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Did Apple pressure Google to leave out multi-touch?

» by russ February 11th, 2009 at 12:08 am » View Comments

According to an article on Venture Beat Google was asked by Apple to not include multi-touch in their Android OS. Apparently Google was agreeable to do that so as not damage their partnership on the iPhone. It makes me wonder how thing will go with the Palm Pre. If Palm’s successful in [...]



Google fixes Obama Google bomb in 4 days

» by russ January 31st, 2009 at 8:57 am » View Comments

The lefty’s over at Google are taking care of their guy again. The “miserable failure” Google bomb against George Bush has been in place since 2003. However as Fox News points out it was fixed in 4 days when the Google bomb reverted to President Obama’s bio page:
But it [...]



Google is ready to team up with The One

» by russ January 24th, 2009 at 12:56 am » View Comments

Google is ready to team up with The One to push their agenda in Washington. I would seem given the heavy contributions to Obama and Democrats they may very well have the leverage to make it happen. Their agenda seems innocent enough:
First, it wants to expand high-speed Internet access so people can use [...]



Google starts layoff and is ending services

» by russ January 15th, 2009 at 8:22 am » View Comments

According to Tech Crunch Google has started lay offs and is getting rid of a number of services including micro blog Jaiku. A full list of services being eliminated is available over at SearchEngineLand.com.
On Twitter Jason Calacanis has stated he believes that this marks the bottom of the downturn. He also [...]



Palin beats Obama in Googles zeitgeist list

» by russ December 13th, 2008 at 8:37 am » View Comments

I’m not sure what if anything this means but Sarah Palin beat Barack Obama in Google’s zeitgeist list. As I understand this list is about the fastest risers. Given she was totally unknown before the election it makes sense she would be a fast riser. In any case I thought it made [...]



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