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A Patent Fever Over Smartphones New York Times With Apple, Google and Microsoft jostling for control of the mobile market, each needs or desires more and better patents for supremacy. Without them, their devices are vulnerable to shakedowns for royalties or, worse, demands to stop using the ... See all stories on this topic »

Google+ could be another arrow in job search quiver msnbc.com In comes Google with its own social networking site Google+ to make your life even more complicated. But it may be worth considering, especially if you're in technology, marketing, social media or anything to do with the Internet. ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Chrome becomes UK's second most popular web browser The Guardian Google Chrome has overtaken Firefox to become the UK's second most popular web browser. Photograph: Walter Bieri/AP Google's Chrome is Britain's second most popular browser, a sign of the internet giant's increasing grip on the UK search market. ... See all stories on this topic »

Logitech Drops Google TV Revue to $99, Clarifies Returns Comments PC Magazine The company also issued a clarification to deny that more customers are returning Google TV Revue boxes than buying them. Starting Sunday, the Logitech Revue with Google TV is available for $99, down from $249. The company also said it will roll out an ... See all stories on this topic »

Google to deliver faster site speeds for free The Tech Herald by Steven Mostyn - Aug 1 2011, 03:03 In yet more Google-related news, everyone's favourite online search specialist has said it intends to dramatically increase the load times of Web sites with appropriately focused DNS entry points—for free. ... See all stories on this topic » The Tech Herald

Google Search, Ads Jazzed Up for Tablets eWeek Google bolsters both its search user interface and search ads for Google.com on the iPad and Android 3.1 "Honeycomb" tablets. Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) search experience on tablets has been pretty good to date. Google search on the immensely successful ... See all stories on this topic »

Microsoft to Google: Float like a butterfly, sting like a ... Bing? TechFlash Microsoft's efforts to knock down Google from its perch as king of search is playing out as an epic -- and expensive -- endeavor. Under the headline, "Can Microsoft make you 'Bing?'" The New York Times goes inside Microsoft's local offices and inside ... See all stories on this topic »

'Gmail Man', 'Email Intervention' Revives Spoof Videos of the Past Christian Post By Simon Saavedra | Christian Post Correspondent An e-mail battle seems to be raging between tech giants Google and Microsoft with the airing of two videos earlier this week that hinted us about other battle grounds where tech companies are currently ... See all stories on this topic »

Data Centers' Power Use Less Than Was Expected New York Times The study suggests that Google's centers are more efficient than most. The report, by Jonathan G. Koomey, a consulting professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at Stanford University, found that the actual number of computer ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Moves Deeper Into Hotel Meta-Search Travel Trends Google has just launched a second hotel search product, Google Hotel Finder, which supplements Google Maps hotel search. There are shared elements, primarily price checking via a drop down box linking to paid advertisers like Expedia, Booking.com, ... See all stories on this topic »