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Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:10:00 GMT

Google launches Nexus One phone support

Google has launched phone support for its Nexus One phone. (Credit: James Martin/CNET) Google is answering the call from Nexus One phone owners. More than a month after , the search giant on Monday launched a phone support line specifically to answer the
Tue, 9 Feb 2010 05:10:00 GMT

Job Postings Hint at Amazon’s Kindle Plans

It looks as if color screens and Wi-Fi might be the next additions to Amazon’s Kindle. Last week, Brad Stone and I reported that Amazon had acquired the New York based multitouch screen company Touchco to integrate into Lab126, the Kindle hardware
Tue, 9 Feb 2010 04:14:00 GMT

The 7 Somewhat United States of Facebook

Peter Warden, a former Apple engineer, likes to analyze data — so much so that he started scraping public profiles and photos from hundreds of millions of Facebook accounts about a year ago, and now has data collected from more than 200 million around
Tue, 9 Feb 2010 04:12:00 GMT

Safer Internet Day targets 5-7 year olds and Microsoft's web browser

On Safer Internet Day, the UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre is promoting a cartoon to help children stay safe online, and making information and advice available via Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 It's the EU's annual Safer Internet
Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:12:00 GMT

Twins learn of teen brother's death on Facebook

Put yourself in their shoes. They are twins. It's the morning of their 20th birthday. So they log on to Facebook, expecting to find messages from well-wishers. Instead Angela and Maryanne Vourlis discover posts that read 'RIP Chris Naylor' and 'RIP
Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:36:00 GMT

Google reduces its Nexus One termination fee

Google has quietly chopped $200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One, meaning it will now cost users less -- $350 rather than $550 -- to cancel service on the smartphone. That matches Verizon Wireless's termination fee for smartphones, now tied
Tue, 9 Feb 2010 00:45:00 GMT

Google Making Gmail Into A Communications Hub

Gmail users will soon have more ways to keep up with their friends via a widget that shows quick status updates like Facebook and Twitter do, the Wall Street Journal reports. The move would further turn Gmail, which revolutionized online e-mail, into
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:44:00 GMT

Jurors: Stop Twittering

A federal court policy making body is belatedly entering the internet age by proposing that judges clearly inform jurors they must not electronically discuss cases they are hearing. It’s standard procedure to inform jurors to remain mum and not
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:30:00 GMT

Google Shooting for Smartphone Universal Translator

nikki4 writes to tell us that giving some major improvement tweaks to its existing voice recognition tool for the Smartphone, Google is bringing new translator software for an instant translation of foreign languages. 'The company has already created an
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:20:00 GMT

Google to Add Social Features to Gmail

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google plans to take another stab at capturing some of the momentum surrounding social networking companies like Facebook and Twitter by leveraging Gmail, its popular e-mail service. Later this week, Google will unveil add-ons
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:23:00 GMT

Google’s Real-Time Voice Translator Could Make Any Language Lingua Franca

The real-time-translating Babel Fish from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy was named for the Tower of Babel, a biblical structure fractured by linguistic confusion. Google engineers are working on a translator for Google Android
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:42:00 GMT

Google to make Gmail a little more social

Google is getting ready to add social-networking features into Gmail as it attempts to jump-start its social Web strategy. Gmail users can already set their status within the service, but Google plans to expand that into a stream of status updates like
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:26:00 GMT

Job Postings Hint at Amazons Plans for the Kindle

It looks as if color screens and Wi-Fi might be the next additions to Amazons Kindle. Last week, Brad Stone and I reported that the New York based multitouch screen company Touchco to integrate into Lab126, the Kindle hardware division. This move sends
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:22:00 GMT

Nexus One takes a beating in Google behind-the-scenes video

A start-of-the-week treat for iPhone fanboys--Google has released a new entry in its series of behind-the-scenes Nexus One videos, this time featuring the search giant's smartphone being squeezed, dropped, bent, and subjected to several other flavors of
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:04:00 GMT

Nexus One car kit spotted in Google promo vid

We know that a Nexus One car dock was coming. Google has already released . And when you consider that the Nexus One is preloaded with a very robust turn-by-turn navigation app with a dedicated in-car interface, a car dock seems like the next logical
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 20:04:00 GMT

EA's game arsenal coming to Facebook?

