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Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire helped power market share for tablets based on Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system to 39 percent market share for the fourth quarter of 2011, up from 29 percent a year ago. Global tablet shipments reached an all-time high of 26.8 million units in Q4 2011, up 150 percent from 10.7 million […]

Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) philanthropic arm Jan. 25 expanded its crisis response work with a platform that brings users localized emergency alerts to Google Maps when users are searching for information on inclement weather and natural disasters. Google Public Alerts will provide emergency information during hurricanes, earthquakes, floods and wildfires, among other crises. The alerts will tell […]

The Verge founder Josh Topolsky both marveled at and lamented the sheer volume of smartphones, tablets and other consumer devices trotted out at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. Topolsky hosted a panel where he pressed Samsung and HTC marketing executives on “whether or not technology manufacturers were simply producing too many gadgets, outpacing real consumer […]

Ever since Facebook Product Director Blake Ross unveiled his Don’t Be Evil bookmarklet, which uses Google’s search indexes to show what Google Search, plus your world would look like if it included results from Facebook, Twitter and other sources, the tech world has been waiting for Google to respond. There will be no response, at […]

Paced by the iPhone 4S, Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS platform accounted for 71 percent of total activations overall, with Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system garnering the remaining 29 percent share, according to data collected by Good Technology from its enterprise customers. Good makes mobile device management software for enterprises, helping IT administrators provision and manage handsets […]

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is folding 60 of its 70 existing product privacy policies under one blanket policy and breaking down the identity barriers between some of its services to accommodate its new Google+ social network software. Google’s streamlining comes as regulators in the United States and Europe have criticized Google, Facebook and other Web service providers […]

One Account to Rule Them All “Our new Privacy Policy makes clear that, if you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services. In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience,” wrote Alma […]

High-tech watchers won’t find many Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Chromebooks outside of users who received test model Cr-48s or picked up Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks from attending Google I/0 last year. Google is having better luck hawking Chromebooks in classrooms around the country, with hundreds of schools using Chromebooks in 41 of the 52 U.S. states. That […]

U.S. President Barack Obama will become the latest high-profile broadcaster for Google+ Hangouts, the Web-based video chat platform that is one of the more popular applications on the company’s social network. President Obama, who is holding the State of the Union address this evening at 9 p.m. EST, will host a Hangout Monday, Jan. 30 […]

Media and pundits like to point out the increasing parallels between Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Google, the Web application superpower that long ago passed the desktop software giant in online user engagement. Now Google has also surpassed Microsoft in another metric: spending to lobby the federal government for its various Web-related interests and concerns. Google spent […]