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Twitter Annoyed at Google

It is no secret that Twitter has a very strong and influential sway over social media. Many people turn to their Twitter accounts to update blow by blow events–and in real time. Which was why when Google introduced the Google Search plus Your World, a feature which indexes content fro the social networks a person [...]

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Next Samsung Phone Comes with an Ice Cream Sandwich

No, it’s not a joke. It’s not Samsung playing a prank on you by adding something completely irrelevant when you buy the next and newest Samsung phone. It’s not like buying a new laptop and getting a free shampoo on the side. Nope, the Ice Cream Sandwich that will come with the Samsung is in [...]

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Facebook Executive Says Google+ Has No Users

And the battle becomes more heated.
Google + still has a long place to go, it’s user base is not even 3% to that of its toughest competitor, Facebook. With a whopping 750 million as opposed to Google’s 25 million.
Sean Ryan, director of game partnerships went out ahead and concluded that Google has no users based [...]

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Eighty-dollar Phones in Africa a Big Hit

Whether it’s sheer goodwill or just mass marketing, Google’s decision to make Android open source and more easily accessible and marketable to the masses seems to be paying off better than anyone expected. With this, the Android phones go as low as $80 and this is sweeping the whole African region like fire.
Three hundred and [...]

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Google Commemorates Gregor Mendel and Alex Calder with Doodles

Last July 20th, the homepage of Google featured a doodle to commemorate the 189th birthday of the father of genetics, Gregor Mendel.
Gregor Mendel’s study on the inherited traits of pea plants paved the way for other scientists to consider genetics as a separate discipline; hence the “Google-shaped” peas shown on the homepage of the popular [...]

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Movies and Books Galore on Google’s Android Market

Apple has an App Store? Well, Google has an Android Market. The biggest rival of Apple’s App Store recently went through a make-over, making it an even more formidable opponent. The Android Market update presents an improved interface design on handsets, offering more options to help users find new applications. To top it off, the [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg Most Famous Google+ User

With more than 35000+ followers in the newly launched social networking site Google+, Mark Zuckerberg is the most famous user. This piece of news is surprising and even funny to many as Google+ is said to be the killer of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook.
Google+ has been praised all around the internet. Tech reviews and users [...]

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Google+ VS Facebook: Battle of Giants

Google+ is set to be the New Facebook. But not if Facebook can help it. Perhaps this was born of the fear of Google that Facebook can kill Google off completely.
Facebook is said to be trembling in its proverbial knees due to the most recent product released by Google: Google+. The beta release of Google+ [...]

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Facebook Can Kill Google Completely

At least that is what many people have opined over the recent rise of the Internet Super Giant that is Facebook.
It seems that many opinion makers believe that Facebook can punt a serious dent in Google’s popularity–if not make the Internet Mogul be completely irrelevant.
Ben Elowitz, co-founder of Blue Nile and Wetpaint, is one of [...]

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Google puts a halt to Android videogame emulators

Google has recently put its foot down when it comes to videogame
emulators for the Android. Nesoid, Snesoid and N64oid are just several
of the emulators that Google has removed from its listings. This isn’t
the first time that Google has made a move against emulators, though,
as it had previously taken down Sega system emulators for the Android.
Emulators [...]

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