Is 'poke' the new Konami Code? Maybe not literally, but one Electronic Arts exec has hinted that at least one of the gaming behemoth's titles is headed to Facebook, further blurring the line between social network apps and the game industry. In , EA
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:47:00 GMT

Linus Torvalds doesn't hate the Googlephone

Linus Torvalds hates cell phones. But that doesn't include the Googlephone. The Linux founder 'broke down' last week and bought a Google Nexus One, and despite his enduring cell phone hatred, he calls it 'a winner.' In a weekend blog post
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 19:13:00 GMT

Job Postings Hint at Amazon's Plans for the Kindle

It looks as if color screens and Wi-Fi might be the next additions to Amazon’s Kindle. Emmanuel Dunand/ Jeff Bezos holding a Kindle DX. Last week, Brad Stone and I reported that Amazon had acquired the New York based multi-touch screen company Touchco
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:55:00 GMT

Google's Next Venture: Universal Translator

Google wants to pioneer the first smartphone technology to translate foreign languages almost instantly, the search giant told British daily The Times. The technology will be able to convert spoken words into a different language in real time, and could
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:33:00 GMT

Facebook under fire again over redesign

Social networking site Facebook is once again under attack after starting to roll out changes to its homepage Facebook changes have once again irritated users of the social networking site When Facebook changed the newsfeed on its homepage last October,
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:32:00 GMT

Facebook under fire again over redesign

When Facebook changed the newsfeed on its homepage last October, the new layout was greeted by a wave of protest from users. Some 1.75 million Facebook members joined the group ''Change Facebook back to normal!'' and an additional 1,280,000 members
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:31:00 GMT

Google vs. Microsoft marketing

Google gets it. Microsoft does not. There are many reasons to take this position, but the two companies' outdoor advertising in London is enough for me. Google's adsfocus on real people doing real things with the company's technology. Microsoft's...well,
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 18:19:00 GMT

Star Trek Online for PC | Game review

Star Trek Online ? missions are too focused on combat After a protracted beta test, Star Trek Online finally makes it out of space dock. So is it set to live long and prosper? Initial impressions are promising, with Cryptic's usual flair for deep
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:38:00 GMT

Google goes deep for the Super Bowl

Google scored big with its first-ever Super Bowl ad yesterday -- proving once again high tech's influence over Super Sunday. The big event has passed, now it's time for Monday morning quarterbacking and second-guessing key decisions. I'm not talking
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:20:00 GMT

Google (Voice) solves universal translation soonish

Babel fishing for compliments Google has managed to get some decent press by announcing that, in a few years, it might be able to translate speech - something iPhone owners can already do. The Times picked up the story, and breathlessly reports that such
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:16:00 GMT

Google doppelg

Why is Google routing the world through 'Googol'? Sometime in the middle of October, Google silently launched a new net domain - a barely-disguised doppelgänger to the familiar google.com - and according to the latest stats from the site watchers at
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:03:00 GMT

Torvalds gives thumbs-up to Google's Nexus One

Nexus One , Linus Torvalds , Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel programming project, has said not only that he likes the Nexus One, but that the Google phone is good enough to convert him into a mobile-phone believer. 'I generally hate phones —
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:43:00 GMT

Eidos confirms Championship Manager Online shutdown

Publisher Eidos has confirmed that it has ordered the closure of (http://www.cm-online.com/), the web-based version of the long-running popular fantasy football franchise. 'We can confirm that CM Online, a joint initiative with Jadestone in Sweden, will
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:58:00 GMT

Bids are in for AOL's sale of ICQ--it's down to 'UN' of 4 buyers

AOL has taken another step closer to selling off its ICQ instant messaging service, culling seven bids to four "serious" ones, said sources close to the situation. The price for the service is hovering just under $200 million, several sources said, with
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:33:00 GMT

Google working on speech translation for phones

(Credit: Gizmodo) Google already runs a successful online translator, Google Translate, but they've got far-loftier ideas than simply converting the written word. They want to translate languages spoken over the phone, according to their head of
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:15:00 GMT