatic update for a carrier-installed app [...]

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Barclays making NFC possible on every cell device

by Joshua H. on April 20, 2012 in Gadgets, New Technology

Are you a fan of NFC-enabled credit cards? Phones? Wrist watches? Wallets? How about stickers? Barclays has announced a new product that can be placed on any cellular phone to give it instant NFC compatibility. The PayTag This little piece of tech is more than just a brilliant name. It’s exactly what you expect. For [...]

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So… Will Google Acquire Pinterest?

by Joshua H. on April 20, 2012 in Apps, New Technology, Social Media

Pinterest is amazing. It really has just exploded. But don’t think of it as an over-night success. Pinterest began development in December of 2009. The didn’t have a prototype until March of 2010. Today, they are one of the most talked about social networking sites. Instagram was bought up in only three days. If anyone [...]

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When Trusting Google With Everything Goes Bad

by Caleb Hicks on April 19, 2012 in News

There are over 350 million individual Gmail accounts, and over 5,000 new businesses and enterprises sign up every day. One morning, one of those 350 million users named Ehsan Akhgari went to log in to his e-mail account and found the following image: He wrote a blog post about it, which you should check out [...]

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Apple and Android: How Google Can Right the Ship

by Caleb Hicks on April 18, 2012 in Gadgets

This is the final piece in a four part series on Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platforms. The author aims to dispel the all-too-common label of ‘fanboy’, and discusses reasons that iOS is the better choice for the average user, in large part due to the hurdles that the Android platform faces moving forward. So [...]

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Google Launches Program To Help Your Grandma Get Online (post by @ashmo6)

by Ashley Bernal on April 17, 2012 in News

My Grandma is pretty with it. She has a Kindle, navigates her DirectTV with ease, texts up a storm, sends emails without a hitch and loves listening to her iPod. She still sports a flip phone but hey, you win some and you lose some. If you speak one simple word to her, however, all [...]

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