Google is increasing the rivalry between its Google+ network and Facebook,

Google Chromebook Pixel is a cloud-computing showpiece USA TODAY Here's what you thought you knew about Google's Chromebook laptops: They're designed for Internet computing and are known for plain designs and bargain-basement prices. The former is still true. You're supposed to be connected to the Internet when ... See all stories on this topic »
Defense Department opens contracts for Apple, Google CNET Of the more than 600,000 mobile devices used by the department, 470,000 are currently BlackBerry, 41,000 are Apple products, and 8,700 are running on Google Android. The department has said that eventually it wants to handle as many as 8 million ... See all stories on this topic »
Google patches 'loophole' in two-factor verification system NBCNews.com A security firm found it could bypass Google's two-step login verification process, reset a user's master password and gain full control of the account "simply by capturing a user's application-specific password." Application-specific passwords are ... See all stories on this topic »
Google and Spain wrestle over EU privacy law Reuters The issue before the European Court of Justice boils down to this: If a person fails to make social security payments and their house is auctioned as a result, do they have the right to force Google to delete such damaging information from search results? See all stories on this topic »
Google offers social log-in feature Washington Post Google is increasing the rivalry between its Google+ network and Facebook, announcing Tuesday that it is introducing its own social log-in feature. Many Web sites let Facebook and Twitter users sign into their sites with the username and password from ... See all stories on this topic » By Hayley Tsukayama, Google is increasing the rivalry between its Google+ network and Facebook, announcing Tuesday that it is introducing its own social log-in feature. Many Web sites let Facebook and Twitter users sign into their sites with the username and password from the social network. Now Google has made some partnerships that allows its Google+ users to do the same. OpenTable, FitBit, USA Today and the Guardian are among the feature’s launch partners. Log-in security features, such as two-factor authentication, can be carried over when signing into these sites. The company is also adding in some features that allow those signed into an app through their Google+ account to share information with certain friends on the network using its built-in “Circle” friend groups. That means that you can opt to only share workout data with your exercise buddy or the tracks you’ve listened to with people who won’t make fun of your musical tastes. In a blog post outlining the new features, Google product director Seth Sternberg took direct aim at the automatic sharing features implemented by Facebook, calling it “social spam.” “Google+ doesn’t let apps spray ‘frictionless’ updates all over the stream, so app activity will only appear when it’s relevant,” Sternberg wrote. Once users have shared content, Google said, the company is also offering different ways for your friends to interact with the content. For example, when your friends click on a song you’ve shared, they’ll hear the song in the app from which you shared it. Friends will also be able to buy goods and services this way, the company said. Finally, in an effort that may also help Google boost downloads to its mobile devices, users who sign into a Web site with Google will also have the option to install its corresponding mobile app on Android devices. (The Washington Post Co.’s chairman and chief executive, Donald E. Graham, is a member of Facebook’s board of directors.)
Google Glass is an all-knowing virtual assistant — is your head ready? NBCNews.com You may have recently spotted some goofy-looking headgear gracing the brows of the Google founders — and a few supermodels, too. While it may seem like a cyberpunk fashion statement that just got too literal, Google's Project Glass, a wearable ... See all stories on this topic »
Google And Samsung: The Honeymoon Is Over For Tech's Odd Couple Forbes For my money today's Wall Street Journal report on tensions in the Google-Samsung relationship will probably rank as the high-tech news of the month – if not the year. According to reporter Amir Efrati, Google executives are becoming increasingly ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes
Google Teams With Prodigal Son to Bust Data Sort Record Wired The result is particularly telling because MapR ran the test using commercially available software — its version of Hadoop, a tool that crunches data across a sea of ordinary computer servers — but also because it used virtual servers provided by ... See all stories on this topic »
Yelp: We compete with print -- not Google or Facebook CNET Chief Financial Officer Rob Krolik said, however, that Yelp is uniquely positioned to attract tens of millions of local merchant customers. Currently, the conversations the company has with would-be advertising business owners are not about Google at ... See all stories on this topic »
Sweet! Google Chrome may get noise indicators on tabs CNET ... of increasing desperation, trying to find the culprit. I ending up shutting down most of my tabs before pinpointing the guilty party in a haze of epithets. There has to be a better way, I thought. It looks like Google Chrome developers are one step ... See all stories on this topic »