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Google's Nexus 4: To buy or not to buy? Computerworld (blog) I've been using the device full-time for the past week, and aside from being Google's best hardware effort to date, the Nexus 4 is hands-down the best overall Android smartphone experience and value you can get your hands on right now. The phone isn't ... See all stories on this topic » Computerworld (blog) Google Chrome 23 Includes New Do Not Track Feature eWeek Google Chrome users can enable a Do Not Track feature in their browser to address concerns about online tracking. However, this feature mainly sends a do-not-track request message to Web sites, which can respond in various ways. Google has followed ... See all stories on this topic » eWeek Evidence Mounts That Apple Blocked Google Apps From The App Store (GOOG ... San Francisco Chronicle Why would Apple reject a Google Maps app? There are plenty of mapping apps in the store, including several that use Google Maps APIs as the back end. There are numerous Google apps in the store, including the competes-with-Siri Google Voice Search. See all stories on this topic » Google's UK search share dips below 90 percent CNET Google has dipped in the U.K. search engine market share beneath the 90 percent mark for the first time in five years, losing a modest 1.7 percentage points in the past year in the face of competitors. According to Experian Hitwise statistics, Google ... See all stories on this topic » Google search gets more tablet-friendly look NBCNews.com (blog) Google is bringing a "simpler, cleaner design" for search to the desktop PC, with the change heavily influenced by what it has already done on tablets, and more recently mobile phones. It's a more horizontal look: Google. The effort is aimed at ... See all stories on this topic » Nexus 7 review: Google tablet goes head to head with Apple (AAPL) iPad mini ... WPTV NEW YORK -- The compact-sized tablet space -- once a black hole for flawed efforts like the BlackBerry PlayBook -- suddenly looks like the hub of that market. After Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Google showed that you could craft a quality, affordable ... See all stories on this topic » WPTV Is a Google Wallet Credit Card in the Works? PC Magazine So much for leaving the plastic at home — Google is rumored to be launching a real-life Google Wallet credit card. The physical embodiment of the online payment service allegedly rolls all of the user's cards into one, allowing people to empty their ... See all stories on this topic » Google staffers, janitors pair up for ESL San Francisco Chronicle Once a week, Google employees meet with Google janitors in a new vocational education program designed to eliminate the main barrier for most would-be students and volunteers: not enough time. "They make it hard to say no," Lindahl said. "There's no ... See all stories on this topic » San Francisco Chronicle Apple's Samsung Fight Now Includes Patent Infringements CNBC.com (blog) Yet because of how Google makes money on its Android software, Apple could struggle in a lawsuit to prove that Google financially benefits from patent infringement. Still, it's too soon to tell just how hard Apple plans to go after Google in its ... See all stories on this topic » Apple, Google Suit Over Patent Rates Dismissed CIO Today Case closed: Apple's lawsuit against Google's Motorola Mobility subsidiary over license fees was thrown out, a setback for the iPhone maker in its efforts to gain leverage in the smartphone patent wars. Motorola has been seeking a license fee of 2.25 ... See all stories on this topic » Prizefight: Apple iPad Mini vs. Google Nexus 7 CNET (blog) Nexus 7. Apple's iPad Mini and Google's Nexus 7 face off in this classic confrontation for 7-inch tablet supremacy. This is going to be the most hotly contested battleground this holiday season and beyond, so which tablet is your pick? Apple's iPad ... See all stories on this topic »

Nokia And Google's High-End Phones Are Getting Cheaper Wall Street Journal (blog) Of the three big mobile ecosystems now competing for users (let's leave BlackBerry out of this, for the time being), two are now pricing their flagship device very aggressively in the U.S. market. Apple , the market leader, has been selling so well and ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal (blog)

Google Catches Break In Apple Case, Still Faces FTC InformationWeek Google caught a break Monday when federal Judge Barbara B. Crabb in the Western District of Wisconsin dismissed Apple's lawsuit against the Android-maker with prejudice. Apple believes Google's Motorola subsidiary is abusing its standard essential ... See all stories on this topic »

Google updates Chrome browser with battery-saving feature PCWorld Google Tuesday released a Chrome browser update with a video decoding enhancement that the company claims will help users save battery life. The feature, available for Chrome on Windows, cuts power consumption by executing video decoding on ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Founder Calls US A 'Bonfire of Partisanship' Wall Street Journal Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin cast his vote Tuesday for a different kind of political approach: Going independent. In a blog post on Election Day, the 38-year-old Silicon Valley billionaire decried the fierce partisan battles in Washington and ... See all stories on this topic »

Google rolls out new search page look, moves navi bar CNET Curiously, some of the results don't have any advertisements displayed with them, but that may be a glitch from the testing as Google assures CNET the advertising placements remain the same. A recent search for "ponies" or "election" didn't bring up ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Card Would Put Google Wallet in Your Actual Wallet Wired Early Tuesday, the help section of Google Wallet's website made reference to a “Google Wallet card” that works with the Google Wallet app on phones running Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread) or newer, according to a report from TechCrunch. The reference didn ... See all stories on this topic » Wired

New Google Mars Has More Coverage, More Detail and More Awesome Wired (blog) Need a Zen break from obsessively checking the polls every 20 minutes? Maybe you should fly over an updated and ultra-detailed view of the Martian landscape in Google Mars looking for incredible formations. Google Mars has been available since 2009 as ... See all stories on this topic » Wired (blog)

Apple adds Android 4.1, Galaxy Note 10.... CNET In a move that could draw Google into the fray, Apple attempted to add Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note 10.1 and Google's Android 4.1, also known as Jelly Bean, to an existing complaint against Samsung in California. Apple made the argument to U.S. ... See all stories on this topic »