smartwatch war

Report: Google, Apple Prepare to Face Off in Smartwatch War U.S. News & World Report Google engineers are reportedly hard at work on a smartwatch to rival Apple's version, which could be released later this year. With the smartphone market all but saturated, tech's heavy hitters are moving their sights out of consumers' pockets and ... See all stories on this topic » U.S. News & World Report

Watch Out! Google Working on Smartwatch Too, Say Sources ABC News (blog) The watch, like other smartwatches, will likely pair with an Android phone and allow one to view messages and incoming call notifications right on the watch's display. Google did file for a patent describing a “smart-watch including flip up display” in ... See all stories on this topic » ABC News (blog)

Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS ... ZDNet Summary: Most of the commentary I've read so far about the loss of Google Reader has been about its use as an RSS client. But that's a red herring. The real victims were companies that had planned in 2005 and 2006 to build RSS sync engines. Google ... See all stories on this topic » ZDNet

Microsoft Cleared of Infringing Google Patents With Xbox Bloomberg Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video-gaming system doesn't violate the patent rights of Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit, a U.S. trade judge said today. In a one-paragraph notice, U.S. International Trade Commission Judge David Shaw sided with ... See all stories on this topic »

Keep's interface is clean and simple, just the way Google likes it. CNET Google Keep for Android opens up to a slim toolbar up top that houses pretty much all of the app's functions. Like other note-takers, it gives you buttons to create a text note, checklist, voice, or photo note, right from its dashboard. These buttons ... See all stories on this topic »

What is Google doing? Reuters Blogs (blog) A few years ago, web thinker Jeff Jarvis published an homage to the world's most successful Web search and advertising company titled “What Would Google Do?” These days, the question seems to be, “What is Google doing?” Google won us over with a ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters Blogs (blog)

Google Opens Universal Analytics Beta To All, Creates A Single Analytics ... TechCrunch Last October, Google announced the limited beta of Universal Analytics, an effort to bring new features like cross-platform and mobile app analytics, as well as the ability to incorporate data from offline sources, to Google Analytics. Today, it is ... See all stories on this topic »

Are Google Alerts Dying? Mashable In the wake of Google's killing of Google Reader, power users now have a new fear: Are Google Alerts next? Google Alerts is a service that allows users to receive email notifications of updated Google results for a search query or keyword. This lets ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Kiss of Death PC Magazine Over the past few months I've seen Google publicly badmouth its subsidiary Motorola, shut down both online and print content production at Frommer's, and kill the long-time cult hit Google Reader with little guidance for existing users. Creative ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Reader Who? Feedly Became Top News App On iPhone, iPad ... TechCrunch Where are the users headed following news of Google Reader's shutdown? To Feedly, it seems. We already heard the company announce it had passed half a million new users, but more importantly, Feedly is now winning on mobile, too. According to new ... See all stories on this topic »