Tag: Google
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Google Wallet: Changing the Way You Pay for Things… If You Can Keep Your Phone Charged
I’m pretty jazzed about Google Wallet. For those that have never heard of it, Google Wallet is an app being rolled out by the Big G, beginning with the Sprint Network, that intends to change the way we pay for things by storing your credit cards on your smart phone. It makes use of a…
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Smartphones Are The Future. Of Everything.
I sincerely hope you’re a fan of smartphones and own at least one. Why? Because smartphones are the future. Of everything. Just a few years ago we all had normal, run-of-the-mill cellphones (which are now lovingly referred to as feature phones). We would primarily use them to make and receive calls, and send and receive…
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How to Back Up Your Google Tasks
One of the the main concerns people have about trusting their data to a cloud service is whether or not they can get their information out of a particular service. Some services do a good job. Others … well, not so much. Google is trying to make backing up your data easier, with both Google…
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A Chrome Experiment that (Literally) Shakes up the Google Homepage
Give people the option to work with Google Chrome using JavaScript, HTML5, and other browser tools, and they’ll start designing some pretty creative things. For example: Is that the Google homepage? It certainly appears that way. But something is wrong. Sweet mercy…the Google homepage has developed its own gravitational force. The second you hover over…
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5 Must-Have Chromebook Apps for Work
So you’ve got a shiny new Chromebook. You’ve installed all of the stock Google apps — like Google Docs, Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Reader. But you need more apps to do your work. The big problem is choosing apps from all of the options that are available. Let’s wander over to the Chrome Web…
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Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion
Despite being a small contender in the mobile market with only a 3% market share and a net loss of $56 million in Q2 2011, Motorola Mobility (Motorola’s handset division) is being acquired by Google for a cool $12.5 billion. Of course, it has to pass through the government and Motorola’s shareholders first, but if…
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Apple Reigns As Largest Smartphone Manufacturer; Android Still Rules Mobile OS Marketshare
It’s pretty impressive that a company that only sells one type of phone in a given year has grabbed the top spot of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer (it’s also pretty impressive that the same company has more cash than the U.S. government). Apple now owns 19.1 percent of the smartphone market share followed by…
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Back Up Your Google Docs, Reader, Calendar and Contacts with CloudPull for Mac
CloudPull is an app that will back up the contents of your Google Docs, Reader, Calendar, and Contacts, but is available exclusively to Apple users using Mac OS 10.6 or 10.7. Sorry, PCs. It’s available for a 30 day free trial, but costs $24.95 if you’d like to use it permanently. Once I logged in,…
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Google Releases New Themes for Gmail and Google Calendar
Dear people living under rocks this past week: If you haven’t noticed, Google has decided to tackle bold new things recently, with widespread success. First, they came out with Google+, a type of digital, communal gathering site that allows one to keep up with friends and collaborate with them (Which I am sure that Techerator…